Radically Happy

Tag: suffering

  • 10/24 Bi-Limerick: Kingdom Inside-Out

    The reason we curse what’s outside Is secretly to serve our pride The wrong that I feel Fills me with zeal Against those who to me have lied While children react to their pain The wise make it fuel for our gain The evil inside Must be crucified So we…

  • 10/21 Limerick: Free Joy

    In times where hate seeks to destroy / Disciples must learn to free joy / In Christ’s holy nation / Fear’s self-preservation / Gives way to the cross we employ

  • 10/8 Tri-Limerick: Un-a-veil-able Truth

    10/8 Tri-Limerick: Un-a-veil-able Truth

    The reason my work seems “travail” 
 / Is deeper truth hides beneath “veil” 
 / Yet this is quite kind 
 / For if in my mind 
 / Distractedness would make me fail

  • 8/26 Poem: Nowternity

    Heaven is not Just some distant fate Where I find joy At a pearly gate The Kingdom of Christ That He called Good News We’re meant to live out With muscle and thews

  • Serenity Prayer (Full Version)

    Thanks to my man Mitch for posting this. The unabridged edition beautifully captures what God has been trying to teach me all week… There’s a reason the great theologian Reinhold Niebuhr’s famous “Serenity Prayer” is one of the most memorized and recited passages in the world. … Got Serenity?

  • 8/13 Epic Poem: Already Kingdom

    8/13 Epic Poem: Already Kingdom

    When cares of this world / Make my heart wring / Christ calls to my soul: / “I’m already King” // “You’ve got to be kidding” / I say to His face / “Why would the Father / Intend this disgrace?”…

  • 7/25 Poem: Unstoppable

    The curse of the flesh / Systems of the world / Make me to wish / My banner was furled…

  • 7/20 Bi-Limerick: Golden Rulers

    Lord sometimes I feel like a fool / For following your Golden Rule

  • 7/16 Doggerel: Bitter Cup

    Today I will take my turn at bat
 / To share in Christ’s suffering
 / That I may reveal His glory / In me

  • 7/15 Bi-Limerick: Yoke Wisdom

    Sometimes it seems a cruel joke / Christ’s promise of an easy yoke / The cross we must bear / Feels quite far from there / Regardless of words He has spoke…

  • 6/13 Tri-Limerick: Manifesting Grace

    My deepest fear / Is that I will lose myself / If I have too much empathy / For your brokeness

  • 6/6 Limerick: Cross-Pleasing

    When we are nailed to a cross / It’s natural to think it a loss

  • 6/5 Limerick: Un-Tormentable

    If we truly knew God’s intent
 / Then Satan could not us torment

  • Emmanuel Encounter: Un-Deserted

    And is this hard desert /
I longed to escape /
Merely the border /
Of heaven’s landscape?

  • 5/25 Limerick: Down to Earth

    If we want to share Christ’s new birth / We too must get down to earth

  • 5/15 Limerick: Come, Passion

    Compassion may seem quite in fashion 
 / Until it’s our face that is ashen 
 / But if we’re His Bride 
 / We’ll stay by His side 
 / No matter the waves that are crashin’!

  • 4/5 Limerick: Hidden Gifts

    If we want to make progress swift / We must seek out the hidden gift / The gem in the rough / And joy in the tough / Is what earth to heaven will lift!

  • 3/31 Limerick: Word -> Life

    If we’re to escape from our strife / We must turn your Word into Life / Chatter in our head / Will turn into Bread / As we drink Your Cup as Your Wife!

  • 2/6 Poem: Face-Seeking Missile

    Yet this is the truth I must bide
 / I must make the very same ride

  • 1/31 Limericks: Signifi-Cant

    The reason I feel insignificant
 / Is hard problems feel like a sign I can’t
 / Do what I must…