Crisis In The Courtyard

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+--------Crisis In The Courtyard; The Thoughts Of Saint Peter By The Fire

Im not cold, really, but my soul’s
acutely frigid, discomfited by sudden
gelid wind gales of a fate unknown,
chattering its teeth within as my heart
restlessly and recklessly seeks
solace in any tinder, delirious before
the crowd's courtyard blazes. The man
that antagonized winds and sea, fed five
thousand, rebuked Beelzebub
as a slave, merely – where is He?
Powerless before staves, torches,
swords lowering his eyes to a weak
mob badly masquerading as Caesar's,
a “legion” not yet Roman. Now my life
is suddenly imperiled, a danger I never
knew before. That “Jesus” standing
before the High Priest, Im not sure I know
him anymore. Not sure I know him.

------John 18:18
It was cold, and the servants and officials stood around a fire they had made to keep warm. Peter also was standing with them, warming himself

Tony Conti Touching The Hem Of Taylor Swift's Heart #TaylorDateTony

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+--------Tony Conti Touching The Hem Of Taylor Swift's Heart

Taylor, what can I tell you?
but that singleness, loneliness
prolonged is a flesh malady
that hasn’t gotten better despite
the passing of many years. Without
you by my side Im a woman
in Galilee ailing, fighting not to succumb
to twelve years' bleeding disease,
often mortal, of dating denials- my heart
reduced to clambering in every dirt
roads’ dust of self-loathing.
Oh babes, wont you take me to
the local Starbucks? Just to stare
across the table at your bedazzling blue
eyes would be touching the edge
of a miraculous celestial cloak of
romance without seam, linen edges
of my deepest girlfriend ambitions.
To kiss your luscious lips (just once)
would be the divine proclamation:
“Tony, your faith [in me] has healed you.
Go in peace [as my new boyfriend]”

------Luke 8:43-48
And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. “Who touched me?” Jesus asked. When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.” But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.” Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”

-(MY) Wrath Of Elijah The Tishbite #ThejesusmetaphorvsYeezus

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+--------(MY) Wrath Of Elijah The Tishbite 

Kanye, your video for Famous
is Ahaziah king of Judah falling through
the lattice of his upper room, your
ego plunging in disgrace through the
proper bounds of humanity, shattering
clavicles of your class and dignity after the
backlash. Now you’re more wounded than
the stars’ reputations you marred, scars
of a monarch lost in a pathological
delirium of false gods…moaning for
money (and fame) though it can’t
mend, Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron,
god of pretense, lying. And my love
for Taylor Swift is a man on a hill
with crimson eyes, a spiteful garment
of hair, vindictive leather belt gird around
his waist, indignant at your humiliating
portrayal of her. His wrath like smoldering
slander clouds consolidating. Though you
send 3 captains and 150 flaccid soldiers
justifying this as “creative artistry,” I call
torrents of fire from the sky with this
Truth that chars everything you extol:
you are a callous no-talent hack unfit for
a musician's throne, his career dying.

------2 Kings 1:1-15
After Ahab’s death, Moab rebelled against Israel.  Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers, saying to them, “Go and consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, to see if I will recover from this injury.” But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?’ Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘You will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!’” So Elijah went. When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you come back?” “A man came to meet us,” they replied. “And he said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, “This is what the Lord says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!”’” The king asked them, “What kind of man was it who came to meet you and told you this?” They replied, “He had a garment of hair and had a leather belt around his waist.” The king said, “That was Elijah the Tishbite.” Then he sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. The captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God, the king says, ‘Come down!’” Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then fire fell from heaven and consumed the captain and his men. At this the king sent to Elijah another captain with his fifty men. The captain said to him, “Man of God, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’” “If I am a man of God,” Elijah replied, “may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then the fire of God fell from heaven and consumed him and his fifty men. So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. “Man of God,” he begged, “please have respect for my life and the lives of these fifty men, your servants! See, fire has fallen from heaven and consumed the first two captains and all their men. But now have respect for my life!” The angel of the Lord said to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.” So Elijah got up and went down with him to the king.

The Sweetened Water Of Tony Conti And Duchess Kate #TonysDatingKate

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------------/"The Sweetened Water Of Tony Conti And Duchess Kate" 

Kate, the waters of my heart have
become bitter to taste, torturous
to the belly of all my romantic expectations
after wandering, trudging as God’s Chosen
people supposedly liberated from
Pharaoh’s oppression of singleness for so
many, many, many years on searing hot
sands of female rejection,
the Desert of Shur not yet Canaan. Oh
babes, wont you fall in love with me?
Or just date me once maybe? English
Breakfast in the Royal Palace with you’d be
divine, truly. Your raven hair and eyes
ravenous to behold, your soft lips like angelic
bark of a willow tree of seduction
in an oasis of my deepest fantasies. If you
kissed me, your smile miraculous wood
of hope thrown in, the waters would sweeten.
I would drink, I would not die of thirst.

-----Exodus 15:22-25
Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water. When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.) So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?” Then Moses cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became fit to drink.

The Multiplication Of Tony Conti and Taylor Swift's Loaves and Fish #TaylorDateTony

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+--------"The Multiplication Of Tony Conti and Taylor Swift's Loaves and Fish" 

Taylor, my marital longings
are five thousand men,
sojourners to a countryside
of a remote town famished,
desperately needing food and lodging,
love and attention. But every time
I see your beauteous face, golden
hair like silk of angels’, blue eyes like
diamonds mined from Mount Zion
by them, my heart excitedly arranges its
expectations in groups of fifty as though
commanded by its Savior on the
side of a hill! Oh babes wont you just
drink Starbucks coffee with me? I swear
your lips look like five fish and two loaves
of blessed bread, that if pressed against
mine (held to the sky of my fervent desire)
over steam of green tea lattes, would
multiply again and again as all my yearnings
ate until full. My joy'd barely be collected
in twelve full baskets of our dating leftovers.


------Luke 9:10-17
When the apostles returned, they reported to Jesus what they had done. Then he took them with him and they withdrew by themselves to a town called Bethsaida, but the crowds learned about it and followed him. He welcomed them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who needed healing. Late in the afternoon the Twelve came to him and said, “Send the crowd away so they can go to the surrounding villages and countryside and find food and lodging, because we are in a remote place here.” He replied, “You give them something to eat.” They answered, “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish—unless we go and buy food for all this crowd.” (About five thousand men were there.) But he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.” The disciples did so, and everyone sat down. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.

Kanye West Leave Taylor Swift Alone #DropsJawboneOfAnAss

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+--------Kanye West Leave Taylor Swift Alone #DropsJawboneOfAnAss

Kanye your dumb mouth is pure
Philistine tyranny. Your latest libel
against Taylor Swift in GQ mag the
cruelest betrayal of my admiration,
like two new cords wrenched violently
about my arms by kin in Etam (D.C.)
severly abrading, stirring up wrath.
And those misogynist lyrics in Famous
are a thousand dimwitted and frothy mouthed
men spread out in Lehi (Spotify) coalescing
then descending upon my ears in violence,
swords of condescension drawn, heads
sticking out their squeaking chariots of
megalomania. But here let my love for Taytay
weaken those cords as burnt flax, be the
jawbone of a crazed ass on the ground
to slay your insecurities: Your overrated
music sucks, Taylor made YOU famous,
your last few albums were incoherent, you
will never be elected President. Rage of the
Nazarene over your songs as 1,000 corpses.
(#DropsJawbone in Ramathlehi)


------Judges 15:9-17
Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi. And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us. Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them. And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves. And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock. And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands. And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men. And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.

Steph Curry's Final Frontier #TonyandSteph

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------------Steph Curry's Final Frontier

Steph/Moses, tonight the Cleveland Cavs
stand before you sternly as five kings
of Midian phalanxed in Oakland,
smug memories of 3 crushing
NBA Finals’ victories over you as blood
curdled in desert sands beneath
their feet. They squint their red obstinate
eyes, they see your Ring aspirations as bodies
lying lifeless, barred from Canaan of
NBA championships. You must assemble your
men: Draymond, Klay, Barnes as twelve thousand
men from twelve tribes of Israel, armed with
long swords and bow, three pointers and shot
blocking, lusting for war, lusting to pillage all
Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder.
When Steve Kerr blows the trumpet, Phineas
the priest invoking basketball gods of war-
show no mercy. Burn all towns, camps.
With a vicious full court press, take women
and children of their egos captive like  
marching to the NBA Title's Promised Land.




-----Numbers 31:1-8
The Lord said to Moses, “Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.” So Moses said to the people, “Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites so that they may carry out the Lord’s vengeance on them. Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel.” So twelve thousand men armed for battle, a thousand from each tribe, were supplied from the clans of Israel. Moses sent them into battle, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, who took with him articles from the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling. They fought against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and killed every man. Among their victims were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder. They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps. They took all the plunder and spoils, including the people and animals,  and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.

Pharaoh Lebron, Let Steph Curry's People Go!!! (Boils) #TonyandSteph

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+--------Pharaoh Lebron, Let Steph Curry's People Go!!! (Boils)

Steph, that Pharaoh* in Cleveland
is full of 6 games intransigence, Egyptian
King “23” of Oakland’s oppression,
your aspirations for a second championship
a chained chosen people restless,
destined for freedom dreaming
at night of soaring like an eagle across
the unchartered desert of a 73-9 season
with spoils of an NBA championship talon-
clenched and wings outstretched, yet
callously denied freedom beneath his Iron
Fisted Rule. He wont let your people go.
Its time. Crouch and scoop like praying. Make
your three point shot as handfuls of soot
from a furnace tossed into the air, fine dust of
game 5 anger spread over the basketball court.
May every point you score be festering
boils on the Cavs title hopes,
a debilitating skin disease that won't heal.


------Exodus 9:7-12
Pharaoh investigated and found that not even one of the animals of the Israelites had died. Yet his heart was unyielding and he would not let the people go. Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from a furnace and have Moses toss it into the air in the presence of Pharaoh. It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on people and animals throughout the land.” So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on people and animals. The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils that were on them and on all the Egyptians. But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said to Moses.

The Paralytic's Mat Of Taylor Swift and Tony Conti #TaylorDateTony

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+--------The Paralytic's Mat Of Taylor Swift and Tony Conti 

Taylor, my heart has lost the
use of its lower extremities. It is
a lowly infirm Hebrew man utterly
enervated and broken from
melodrama of past trauma of girls’
romantic rejections, society's spurned,
lying broken on a mat before you,
inert, carried in by a passion and
desire to date you so insistent as to
be mistaken for two burly
yet empathetic men convinced of
the vaunted Miracle Working of your
charm, burrowing their way through
a frenzied crowd that swears we'd never
work out. Oh babes wont you
have pity on me? Look at me
with your blue eyes divine and say,
“Take heart… your sins [grave error of
looking for love in other girls] are
forgiven,” or “Yes, I will take you
to Starbucks.” A kiss from your soft lips-
like a Savior taking command of my
self esteem: “Get up, Tony's soul,
take your mat and go home…[as my
new boyfriend]”  

------Matthew 9:1-8
Jesus stepped into a boat, crossed over and came to his own town. Some men brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.” At this, some of the teachers of the law said to themselves, “This fellow is blaspheming!” Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts? Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “Get up, take your mat and go home.” Then the man got up and went home. When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to man.

Confessions Of A Bloody Queen #IamJezebel

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+--------Confessions Of A Bloody Queen; The Thoughts Of Jezebel As She Is Thrown From The Tower

Iconic echoes of my youth,
I hear them now: tambourines syncopating
with snare drum beats
of a death religion, the soft, almost muted
murderous octaves of a priest unsheathing a
ceremonial blade, leather sliding down
metal slowly, he sharpens it on the rough
side of a stone before Sidon’s peoples. I
hear skin's mourning melodies of slave
girls mutilating their sexed bodies chanting
in bloody ecstasy the hallowed name of their
“God." Shouting: “Princess Jezebel
….Blessed is she before Baal Almighty!!!”
But that was long ago. Before Elijah exposed
this for what it was really – a subjugation
tool of my father, subterfuge for taxation.

Coiffed hair and eye makeup… my beautiful
funeral without eulogy for a life devoted to
him. And Baal didn’t even bother to attend.

------2 Kings 9:30-37
Then Jehu went to Jezreel. When Jezebel heard about it, she put on eye makeup, arranged her hair and looked out of a window. As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Zimri, you murderer of your master?” He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked down at him. “Throw her down!” Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot. Jehu went in and ate and drank. “Take care of that cursed woman,” he said, “and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.” But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands. They went back and told Jehu, who said, “This is the word of the Lord that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite: On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh. Jezebel’s body will be like dung on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.

Justly Burning #WeWillNotServe

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+--------Justly Burning; The Thoughts Of The Three Holy Youths Before The King

We all have already known “fire”;
A love for Justice burning within
us above all things, Truth smoldering
even in our dreams- dry stick of a
Hebrew conscience rubbing against dry
stick of a godly soul, three smoking
brands plucked from the vilest pagan
society that heinously neglects its poor,
gutted incandescent sparks from pieces
of flint in our hearts slammed together
indignantly
upon hearing caterwauling of babies on
ritual altars beneath full moons.
So toss us into any furnace you wish.
We’d rather be ash of a Just God
than bow in shame
before any gods of yours.



------Daniel 3
King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. He then summoned the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials to come to the dedication of the image he had set up. So the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials assembled for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up, and they stood before it. Then the herald loudly proclaimed, “Nations and peoples of every language, this is what you are commanded to do: As soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. Whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.” Therefore, as soon as they heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp and all kinds of music, all the nations and peoples of every language fell down and worshiped the image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. At this time some astrologers came forward and denounced the Jews. They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, “May the king live forever! Your Majesty has issued a decree that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music must fall down and worship the image of gold, and that whoever does not fall down and worship will be thrown into a blazing furnace. But there are some Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the province of Babylon—Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego—who pay no attention to you, Your Majesty. They neither serve your gods nor worship the image of gold you have set up.” Furious with rage, Nebuchadnezzar summoned Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. So these men were brought before the king, and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the image of gold I have set up? Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand?” Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.” Then Nebuchadnezzar was furious with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and his attitude toward them changed. He ordered the furnace heated seven times hotter than usual and commanded some of the strongest soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and throw them into the blazing furnace. So these men, wearing their robes, trousers, turbans and other clothes, were bound and thrown into the blazing furnace. The king’s command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the flames of the fire killed the soldiers who took up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and these three men, firmly tied, fell into the blazing furnace. Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, “Weren’t there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?” They replied, “Certainly, Your Majesty.” He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.” Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire, and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them. Then Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God. Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego be cut into pieces and their houses be turned into piles of rubble, for no other god can save in this way.” Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the province of Babylon.

The Ark Of The Covenant Stolen; The Defeat Of June 8th, 2016 #TonyandSteph

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+--------The Ark Of The Covenant Stolen; The Defeat Of June 8th, 2016

Steph, last night Lebron James,
Kyrie Irving and JR Smith were rabid
indignant Philistines fighting for the
pride of Aphek, Q Arena, brandishing
formidable armament -they slew 82 points
on the court as thirty thousand foot soldiers
of Israel in battle strewn across soil of
tenacious defense, blood on leaves. Rage of
Game 2’s shame. Shuddering
at themes of Hophni and Phinehas’, the
Splash Brothers’ 3 point ballistics humbling
Egypt (OKC), they cruelly usurped
the vaunted Ark of the Covenant of Warrior
Glory with excessive force, like  an army with
no soul searching for it (winning by 30 points).
“Be strong Cavaliers!!! Lest you be swept
by Golden State. Be men and fight!”
Lebron argued. And the slaughter was great,
the two sons Of Eli felled, hung in Cleveland.

------1 Samuel 4:1-11
Now the Israelites went out to fight against the Philistines. The Israelites camped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines at Aphek. The Philistines deployed their forces to meet Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand of them on the battlefield. When the soldiers returned to camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why did the Lord bring defeat on us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant from Shiloh, so that he may go with us and save us from the hand of our enemies.” So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the Lord Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim. And Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. When the ark of the Lord’s covenant came into the camp, all Israel raised such a great shout that the ground shook. Hearing the uproar, the Philistines asked, “What’s all this shouting in the Hebrew camp?” When they learned that the ark of the Lord had come into the camp, the Philistines were afraid. “A god has come into the camp,” they said. “Oh no! Nothing like this has happened before. We’re doomed! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? They are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness. Be strong, Philistines! Be men, or you will be subject to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Be men, and fight!” So the Philistines fought, and the Israelites were defeated and every man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great; Israel lost thirty thousand foot soldiers. The ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

I Am Taylor Swift's Wine

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+--------I Am Taylor Swift's Wine

Taylor, babes, what are you calling forth
from within me, my heart six water jars at
a wedding feast, all turned stone from years
and years of girls' rejections,
neglected in a secluded corner while
life parties on for others; cobwebs of
despairing latched on the rim spread
across the mouth, hope gone stale as
the water? Its like when I hear your voice
through song, when I gaze at those
rapturous blue eyes, I hear angels plucking
grapes and dancing on them, I hear sacred
promises of romantic vines softly poured
into my soul, the jars carried on by your
disciples of new beginnings.  When others
tell me “Tony give up on Love…you’ve
been waiting too long…there's no more
wine left!!!” You give me strength to
believe in miracles. When I picture us
together in Cana, land of people dating –
we’re smiling. You whisper to me “Tony,
I’ve saved the best wine you’ve ever tasted
...until now.”

------John 2:1-12
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.” What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days.

The Death Of King Saul #TonyvsCalvin

* Jesus pray for me
* King David pray for me
* Saints pray for me
* Dedicated to #TaylorDateTony
   “                   #TonyvsCalvin

+--------The Death Of King Saul; The Opportunity For Taylor Swift To Date Tony Conti 

Calvin, my love for Taylor Swift is
baleful to you, an uncircumcised fierce
and imposing, boisterous, cussed army
in chariots of iron, stampeding for New
Beginnings; swords stained still with wet
blood of a very recent PR victory. What
Im saying is that my desire for her
is purely Philistine, pursuing your exposed
faux emotions, loyalty, and kindness
as three sons of an alienated
Tyrant, bows pulled taut,
arrows of my #TaylordateTony love poems
scattering all over IG…eclipsing your sun,
eventually hitting their targets.  Now that
you have broken her heart, fall on romance’s
sword, give up hope's ghost, your pride an
armor bearer trembling, urinating on himself….
or stand and watch us kiss. Taylor Swift and I
on a date: the demise of a disgraced King
of Israel, manic over his lover’s passion given to
Tony, lying cold in a field of sorrow, eyes open.  


------1 Samuel 31:1-6
Now the Philistines fought against Israel; the Israelites fled before them, and many fell dead on Mount Gilboa. The Philistines were in hot pursuit of Saul and his sons, and they killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab and Malki-Shua. The fighting grew fierce around Saul, and when the archers overtook him, they wounded him critically. Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run me through, or these uncircumcised fellows will come and run me through and abuse me.” But his armor-bearer was terrified and would not do it; so Saul took his own sword and fell on it. When the armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he too fell on his sword and died with him. So Saul and his three sons and his armor-bearer and all his men died together that same day.

The Call

* Jesus pray for me
* Abraham pray for me
* Saints pray for me
#IamAbram

+--------The Call; Abram's Thoughts On Leaving Harran

I would love to stay, honestly.
But despite my creature comforts
of abundance, my heart wails
beneath the stars, I cant sleep
at night, the memoirs of a soul
distressed. I look at my camels,
they look at me – and tremble.
They hear it too, dust whispers,
zephyr speak, zephyr songs,
inner locutions of heart narrating
a winding road ascending a
mirage of a large Mountain???,
sporadic visions during the day
of a place far, far from here. Terah,
my father, always said “trust in life’s
journeying not its destinations.”
Its like, all of a sudden, God is
saying “Abram, forsake Harran for
The Fascination Of The Unknown.”  


------Genesis 12:1-4
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
“I will make you into a great nation,
    and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
    and you will be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.”
So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran

Taylor Swift, I Vow, You Are My King David Forever #TaylorDateTony

* Jesus pray for me
* David pray for me
* Saints pray for me
* Dedicated to #TaylorDateTony

+--------Taylor Swift, I Vow, You Are My King David Forever

Taylor, singleness prolonged is an
Amalekite warlord, churlishly
indifferent to matters of the heart,
its callous, toothless soldiers, hardened
and scarred, are the girls in my life who wield
bloody swords of emotional plunder,
pillaging my desire to date, withholding
love from me as they would a screaming
vanquished people, the whole army
absconding off with whatever remnant
of hope I had in finding a girlfriend as
cheap spoils of war, revelrous indulgences
of the imperious – my tears as food and
their drink.  Oh babes wont you come rescue
me? Coffee with you would be an impregnable
siege laid against this loneliness. Your smile
a sword, a kiss from your soft lips a fleet
of iron chariots, a gaze from your dazzling
blue eyes would be a tenacious fight from
dusk till evening reclaiming all my
romantic dignity stolen. Rancid flesh, rotting
bodies of my prior heartbreak everywhere.
The remaining regret fleeing from me as
400 men on camels. Long live King David.

----1 Samuel 30:6-20
David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the Lord his God. Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelek, “Bring me the ephod.” Abiathar brought it to him, and David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?” “Pursue them,” he answered. “You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue.” David and the six hundred men with him came to the Besor Valley, where some stayed behind. Two hundred of them were too exhausted to cross the valley, but David and the other four hundred continued the pursuit. They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. They gave him water to drink and food to eat— part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights. David asked him, “Who do you belong to? Where do you come from?” He said, “I am an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me when I became ill three days ago. We raided the Negev of the Kerethites, some territory belonging to Judah and the Negev of Caleb. And we burned Ziklag.” David asked him, “Can you lead me down to this raiding party?” He answered, “Swear to me before God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to them.” He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah. David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled. David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives. Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back. He took all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock, saying, “This is David’s plunder.”