If we want to inherit heaven
We must learn to recognize leaven
Each small compromise
That clouds up our eyes
Til we can’t tell cursin’ from blessin’
The reason we’re trapped by this thing
Is we have made comfort our king
My power ensures
My pain quickly cures
Regardless of Your suffering
So we must learn to face our hurt
To let Christ His Kingdom assert
As He heals our eyes
We soon recognize
Our crosses to crowns He’ll convert!
The real source of pain
It now seems to me
Is where I conflict
With reality
When we feel a pain
That we did not earn
There’s part of our brain
That begins to burn
Continued from Mrs Jesus 3/7: Wed-ness Day
Friday, I have a date with a tree.
Today I am getting my nails done.
I am terrified.
It’s days like these I ask myself why I ever married Jesus…
The secret to getting de-tired
Is letting our hearts be inspired
When we face our pain
Christ rewrites our brain
By giving us what is required
Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest — if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:9
Today I will be fully woke
Continue readingThe truth that we must learn to feel
Is just how deeply Christ is real
This world with its pleasures and pain
Loves to impose on our brain
Illusions of solidity
That overwhelm eternity
Hat tip to Coco
Lord when I fall apart
Re-member me
When pain engulfs my heart
Help me see Thee
For life is still so short
And cursed with ill report
And evil seems to thwart
My noblest effort
Happy Fibonacci Day!
First-order pain helps us learn
To keep away from flames that burn
Our bodies we need to preserve
So that on earth we may serve
The reason our loves fall apart
Is because sin broke our heart
The pain was just too great to bear
And so must be exiled somewhere
The purpose is pleasure is “good”
To help us to learn what we should
But by that same token a trap
Distracting us into mishap
Some times our pain
Is due to our sin
We hurt ourselves
Or God calls us in
In a world where sufferings out of fashion
Christ calls us to live with compassion
As we train our brain
To not flee from pain
His Kingdom, to our world, will crash in
Inverting “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!
Proverbs 24:1 Do not envy wicked men or desire their company;
Do I envy wicked men?
Would I take their place?
Do I crave the power to rule
More than the pow’r of grace?
How we respond
When we feel pain
Tells us what
We hope to gain
We Christians and Jews
Do not get to choose
Our reality
Is defined by Thee
The One that You are
Must be our North Star
Your plan from above
Must be how we love
When we are little God’s small
Though to us He seems all-in-all
But as we grow our brain
In a world filled by pain
That comfort is destined to fall
For Joseph
We all need to Rock “Bottom Favor”
Though that means we must drink bitter flavor
When we find joy in pain
Our cross becomes gain
And we bear fruit the world will long savor
Lord, set my soul free by your blood-rite
So shame won’t drown me in a mud-fight
Your loss as my gain
Dissolves all my pain
And plants me to grow like a bud — right?
Radically Happy 
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