If we hope to finish the race
We must be willing to face
The limits of our competence
Even before we commence
Tag Archives: heart
12/14 Limerick: Ad-Options
StandardWhen we felt we had no more options
Christ offered us God-adoptions
This security
Sets our hearts free
To love more like kings than like orphans
12/6 Sonnet: Walk-Up Call
Standard“Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.”
Genesis 5:24
When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
I need to fix my gaze on heaven’s gate
Then try my walking boots on, just for size
And calculate my upward climbing rate
11/30 Lyrics: Re-Member Me Lord
StandardHat tip to Coco
Lord when I fall apart
Re-member me
When pain engulfs my heart
Help me see Thee
For life is still so short
And cursed with ill report
And evil seems to thwart
My noblest effort
11/16 Limerick: Work Whole-Heartily
StandardHard work is good for the soul
But not when we’re filling a hole
The source of our pride
Must come from inside
Knowing Christ’s work makes us whole
11/10 Limerick: Renewable Hearts
StandardToday I will share liberty
with those who wound my heart
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
10/20 Limerick: Long-Hearted
StandardToday I will not short God
Continue reading10/18 Poem: Pre-Pare
StandardTo live the life that we dare
We must be willing to share
The woundedness God must repair
As we let Him our ego pare
For life in this world makes us hard
And so our souls are forced to shard
As we hide self behind guard
So nobody knows we are scarred
The promise the cross claims is true
Is unblemished life we accrue
As He with His spirit imbue
Hearts not just re-pared, but made new
10/6 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: For Givenness
StandardThe secret to life that’s worth livin’
Is how much we feel we’ve been given
When we overflow
Like Jesus we grow
And interpret earth like it’s heaven
Poem: Imitable Love
Standard“Treat your enemies the way
Luke 6:27 (paraphrased)
You want them to treat theirs”
Saving the world
Is really quit simple
If we learn to be
More imitable
Poem: Gospel Flywheel
StandardThe gospel flywheel
Transforms what’s real
Frees the world from sin
As I’m changed within
Weakly Knews
StandardThe power that I never knew
Is weakness revealing what’s true
For when I reach my end
The cross starts to mend
Those hearts that were broken in two!
Poem: Hesed
StandardWe 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
Poem: One Change
StandardWhat is one change we can make
That will cause all our hearts to un-break?
The smallest bit flip, like a lever
That makes “certain” what once was “never?”
Limerick: Heart for Hard Tests
StandardWhen we find ourselves failing life’s test
Seek out One who knows us best
For if we discard
Our hearts that are hard
He will take care of the rest
Poem: Faith Work
StandardThe work of Faith
Is the risks we take
To carry Hope
On hearts that break
DBJ-ECC3: Peer Reflective Wisdom Practice
StandardThis Wednesday (June 30, 2021) I invite you to join me in encountering God’s wisdom in Ecclesiastes 3, as part of the Bay Area Summer Peer Mentoring group for the Octet Collaborative.
Continue readingAECN for Jesus: Jessian Discipleship
StandardDiscipling By Jesus aims to become an:
- Amateur
- Experiential
- Curious
- Network
of people who practice denying themselves, taking up their cross, and follow Jesus.
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