Tag: joy
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12/18 Limerick: Consummate
Love on the cross is heart break / But that is the chance we must take / For when it is done / We’ve finally begun / The joy that makes heaven and earth shake
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11/30 Quad-Quatrain: The Ugliest Habit
Yet in Christ’s Kingdom the one / That brings us close to the Son / Which He commands we employ / Is full of both horror and joy
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11/18 Epic Poem: Hard True
To speak truth in love / Is not just an act / But daring to delve / Into deeper fact…
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11/11 Limerick: Right Left Behind
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life. Matthew 19:29 Devotion can lead to heartbreak Which may or may not be a mistake…
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11/7 Bi-Limericks: Feel My Heat
Hat tip to Imagine Dragons Jesus when to You I’m near It’s intoxicating like beer The warmth of Your touch Fills me with much Hunger to overcome fear Father let this be the day I start to love others that way With Your presence felt May frozen hearts melt As…
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The UnGiver, Part 5/6: BleakHeart
I sit at a table with my brother and apparently-not-dead long-lost Father. Refugees in a small shed on the estate of our mad mother. Wondering how in the name of the Emperor-Beyond-The-Sea I will find the Gift that can restore our family. When all I can look at is the…
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10/21 Limerick: Free Joy
In times where hate seeks to destroy / Disciples must learn to free joy / In Christ’s holy nation / Fear’s self-preservation / Gives way to the cross we employ
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10/16 Prosaic: Forgive Hard (Christ-like Reaction to the Israeli-Hamas Conflict)
Today’s verse was about forgiveness. In the shadow of the unfolding horror in the Middle East, I can’t boil that down to a single emotion. My thoughts are too tangled to weave into a concise linear narrative. Instead, please indulge me as I try to process them “out loud.”
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10/5 Limerick: Praispective
My greatest need for corrective Is taking on a Praise Perspective When things go wrong I lift up a song ‘Cause that’s how His Kingdom’s infective! Today I will practice infectious praise
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Connect Others With Jesus Challenge – Day 2 Homework
Jesus was playing with me, like a girl with her Barbie.
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9/28 Limerick: Trigger Happy
Hat tip to both Weird Al and the Skylander If we want our hearts to grow bigger We must learn to confront each trigger When my hidden pain Becomes Jesus’ gain We’ll overflow Joy — so I figger Today I will be happy When my amygdala show me Where You…
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9/27 Epic Poem: Right Brain Love
Love that my flesh cannot feign / Has to come from my right brain / My left brain, it pains me to say / Pretends love to force you to stay
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9/25 Poem: Love Nose / Heaven Scent
Lord I suppose / I need a new nose / That sniffs out Your love / Wherever it goes
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9/21 Epic Poem: Radically Happy
And so far from just being cruel / God used my pain as a tool / To force me to dig deep inside / And find out I’m loved as His Bride
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9/14 Poem: Fringe Benefit
So they brought him all their sick, begging him to let them touch the fringe of his cloak. And everyone who touched it was instantly healed!
Radically Happy 