Healthy is when your mental and physical conditions are free from infection and (abusive) control. Friendships are sacred and beautiful. Providing all persons understand boundaries and respect one another's temperaments, real friendships will last. Do not call EVERYONE you meet a friend. Sadly, we have to add adjectives like "true" or "real" or "bad" …
Compassion
“Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, …
Thinking about Love…
“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the …
Us to a Flower
From one of my favorite Christian thinkers, Henri Nouwen: Us to a flower: "Why can't you be useful? Can't you get busy someway?" Flower: ‘I am sorry, sir, but I am just here to be beautiful.’" In other words, the teacher’s role is first to help a person realize who he/she is in Christ, and …
Engaged…
My goal is to help others reach their maximum potential. My objective is to challenge them to think, and vice-versa. That's engaged pedagogy. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
…More about Love
“Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to do with how your body responds to another body like …
Feeling Prophetically Poetic
Rethinking Shakespeare's Sonnet 18-Line 1, in Particular Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? I'm in a space of prayer, where asking Abba to baptize me with fire daily is bitter sweet. While I enjoy waking to the Son's-light-and-sweetness, His rays are yet tenderly and potently burning within me. This prophetic sensation …
Comes to Light (Everything)
I've decided to post the poem/lyrics to Jill Scott's, "Comes to Light (Everything)." I can't hold it in forever Eventually I'd have to breathe Done hid a lot behind the light, behind the wall Now it's crushin in on me How did I let it get this far?(Mmmmmm..) How did I make this wrong turn?(Ohhhh..Ooh..) …
It seems like
the more the Scorpions sting me, I love them deeper. It has to be Abba. Yet, as I die, Christ lives in me wanting to love them beyond the pain. I feel it with every fiber of my being. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
The Game
Defense - I love me. Offense - I love me. No longer will you win. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone