March 2012
184 posts
Transparency;
Only You can stir my soul in this way, but You can’t make me move. My feet grip the ground beneath me, carrying the carbon embodiment of my being — everywhere, but the place You want me to be. My mind swirls with bittersweet thoughts: the paradoxical coupling of a desire for You; and the false, barren practicality of a life spent without You. Lies; sticky as honey and heavy as lead,...
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I just need a one-way plane ticket;
To India, Cambodia, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, New Zealand, or Australia. That’s all, really. Anyone want to help me out? : ]
February 2012
214 posts
Walking Paradoxes;
Our lives are but a breath, but our breaths are drawn from Your divine Spirit. You have created us as walking paradoxes. Specks of dust and divine-image bearers. We are constantly restless until we rest in You.
Picking
up
sound
on
the
interstate;
I
am
my
breath,
letting
in
waves.
“Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of...”
– Chuck Palahniuk.
“She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oakwood, humming...”
– D. H. Lawrence.
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Our
time
is
ever
on
the
road,
the
ride
is
in
what
we
make.
Don’t you know you’re alive? You know, you’re alive.
And
tonight,
I’m
in
love
with
everybody
on
the
city
bus.
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I
was
lost
in
the
lakes;
and
the
shapes
that
your
body
makes.
“It should not be denied that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is...”
– Wallace Stegner.
