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Poem: Covering Waves
It's night on the beach. I can nearly hear the moon. So quiet my thoughts are drowned. Feeling sand hug tight to my toes. Particles floated onward from Tahiti, or maybe France. Someone else's toes on this sand before mine. Someone else's thoughts. I hear the moon speak. "My thoughts." I don't understand. The moon is covered now. From elsewhere I hear: "For you Continue reading this

Battles: Fighting in the Unseen

Gandalf & Glamdring
The unseen cannot be quantified. This is one my favorite attributes of the Kingdom of God. Deeper than any philosophical thought, wider than cultural divisions, more wonderful than moving to a new country. Yet, the unseen is ignored. Sometimes out of an enigma of mystery, boredom, or because we are wrapped too tightly in bed with what is visible. Our nature as Continue reading this

Mapping it out. Goodbye, God.

A cartographer at work.
Life over God is a bad shot at faith we live out from birth as imperfect humans. We live it now, and we live it in the core of our flesh. We carry it with us like a hidden scar, yet proud and flaunted for all to see. Life over God is forgetting Him like a commodity, yet knowing of Him and having experienced Him. What's on the table here is a vast separation Continue reading this

Only Through Completion

Wrecked ship in river
The completion we attempt is a masked villain. When does a life on its own feel incomplete? Nearly every day we strive to create and build imaginary fortresses of lives we feel should be this way and that. We succeed and excel at it. We glorify our created completion, because it's so easy. We meander, unfocused, toward rougher waters than ones we've already Continue reading this