What Love Demands
Picking back up the Into and Beyond the Apocalypse series. Here, I discuss what encountering the infinite love of God in Christ demands of us in our time.
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Into and Beyond the Apocalypse – Part Two: Elijah Coming Out
I felt like I needed to shuffle up the order of the Into and Beyond the Apocalypse video series, and cut straight to the chase and just open up about the apocalyptic visions I had back in 2015. In this video I am candid about the context in which these visions occured. I was in […]
Read MoreSketches for a Wasted Youth
Introduction It might be narcissistically indulgent to provide an introduction for my own work, but I ask the reader to bear with me. Usually, I don’t try to offer much commentary on my poetry. However, Sketches for a Wasted Youth represents a certain crossroads for me as a Christian of the mystical persuasion […]
Read MoreThe Overlong Hours For An Old Drunk
It’s winding close to 4AM and I won’t sleep, maybe not at all tonight because there’s something about the stillness of a tender night that is soothing. Not long ago I couldn’t handle the terrors of the silent hours, so I drank to ensure they would never come. Three years ago I took my last […]
Read MorePlatonic Madness – Heaven’s Gift
Kay Redfield Jamison quotes Plato in her book Touched With Fire that explores Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament: Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings… the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise […]
Read MoreWhat Lies Between Storm and Shine
The Oxbow – Thomas Cole (1836) *See Note on the composition of this poem below. What Lies Between Storm and Shine For Eva and Eloise and those beloved who have departed to at last find peace. So odd I always thought how light like a pacifist drifts away on the winds before the storm […]
Read MoreThe Byronic Odyssey
Painting by Thomas Moran – Sunset at Sea (ca. 1906) Adieu, adieu! my native shore Fades o’er the waters blue; The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, And shrieks the wild sea-mew. Yon sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My Native Land – […]
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