A Life Redeemed #IamSamson

* Jesus pray for me
#IamSamson

+--------"A Life Redeemed; Samson's Thoughts While Holding The Pillars In The Temple Of Dagon"

Ive had plenty of time to think about
it, encased in regret’s stench: the fetid
accumulation of sweat, tears,
and fecal matter over time of men
long since mutilated, or starved to death
deeply seeped in my oxidized cage of
iron bars (and the fetters). I was a fool with
lustrous hair, lusty for women, vigorous
enough to slay, jawbone of an ass fisted,
a thousand men but too weak to master
my own pride.  My wife was but my soul's
projection – shrewd and without scruples,
so I cant lay blame.  So I know now
that life’s scope is broader, the Hebrew
legacy more expansive than the id, ego,
and super-ego of a crazed Nazarene.
Ultimately if one could just lean
on pillars of his own insecurities, that temple
of Dagon within, to crush all the crass
inner-Philistine lies and inequities he can
- blood of his own selfishness like blood of
screaming pagans pooling in the sunken
hollows of his gouged out eyes, it is enough.

----- Judges 16:26-30
And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them. Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.And Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.