Tag: forgiveness
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5/14 Limerick: Bowing 747 – Jumbo Jet Love
If we hope to love Jesus great / We must learn how to our Self hate
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The Ungiver, Part 1/6: BlackHeart
Robin: Yet ever I get close, thou thwartest me. Rip the gift from my hands. Punish me for my impudence. Send me back empty-handed. Why must you torment me so? BlackHeart: Because it is my job.
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4/20 Limericks: Betraying Forgiveness
It can feel like eating raw kale / When I need to forgive betrayal
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3/25 Limerick: Gift Withholding
If You are withholding Your gift / Maybe it’s due to our rift / It’s always worthwhile / That we reconcile / To show the world we get Your drift!
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3/19 Limerick: God Bless My Foes
Blessings on all of my foes! / For even the worst of my woes / Serve but to reveal / The pain that I feel / Is what brings the healing Christ chose
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12/31 Poem: New Year Sieve
As we come to this New Year’s Eve / I’m wondering what I should leave
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12/13 Poem: 123…4giveness
There’s a process to being forgivenThat changes the way we are livin’But is it a skill we can learnOr a reward we must earn?
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11/12 Poem: Forgiven-ness
The reason their wound Burdens my heart Is that they’ve triggered My orphaned “part”
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10/4 Limerick: Forgiven Love
We serve others because we love Jesus We love Him because He has freed us The deeper love goes The more that we show The world how to live as redeemers
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Poem: Hand-Some Sin
Some times our pain Is due to our sin… Yet none of this tells Why God made Christ die
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Limerick: For Givenness
The secret to life that’s worth livin’ Is how much we feel we’ve been given
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My Father’s Nakedness (The Gospel of Noah)
A Dis-curse in Three Parts Part 1: Matthew 17:1-13 Eli: Noah! Noah, where are you? Moe: Eli, I don’t think this is a very good idea. Eli: Shut up, Moe. He’s gonna love this. Moe: Fine, it’s your funeral. You never did get one, did you? Eli: No more than…
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Redeeming Animism, Part 6: My De-Liver-Er
The eagle stands apart on a nearby rock, delicately nibbling a newly-harvested liver. The mouse looks on in horror; the spaniel-coyote with amusement.
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Redeeming Ares, Part 8: Hermetic Unsealing
I jerk my finger back Seriously? I have braved gods and goddesses Divine mountains and infernal hellholes Only to be taunted By my adolescent foibles? Is someone pranking me?
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Regenerative Grace
The Law is great for scaling A fundamental insight But is inherently static and preserving Not generative. To avoid breakdown Is also to resist breakthrough
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Grievable Losses: The Beatitudes, Summarized
Blessed are those Who grieve the loss Of the historic context That made them feel secure
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