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
Tag Archives: character
3/30 Limerick: An Eye for I AM
StandardIf 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
Quick List: Reconcile the Drama
StandardWhat I learned about restoring relationships — and finding myself — from watching Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
Continue reading1/8 Limerick: Dis-Orphaned
StandardJohn 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
12/29 Limericks: Sufficient God
StandardEl 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
11/28 Limerick: Shamelessly Happy
StandardTo 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
11/20 Limericks: Cross-Talk
StandardThe 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!
11/13 Limericks: AgreeMensch
StandardI 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
11/10 Limerick: Renewable Hearts
StandardToday I will share liberty
with those who wound my heart
10/27 Limerick: Preceive the Kingdom
StandardWhat 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
Poem: Fix It All
Standard“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!”
Poem: Unbounded Love
StandardWe need to learn boundaries
When we are young
To separate us
From those we’re among
Limerick: Loving Enmity
StandardWe’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!
Poem: Gospel Flywheel
StandardThe gospel flywheel
Transforms what’s real
Frees the world from sin
As I’m changed within
Poem: The God Who Is (and We Are Not)
StandardWe 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
Poem: One Change
StandardWhat 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?”
Limerick: Under-Handed
StandardGod 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
Sex 107B. #JuliasRoom: Feeling a False Pretext
Standard“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 readingLimerick: Heart for Hard Tests
StandardWhen 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
Poem: Nailing it!
StandardWhen 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
Radically Happy 
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