“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!”
Tag Archives: character
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
Poem: Abound Different
StandardIn order for Christ to be found
We must have lives that abound
Not power or status or things
But hearts that can soar as on wings
A Reason to Rejoice
StandardUpdate: Through a series of miracles, I am starting my dream job on July 25th as Director of Product at Quilt Data, after less than four weeks unemployed. Thanks for your prayers!
Yesterday I was laid off from the startup I’ve worked at for the last six years.
I am incredibly privileged to be a highly-educated tech worker in a growing industry, from a (formerly) two-income family. But it still hurts. Especially since we haven’t really recovered (financially or emotionally) from my prior layoff.
Which is why this post today from my friends at Pure Glory really spoke to me. Rather than reacting out of fear and dread, I choose to believe God is using this crisis to confront the doubt, deceptions, and division that have stolen my joy and crippled my impact.
Because the only thing truly standing in the way of my destiny is my own sin. So I rejoice that God is using these challenging circumstances to bless, purify and heal me in ways I could never imagine.
No matter how much it hurts.
by Apostle Gabriel Cross God is going deep to heal each one of us. God is dealing with the deep things in your spirit, the hidden things in your …
The Healing Hand Of The Lord
Poem: Fruitful Vintimacy
StandardAmbition is a cruel god
But a wonderful horse
Only knowing the real God
Can keep it on the right course
Transcending Love
StandardPandora Unboxed (The Inverse of Narcissism)
StandardReflections on Chapter 1 of The Pandora Problem by E. James Wilder
The opposite of a narcissistic individual
Is a redeeming community
For Father’s Day (From Andrew Williams)
StandardThis Father’s Day (and Juneteenth) I am reblogging a post from my friend and hero, Andrew Williams.
Dear Dad, I know it’s been since 2009 that you’ve been gone. My hope is to see you again in heaven some day. I am writing a letter that has been …
For Father’s Day: An Open Letter to My Father
LifeView: Part-y of God [from iHack]
StandardOver on my professional blog iHack, I’ve been working through the excellent book Designing Your Life. In addition to articulating a philosophy of work (WorkView), they challenge us to write down a philosophy of life (LifeView).
Since that obviously overlaps with my spiritual journaling here, I decided to repost it.
To move forward Together
We must internalize And reconcile
The excluded pain That enabled us
To become Us By creating Them
LifeView (Designing Your Life)
un-Cloaked
StandardJoseph was known
For his Cloak
But he is remembered
For his Character
Which was only revealed
When un-Cloaked
Maxistry (vs Ministry)
StandardMessage-ers
StandardJohn the Baptist was a Messenger.
Christ was The Message.
We… are Messagers.
Radically Happy 
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