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A Zombie Am I

April 14th, 2010

A Zombie I am

A Zombie I was

A Zombie I forever will be

When I had the brain it went down the drain, I never used it much.

The brain I had, now dead and gone, eaten by carnivorous roaches.

My brain is gone, but there is work to be done.

It is just another day at the office.

Pillage, plunder, and capitalize on it all.

I used to want people to tremble in fear

And now all I want is for you to give me a hug

but instead I am greeted by bugs.
Inspired by the chief zombie killer himself this morning Marcus Goodyear over at Good Word Editing.

Saint Symeon the New Theologian

January 2nd, 2010

Awaken As The Beloved

We awaken in Christ’s body

as Christ awakens our bodies,

and my poor hand is Christ. He enters

my foot, and is infinitely me.

I move my hand, and wonderfully

my hand becomes Christ, becomes all of Him

(for God is indivisibly

whole, seamless in His Godhood).

I move my foot, and at once

he appears like a flash of lightning.

Do my words seem blasphemous? – Then

open your heart to Him

and let yourself receive the one

who is opening to you so deeply.

For if we genuinely love Him,

we wake up inside Christ’s body

where all our body, all over,

every most hidden part of it,

is realized in joy as Him,

and He makes us, utterly, real,

and everything that is hurt, everything

that seemed to us dark, harsh, shameful,

maimed, ugly, irreparably

damaged, is in Him transformed

and recognized as whole, as lovely,

as radiant in His light

we awaken as the Beloved

in every last part of our body.

Breathe of Life

October 7th, 2009

Breathe of life come in come fast.

Investigate and renew every cell of my body.

Breathe of life expel and repel,

the death that awaits my soul.

Breathe of life and life lived free

come and dwell, dwell within me.

oneword.com

September 25th, 2009

O.K., I am addicted to oneword.com. Go and check it out. When you start it gives you a word and 60 seconds to write a poem about it and submit it. Some of the most hillarious posts come out. It is a new word each day and I have been visiting it many times. Here is the result for one of mine

“twig of a tree, bur in my side
Never can I get rid of theee
Always in my yard, my car and my house
Why must God have created thee?”

Don’t be self conscious about it. Everyone enjoys it.

Torching all my Idols

June 26th, 2009

“Torching all my idols, burning them one by one.

Bleeding over the ashes, asking what is it I have done?

The job that looked so promising, the life I wanted to live,

All came pressing in on me, so I torch them one by one.

That toy I always wanted, the book I just must have,

all account for nothing, my soul is all that costs.

Today I cast my idols, I burn them one by one.

I ask the Lord to take them as I name them one by one.

As the idols fade away, there are some that I still I can not see,

Jesus says “I got this one”, and then he bleeds and dies for me.”

(c) 2009 Carl Holmes

Hafiz

May 19th, 2009

The God Who Knows 4 Words

Every
Child
Has known God,
Not the God of names,
not the God of don’ts,
Not the God who ever does anything weird,

But the God who only knows four words
And keeps repeating them, saying:
“Come dance with Me.”

Come
Dance.

M. Craig Barnes

April 7th, 2009

“In Jesus Christ, God became flesh to restore being into our non being by reconciling us to the one “in whom we live and breathe and have our being.” When the word that was with God, the Word that was God, became flesh ad dwelt among us, being was restored into the nothingness we made of our lives in the world (John 1: 1-18). As the Holy Spirit binds us to this word allowing us to live “in Christ,” we recover the life we were created to enjoy (Eph 3:14). So, to be clear, we don’t make a living. We receive it through our participation in the Christ, who has brought us home to communion with the Creator.”


The Pastor as Poet, Texts and Subtexts in the Ministerial Life Pg 9

In to Eternity

January 31st, 2009

This is just an experimental Psalm for me. I have been reading through them as of late and I truly love the poetic pentameter and the way David uses the words. His focus is on God, on sometimes reminding God of his promises, and on developing and staying in right standing with God. Oh if I could only say my life was a reflection of God like that.

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Oh Lord my God, I enter your gates in humbled adoration.

Please, please hear my request. I beg you to listen, I cry for you to reply.

Allow me Lord, to walk in the gardens of your delight all of my days.

Lord I ask for your wisdom, I seek your words of advise. Your words are like

the lilies of the gardens, precious and beautiful to me.

Please share them with me.

I feel if you do not that I might die…that I surely will die my Lord.


Lord please take care of my family. Take care of those whom I love…whom you love.

Let not your eyes be turned from their plight, let not your ears be closed to he cries of

your holy ones. Listen to them in their distress, bless them in their pursuits of you.


Lord I ask one thing, one thing for me

that I might be able to stay in your presence, that you will go with me and

be my forward and rear guard. Let no harm befall me, let no harm befall my family.

Lord I love you, delight in you, and I will seek you day after day from now into forever…

into eternity.

~Selah~

Poetry in the Soul

January 13th, 2009

“Poetry is the automatic response of a soul in tune with God. When God created the world he created it using poetry. (see Gen 1) A Soul that is a continual new creation of Christ then, is poetry. Good poetry flows out of a soul in tune with God.”

OK, that is me narcisisitically quoting me from a recent excellent conversation I had with some friends. Do you agree, disagree?

Meister Ekhart

January 2nd, 2009

“To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.”

-Meister Eckhart

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