Tag: pride
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8/8 Tri-Limerick: Don’t Look Down
If we want to share in Christ’s crown / We need to stop looking down / On those who fail / Because our scale / Judges they deserve our frown…
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6/25 Epic Poem: Christ Yield
If we want our worlds to be healed / We must show them how to Christ yield // That’s much easier said than it’s done / But that is why God killed His Son…
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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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1/23 Poem: The Me You See
The key to conquering / Insecurity / Is learning to see You / As You see me
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My Fulcrum: A Psychological Odyssey
But what if the root of the most important issues I face is hidden under that fulcrum? What can I use to move an immovable object?
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Dream: Duke Performance
I am at a convention center. I am running late for booth setup. I am just wearing underwear.
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Limerick: Repentance Dependence
In order to become repentant I must become fully dependent
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Poem: Consumption Presumption
But what if the tables are turned And Grace is not something I earned
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Limerick: Unclean Healing
Much harder to go to a cross And bear all the world’s shame and loss
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The Rogue Dialogues: Inner Healing for Leadership
This was my attempt to make peace with the “part” of me that had an unfortunate history of sabotaging my relationships with authority figures.
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Poem: Status Leaker
For the road to hell Is a zero sum If I seek your losing Then the devil’s won
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Pride, A Part (Socratic Monologue)
Grow up, lady! You wouldn’t have lasted 24 hours out here without me. You say you needed me. You have no idea the hell I went through to keep you safe. Don’t get so high and mighty on your little ivory pedestal. You only have the luxury to indulge your…
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I Wanna Be A Loser
I wanna lose the Election The Argument The Fight So everyone will think I’m wrong Even though God knows I’m right
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Redeeming Animism, Part 1: Animal Spirits
For us Elder Ones, everything that you consider “survival of the fittest” — such as feeding, mating, nurturing — is experienced as an act of worship. Yes, there are concrete biological and informational components to each of those, but the underlying motive is best characterized as “worship.”
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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
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Socrates Repents (An Alternative “Apology”)
[I realize this looks like (and probably is) a harsh critique of the most revered figure in philosophy (Hat Tip to Taleb for stating it first). But I didn’t write it about him. I wrote it about me.]
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Redeeming Ares, Part 2: In Dio Veritas
E. Oh, the usual. Epic quest to save my civilization, soul, & family. I imagine you get a lot of that around here. D. Aye, but these days not so much as you’d think. Nowadays most such folks head East. They figure the Western well has all but run dry.…
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Whole-y Pray-ers
[aka Hegelian Prayer: Asking for God’s synthesis, not just our thesis] God wants whole-y pray-ers
Radically Happy 