29 Friday Jan 2016
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Lament
Every day passes,
Kids, work, school, always reasons,
It used to matter.
Anti-Christmas
Critical Christians,
Never grow plants of content,
Toxic roots need axe.
Into Me See
Wounds write the story,
No one sees; does no one care?
Into you we see.
25 Monday Jan 2016
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This was written by a friend of mine. It’s powerful; well worth the time. Please read it but, more importantly, let it change your life.
Here are the statistics: One in three women. Only six percent will be reported. I don’t think that hit you. That means there are ninety-four bastards* that will get away with it. Sixty percent of the victims are girls under the age of seventeen. And boys – I see you too. I hear you. I […]
https://psychoneurotical.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/this-is-probably-inevitable-however-unfortunate/
22 Friday Jan 2016
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Subtweet
Casual critique,
Words to many point at one,
Say it don’t spray it.
Too Invested
Apocalyptic,
Walking from the beginning,
What, they killed off Glenn?!?
Bedbug
Three year old bedbug,
Listen to his deep breathing,
He sleeps I’m awake.
18 Monday Jan 2016
Posted in Observations
This is a short paragraph from one of my favourite authors who wrote a book called “Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing.” In my Christian community, there is a lot of talk about Christ manifesting his character in our hearts. What does that look like? I think it looks like this.
Not until you feel that you could sacrifice your own self-dignity, and even lay down your life in order to save an erring brother, have you cast the beam out of your own eye so that you are prepared to help your brother. Then you can approach him and touch his heart. No one has ever been reclaimed from a wrong position by censure and reproach; but many have thus been driven from Christ and led to seal their hearts against conviction. A tender spirit, a gentle, winning deportment, may save the erring and hide a multitude of sins. The revelation of Christ in your own character will have a transforming power upon all with whom you come in contact. Let Christ be daily made manifest in you, and He will reveal through you the creative energy of His word—a gentle, persuasive, yet mighty influence to re-create other souls in the beauty of the Lord our God. – {MB 128.3}
15 Friday Jan 2016
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Forgiveness (An Ode to Paintball)
Ball spins hurtling,
Contact splatter tender spot
Sorry, I had to.
Disney
Great wars in the stars,
Empire of hype full light speed,
Thanks you made us rich.
Rough Translation*
Misunderstandings,
Invented meaningless words,
Not going anywhere.
*A friend posted a link to a song originally written and sung in French. Sadly, I am monolingual so I looked up the English version. Frankly, I think it’s a weird song but perhaps it’s because something gets lost in translation.
12 Tuesday Jan 2016
Posted in Spirituality
I follow a guy on Facebook who posts under the page “Hebrew For Christians.” Today, one of his posts was very powerful and it needs more than a like or a share.
“I often struggle with pain that sometimes so overwhelms me that all I can do is cry out to God for mercy, to ask Him for a moment of respite, and to plead (again and again) for divine healing… In the midst of this agony my heart sometimes cries out, “Where is God in this harrowing moment?” I am pressed to the edge of death itself, and though I have been delivered, often there is a residual “aftershock” that leaves me exhausted and bewildered. The trouble is not one of unbelief, but rather of belief itself: I do not doubt that God sees and knows my anguish, nor do I question his great love for me… Still, what troubles me is the incomprehensibility of the struggle, the rawness of the fight, even as I recover from intense wrestling near the edge itself. I quote Miguel de Unamuno in this connection: “Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God Himself.” And perhaps this is the hidden blessing of such extreme affliction, for it throws me upon God and makes me as viscerally desperate for him as someone who is drowning gasps for his next breath of air…”
08 Friday Jan 2016
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Shame
Failure, lazy, dumb,
Poison shame on little ones,
God’s Love heals the wounds.
Tree Hugger
Deep drilling sweet oil
Pipeline bursts covers everything,
Carbon emissions.
Lighthouse
Good News for the world,
Rescue Light to guide us home,
Room has been prepared.
Freedom
Anger, hurt, blame, rage,
Self forgiveness cleansing rain,
Journey to freedom.
01 Friday Jan 2016
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4:19 am
Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep,
Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep,
Sleep Sleep Still Awake.
Haiku for Sleepless U(niversity students)
Moonlight full of stress,
Be kind to your little self,
Breathe, breathe, you got this.
The Fantastic Voyage
Small man in a boat,
Standing tall so close to home,
Waves crash fore and aft.
