I do not want to be something I am not.
Do not want to pretend to be something you want.
Seems like I have ears but I do not hear.
Like I have eyes but I cannot see.
I practiced using the right words.
Practiced all the trivial acts of kindness.
I reinvented a more comfortable you.
Something more like what I want.
Your words are still on my lips.
Perverted into weekly therapy.
I changed all the difficult parts.
Reassigned my own improved meanings.
I can justify my every action.
Insult for insult.
An eye for an eye.
A lie to warm my heart at night.
Who am I becoming?
Where am I going?
Why am I here?
Will I find you in the end?
This is really good. You should put it in your book – the one whose chapter titles you shared with us. Your poem says a lot.
To God be all glory,
Lisa
Thank you. Book is a long ways away, maybe Kent and I will pick it back up
Hope your holidays are blessed.
The holidays are a good time for introspection. This poem has started me thinking. Thank you for that. Merry Christmas.
Thanks Tom – hope your having a great Christmas with the family
nt wright makes a really good point about the kind of jesus many xians believe in vs the kind that got himself crucified by rome:
“…Jesus has to be both credible and crucifiable in first-century Galilee, that you can’t have a Jesus who wandered around saying the kinds of things that people would’ve found either incomprehensible or ridiculous or just boring or whatever. So he has to fit into his context, but at the same time he has to be sufficiently provocative for the crucifixion to be in a sense a natural consequence.”
more here: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache%3ApV_VRB5oMdcJ%3Awww.ntwrightpage.com%2FDunn_Wright_Conversation.pdf+nt+wright+crucifiable+Jesus&hl=en&gl=us&sig=AHIEtbQtWc5-rjOI_I59mllgNmwOpFQ-8A&pli=1
ultimately i think u become the jesus u believe in and to look at who most people are becoming it begins to look like the kingdom of god is really not so much different from the kingdoms of this world after all.
Thanks for the link. Looks like I have a lot to read – also have an NT Wright lecture pulled up (How Can The Bible Be Authoritative?)
Might be a bit before I get to them.
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