Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.
John 19:34
Lord I wanna have “hole heart”
So I am living a new start
When from me sin pours
I’m free to be yours
Where nothing will ever tear us apart
Today I will un-guard my heart — the right way!
Emotional Learnings, Artificial Life, and the Curse/Blessing of Homeostasis
[While back in my old college town for BioIT Boston]
I am visiting my son’s high school.
It is both like and unlike the one he attends in the waking world.
Continue readingIf we hope to love Jesus great
We must learn how to our Self hate
Horror at my sin
When I’m forgiv’n
Overflows joy from His fate
Today I will worship
At the fate of Jesus
I think it more than I should:
The lie that more power is good
Surely if I made the laws
I could heal all this world’s flaws
I say this with chagrin:
I think I “kind of sin”
The wrongs that I do
(Versus those of you)
Seem small by comparison
It isn’t exactly a flaw
That we tend to mirror the law
The boundary
Between you and me
Is how we “identity” claw
The cause of our worst maladies
Is our deep insecurities
That cause us to chafe
At Law, to feel safe
From those who seem our enemies
The alternative remedy
Is finding true adequacy
By sharing Christ’s cross
We win from each loss
And turn our shame to His glory
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
It can feel like eating raw kale
When I need to forgive betrayal
It sticks in my craw
To bypass the law
And grace those who want me to fail
When the world hurts
We want just deserts
A law that is true
Protects me from you
Though crucifixion may seem ruinous
It’s actually salvation glorious
When in Him we
Are nailed to a tree
All the world learns to see Christ in us!
Today I will break the power of power
Lord, when I’m out of my depth
I feel like I’m gasping for breath
The wiles of my foes
Keep me on my toes
Til I fear I’m dancing to death
If I’m to make peace in this bod
I must learn to seek praise from God
Voices in my head fight and war
So they can choose what I’m for
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
If we are to drink the divine
We must learn to silence our whine
The voice of our flesh
Refuses what’s fresh
And clings with a death-grip to “Mine!”
If we’re to be free from our sins
We must let God give us new skins
And see that the cross
Is more gain than loss
For that is where wholeness begins
Today I will wear God-skin / As He wears mine
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined.
Luke 5:37
If it walks like a duck…
I think we are making a children’s TV show.
These kids are in love with an actual duck.
Who doesn’t do much.
Like Phineas & Ferb with Perry.
One of the larger kids dresses up in a giant, non-realistic duck costume.
They go on various misadventures.
This intersects somehow with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Continue readingThis world has its ups and its downs
Sometimes tis more crosses than crowns
But even its worst
Makes me for you thirst
Your dance is the floor to my frowns
“Master,” Simon replied, “we have worked hard all night without catching anything. But because You say so, I will let down the nets.”
Luke 5:5
Lord, if I’m being honest
I’m starting to doubt what you promised
I feel I’ve been fishing all night
Yet nothing still seems to go right
Radically Happy 
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