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3/16 RSVP: Salt Mine
StandardLord, now that I’ve left Your ocean
I find myself struck by the notion
That salt is the thing that I lack
For which I must always go back
3/4 Limerick: C4 UR Self
StandardIf I’m to get Christ off the shelves
I must help you see for yourselves
As love bursts my pride
You glimpse what’s inside
Revealing deep truth as He delves
John 4:42
2/8 Poem: Unveilably Holy
Standard#FearOfIntimacy
The reason I fear empathy
Is that seeing “You” will lose “Me”
Just like my Self will erase
If I stare God in the face
2/7 Limericks: Secure Victory
StandardIt’s hard to feel I’m secure
When my life takes a detour
The failure of plan
Makes me less a man
And my role too much to endure
2/3 Limerick: Passed Understanding
StandardAs Father you feel quite demanding
Because you see Me as expanding
For your love to know
My Self I must grow
Far beyond past understanding
1/29 Limericks: The Holy Lonely
StandardThere are many ways to feel lonely
Especially when it seems we’re only
Playing a part
And that our heart
Won’t find a place that is homely
1/23 Poem: The Me You See
StandardThe key to conquering
Insecurity
Is learning to see You
As You see me
1/20 Poem: Leave ME For Jesus
StandardJohn 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?
1/9 Limerick: I to I
StandardI cannot name my true “I”
Until We two see eye-to-eye
I cannot truly “be”
Til I see You see me
And know I’m not some other guy
12/24 Limericks: Eye-Opening Mission
StandardIsaiah 42:6-7 NIV – “I, the LORD, have called you…7 to open eyes that are blind
The reason the truth we avoid
Is we can’t see God unalloyed
His glory’s too big
For leaves of a fig
To save us from being destroyed
12/21 Poem: Dividual
StandardA fruitful individuality
Transforms both my self and community
I cannot just go with the flow
I must learn the power of “No!”
Yet contrary words won’t suffice
I must learn to judge myself twice
12/15 Poem: Right Suffering
StandardThe real source of pain
It now seems to me
Is where I conflict
With reality
10/7 Limerick: De-Fault Finder
StandardWe must default to finding
The good despite the blinding
Of our sin
As we begin
In Christ, our Self unwinding
Dream: Zomb Vator
StandardWe finally fight our way to Central Building
This 33-story skyscraper is the heart of the infestation
There’s plenty of zombies elsewhere
But if we can destroy this nest
It will be easy to mop up the rest
I am confident we will succeed
Now that we know where the enemy is
And have made it past her defenses
We have just enough forces left
To contain her
So we can methodically destroy her
We don’t know long or costly it will be
But the outcome is no longer in doubt
I’m waiting on the lobby for an elevator
I’m one of the last to arrive
I see Joe and Bill get out of an elevator and hurry toward the door
Escorting a terrified woman
I’m glad they’re still finding some survivors
I get into the elevator they just vacated and head towards the top
For some reason the car stops at six
The doors open
I push the button to close them
despite knowing they’re usually a placebo
I glance outside.
Before the doors close
I see Joe and Bill hurrying into another elevator
With a different terrified woman.
I takes me a few seconds
To process what I just saw
Joe and Bill can’t have gotten back to the sixth floor
Before I did
Therefore, that is not really them.
The hive brain must have captured and cloned them
The women must be the carriers of the nest’s core memories and DNA
She is using my friends to propagate herself
Before we kill her
This… is bad
If we don’t stop her in time
She could establish herself in a new location
Wait decades to build her strength
Then launch another invasion
When we least expect it
In fact
She may already have reached
Critical mass
Somewhere else
Though I could probably find it
By following Joe and Bill
There is some good news
This is an act of desperation
And while her brain is split between locations like this
Her attention will be distracted
By that same token
She doesn’t like multiple locations
In theory she could split herself up into three or more pieces
But none of those would have enough critical mass to be “her. “
And she would never go for that
The whole point of her existence
Being to propagate her sense of self
By enslaving others.
She has no higher purpose
Transcendent calling
That she would sacrifice herself for
That is the one advantage
We have
Over her
I punch a button on the elevator
To stop the car at the next floor
Pull out my knife
And get ready
To join the fight…
Poem: Poor Choice
StandardWho in this world
Would choose to be poor
When glory and power
Grace those who have more?
Sex 306: Losing Face
StandardContinued from Sex 305: Game Time
I… don’t know who I am
Or more precisely
Which I am
Limerick: No Other
StandardIf we could have our druthers
There would be no Others
Each life en passant
Would do what I want
Albeit with sameness that smothers
Limerick: Grown-Up God
StandardWhen 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
Limerick: Repentance Dependence
StandardIn order to become repentant
I must become fully dependent
On identity
Of Jesus in me
And not all the things I think He meant!
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