A Meditation for Valentine’s Day In the bottle is the promised potency of forgetfulness There the perishing find a rotted consolation Relief of grief through the suffocation of drowning The air heavy and stale with intoxicating fumes Numbing feeling Smothering thought Killing accusations Filling the fissures of a frantic mind with the liquid of Lethe… Continue reading Bottles and Roses
Far From the Madding Crowd
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Tears
Tears,cascading in zigzagged trickles,glistening bright,down and across tender cheeks,make us more aware of the Wind Who blows where She wishesImagine Rahab of Jericho atop the wall on her roof:pulling strands from flaxpulling thoughts from her heart pulling tears from her eyes pulled apart by a world that used her(The opposite of love is not hate,… Continue reading Tears
A Response to Meditation: Sustenance and Praise
A trill of tripleting notes cascade in images of the past…I’m with my mother at the bank: the tellers at the desk on the left, the red gumball machine on the right, and stairs beyond the gumball machine, descending to the vault. The person, not the place fills memory to overflowing– radiance filling all things… Continue reading A Response to Meditation: Sustenance and Praise
True and Steadfast Love: an exploration of faithful covenant love through chiasm
The old Hebrew Tanakh has a genius that will only come through when you meditate on it day and night. Very little literature approaches its subte use of conventions, and a great deal of exegetical error comes from overlooking them. I found a treasure today. Just as there is chiasm between Wisdom (Prov 1-9) and… Continue reading True and Steadfast Love: an exploration of faithful covenant love through chiasm
The Heavens Declare: Constellations of Faithfulness and Righteousness
Sirius has been my hope star for the last three years of affliction, years which followed on the heels of 5 years hardship that began with my mother’s death, leaving behind the life I knew in the military, and attempting to carve out a place in the wilderness to build a house. On top hardship… Continue reading The Heavens Declare: Constellations of Faithfulness and Righteousness
There is no Curse in the Law
Round two on learning to love the law. A little more logic. A little more ecstasy. This time I have also brought the God of laughter up to bat, to demolish those squeemish Dispensationalist Antinomians, we have no idea how important sex is in understanding salvation. But the big discovery was that the pain of… Continue reading There is no Curse in the Law
No More Curse for the Chosen: the Law as Feasting and Ecstasy
“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. ” (Rom 8:2) “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is… Continue reading No More Curse for the Chosen: the Law as Feasting and Ecstasy
Freedom Through Judgment
“The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand. Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms; for the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her… Continue reading Freedom Through Judgment
The Righteous Fall Seven Times: A brief meditation on deferred hope, despondency, and Wisdom’s counsel
I thought this might be helpful for anyone struggling with depression, who resonates with the proverb, “Hope deferred makes the heart grow sick.” Despondency (Acedia) is one of the hardest sins to fight. We would rather marinate in the pain of past betrayal, than take a risk of giving and receiving kindness in the present.… Continue reading The Righteous Fall Seven Times: A brief meditation on deferred hope, despondency, and Wisdom’s counsel