Tag: identity
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Cross Purposes: The Spiral of Law and Grace
The Cross reveals that intimacy is not the absence of judgment but its transfiguration. / Love does not ignore truth — it inhabits it until truth itself becomes safe. // The Cross is not merely where Law and Grace reconcile — it’s where they marry. / Their union births the…
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God’s Hidden Face: Panim/Minap as Cosmic Peek-a-Boo
LEWIS: / I’ve been writing about Panim—the Hebrew for “face,” the turning of presence./ But I’ve coined a companion term: Minap—its reversal. / If Panim is the face turned toward, Minap is the face turned away—not in wrath, but in withdrawal, so that we might seek again. / The cosmos,…
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2025-10-25 YAM: Empty and Destitute (BeeHive 3/4)
To tell me who I am / Nourish that identity / Teach me how to protect it…
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Over The Woods ARC (Redeeming Sondheim’s Into The Woods)
MYSTERIOUS STRANGER: It’s… not that simple. Anyway, the important question is: why are you back in the woods? I thought you were living happily ever after with your wife and my grandson!
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The Prize Cow: Dreaming Authentic Love (Podcast)
In a small Kentucky town, an egg-spinning contest for a prize cow becomes more than a game. For Ellie Mae—brilliant but insecure—and Bo Jackson—charming but dishonest—it’s a crucible of identity, a surprising act of grace, and an unexpected discovery of love.
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2025-08-30 SAM: Had Met (Son A 7/8)
So much / That He wants me / To forget Him / To become fully myself…
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hel.lo.a.thing (The Un-Reconciled Part)
Youth: You… are not wrong. This is the pit that all mortal life is designed to avoid. And [looking at them with shining eyes] I thank you for the costly sacrifices you made, to keep me — us — alive.
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2025-08-23 SAM: Who Ruled (Jackass Epilogue)
When I die / Someone else will take my place / And it won’t make any difference…
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A God Who Needs: The Divine Archetype Behind Shame
Lewis: Then here’s my thought: shame is what divine need feels like when there’s no guarantee it will be met.
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Identificational Prayer: The Cross That Destroys Strongholds
I’ve learned that identificational prayer — standing in humility, identifying with those we pray for — is the most powerful prayer there is. / James says “the prayer of a righteous person has great power” (James 5:16), and in Christ, that righteousness is ours by grace, not by performance. /…
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2025-08-12 AAM: Bear It No Longer (Jackass 3/13)
After discovering / That it was my brain / Which kept me going in circles // I throw it away / And start yelling at it…
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Hello, Shame (Third Reconciled Part)
Shadow: I once… was like you. But I ventured too close to the Place of the Skull, and it began to unmake me. I let out a cry of warning, and only that cry escaped. Now [shuddering] all that is left of me is that cry, which I use to…
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Rest Before You See: A Theological Clarification on “Seeing vs Doing”
Here, “place of repose” is more than psychological; it is ontological and covenantal—a rest in Being itself, an invitation to abide in the Ground of Being. To propose “seeing” without first entering this repose may risk perpetuating the same depth-anxiety your essay seeks to address.
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There Is No Human Being: Seeing as the Antidote to Doing
In truth, there is no human being as a closed noun. There is only human becoming—or more precisely, human seeing.
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The Mirror of Seeing (Magic Item)
Forged in the fire of divine surrender, the Mirror of Seeing is not an ordinary mirror, but a crystalline ruby lens, created from a ring of power sacrificed on a stone altar before a holy flame. It reveals the truest self not as the world sees, but as the divine…
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Listen to the Trees: Steve Jobs Keynote at the Millennium Design Conference
The four trees — Fig, Olive, Pomegranate, Apple — serve as living models of grace-bearing systems, each representing a different mode of transformation and contribution. Together, they form a holistic blueprint for designing resilient and regenerative human systems.
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Muztmizt: Christ as the Antifragile Center of Identity
This impasse forces a deeper question: / Is it possible to sustain identity without abjection? / Can we imagine a structure of being that gains coherence through threat, contradiction, and even trauma — not by repressing it, but by metabolizing it?
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From Dialectic to Diaphoric: The Transfigurative Power of Seeing Christ in Our Other
This is the move from containment to communion, from defining love to abiding love.
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Beyond Orphic Idolatry: Honoring the Divine Gap of Otherness
Because the gap is not a sign of your absence. It is the space where God meets us—without turning either of us into the other.
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