Tag: life
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12/9 Limerick: Status Chains
The norms that help us avoid strife Save our homeostatical life Yet that is the pain We must face to gain The status of being Christ’s wife Today I will dare to see The Face of God Even if it destroys me “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law…
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11/28 Haiku: Piece Broker
And He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” Luke 22:19 Body once broken Has become our peace token New life unspoken Today I will break good
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10/25 Poem: Gate Expectations
Hat tip to the Dickens I’m deeply embarrassed to state How my expectations do gate The gifts which You so long to give That I may abundantly live
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9/9 Limerick: I’m Potent
When addiction tempts me with descent It’s because I’m feeling impotent But true agency Is Your life in me Raising us all by Your advent Today I will seekYour empowering adventMidst my frustrating descent
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8/28 Limerick: Know Way
Sometimes my heart seems to say “True life? There’s really no way!” But if we know Christ And pay what He priced Our darkness will turn into day
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8/26 Poem: Nowternity
Heaven is not Just some distant fate Where I find joy At a pearly gate The Kingdom of Christ That He called Good News We’re meant to live out With muscle and thews
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8/13 Epic Poem: Already Kingdom
When cares of this world / Make my heart wring / Christ calls to my soul: / “I’m already King” // “You’ve got to be kidding” / I say to His face / “Why would the Father / Intend this disgrace?”…
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8/11 Poem: I AM… The Way Truth Lifes
Q. What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world? A. Become the Way Truth Lifes
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7/29 Limerick: Post-Occupied
Today I will be pre-occupied with Heaven And post-occupied with Earth
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7/22 Poem: Free Time
What would it take / For us to free / Time from the curse / Of Modernity?
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7/14 Poem: Promise Wept
This world that we live in is broken / And promises aren’t always kept / Yet my shattered faith was restored / When I saw that Jesus wept
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6/26 Limerick: An Up-Raised Man
I’d rather be raised than be right / So HIS life is fighting my fight
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6/7 Poem: Embraceable True
If I want to do / What Jesus did, too / I must learn to live / Embraceable True
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5/30 Tri-Limerick: Secure Non-Identity
It’s a great thing to be sure / That our identity is secure / But there is a price to this gain / That easily corrupts our brain…
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5/27 Poem: Grace Culture
Yet Christ makes this scandalous claim / That those who are called by His name / Must live by an inside-out Law / That redeems, not condemns, every flaw
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5/24 Limerick: Life Luminous
Lord help me to live a life luminous / That makes others long for the numinous
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4/21 Limericks: Sup-Re-Natural
It’s natural to hate our foes / The authors of our earthly woes // But that’s not the end of our tale / We must learn to see past the veil…
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