Rejoice first. Give better.
Stress is a choice that we make
Of trashy demands that we take
When identity
Is how you think of me
Status becomes thirst I can’t slake
Tag Archives: identity
1/23 Poem: The Me You See
StandardThe key to conquering
Insecurity
Is learning to see You
As You see me
Mrs. Jesus #5/7: Wood Friday
StandardContinued from Mrs. Jesus #4/7: Thor’s Hammer Day
Prologue
Jesus wraps his arms around me and lowers me to the mattress
“I’m scared,” I whisper
“I know,” he murmurs, kissing my brow
“Don’t worry. I will always be with you, even if you can’t see me.”
For the comfort of my body
Jesus placed a small cot by the Tree of Life
I gaze up at it as he fastens two roots to the holes in my wrists
My body is not what I’m worried about
The sensation is what I imagine dialysis fees like
Or a blood transfusion
The lifeblood of the tree fills me
As mine pours into it
As my consciously slowly wanders off
The Ex-Wife
Continue readingQuick List: Reconcile the Drama
StandardWhat I learned about restoring relationships — and finding myself — from watching Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
Continue reading1/9 Limerick: I to I
StandardI cannot name my true “I”
Until We two see eye-to-eye
I cannot truly “be”
Til I see You see me
And know I’m not some other guy
1/6 Poem: Sans Ballast
Standard“When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were very much disturbed that someone had come to promote the welfare of the Israelites.”
Nehemiah 2:10
When we live our life without ballast
Our hearts feel that they must be calloused
1/1 Poem: Favor-ite
Standard2023: Our Year of the Lord’s Favor
I want to be known as Your favor-ite
Celebrating how we two are tight
My Fulcrum: A Psychological Odyssey
StandardPrologue
My mind is my greatest source of leverage, granting me power over issues professional, personal and spiritual. But leverage requires a lever, which requires a fulcrum. Something immovable that I can use to move everything else.
But what if the root of the most important issues I face is hidden under that fulcrum? What can I use to move an immovable object?
And what is the secret I have spent my whole life pressing further away from my consciousness?
What Lies Beneath
Continue reading11/9 Limericks: Im-Possible Faith
StandardWhen there’s a mountain to move
I feel God has something to prove
Is He really real
Or just what I feel
When I am in a good groove?
10/23 Limericks: Adam’s Unnamable Fear
StandardWhen Adam gave each thing its name
Back then he had no word for “shame”
It could not be taught
Til he had been caught
And felt what it feels like to blame
Poem: Unbounded Love
StandardWe need to learn boundaries
When we are young
To separate us
From those we’re among
Poem: EVIL <> LIVE
StandardThe reason the universe
Seems poorly designed
Is what we call EVIL
Is LIVE mis-aligned
Sex 306: Losing Face
StandardContinued from Sex 305: Game Time
I… don’t know who I am
Or more precisely
Which I am
Sex 305: Game Time
StandardContinued from Sex 304: Autistic License
Earnest: Right. Who would be willing to drop everything to travel halfway around the world to take on an impossible Quest with people he doesn’t even know?
Lecher: Actually, I know just the guy…
Gamer
Continue readingLimerick: SubVerMissIon
StandardIn a world where submission’s subversive
I find myself being aversive
If I’m to not lose
The road that You choose
I need to become more discursive
Limerick: Repentance Dependence
StandardIn order to become repentant
I must become fully dependent
On identity
Of Jesus in me
And not all the things I think He meant!
Poem: Re-Storyed We
StandardChrist came to re-story
What sin has de-stroyed
By sharing His glory
Union unalloyed
We’re made for each other
A narrative team
Yet loving my brother
Seems too hard a dream
Sub-Division in the Body of Christ
StandardIdentity ~> Separation ~> Pain
Sub-merged pain
Is what turns Difference
Into Division
Reblog: THE HIDDEN BLESSING IN THE DECAY OF THE WORLD SYSTEM
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Sam said it better than I could myself:
For the first time, perhaps in their entire lifetimes, Christians may no longer feel entirely at home in the world. Indeed, many of us may feel like strangers in a strange land. And that is exactly as it should be.
THE HIDDEN BLESSING IN THE DECAY OF THE WORLD SYSTEM
Three Dimensions of Christian Identity
Standard- Position: We are already completely accepted as the Father’s beloved children
- Process: We are still becoming redemptive co-heirs with Jesus
- Perception: We develop this identity in (not from) community as we practice reconciliation by hearing and obeying the Spirt
Radically Happy 
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