It is World War II. Sort of. (They have web forms.)
The old lady is a Jew, as are most of the orphans she cares for.
I am the commando assigned to get them out.
Continue readingTag Archives: love
Dream: Possum Player
StandardI am attending a weird private school.
My first day
I am given a baby possum
The size of a mouse
Pink and hairless
Not sure
How many others get one Continue reading
Three Dimensions of Christian Identity
Standard- Position: We are already completely accepted as the Father’s beloved children
- Process: We are still becoming redemptive co-heirs with Jesus
- Perception: We develop this identity in (not from) community as we practice reconciliation by hearing and obeying the Spirt
Holy Hunger
StandardThe Holiest Hunger is
The Hunger for Holiness
There are many ways
To Hunger for God
All of them good
Most of them tainted
See The World
StandardTo see
The world
Through Another’s
Eyes
Is Love
Is Empathy
Is Essential
Is Impossible Continue reading
Immanuel Encounter: Into the Woods
Standard[As experienced at the Wisdom Upgrade Workshop #2 with Father Andrew Miller, during the 100X Wisdom challenge]
I am in the woods at IVCF camp in Massachusetts
At the moonlit lake
I remember from my college days
Jesus is there
I am seven years old
It is daytime
Socrates Evangelion (Beyond “Apology”)
Standard[The sequel to Socrates Repents. Hat Tip to Socrates Meets Jesus by Peter Kreeft, and Til We Have Faces by CS Lewis. Dedicated to my friend and muse, David Huffman, the Plato to my Socrates.]
A powerfully-built young man stands on the walls of Athens. His face is torn between Hope and Sorrow. He has clearly been there a while, staring into the west as the sun sets. Finally he sighs and turns to return home.
Just before he descends he glances back for one last forlorn look. Then freezes. He dashes to the wall, straining to make out distant details. Suddenly seized with certainty, he claps his hands and jumps for joy. He barely restrains the impulse to jump directly down the wall, but dashes back to the stairs and out the gate. His gleeful shouts trail in the air behind him. “He’s back! He’s here! Socrates has returned!”
Prayer Bears
StandardThe primary job of prayer
Is that love we bear
We may think we care
Yet we rarely dare
To give more than our share Continue reading
Redeeming Ares, Part 0
StandardErnie: You again? I thought Hades replaced you!
Ares: Dream on. Even Haphaestus wants me back. Needs me, even.
E. But you’re the personification of rape, sadism, and uncontrolled violence!
A. So? Continue reading
THY Kingdom Come
StandardGod’s Kingdom is Coming
But not as they expect
Or I expect.
Playlist DBJ-GTEM: Going The Extra Mile
StandardOvercoming enmity, by going the extra mile, in order to grow us all closer to Jesus.
See also:
Continue readingDream: Love Story
StandardThere is a story within the story
One story is a fairy tale.
Sort of like Beauty and the Beast.
DBJ-MOGA: Moses Overcomes God’s Anger (Exodus 32)
StandardAt 2-4pm on Sunday, July 18th we will ask Jesus to disciple us through one of the most confusing and disturbing passages in all of Scripture, at least to me: Exodus 32, where Moses apparently talks God out of destroying His people.
Dream: Lost In Transit
StandardWe are passengers on a lost flight
Or maybe we knew someone who was
Or maybe we are just pretending. Continue reading
Unsolicited Fatherly Advice
StandardBased on everything I have learned over the last several years, here is my current practice for how to confront someone I love that I am concerned about.
It reflects many painful learnings about what I have found to be counterproductive, but I am sure there is still room for improvement. Let me know your thoughts!
Continue readingRedeeming Aphrodite: Girls Knight Out (Part 11)
StandardContinued from Part 10
Prologue
I stand in the Box of Hades
Holding the hand of Eve.
While the Multitude tears Adam to shreds. Over and over and over again.
Time seems to stop.
Or perhaps speed up to infinity.
We are frozen somewhere between horror and awe.
By the depths of his sacrifice.
Somehow, thought resumes.
Something snaps me out of my reverie.
Was it a shout from Adam?
Some movement from Eve?
I remember his final command, to save his Bride.
My Mother.
Who suffers no man to rescue her.
From whence no mortal ever returned.
What could a Son of Adam like myself possibly do?
Especially having surrendered the Master Key of Peter!
And then I realize.
I know one who is neither man nor mortal.
And I’m pretty sure she owes me a favor…
Aphrodite
Playlist DBJ-2021B-LOVE: Loving More Like Jesus
Standard- Wedding at Cana: John 2:1-11
- Woman Caught in Adultery: John 8:1-11
- Rich Young Ruler: Mark 10:17-31
- Unforgiving Servant: Matthew 18:15-35
- Washing Disciples Feet: John 13:1-17
- Fruit of the Vine: John 15:1-17
- Jubilee (Review & Commission)
Redeeming Aphrodite: All Hallows’ Eve (Part 9)
StandardPrologue
Father and I have been taken prisoner by female guards.
I have no idea what is going on.
I wonder if we were betrayed by Hades, when he opened the Box in his Office.
Then I see Adam.
He no longer looks like a truant Child.
He looks like a Man who has stared Death in the eye.
And Death knelt at his feet and called him Master.
I hope he doesn’t do anything stupid.
Then I realize stupidity is inevitable, whenever Man sees Woman.
So instead I start to pray.
Pray he does the Right Stupid Thing.
Eve Continue reading
Redeeming Aphrodite: Son of Adam (Part 7)
StandardPrologue
Where the Hades should I go now?
All the people I care about aren’t here yet.
Jesus warned me I only had a brief time with the Master Key of St. Peter.
How the heck am I supposed to empty out Hell?
Which one person could I reach or succor that could make an outsized difference?
Oh. Duh. I guess there’s a reason I bear his name.
Adam
Continue readingThe Dear Peter Blues
StandardInspired by Correcting Jesus
Dear Peter, Its okay.
I know you’re scared that
I’m going away.
Radically Happy 
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