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In a lone waste I saw a debauchee,
He had no home, no faith, no heresy,
No God, no truth, no law, no certitude;
Where in this world is man so bold as he?
8.11.2013
Testimony
Stephen Dunn (2012)
The Lord woke me in the middle of the night,
and there stood Jesus with a huge tray,
and the tray was heaped with cookies,
and He said, Stephen, have a cookie,
and that's when I knew for sure the Lord
is the real deal, the Man of all men,
because at that very moment
I was thinking of cookies, Vanilla Wafers
to be exact, and there were two
Vanilla Wafers in among the chocolate
chips and the lemon ices, and one
had a big S on it, and I knew it was for me,
and Jesus took it off the tray and put it
in my mouth, as if He were giving me
communication, or whatever they call it.
Then He said, Have another,
and I tell you I thought a long time before I
refused, because I knew it was a test
to see if I was a Christian, which means
a man like Christ, not a big ole hog.
Hands-off Policy
Robert Capon
God still insists on running the world
without running it at all.
The question is put loud and clear:
Why in God’s Name won’t You show up?
And the response comes back
as supremely unsatisfying as ever.
To show up would be
to come in your name,
not Mine.
No show,
therefore.
And, of course,
no answer.
Corporate
The underlings protested
to Moses
about their circumstances.
Specifically,
the lack of food
and drink.
So, Moses stepped out
to talk it over with
his Boss,
and returned
with His instructions.
And as Moses came back
to the assembly,
he became increasingly
fed up about
the situation.
He got on his podium,
he raised his voice,
and said,
"You want water!
HERE'S YOUR WATER!"
The ungrateful
slurped it up
without a thank you.
And
Moses received
a memo from Corporate
stating his project
was suspended
indefinitely.
II
The Boss
saw that
Peter had
management potential
and gave him the
keys to the Kingdom
and the powers of
loosening
and binding.
And then,
Jesus gave
the executive summary
of how it was all
going to go down,
complete with
murder and
resurrection.
After hearing this,
the newly minted executive
said the words
a manager should never verbalize,
“Have you really thought this through?”
So after hearing this,
Corporate does
what Corporate does,
and shamed him
in front of his peers
for not being in favor
of the Plan.
8.04.2013
Daydream #852
Sometimes
I think I could
write
a best selling
self-help book.
It would be an
old-fashioned
budget spreadsheet
with the categories
already filled in:
Love
Faith
Friends
Health
Generosity
Justice
Forgiveness
Change
Hope
And written
to the
right
of each item is:
How much can I budget of this today?
Working title: Life Budget
But that can change
if you come up with
a big enough advance
and an endorsement
from Joel Osteen.
Loaves and Fishes
David Whyte
This is not
the age of information.
This is not
the age of information.
Forget the news,
and the radio,
and the blurred screen.
This is the time
of loaves
and fishes.
People are hungry
and one good word is bread
for a thousand.
Idiot Psalm 12
Scott Cairns
A psalm of Isaak, amid uncommon darkness
O Being both far distant and most near,
O Lover embracing all unlovable, O Tender
Tether binding us together, and binding, yea
and tenderly, Your Person to ourselves,
Being both beyond our ken, and kindred, One
whose dire energies invest such clay as ours
with patent animation, O Secret One secreting
life anew into our every tissue moribund,
afresh unto our stale and stalling craft,
grant in this obscurity a little light.
A psalm of Isaak, amid uncommon darkness
O Being both far distant and most near,
O Lover embracing all unlovable, O Tender
Tether binding us together, and binding, yea
and tenderly, Your Person to ourselves,
Being both beyond our ken, and kindred, One
whose dire energies invest such clay as ours
with patent animation, O Secret One secreting
life anew into our every tissue moribund,
afresh unto our stale and stalling craft,
grant in this obscurity a little light.
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