One day joy will visit again yet only for a short time and in joys departure I will come to know God more. If you find me numb and not passionate please wake me, share with me a struggle or wound so that I may return quickly to realizing Life needs/is pain. Without pain I cannot recognize or fully appreciate the fleeting moments of pure joy. I would rather be crying in pain and crying in joy then be in between.
Simone Weil was right; there are only two things that pierce the human heart: beauty and affliction.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The Work Between
My life is defined better by what I am not. I am not my mistakes and I am definitely not my successes for those are the sounds of a gong. I am sort of working who God wants me to be in the between. Its the between where the numbness and forgetfulness of the works God wants us to do there.
JB on June 23 at 4:49pm
...you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself.... You're not your name.... You're not your problems.... You're not your age.... You are not your hopes.
AS on June 23 at 7:36pm
The life in between part is the best of all. I can vouch.
SM on June 23
hmmm... interesting. But isn´t it a lazy way of trying not to define who you really are? If your are 40 years old, for example, that is a better picture of you than saying that you are not 39, or 43, or 74, or 89, or 95.... no?
JB on June 23 at 4:49pm
...you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself.... You're not your name.... You're not your problems.... You're not your age.... You are not your hopes.
AS on June 23 at 7:36pm
The life in between part is the best of all. I can vouch.
SM on June 23
hmmm... interesting. But isn´t it a lazy way of trying not to define who you really are? If your are 40 years old, for example, that is a better picture of you than saying that you are not 39, or 43, or 74, or 89, or 95.... no?
Thursday, June 18, 2009
The Desire Cure
**BREAKING NEWS** Stoicism is reaching pandemic proportions. (stoicism: the repression of emotion and indifference to pleasure or pain). There is a cure and its free. All you have to do is awaken the desires of your heart. Do YOU remember way back or seen a child laugh one minute the next crying in pain? Desire is good my friends real darn good! Go there...
JB at 11:53am June 18
I have no feeling or reaction to this...
TR at 4:10pm June 18
Is it just me, or is this disorder more likely to affect the male members of our species?
JB at 4:11pm June 18
call it rage contained.
SM at 4:14pm June 18
Uhhh, What?
ME at 4:16pm June 18
Research shows that it is highly contagious especially in Johnson County and most prevalent amongst the men. Our Dad's did not let us get vaccinated even though Mom insisted but that was back when it was a man's world.
JB at 11:53am June 18
I have no feeling or reaction to this...
TR at 4:10pm June 18
Is it just me, or is this disorder more likely to affect the male members of our species?
JB at 4:11pm June 18
call it rage contained.
SM at 4:14pm June 18
Uhhh, What?
ME at 4:16pm June 18
Research shows that it is highly contagious especially in Johnson County and most prevalent amongst the men. Our Dad's did not let us get vaccinated even though Mom insisted but that was back when it was a man's world.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Shutting Up
I want you to tell me something we should dare not talk about! (this is for those that can discern evil)
JB at 8:09pm June 15
are you high?
GW at 8:27pm June 15
We should not talk about others who have made mistakes, shouldn't gossip, should never do anything to knock someone down. We are suppose to love and forgive. Hmm, sounds like something that SOMEONE did for me.
AS at 9:52pm June 15
I'll just list the three party busters: politics, sex, religion. Although it certainly would be nice to ignore the rules.
TR at 1:00am June 16
I'm still working on responding to your email.....but in that same mindset; if we're honest with ourselves (do we still have that ability?)....what takes precedence in our hearts; our love for God and our heartfelt desire to do what He would have us do -- or our absorption in the "American Dream" (read: the unrelenting desire for more and better material things....?) CAN we have them both???
FF at 11:24pm June 16
Our society tells us we are suppose to keep our "hurts" secret. We are not suppose to admit to being weak, but it is when we can admit our weakness and face it that is can be healed by God's hands.....whether it be food, drugs, alcohol, relationships, materialism, sex, etc.
SR at 10:08am June 17
love your deepness Mike : )
JB at 8:09pm June 15
are you high?
GW at 8:27pm June 15
We should not talk about others who have made mistakes, shouldn't gossip, should never do anything to knock someone down. We are suppose to love and forgive. Hmm, sounds like something that SOMEONE did for me.
AS at 9:52pm June 15
I'll just list the three party busters: politics, sex, religion. Although it certainly would be nice to ignore the rules.
TR at 1:00am June 16
I'm still working on responding to your email.....but in that same mindset; if we're honest with ourselves (do we still have that ability?)....what takes precedence in our hearts; our love for God and our heartfelt desire to do what He would have us do -- or our absorption in the "American Dream" (read: the unrelenting desire for more and better material things....?) CAN we have them both???
FF at 11:24pm June 16
Our society tells us we are suppose to keep our "hurts" secret. We are not suppose to admit to being weak, but it is when we can admit our weakness and face it that is can be healed by God's hands.....whether it be food, drugs, alcohol, relationships, materialism, sex, etc.
SR at 10:08am June 17
love your deepness Mike : )
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