The cultivation or culture of grapes, especially for wine making
Viticulture
Though Culture may think it’s divine
It must draw its strength from a Vine
The cultivation or culture of grapes, especially for wine making
Viticulture
Though Culture may think it’s divine
It must draw its strength from a Vine
“What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?”
Luke 9:25
It may seem to you
That I pick a nit
Yet still I must ask
What my soul’s for-fit?
If we long for transfigured life-flow
We must learn how to under-shadow
The less I trust me
The more I can see
How earth’s gap from heaven to narrow
Lord, make me a convict for truth
Jail me in love’s prison
Force-feed me fountain’s youth
But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.
John 1:12-13 NLT
They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God
That which cannot be borne
Must be born again
Only those hearts that are torn
Can learn to beat without sin
The only thing certain
Is that we will die
The only real freedom
Is choosing our why
Will we die from risk
When chasing a thrill
Or run out the clock
Til time makes its kill
Continue reading“For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”
Romans 6:14 NKJV
There’s power that comes in vulnerability
As losing my armor unleashes Thee
It may not feel safe
But I’m no helpless waif
For even my death brings me victory!
The legalist earns our respect
For reasons we ought to inspect
He’s willing to hold up the wall
Without which our culture will fall
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
With the right BATNA, even $0 is f-u money
Continue readingAn inflated ego’s not bad
When there’s a world to be had
Denying the norm
Is how we form
A Selfness that makes our hearts glad
Continued from Sex 306: Losing Face
Some One: Stand and face me.
To my surprise, I can.
Continue readingThe work of God’s Word
Is that He be heard
By which I mean
That we can be seen
The point of His letter
Is to love Him better
By helping me see
Just how He loves me
This sounds very nice
But hides a steep price
For what He wants most
Is I give up my ghost!
I cannot tell a lie:
God wants me to die
So I can be more
Like the One I adore
This is the truth
He’s shown us since Ruth:
My world must be torn
So that Christ can be born
The craziest part
Is that this is the start
Of how God heals my heart
With His Word torn apart
‘Tis true that this world’s full of woe
And it feels like the further we go
In following Christ
We pay a steep price
And oft receive blow upon blow
If we could have our druthers
There would be no Others
Each life en passant
Would do what I want
Albeit with sameness that smothers
Continued from Sex 303: Yaga Math
Earnest the Sinner is still reeling from the revelation that he is not the true Leader of this group.
Earnest: But you’re contradicting yourself! You said we need five persons for the Quest to succeed.
But there’s only four of us: me, you, Lecher and Ang.
Yet now you’re saying our Quest is actually to find the fifth person, who is our true Leader?
We feel that nothing can go wrong
When we trust that we truly belong
It seems our salvation is sure
When we know it is us they adore
Christ Kingdom becomes most effective
When each of us owns our Perspective
And yet our own Will
We’re willing to kill
To live His collective directive
The charge of God
Is what attracts
Joy in what
The world detracts
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