Category: Illusion
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Faith: Acting Like You’ll Live Forever, But Being Willing To Die Today
Faith Though I’ve spoken at lengthI haven’t said a wordAnd all this nothing that I’m sayingIs nothing but absurdI speak with liesSo that you might hear the truthI display for you illusionThat you might have proof Do you know that this life, as most of us engage it, is mostly illusion? Yes. In fact, most…
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Awakening From Death to Life
Faith Though I’ve spoken at length I haven’t said a word And all this nothing that I’m saying Is nothing but absurd I speak with lies So that you might hear the truth I display for you illusion That you might have proof Do you know that this life, as most of us engage it,…
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Stop In the Name of Love
If you had the power to end all of the violence in the world with a single action, would you do it? I imagine that most of us would say that of course we would. No one wants violence, right? It is just an unfortunate deterrent that we must use to prevent greater violence from…
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Courting Scandal
Some Sundays ago, I preached a message to the congregation I serve that I intended to be hopeful. In it, I talked about the “scandal of change”. My main point was that scandal is part and parcel of any change endeavor. The text that I was preaching from was the Annunciation from Luke 1 where…
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Do I Deserve To Be Happy?
Recently a friend told me that I deserve to be happy? Hearing those words took me back to one of the darkest times in my life–a season I touch on in the links on my last post, DMX and the Ballad of the Brokenhearted. Prior to the emotional crash I chronicle in that and other…
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The Compassionate Fool
I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that I am a fool. And I would be equally lying if I said that I want to be any other way. In fact, when I find myself feeling like I am wise, I feel like a failure. “How can I be so ignorant to think I am…
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Developing A Sense of True Identity
If the nations of this world all die eventually, I imagine the official cause of death would be from complications due to the identity struggles of their citizenry. I get no pleasure out of making that statement, but I cannot ignore that, as far as I can tell, the divided world seems to be in…
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Your Words Will Come Back To Bless You
Dear Love Ones, Today I was fortunate enough to be blessed by words that I had written over a year and a half ago. As I am writing this, I am in a situation where I have to “walk by faith and not by sight.” When I look at the world through the filter of…
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