Hope?

 They tell you it's the future and the future isn't real. It can only hurt you, they tell me. But doesn't hope Drive? I don't want to knock down the tower repeatedly. I have Everytime before. Self-sabotage, I play that line out so so well. But I'm bleeding. I almost bled out. But he saved me and He saved me too. Don't they both love me, then? I can only cry out. I don't want anything, for know I don't need anything. I do want him. I do hope for him. I do live for him, but in Him.

How to (Very Efficiently) Make a Man hold and feel Shame

Gender or the closely related Sex still play a painful role in creating the (always) unhealthy sense of shame.  Not being a woman, I will not go into the pervasive attacks on their sexuality, but especially their body images.  Being a Man, I'm sure I can speak for all of us (in my opinion, of course).  How do we feel and have pain inflicted on us?  To never feel pain, to suck it up, to pick ourselves up by our bootstraps, to not cry unless we want to be given something to cry about, or to translate it into the way most of us encountered the shameful feeling at a young age:

Don't be a Pussy.

Why Does He Love Us?

          Him being Love somehow? ...  but why would the great mysterious Creator of the vastness of the universe love us? Overall, beyond our understanding, there must be some sense to it. Being fully human and God, what does pain feel like?

He'll win and rise again? And the suffering of this world, oh the suffering. He could at least be there more presently, concretely, for us to turn to when we doubt or falter.
       
Where is God (in this)? ...   Modern Christianity shows it's all the 'try your best,'and easy-going nature gives the rest of life... The Patristic Fathers would put us in the center of an incredibly painful, sorrowful, interminable war. Very different. Though, honestly, we know which one is true.

Battling the Dragon

Courage is what comes after you do what you fear... Courage, it's not the lack of Fear.  Heed the Warning.  It's what it is there for,


but Fuck it All if it stops you

To Wait

If it comes real fast, if it provides instant joy, if you get it without you yourself working for it.

Run, RUN, FUCKING RUN.

You can decorate yourself with these emblems, but never will they more than costume.

If it is real gain, if it edifies you, if it makes you better.  Completes the self-
It will hurt. You will have to chase.  You will sweat and your courage must surpass the feeling that you COULD perish.  Real courage is not the lack of fear, but only the ability to smirk and overcome it.

Anything worth gaining, worth using, worth having...  You must have patience, diligence, and of course, be willing to fight with your bare-knuckles for its reception.
God only tests the great.  Those, in all of the infinite value of those who live, tests those who have that Grit.
All true Glory can only follow a valourous Battle. 

A Paradox I Have Never Known

I encounter a Paradox I have never known,  I think, believe, hope, this is the common man's paradox.  The man of wholeness...

Josh, another, I want, but I do not need. Before it was only a Need hiding in Want's clothing...

But now, I want him fully and completely, but feel complete as myself. As TJ of the Clann Briainaigh- but still -  How do we want someone, like him, and this want is of utmost importance, for he is of utmost importance to me, in my life, yet Paradoxically...

I need nothing, want nothing in that needful way.  I am complete, whole, and should Infinity need anything to add-on???

So here I live.  A Whole man without want, but loving another whom I deem to be of utmost importance.

I hope this is what they call, "Life."

He Always Had It

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

I did not know there was a window,         I never knew you were the Sun.

So, Arise! Arise Fair Sun, Son... Kill the envious Moon.  It rattles and rambles within me,

Yes. It is sick.  Green and pale, dead, Death... It is envy.  I do not want to be filled with Envy

Devil's Sobriety

Being Drunk?  High? Lit? Tweeking? Wasted? Turnt Up?      ...     

Those were never my problem.  Vacations that never stopped.  Is that still a vacation?

Sobriety. Sober. Normal. T.J.   ...

That has always been the problem. Where do you go when you cannot go home.  The worst enemy. The Devil's camp:

MYSELF

God, save me from the bondage to Self.  Let me live.  Let me be me.  Clean my house as Martha so that I may sit and gaze as Mary...

Past 2 Months? Imagery Does it Best!

Let's Talk About Now. Someday