Author Archives: terra828

When speaking out the Reality in me sets me at odds with the established way of seeing and doing things, the temporary confusion of finding myself outcast gives way to a fuller assurance of that very same Reality. It is Christ who is in me. There is no other Savior.

The Old Covenant said, “you choose.”The New Covenant sais, “you are chosen.”

I come away with a tangled knot of all the things I said and forgot to say. It takes me a while to recover. So, I unravel here, in this way. Blinking curser to prompt the way. And I watch as words are rolled out line by line from the overflow of my own heart.Continue reading “Holy Attachment”

Wolves eat.Shepherds feed.Appearance doesn’t matter. Are the naked actions eating people or feeding them? Does the wake display real people standing on their own and stronger? Or have temples been robbed and left weaker instead?

belief is letting the impotence remaintrusting a promise of life.

I can’t bear it. But I don’t need to. Love will. The love that bears mebears all things.

I can’t think of a story in which Jesus did what individual people expected. In every case, he didn’t precisely line up. True living will exceed the expectation of some and defy the expectations of others. Not by trying to, but simply by the power of the life. He who has the Son, has theContinue reading “I am”

We have life out of Jesus or not at all. It really is black and white in this way of life and death. A sinful heart is simply an unconnected one. Belief is not adherence. Not a grabbling hold by any act of the will. So, it really doesn’t matter what we sound like orContinue reading “Awake my soul and sing”

Writing is breathing.

Listening is not a bait and switch. It is not a means to an endof speaking our own mind. It is worshipping the Creator. It is allowing someone elsea placeto simply bewatching with wonderas that being unfolds and becomes unhiddento displayan“I am.”