Tag: suffering
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St. Teresa of Ávila: “If this is how You treat your friends….”
“Do not complain, daughter,” the Divine Master answered, “for it is ever thus that I treat My friends.”
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Caffinneyated America, Part III: Starving Awakening
In Fort Sumter, Finney and his men refused the rations offered to them, kneeling in the courtyard in silent prayer. / In Fort Moultrie, just across the harbor, their Southern counterparts did the same. / The first night, the soldiers laughed…
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When Buddhism Met Jesus: An Alternate Origen for Christianity
That is… either the most profound thing I’ve ever heard or absolute nonsense.
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A Most Fantastic Christmas (ChatGPT as Stan Lee)
ChatGPT Prompt: As Dickens, write a Christmas fable where a hum-buggy Reed Richards discovers the ‘reciprocal zone’: a place where the finite and transfinite switch places, and evil is somehow grievingly rejoiced in as the harbinger of good. This leads him to a profound insight into the cross of Christ,…
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My Lament: A Cry for Vindication
O Lord / You know / How those who were jealous / Mocked me / Poisoned me / Condemned me / Persecuted me…
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The Triple Transfiguration: Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Ascension (ChatGPT as G.K. Chesterton)
In the end, we discover that to “lay down our lives” is not so much an act of destruction as an act of creation. In losing ourselves, we are remade; in surrendering our will, we find our true freedom; in embracing death, we encounter a love stronger than death itself.…
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The Parable of the Missing Cross (ChatGPT on Bonhoeffer)
For Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the concept of the “missing cross” profoundly shaped his understanding of what it meant to be a true disciple of Christ, leading him ultimately to oppose the Nazi regime.
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1/12 Couplets: PraiseQuake
At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke. Isaiah 6:4 If we want this world to remake We must dare invoke the PraiseQuake
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1/10 Limerick: Holy Light
Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. Isaiah 6:2 ‘Gainst gravity, to win the fight We first need to make our hearts light When holiness burns Our wings we earns…
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1/7 Bi-Limerick: Sanctu-wary
Lord my heart know that You’re kind / But that won’t convince my mind
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1/5 MonoRhyme: Fired. Up!
All that transpired / Merely backfired / For I acquired / Skills they’d admired
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12/12 Bi-Quatrain: Seem Less
Lord I could never dare dream / That You would take one for the team / By humbling Your self so to seem / So far below heaven’s gleam…
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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 /
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12/10 Limerick: Crowning Gory
John 19:2: The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, set it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe. If I’m to be one You anoint I too must be pierced by this point The glory I seek Is painfully meek But that’s how we will rule…
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11/30 Quad-Quatrain: The Ugliest Habit
Yet in Christ’s Kingdom the one / That brings us close to the Son / Which He commands we employ / Is full of both horror and joy
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11/29 Tri-Quatrain: Back-Handed Friendship
What kind of friend / Will help me to mend / The cruelest of lies / When Him I denies…
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11/14 Limerick: Ask-ance
If we are to live Christ’s romance We must forfeit looking askance When His cup we drink Our egos will shrink As hearts join His eternal dance “What is your request?” he asked. She replied, “In your Kingdom, please let my two sons sit in places of honor next to…
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11/3 Limerick: I-AM-Possible
But Jesus said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” Luke 18:27 When I am facing a crucible I’m trapped by my adjacent possible But God breaks the dam By being I AM And showing me I’m not responsible Today I will sacrifice my responsibility At the feet…
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The UnGiver FINALE, Part 6/6: BloodHeart
“Strike me down, will you? Ready to take my place, and inherit my powers? Do it, then! Let someone else bear this burden, this unending torment. Kill me now, and damn yourself to hell.”
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