“Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.”
Matthew 5:23-24 NIV
If You are withholding Your gift
Maybe it’s due to our rift
It’s always worthwhile
That we reconcile
To show the world we get Your drift!
Lord, though we’re made from the dust
We long to build towers of trust
A shelter from all earthly storms
A safe place to play with new forms
John 1:37 And when the two disciples heard John say this, they left him and followed Jesus.
How can I lead loved ones to see
That they should trust You and not me?
The Hands they say once made the world
Now find themselves around nails curled
The One who by rights is our Boss
Has become a symbol of loss
To see God with eyes that are fresh
We must let him prepare our flesh
For mere sacrifice
Won’t make us think twice
Until we’re reborn in a crèche
It is fun, in our hearts, to play God
To expose our enemies’ fraud
To judge and condemn
Those women and men
Who hide behind saintly facade
The legalist earns our respect
For reasons we ought to inspect
He’s willing to hold up the wall
Without which our culture will fall
We need to learn boundaries
When we are young
To separate us
From those we’re among
“Treat your enemies the way
Luke 6:27 (paraphrased)
You want them to treat theirs”
Saving the world
Is really quit simple
If we learn to be
More imitable
True friendship is not based on “must”
But how much we risk out of trust
If we truly love God
More than our own bod
We’d leave this whole world in the dust!
If we were made to be like Christ
Then we must love as we were priced
As priests for their sin
So they can begin
To share His redemptive zeitgeist
Continued from Sex 303: Yaga Math
Earnest the Sinner is still reeling from the revelation that he is not the true Leader of this group.
Earnest: But you’re contradicting yourself! You said we need five persons for the Quest to succeed.
But there’s only four of us: me, you, Lecher and Ang.
Yet now you’re saying our Quest is actually to find the fifth person, who is our true Leader?
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
Continued from Sex 205. Loving Death
I have been drowning my sorrows at the Bar of Hell.
Consumed by my own inadequacy and self-loathing.
Even Jesus seems to have abandoned me.
But just when I think I am completely, utterly, eternally alone, I hear a voice.
“Have a drink.”
Today I will BE God’s work before I DO it
It’s tempting to see God’s power
As something we rent by the hour
I feel like He needs my direction
Since His work is all at my discretion!
We say that God is good
When we dine on comfort food
Much harder to confess
When we feel under duress
A Dis-curse in Three Parts
Eli: Noah! Noah, where are you?
Moe: Eli, I don’t think this is a very good idea.
Eli: Shut up, Moe. He’s gonna love this.
Moe: Fine, it’s your funeral. You never did get one, did you?
Eli: No more than you. Ah, there he is!
Continue readingThe Rogue Dialogues (aka “Diarogues“) are a series of stream-of-consciousness narratives I wrote while alone in my room from July 3-6, 2022, unemployed and quarantined with COVID-19. 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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