We are in an enormous, indoor arena.
There must be thousands here.
Perhaps even orders of magnitude more, beyond where I can see.
We are here to play a game.
Tag Archives: joy
5/26 Epic Poem: Unseen Condemn
StandardThen Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?”
John 8:10
There must be something in my brainstem
That causes the Unseen Condemn
5/25 Limerick: Down to Earth
StandardAnd again He bent down and wrote on the ground.
John 8:8
If we want to share Christ’s new birth
We too must get down to earth
When I feel your pain
Then both of us gain
And invite the world into God’s mirth
5/24 Limerick: Life Luminous
StandardLord help me to live a life luminous
That makes others long for the numinous
When they all see
How Jesus loves me
Our shared joy makes glory voluminous
Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 8:12
5/22 Limericks: Everything HIS Awesome
StandardHat Tip to The Lego Movie
Though this world feels like it’s broke
That’s not a reason to choke
God has a plan
For woman and man
To reveal His great master-stroke!
5/14 Limerick: Bowing 747 – Jumbo Jet Love
StandardIf we hope to love Jesus great
We must learn how to our Self hate
Horror at my sin
When I’m forgiv’n
Overflows joy from His fate
Today I will worship
At the fate of Jesus
Psychologue: Challengee Power Ranger
Standard[I just realized I needed a generic term for these dialogues with my subconscious]
An athletic figure in a black jumpsuit with gold trim, plus a helmet with dark glass faceplate, is standing majestically overlooking a war-torn battlefield.
I walk up to him.
The Challenge
Continue reading4/21 Limericks: Sup-Re-Natural
StandardIt’s natural to hate our foes
The authors of our earthly woes
Our flesh tells us true
All that we must do
To sustain the life that God chose
4/18 Limericks: Consuming Hunger
StandardBlessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Matthew 5:6
The hunger that gnaws at my soul
Reminds me I long to be whole
When I’m filled with You
(Tis strange but it’s true)
I suddenly have a new goal…
4/14 Limericks: Bread Line
StandardJesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it is not because you saw these signs that you are looking for Me, but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.
John 6:26
If we wish to join the divine
We must make it past the “bread line”
It’s good to be fed
But what if instead
We sought to hear Jesus call us “Mine!”
4/11 Poetry Slam: Over-Flow
StandardWe gotta get into Your Over-Flow
So we escape this world‘s under-tow
Sin has trapped us all in ways we don’t know
Free us from ruts so with You we go
4/5 Limerick: Hidden Gifts
StandardIf we want to make progress swift
We must seek out the hidden gift
The gem in the rough
And joy when it’s tough
Is what earth to heaven will lift!
4/2 Lyrics: Believe On
StandardBelieve On
Believe On
While you wait for the dawn
Believe On
When all hope is gone
Believe On
3/29 Limerick: Power Surge
StandardYour Body’s been bleeding for years
As each lost sheep disappears
But if we touch Your hem
The power to love them
Will shine through the joy in our tears
3/28 Limerick: Wake Jesus
StandardWhen I’m adrift in this lake
Help me, Lord, to see Your wake
You’re not still asleep
Your promise you’ll keep
For even death’s glory, you’ll take!
But Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him and said, “Teacher, don’t You care that we are perishing?”
Mark 4:38
Today I will be joyfully, inclusively woke!
3/21 Poem: Revealing Love
StandardWe cannot exist in a world
Unless the divine be concealed
His glory would us overwhelm
If this earthy veil be unpeeled
Me Encountering Jesus 2023-03-18
StandardI had two contradictory encounters at yesterday’s PAWS for Men Encountering Jesus.
Painfully Happy
During Immanuel Encounter,
I saw Jesus on a cliff overlooking the sea.
His arms were outstretched.
He had a huge grin.
He said, “Come fly with me!”
He had a huge grin on His face.
I heard the words “So Happy” over and over.
And I started sobbing great gut-wrenching sobs.
[on reflection: perhaps “un-wrenching”, like resetting a dislocated shoulder]
Joyfully Broken
The second was when Paul M. prayed for me.
I was describing unforgiveness as a barrier.
When you sin against me, you reveal that you and the world are broken.
Unforgiveness is my refusal to internalize that brokenness.
I saw Jesus sucking out my brokenness.
Leaving wholeness in its place.
Except where my brokenness was holding to that barrier.
Forgiveness is realizing I need to release that barrier.
So Jesus can suck out all my brokenness.
And yours through me.
#EmbraceTheSuck
I saw Him absorbing all that sin and shame on the cross.
And I just started laughing and laughing…
3/18 Limerick: Lighten Up
Standard3/17 Limericks: Word Choke
StandardI know it may sound like a joke
But sometimes on Your Word I choke
The truth that I find
O’erwhelms my mind
Fearing that I’ll end up broke
Lord plow up the soil of my heart
Make me the place where you start
Sowing your joy
So we destroy
Those lies that do us keep apart
3/14 Limericks: Burn Out/In
StandardFor Robby
The cure for burnout is burn-in:
First finding the failures within
Our need to be used
Will leave us confused
Twixt service and slavery to sin
Radically Happy 
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