Tag: character
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7/7 Limerick: Attention of Center
When I’m pulled apart by the tension / I must learn to re-center attention
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6/19 Limerick: Cross-Balance
In order to steward our talents / We must learn to find the cross-balance / Between risk and fear / So souls can draw near / As dying to Me makes Him advance
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4/29 Limerick: Fruit Fight
The battle to bring heaven near / Is not fought with arrow or spear
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3/30 Limerick: An Eye for I AM
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
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12/29 Limericks: Sufficient God
In a world that seems so inefficient / It’s hard to trust God is sufficient
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11/28 Limerick: Shamelessly Happy
To transcend the happiness game / We must learn to confront our shame
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11/20 Limericks: Cross-Talk
I don’t want to share / The cross you won’t bear / Suddenly, our conflict makes sense!
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11/13 Limericks: AgreeMensch
Instead of just sitting on my bench While Lefts & Rights Get into fights
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11/10 Limerick: Renewable Hearts
Today I will share liberty with those who wound my heart
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10/27 Limerick: Preceive the Kingdom
What childlikeness must we retrieve If we would His Kingdom receive?
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Poem: Fix It All
“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!”
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Poem: Unbounded Love
We need to learn boundaries… But that is the middle Not the end state
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Limerick: Loving Enmity
To Him we adore So what we need more Is surfacing what we most fear
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Poem: Gospel Flywheel
The gospel flywheel Transforms what’s real Frees the world from sin As I’m changed within
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Poem: One Change
What is one change we can make That will cause all our hearts to un-break?
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Limerick: Under-Handed
God sometimes seems under-handed Our suffering, as if He has planned it
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Sex 107B. #JuliasRoom: Feeling a False Pretext
The emotional hashtag #JuliasRoom refers to the sense of dislocation felt when the character realizes something is “off,” even though he is getting exactly what he asked for.