Radically Happy

Tag: life

  • Limerick: Die Lightly

    Death should seem to us a light thing 
And yet we all feel it is frightening

  • Poem: Train vs Wreck

    For if we shirk the pain of The cross which we must bear We place it upon others And our relations tear

  • Poem: Abound Different

    Those who spread love that is “hesed” Are the only ones He will count “blessed”

  • Self-Pitiless

    We need to learn 
Compassion for our Self 
Yet show it no 
Pity

  • Death Benefit

    We must un-know Our un-knowing We must un-Self Our Self We must un-live Our un-life

  • Precondition for Revival

    Precondition for Revival

    As long as we think 
we are victims to be rescued 
or saints to be vindicated 
or children to be protected 
The Cross holds no answers

  • Redeeming Aphrodite: Meeting Jesus (Part 6)

    Redeeming Aphrodite: Meeting Jesus (Part 6)

    I stare at the desk. As I have for days. I know I must open it. But I am terrified of what I might find. Of what I could become. I finally reach a trembling hand towards the first drawer. Suddenly there is a knock on the door! I nearly…

  • The Apple of His Eye

    I know how Adam must’ve felt When Eve ate the Apple. That’s why he ate. Because he would rather Die with her Than live alone. Satan head-faked him. She wouldn’t have died. Or God could have raised her If he’d only managed to endure Until God showed up Eve was…

  • Evangel, Part V: Living The Gospel

    “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who…

  • Evangel, Part II: The Story of God (and Me)

    “Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first…

  • Song: Gratitude

    Part 3 of the Guilt–Grace-Gratitude musical trilogy, from my 1996 meditations on The Grace Cycle.

  • Song: From Guilt to Grace

    The following song is a lyrical version of “Graphical Theology: The Grace Cycle“, part of my burst of artistic exploration in 1996. It was the first element of a trilogy on the Reformation themes of Guilt-Grace–Gratitude, but unlike the other two I never was happy enough with it to put…

  • LEAD! C.8 Submission and Service

    In Which… The discipline of submitting ourselves to serve others, when done properly, brings us near the heart of Christ — and forces us to confront our pride and sloth. Memory Verse: “verse” — 2 Corinthians 4:1 (NKJV)