Tag: Faith
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The Betrayal and Denial Gospel: When you “Can’t” Control Yourself
John 13:18-38: Shared Bread Psalm 41:9 Even my close friend, someone I trusted, one who shared my bread, has turned (lifted up their heel) against me. The thing about betrayal, the thing about denial that allows both of them to deal damage is intimacy. Truth be told, I give as much credence to ridicule or…
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Imagination Love
The romance you require is rote it is more stable than whimsical perhaps more ideal and less physical mine does not need to emote I confuse necessity with reality whats real to me isn’t necessarily ideal. These dreams proceed warily the exact and fact don’t appeal to me I’ve held onto every fiber of…
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The Cleansing Gospel: My Favorite
Sufficiency This currency of mine it will lift you like a house hung from a balloon or a wife off her feet by her husband This urgency of time let it pass you like the drive in a car to vacation like angst before returning home This destination is a comma in the adventure where…
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Whirlwind Emprise
I usually like to pick a word for myself that I hope will describe each new year. My 2017 word was gentleness. I picked this word because I knew my goal for the year was to cease from striving, to stop grasping, to accept my smallness in the world and to be considerably less frustrated…
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The Bride of Christ and No More Night: Meditation on Revelation 21:25
“And its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.” When I lived in Clarks Summit for 8 months I went to a sandwich shop and the man working behind the counter said, “This is the kind of town where you don’t have to lock your doors.” In other words,…
The Reconstructed 