Rebel twins

When they catch you

they'll beat you

they'll screw you

they'll flail you

they'll humor you with Jesus

then hang you on a tree.

Then all the children will flee you

spitting your name in mud

calling God to curse you

for your blackened-words of war.

Believers will be frozen

walking home, defeated

abandoning Christ

in his moment of glory.

Two truths you never swallowed:

Christ points arms at no one

lifting arms bearing each other. 

Our personalities, individualities, with our dysfunctions, make life interesting, frightening and humorous.  No wonder God loves us.

When Sister Death arrives, we'll be ready.  She's the only way to go.

All of our heroes have mud on the feet.

*Thoughts of Alan Jones:

  -Learning to love without possession and finding that one is loved without conditions is what it is to receive the gift of tears and to be surprised by joy.

  -My willingness to struggle with myself contributes to the well-being of thh commonwealth.  The desire for security and the anxiety over safety at all costs makes war more and more a possibility and springs from our "impure hearts" and double minds.

  -...real desire means the candid acknowledgement that I am incomplete and need something in order to be real myself. (Rowan Williams)

  -...of all the choices that we have to make, there is none harder than having to give up something good for the sake of something better.