Wednesday, May 2, 2018

TRIGGERS

TRIGGERS

Let worry trigger prayer.
Let anger trigger prayer.
Let envy trigger prayer.
Let greed trigger prayer.
Let lust trigger prayer.
"...put to death what is earthly in you..."

Christian?

Christian?

Called
Conviction
Consecration
Complacency
Compromising
Controlled
Contemplative
Carnal
Cool/lukewarm
Consumed
Conflagration/on fire
Crazy fool
Construct-only/form
Core/inner man
Cross-bearing
Crucified
Crowned

MERCIES

Impunity is an illusion.
Elusion is a delusion.
Wild oats will sprout.
One reaps what is sown.
Blood will cry from the ground.
Mercy!
May my heart never harden beyond sensitivity to Your touch.
May my conscience never scar beyond recognition of Your voice calling me home.
Thank You for pain.
Praise You for the nauseous gut.
Never let me go.
Show yourself to be merciful and mighty!
Forgive me!
 Overwhelm me with the peace of your presence.
The devouring horde has done its due.
Restore the beauty; replace the squandered.
Rise up and show us your glory!

STAGES/SYMPTOMS

STAGES/SYMPTOMS

SILLY
STUBBORN
SHALLOW
SPIRITUAL
SERIOUS
SCHOLASTIC
SERVANT
SENSUAL
STUPID
SOMBER
SOMETIMES
STEADY
SELFISH
SELFLESS
STRONG
SICKLY
SILENT
SHARING

HERESY

I was raised picking tulips and trash-canning them!  I understood a dichotomy between C's and A's.  And, before that, a wider gulf between RC's and Prots.  Throw into the mix EO's and Copts.  It was "us, and not even all of us" sectarianism at its best!

Where is the unity? Is it in our theology?  Is it in our culture?  Is it in our "baptism of the Spirit"?  Is it in our focus on world problems and suffering? 

The music is echoing. The dream's reawakening. The dancing feet are tapping.

Thanks for the stimulating fellowship, albeit, only in a cyber kaffeeklatsch. 

I have grown to admire the Wesleyan tradition.  Dated a Methodist in HS. My mama was a Methodist.  Married a girl from a Nazarene Church family.  Attending a Holiness Church that is evolving into a community church, much to the chagrin of the leadership?!  Really admire CW's hymns.  Have a few FB friends who are thoughtful, spiritual, UMC preachers, all female?!  Sometimes they seem to be more concerned with saving the Earth, than saving the world.

Visited a RC church during an Ireland vacation.  They closed the assembly with "Amazing Grace"?!  Wow!  with an Irish brogue!  They prayed for famine victims in Africa! (think potato famine, "The Hunger") God was moving among the "papists"?!

The RC's shove out the Prots. The C's arrogantly denigrate the A's.  The C's and A's lock arms and " heretic" the P(elagian)'s.  On and on it goes?!

Surely there are some sine qua non's?!  But, we crucify one another over a very long list, including translating Bible into English, down to, nowadays, not using KJV?!

It leaves me disheartened.  I have pulled back, looking at mystics, and spiritual bloggers.  Jesus IS the reason I hold on.  I try to "let it go" with the rest of it.

TWO WAYS

The way of Adam or the way of the second Adam?
The Mount of blessings or the Mount of curses?
The Broadway or the narrow
 way?
Life or death?
Light or Darkness?
Sons of God or Daughters of men?
I am the way the truth the life!

Saturday, April 28, 2018

SIN BEGINS

Sin Begins, and Thus, We Win!

Us He made, though He knew we would fail.
Only one simple command, them He did tell.
It was no surprise; it actually was planned.
"This is the only way they will make the Promised Land."

"Fail they will, no matter how them we bless;
Confidence, oddly, will be their greatest weakness.
Down through the ages, again and again,
They must look up to Us, or be hopelessly in sin!"

"We will tell the first murder, sin he must master.
Then, banished, wandering alone, he will return home faster!
The same story of the prodigal son coming to his senses,
Will be repeatedly relived in the hearts with no defenses"

To the rich, young ruler, He gave a simple command,
"Sell all and give to the poor of the land..."
"The Ten you have kept, yes this is all true;
I will give you one, that I know you cannot do!"

The Law was never the way nor the cure,
Though successfully keeping it, certainly has its allure.
The Darkness obscures and distorts even our best.
Lo, the proud, are the cursed, and the cursed, are the blessed!

Weakness is strength and Failure their greatest rabbi.
When all looks lost, only then on Me they will rely!
The Snake will hiss and even bruise His heel.
But losing on the hill, will only seal the deal!

In Your mercy, you let us sin?!
In our losing, through You, we win!