Everything that is alive
Needs some kind of Law to survive
Internalized norms we enforce
So all of our parts stay on course
Tag Archives: death
5/13 Poem: Heart Strategy
StandardWhen great success I hope to find
I figure things out for my mind
But mayhap the best place to start
Is building a plan for my heart
4/8 Poem: Seeking NoMan
StandardBut He said, “You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!”
Exodus 33:20 NASB 1977
Lord, I long to be NoMan
So I can see you and live
I don’t even care if you kill me
As long as it is me you forgive
4/6 Limericks: Out Of My Depth
StandardLord, 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
3/28 Limerick: Wake Jesus
StandardWhen I’m adrift in this lake
Help me, Lord, to see Your wake
You’re not still asleep
Your promise you’ll keep
For even death’s glory, you’ll take!
But Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him and said, “Teacher, don’t You care that we are perishing?”
Mark 4:38
Today I will be joyfully, inclusively woke!
1/5 Poem: Viti Culture
StandardThe 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
1/2 Poem: For Fit, My Soul
Standard“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?
12/18 Limerick: Under-Shadow
StandardIf 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
12/11 Poem: Truth Convicts
StandardLord, make me a convict for truth
Jail me in love’s prison
Force-feed me fountain’s youth
12/4 Poem: Re-Conceive
StandardBut 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
11/18 Poem: Deadly Assurance
StandardThe 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
11/8 Limericks: Grace Dominous
StandardContinue reading“For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”
Romans 6:14 NKJV
10/31 Limerick: In Vulnerability
StandardThere’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!
10/28 Poem: Ill-Legalist
StandardThe legalist earns our respect
For reasons we ought to inspect
He’s willing to hold up the wall
Without which our culture will fall
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
10/26 Limericks: Deathsong
StandardWith the right BATNA, even $0 is f-u money
Continue reading10/25 Limericks: I-flation
StandardAn 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
Sex 307: Home-be-coming
StandardContinued from Sex 306: Losing Face
Some One: Stand and face me.
To my surprise, I can.
Continue reading10/6 Poem: Word Works
StandardThe 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
Limerick: Good Evil
Standard‘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
Radically Happy 
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