Lord you know the pain of this world
Into which we have been hurled
We are each one broken part
Of your once unbroken heart
Tag Archives: grief
2/21 Limerick: Led Loneley
StandardWhen God seems to leave us alone
Maybe it’s so we can own
Our hunger and thirst
For Him to be first
As we force our way nearer His throne
Mrs. Jesus, #6/7: Wholly Sad, Her Day
StandardContinued from Mrs. Jesus #5/7: Wood Friday
Prologue
Jesus is gone.
I am alone.
And nothing will ever be okay again.
Holy Saturday
[In honor of the most overlooked, relevant, and lonely holiday in the Christian calendar]
Continue reading2/19 Limerick: Breaking Rules!
StandardThe Power of Powerlessness
It may make us all sound like fools
But I’m here to say “Breaking rules!”
Our praise amidst loss
Channels Christ’s cross
And that is how He, Satan schools!
1/16 Doggerel: We Eat Locusts
StandardIt’s easy to think we are beaten
When we see the years locusts have eaten
But we know we will come out ahead
When we start to eat locusts instead!
12/31 Poem: New Year Sieve
StandardAs we come to this New Year’s Eve
I’m wondering what I should leave
Sex 304: Autistic License
StandardContinued from Sex 303: Yaga Math
Scene 1: Baba Yaga’s Hut
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?
Poem: Unblind Rage
StandardWhen we are blinded by rage
We feel like we’re stuck in a cage
Which says that our soul
Cannot reach our goal
Unless we regain center stage
Sex 202. Loving Terrorsaur
Standard[Part of a series that may never see the light of day, but this episode felt good enough to publish on its own.]
She is not an object of desire.
She is not even human.
Yet she is my next quest.
Pterosaur
Continue readingDiarogue Finale 7/7: Wisdom, Rogue
StandardEpisode #7 of The Rogue Dialogues: Inner Healing for Leadership
Concluding Carnus, War
The scene is a wide-open grassy field.
Two women enter from opposite sides, running towards each other.
One is older than the hills, but still a picture of perfect health.
The other is younger, having just now reached her full maturity.
Before they can embrace, the younger one trips and falls.
She lies prone, shaking and pounding the ground in her grief.
Where Grief Begins
StandardBy its very nature
Grief feels like The End
Death
Dissolution
Destruction
Loss of connection
Loss of belonging
Loss of hope
The Loss
Is Real
And Final
And yet…
Continue readingRuth The Day
StandardShare Trouble
StandardThe prequel to Revival Time (and Space)
It’s hard to share
In the troubles of others
When their trouble
Reminds us
Of too much of our own
Redeeming Ares, Part 4: Chiron Feeding
StandardContinued from Part 3.
Prologue
“Go away, leave me alone!”
I am stunned.
Not just by the rude un-greeting.
But by the ramshackle hut Charon left me at
After departing the homely heaven of Hestia’s kitchen
“Fine!”
My twelve-year-old self snaps back.
“I didn’t want to get schooled by you anyway, you mangy old horse-man.
I’ll just sit here and eat the lunch Hestia gave me, until the bus comes to take me back.”
Suddenly there’s a loud but brief galloping.
The door opens.
Revealing an old
Disheveled
Yet still mighty
Centaur
Chiron
Continue readingGrievable Losses: The Beatitudes, Summarized
StandardBlessed are those
Who grieve the loss
Of the historic context
That made them feel secure
Hope Grieves (How to Forgive)
StandardUnforgiveness
Is a sign of what we value
So much
We dare not capitulate
We reject a “logos”
That says this community
Or relationship
Or status quo
Is more important than what we lost
Especially
When we envy those
With the power
To impose that logos
To our own hurt
But what if
We are both wrong?
Dream: Lost In Transit
StandardWe are passengers on a lost flight
Or maybe we knew someone who was
Or maybe we are just pretending. Continue reading
Breaking The Grievance Circuit
StandardSixSeconds EQ is named for the fact that the initial emotional response to an external trigger only lasts about six seconds.
I have noticed that certain triggers activate a self-perpetuating “grievance circuit” in my mind. This keeps a narrative justifying my resentment circulating in my mind; because I don’t know the appropriate action needed to resolve that trigger — and my psyche considers it too important to ignore!
This is vital information; but also a huge waste of resources. I must confess I don’t yet have a practice for reliably addressing this kind of problem, but here are some questions that might help:
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Radically Happy 