The battle to bring heaven near
Is not fought with arrow or spear
But love, joy and peace
Will make conflict cease
When in us, they see Christ appear
Fight the God fight
As Christ did on the cross
Today I will fight from my cross
The battle to bring heaven near
Is not fought with arrow or spear
But love, joy and peace
Will make conflict cease
When in us, they see Christ appear
Fight the God fight
As Christ did on the cross
Today I will fight from my cross
If I’m to see this world transformed
My vision must needs be reformed
No more eye of shame
Let me take the blame
So in us Christ’s cross is here formed
Today I see myself unseeing sin
What I learned about restoring relationships — and finding myself — from watching Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
Continue readingJohn 1:12
When we live our life as orphans
We don’t see the need for chore-plans
But when you’re secure
It pays to mature
To share in the joys of your clans
El Shaddai-The All-Sufficient One
In a world that seems so inefficient
It’s hard to trust God is sufficient
When reality
Won’t let me “do me”
I feel like His love is deficient
To transcend the happiness game
We must learn to confront our shame
Joy becomes pure
When we ensure
We run toward, not from, our true name
The reason I take up offense
Is really a form of defense
I don’t want to share
The cross you won’t bear
Suddenly, our conflict makes sense!
I want to be an agree-mensch
Instead of just sitting on my bench
While Lefts & Rights
Get into fights
Giving Your body a foul stench
Today I will share liberty
with those who wound my heart
What childlikeness must we retrieve
If we would His Kingdom receive?
Our ego so proud
Must die in a shroud
As we live with heart on a sleeve
“God, do You hear when I call?
Why don’t You come fix it all?”
His words, though quite painful, rang true
“My son, that is why I made you!”
We need to learn boundaries
When we are young
To separate us
From those we’re among
We’d much rather they’d bought the farm
(those Others who do to us harm)
Or at least find a way
To do as we say
Lest they be led off by gendarme!
The gospel flywheel
Transforms what’s real
Frees the world from sin
As I’m changed within
We Christians and Jews
Do not get to choose
Our reality
Is defined by Thee
The One that You are
Must be our North Star
Your plan from above
Must be how we love
What is one change we can make
That will cause all our hearts to un-break?
The smallest bit flip, like a lever
That makes “certain” what once was “never?”
God sometimes seems under-handed
Our suffering, as if He has planned it
It feels like our pain
Is just for His gain
And we must give what He demanded
“Loving Julia” (Sex 107, not posted here) is the short story of a rich businessman seducing a beautiful young actress. He succeeds — but not in the way he wanted.
Continue readingWhen we find ourselves failing life’s test
Seek out One who knows us best
For if we discard
Our hearts that are hard
He will take care of the rest
When it came to sin
Christ nailed it!
Yet on my own
I failed it!
We’re called to love
Each other
Yet I can’t stand
My brother
We like to say
We’re nice
But pain makes us
Think twice
If you touch on
My trauma
Prepare to feel
The drama
I call my soul
To worship
So He can turn
This warship
Dissolving sin’s
Dividing
Through gracious Re-
Conciling
Let Him rewrite
My story
So all can see
His glory
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