Category: Faith

Snow Day

What would it look like 

If

We 
(His kids)

Laid down

The Bigness

The Production

The Work

Of

(serving/ministry/calling) 

For Sabbath 

And
(rather)

Simply

(on that once weekly glorious day)

Played and 
Rested and 
Loved and 
Lived in 

The divine playground
(that is the extra-ordinary privilege of) 

Being a 

Child

In the 

Family 

Of

God

What if we took 
0ur divinely decreed 
Snow day
every blessed time
(no half-tos) 

What if we did all that worthy work
(paid and unpaid)
(on the platform and off)
On the other 

Six

What would it look like

If
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Shine

In you is the source of life and in your light we see light
Psalm 36:9

The darkness of old cruel paths
Archaic/barbaric ways of
thinking/being/seeing 
Shroud me/us
Blinds me/us to the good/bright/life way

Jesus
I/we need your light/life

Shine 
Jesus
Shine
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In the Silence

In the silence
You meet me there
My heart rent before you 
And

The broken spaces too filled up with
My faults and theirs

Your grace and mercy

Your love and peace

Restore 
Repair
Renew
Again

All from You Poppa
All from You
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Is It Really All About

Is it really all about 

Me 
Mine 
I

(and rights and freedoms and don’t tell me what to do) 

I thought the common good was the thing

The other
The weak
The poor
The disenfranchised
The lonely
The sick
The lost

I thought the 
Other was the thing 

That 

We were meant to be on about

(You know)

The least of these
That 
HE is always on about

Or 

If not the least of these 

Then at least 

The Body

So many amputated now
Wounded
Cut off
(from one part at least)
Because

It became too much about

Me 
Mine 
I 
(and rights and freedoms and don’t tell me what to do)


(an unintended consequence I’m sure)

How When Why

Did we lose 

The Way

How When Why

Did the Main Thing 

Cease to be 

The Main Thing

How When Why

Did we make it all about

Me 
Mine
I
(and rights and freedoms and don't tell me what to do)


When

(perhaps we lost our way 
a long time ago 
and didn’t even realize 
that we did)


Jesus

Your beloved Bride is 

Broken
Angry
Confused
Forlorn
Lost

Spirit come

Rescue

Revive

Redeem

Restore


She needs 

New life

Again
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Foo

Foo is an intentionally meaningless placeholder word often used in computer programming...

Why have only one
When two will nicely do
Filling life up
With things that are not You


Foo
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Skating

Forgiveness is easy
Like skating on glass
If you don’t peer to closely 
At the wrong

But

If you gaze long and hard
And  consider all the stuff
You might go crashing through the surface
And 
Drown
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Sully

Sully 
transitive verb: to make soiled or tarnished : DEFILE

Please do not

Sully


Sully
With

The demand 
For 

Rights

The preoccupation with being 

Right

The squeezing so far over to the 

Right 

That

 love
joy
peace
patience
kindness
goodness
faithfulness
gentleness
self-control

Flee

(being no room for them an’ all)


Please do not

Sully Him
Make Him

Unrecognizable

So soiled
So tarnished

Defiled
By 

Self 
(ME MY I MINE)
Rightness

Please do not 

Sully 

Him

With 

That
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Winter Eagle

Soaring over the snow sheltered sphere

Peaceful 

Predatory

Your majesty arrests me


I’m grateful 


Your presence calls me

Reminds me to worship 
The One

The One who orders all things well


The One 

Who

Brought you and I together 

For now

Just

Now
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Abrasive

When the world is too 

Abrasive
Cold
Hard
Mean
Rude
Cranky
Frustrating
Annoying
Sad/Bad

The invitation is always there

(always)

To crawl up on into 

Poppa’s lap

And rest awhile
Awhile
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I Dreamt Of You

I dreamt of you
I dreamt of me

You arrived welcome 
(but uninvited)

I called
(fearful)

Beckoned
(hopeful)

come join us

And

You entered
(but)

Stiff
Arms yet folded tight across your chest a

Vain shield around your cold hurt embittered heart

(I’m sad for you
I’m sad for me)



Come Lord Jesus

Come

Heal
Restore
Renew
Make New

As Only You Can Do

I'll wait
Am waiting
Will wait

For 
You
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