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deconstructing

If oft you feel like options lack, refuse to see things “white” or “black”

All You Need is Love, Beatles, Jesus

Feeling the Feels

Feelings are foreign to me; at least feelings over which I don’t have some sort of control.

Breethe, calm, cleansing breaths, coming out, feelings, Go to the limits of your longing, Jesus, mindfulness, present, regret, rilke, Suicide, worry

Sonnet II – hope’s lament

I fear that I shall never live to see / a world that’s lived the way her God designed

charades, Christ, Christianity, church, fruit of the spirit, hope, Jesus, judge

shavuot anew

flames burn hot today and yesterday – and days before. I pray for fire – pure with shalom.

Christians, dove, fire, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Jews, pentecost, shalom, shavuot, upper room

all in the same storm?

convenient, I say, They in their boat, I in mine. Let’s just blame the storm.

Ahmaud Arbery, boat, gay, George Floyd, hate, Homosexuality, Jesus, Love, Racism, Robert Frost, shooter, storm

ypokrités

If a picture paints a thousand words
I could post one now and be done.

#napowrimo, #napowrimo2020, hypocrite, Jesus, pharisee, Poetry

Sunrise

What
to do
with this Life?

Easter, Jesus, Life, Love, Neighbor

Blessings and Breakage – Thoughts on Christmas and 2017

Blessings and breakage live perilously close to one another.

At times, blessings and breakage intertwine, to the point where you often can’t tell one from the other, if, in fact, they are not already one and the same.

Christianity, christmas, contentedness, grateful, Jesus, Life, Love, Purpose, Spirituality, thankful

Isn’t it Ironic? Getting beneath the surface of the RFRA debate

Some of you who know me have heard my rant on Alanis Morisette’s 1996 hit, “Ironic”, where she sings about … More

Christianity, Faith, Gay marriage, homosexual, Jesus, Love, RFRA

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to “The Kingdom” – Part 2

Pretty much every model of Christian thought I have sat under has happily fed my view that “The Kingdom of God” is mostly a place that is not here, in a time that is not yet.

Christianity, Humanity, Jesus, Kingdom, Kingdom of Heaven, Life, Methodist, Ministry, Nazarene, NT Wright, Religion, Samaritan, Spirituality

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to “The Kingdom” – Part 1

I make no claim on having “arrived” at anything other than to say I have been elsewhere and now am here.

Christianity, Jesus, Kingdom, Kingdom of Heaven, Life, Methodist, Nazarene, Religion, Spirituality
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