We’d much rather they’d bought the farm
(those Others who do to us harm)
Or at least find a way
To do as we say
Lest they be led off by gendarme!
Tag Archives: joy
Limerick: Good Evil
Standard‘Tis true that this world’s full of woe
And it feels like the further we go
In following Christ
We pay a steep price
And oft receive blow upon blow
Limerick: Larm Bell
StandardInverting “alarm” gives us “larm”
Good news that acts like a charm
If even a cross
Brings more gain that loss
Then earth’s worst pain cannot us harm!
Limerick: Fathered
StandardIf we truly knew we were Fathered
Our hearts would never be bothered
For it was His choice
That gave us a voice
To re-joice the life He has authored!
Limerick: Will Joy?
StandardThe question I’m longing to say:
Will joy be my portion today?
But backwards I got
When forming that thought;
“Will joy!” — is my call to obey.
Limerick: Worm Appointed
StandardFor Jonah
We all have appointments with worms
(Though the thought still makes us squirm)
All that brings us bliss
We know we will miss
Despite the hard ground we thought firm
Sex 207. Loving Life
StandardConcluding the story from Sex 206. Loving Father
Prologue
I am trapped in the Bar of Hell.
Watching my Father guzzle
All the shame, suffering and sin
Of the whole world
With such agonizing joy
That my soul yearns
To join Him
The Cup
I grab my tiny Cup, full of ruby liquid, and slam it down my throat.
I have tasted all the pleasures of this world, from the sublime heights of philosophy to the sordid depths of passion.
All start out sweet as honey to my mouth, but end up bitter as gall in my stomach.
This… is the reverse.
Continue readingSystematic Graceology
StandardThe ultimate purpose and practice of Spiritual Formation is:
- Identifying the Anxieties for which we currently lack Grace
- Training us to Catharize them by the Cross of Christ
More formally:
Continue readingPoem: Uncomfortably Grateful
StandardWe say that God is good
When we dine on comfort food
Much harder to confess
When we feel under duress
Poem: Self-Signed
StandardWe say we want a Sign
Or is it to define
That we can be our Self
And leave God on the shelf?
Diarogue 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.
A Reason to Rejoice
StandardUpdate: Through a series of miracles, I am starting my dream job on July 25th as Director of Product at Quilt Data, after less than four weeks unemployed. Thanks for your prayers!
Yesterday I was laid off from the startup I’ve worked at for the last six years.
I am incredibly privileged to be a highly-educated tech worker in a growing industry, from a (formerly) two-income family. But it still hurts. Especially since we haven’t really recovered (financially or emotionally) from my prior layoff.
Which is why this post today from my friends at Pure Glory really spoke to me. Rather than reacting out of fear and dread, I choose to believe God is using this crisis to confront the doubt, deceptions, and division that have stolen my joy and crippled my impact.
Because the only thing truly standing in the way of my destiny is my own sin. So I rejoice that God is using these challenging circumstances to bless, purify and heal me in ways I could never imagine.
No matter how much it hurts.
by Apostle Gabriel Cross God is going deep to heal each one of us. God is dealing with the deep things in your spirit, the hidden things in your …
The Healing Hand Of The Lord
Poem: Out of Favor
StandardThe kind of relationships
We all savor
Are those that make us
Full of Favor
To know that those
Whom we esteem
Rejoice to see us
Is like a dream
Alas! The mirror
Of that gift
Is mortal terror
Of a rift
Hate Right
StandardThe Right to Hate requires the Right Hate
Whatever we demonize, we do badly
Because we do it reluctantly
As a last resort
Rather than deliberately
As a spiritual practice
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 readingFruit vs Counter-Fruit
StandardWe were created
To cultivate
And consume
The Fruit of the Spirit
Enjoying it
Is like being
Back in Eden
Redeeming Animism, Part 4: Effacing Death
StandardContinued from Part 3
Prologue
Here in my own private Eden
I stare into the eyes of a snake
Like unto the one that deceived Eve
Seeking the truth that could unmake Satan
But seeing only the Face of Death
I am no stranger to Death
Hell, Hades and I are so close he loans me his keys
But this…
This is different
Nehushtan
Continue readingSelf-Pitiless
StandardWe need to learn
Compassion for our Self
Yet show it no
Pity
TGR-05: Deep, Deep Joy
StandardJoin us on Zoom or YouTube/Facebook Live to co-create the video of this episode at 10 AM PST on Friday, May 1st, 2020 AD.
Question: How do we develop unconquerable joy?
Continue readingRSVP with God: Outcome-Driven Quiet Times
StandardRSVP stands for the four steps I have been using to help my spirit align with God’s purposes for my life:
- Rejoice: Meditate on yesterday’s emotional highs and lows until you find a way to rejoice in them
- Shalom: Repeat until you can rest in God’s peace. Over time your “set point” of how much peace you expect will increase.
- Vision: From that place of Peace, ask God what to focus on today. As part of this, I like to read a short devotional, look up relevant Bible verses, and God for a single “theme” word for the day to prime my thinking.
- Praise: Finish by affirming God’s sovereignty over everything that is going to happen, and thanking Him for showing up.
Radically Happy 
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