Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
Perhaps I am even afraid of my strength,

and turn it against myself, thus making myself weak.
Making myself secure. Making myself guilty.
Perhaps I am most afraid of the strength of God in me.
Perhaps I would rather be guilty and weak in myself,
than strong in Him whom I cannot understand.

- Thomas Merton

Miracle

When the man asked
to be cured of his faulty speech, Jesus
touched his tongue, pressing his calloused forefinger
against its fleshy center. The man felt
words well within him, words
of the law and prophets; he felt
creatures swirling in his mouth, and when he opened
his lips, they soared like doves, their soft feathers
brushing his neighbors' ears, every word
perfectly clear and yet still
sounding like miracle, miracle, miracle.

**Lynn Domina

Show Me The Place

The greatest among you must be a servant.

But those who exalt themselves will be humbled,

and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Matthew 23:11-12

Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
Show me the place, I’ve forgotten I don’t know
Show me the place where my head is bending low
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go

Show me the place, help me roll away the stone
Show me the place, I can’t move this thing alone
Show me the place where the Word became a man
Show me the place where the suffering began

***Leonard Cohen

Link to the song

The Fragile and the Suffering

Matthew 19:30

Widow

Prodigal

The fragile

Legion

Lost

Beggar

The suffering

Meek

Poor

You are losers no more.

Come share your Master’s joy..

For

Many of the first will be last

and

Many of the last shall be first

..

In the Name of Love

Jesus was asked a question,
“Should we pay taxes to the oppression?”
Jesus always being broke
Asked for a coin from the folk.
Then He asked “Whose face is on this bling?”
All replied, “ You know- the king!”
Then Jesus finished by being wise:
“Give the kings their due
The earthly and well as the One in Paradise.“

Mark 12:13-17

Kings can’t stand scarcity.

They worship the god of more.

More power.

More economically.

More security.

All at someone else’s expense.

Except one King

who understands more through less.

The greatest must be a servant.

Life is more than food and clothes.

A King that sacrificed His life for His people.

All in the name of Love.

Can’t buy me love

No one can serve two masters.

Either he will hate the one and love the other, or

he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.

You cannot serve both God and Money.

Matthew 6:24

God made trees

Man invented paper

God made chemicals

Man invented ink

God gives freely

Man invented money.

Man went and made Money

a god.

And

God wanted to smote Man

for placing His Name on it.

Top Chef

“You are the salt of the earth.

But if the salt loses its saltiness,

how can it be made salty again?

It is no longer good for anything,

except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.

(Matthew 5:13)

He pours the salt

into a stew of

anger

brokenness

crimes

drugs

evil

fear

greed

hate

indifference

jealousy

kooks

lust

materialism

nastiness

obscenity

pain

religion

stupidity

terrorism

un-anything

violence and

waste.

He stirs it

over a high open flame

tastes

and says:

“It could use a little more salt.”