Tag: relationship

  • Dream: The Dog Sort

    I am in my parent’s old house in Rochelle It is night I hear a commotion I go downstairs There’s a bunch of animals near the doorway Inside They don’t belong here I suspect they are demons

  • Hello, Resentment (The Difficult Parts)

    Hello, Resentment (The Difficult Parts)

    “I need you to be who **we** are. That is the only way anything will ever get better.” — Resentment

  • 1/14 IAM: Under the Sea (Immanuel Approach Memo)

    1/14 IAM: Under the Sea (Immanuel Approach Memo)

    There are no words here / So I must closely watch His face / And read His eyes / Interpret His every gesture…

  • Gut Check, Inc.

    Gut Check, Inc.

    I find myself on another plane of existence. Talking to some sort of a stomach thing. GutBrain: I am not some mere “thing.” I am a highly-evolved neural complex. Far older than you, you neo-cortical whippersnapper!

  • 1/4 Bi-Limerick: Pruning

    Q. What is the greatest gift someone could give you? A. Pruning: Creating space to become the best version of myself — by cutting off the option to stay worse.

  • 2024/1/1 Bi-Limerick: Scarlet Lesser (New We-are’s Day)

    Q. What are your biggest challenges? A. Seeking a new Me / that believes in a new We

  • 12/29 Limerick: Winning Handily

    The truth that we must understand / Is victory‘s already at hand / When our crowns we fling / His Kingdom we bring / As out of our hearts, He expand

  • 12/17 Epic Poem: Three-Saken, Five-Saken

    12/17 Epic Poem: Three-Saken, Five-Saken

    This turns into pure agony / 
When we reach Sakenness Three / 
And I learn God is not me / 
Kneeling in Gethsemane…

  • Man[ager] of War

    Man[ager] of War

    Your most urgent and important problem is that you don’t “own” what you truly want — especially the price you must pay to get it.

  • 12/11 Tri-Quatrain: Be Held

    Why is it so hard to see / The love that Your heart holds for me? / …maybe I don’t want to face / My horrific need for Your grace /

  • 12/1 Tri-Quatrain: Watch, Man!

    “Jesus answered: Watch out and don’t let anyone fool you!”‭‭ Mark‬ ‭13‬:‭5‬ CEV‬‬ “See the new world I AM making Even through yours and heart breaking I made all of this like a pot For purposes you have forgot This life ain’t a prison for painNor pleasures that don’t need…

  • 11/26 Bi-Limerick: Time to (Fig) Leave

    Today I will leave my shame / At the cross of Christ / So Others can leave theirs / At mine

  • 11/24 Tri-Limerick: Stone-Cornered

    Today I will let His word / 
Break everything off me / 
That is not Him

  • 11/22 Epic Poem: Go For Broke

    11/22 Epic Poem: Go For Broke

    Today I will risk it all 
 / For Love

  • 11/18 Epic Poem: Hard True

    11/18 Epic Poem: Hard True

    To speak truth in love / 
Is not just an act / 
But daring to delve / 
Into deeper fact…

  • V8 Grace: The Eternal Combustion Engine

    What practice must we master to grow all of us closer to Jesus? * The exceptional path of Following The Way of Christ (all the way to the cross).

  • 11/15 Limerick: Deep Move

    Matthew 20:34: Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and at once they received their sight and followed Him. To get us unstuck from our groove We need to share in Christ’s deep move Passions awake Amidst heartbreak As love of the Father we prove Today I will make time…

  • 11/11 Limerick: Right Left Behind

    And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life. Matthew 19:29 Devotion can lead to heartbreak Which may or may not be a mistake…

  • Dream: Bi-Cycle Desegregation

    Dream: Bi-Cycle Desegregation

    On the one hand, all of us on both sides share the same visceral disgust of the unclean. / Far worse than the mere contempt They have for Us. / Letting the untouchables roam freely would spark a violent reaction and further entrenchment.

  • 11/6 Limerick: Appoint-Meant

    Luke 19:5 When Jesus came to that place, He looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, hurry down, for I must stay at your house today.” To live the life God has designed We must do His work pre-assigned When we give Him room He unseals our doom As His love unblinds…