Taylor Swift Exorcising Tony Conti's Dateless Legion

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+--------Taylor Swift Exorcising Tony Conti's Dateless Legion 

Oh Taylor, a vagrant, dateless
life has made my heart feral, odious,
bearded, unshaven. Emotional
fingernails unshorn. It is a man insane
so aggravated by rejection's thick
doubly reinforced chains they're
futile to restrain hands and
feet; Night and day love’s yearning
like self-inflicted gashes with morose
sharp stones, eliciting pained cries of
“TAYLORRRR SWIFTTTT!!!” bathed by
a lachrymose glow of a sinister moon,
“SAVE ME.” And I imagine you in
Romance’s boat rebuking, drifting to me
with blonde hair, blue eyes of Heaven,
soft angel lips to save. If you took
me to Starbucks, 'Legion' of lonely
thoughts would flee me fearing torture….
your kiss like projecting my single life into
pigs of irrelevance, hurling themselves
off the precipice of all stupid girls forgotten.

------Mark 5:1-12
They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes. When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him. This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones. When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. He shouted at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God’s name don’t torture me!” For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of this man, you impure spirit!” Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.” And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area. A large herd of pigs was feeding on the nearby hillside. The demons begged Jesus, “Send us among the pigs; allow us to go into them.”

A Stern Defense Of Palms #IamDeborah

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+--------A Stern Defense Of Palms; Deborah's Last Words Before Leading Barak, Israel In Battle

And these are all my children I defend-
not Hebrew people only,
but ideals. Of freedom objectively, of
equality, mutuality of love and respect
for humans, for beast, for land.
Inner zeal to confront Canaanite culture
-like snakes hissing, sick of being
hunted- vile misogyny, bestiality brazen,
burnings of boys and girls on idol altars
…the char, the flesh ash, innocent blood
stirring a Good God’s disgust. This is
what I speak beneath the Palm: A wife,
a judge, a prophet, a warrior, a woman
…who wont see Sisera, his 900 crass
chariots of iron in Israel breathing again.

------Judges 4:1-10
Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, now that Ehud was dead. So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth Haggoyim. Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the Lord for help. Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time. She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided. She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor. I will lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.’” Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go; but if you don’t go with me, I won’t go.” “Certainly I will go with you,” said Deborah. “But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.” So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh. There Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali, and ten thousand men went up under his command. Deborah also went up with him.

A Gardener's Zeal To Redeem #IamJesus

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+--------A Gardener's Zeal To Redeem; Jesus' Words To Mary Magdalene After His Resurrection

And Mary they say life and
death, love and hate is
horticulture, the dreams buried
in a man’s heart just seedlings,
his trials/scourges like blood
enrichment of garden soil. Its true,
the things you see, hear, on the other
side change you; You recognize
souls: the righteous pleas of wheat to
bloom, derisive wretched howls of tares.
And all you think is harvesting, how if
you went back, all you’d want to do is
reap and sow, sow and reap (to divide).


------John 20:13-16
They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”
“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.” Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).

A Warrior In The Sheepfolds #HTTR

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#Thanksgiving

+------------A Warrior In The Sheepfolds

Kirk, you were prepared well for this-
the most epic, career defining of
battles, sharpening your passing
skills as rocks in a sling in the sheepfolds
of Michigan State many searing
summers. You felled all the Big Ten,
in the Outback Bowl the Georgia
Bulldogs- a lion and bear beard-yanked
to horrifying slaughter.  And now: Dak
Prescott scoffing, bronze confident helmet
clad, a scale armored Dallas offensive line
5,000 shekels heavy, his (9-1) record
towering over the NFC, six cubits and a span.
Just remember: 5 touchdowns thrown, 5
smooth stones slung to his ego. Then, a huge
Philistine crashing backwards limp, (9-2).


-----------------1 Samuel 17:20-26
Early in the morning David left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry. Israel and the Philistines were drawing up their lines facing each other. David left his things with the keeper of supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers how they were. As he was talking with them, Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and David heard it. Whenever the Israelites saw the man, they all fled from him in great fear. Now the Israelites had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who kills him. He will also give him his daughter in marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in Israel.” David asked the men standing near him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

Taylor Swift, Angel Of Tony Conti's Dateless Imprisonment #TaylorDateTony

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#IamPeter

+------------ Taylor Swift, Angel Of Tony Conti's Dateless Imprisonment

And Taylor I swear singleness is
my heart indicted, incarcerated;
wrists tightly shackled in thick chains
of lonely thoughts by a King (Herod)
unfeeling - ruler of romantic repudiation
obsessed with melancholy, snarling;
Guarded by four squads, four soldiers of
a childhood’s insecurities. My previous
efforts to find a boo, James the brother
of John, slain by the (dating) state’s sword
of cruel despair. Oh babes, wont you rescue
me asleep to the world without you,
bound between two soldiers of lament...
lost in dreams of Eden’s woman of five foot
ten inches: blonde hair like silk from a
celestial shuttle, blue eyes diamonds
plucked from Zion’s mines? If you took
me to Starbucks, an angel’s staff striking
me awake, hope-clothed, fetters loosed!
If you kissed me, a whisk past guards to
the front entrance. Your smile’d miraculously
unlock the iron gate that held me back for
so long. I’d walk out this prison a free soul.

-----------------Acts 12:1-11
It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread. After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover. So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists. Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him. Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision. They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him. Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.”

David

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+--------David; Samuel's Thoughts Before Pouring Oil Atop The Boy's Head 

This world is corrupt all around: pagan
sacrilege smears on (almost) all our vile
judges within, Lucifer leering at the Ark,
night raids of Canaanites without that
stir us from sleep into perpetual Israelite
frenzy. And now, our crowned King
contracts leper’s boils of indiscretion. We
need much more than an oil horn, prophet’s
prayer this time. God, give us, finally, a man
-shepherd’s heart for peace, warrior’s soul:
who lusts, forever, to defend the Good.


------1 Samuel 16:1-13
The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king.” But Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears about it, he will kill me.” The Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’ Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what to do. You are to anoint for me the one I indicate.” Samuel did what the Lord said. When he arrived at Bethlehem, the elders of the town trembled when they met him. They asked, “Do you come in peace?” Samuel replied, “Yes, in peace; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves and come to the sacrifice with me.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed stands here before the Lord.” But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” Then Jesse called Abinadab and had him pass in front of Samuel. But Samuel said, “The Lord has not chosen this one either.” Jesse then had Shammah pass by, but Samuel said, “Nor has the Lord chosen this one.” Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, “The Lord has not chosen these.” So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered. “He is tending the sheep.” Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.” So he sent for him and had him brought in. He was glowing with health and had a fine appearance and handsome features. Then the Lord said, “Rise and anoint him; this is the one.” So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David. Samuel then went to Ramah.

Your Scarred God #IamJesus

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+------------Your Scarred God; Jesus' Words To Thomas After His Resurrection 

And Thomas, they say, the best things in
life are free (love). The speed-of-light roaring
descent from heaven, My Spirit congealing
anew thrust aghast into a finite flesh realm,
sacred and pure Womb of the Virgin, the
indignity of denouncements by those for
whom I created Moses. The stinging
whip lacerations on my mocked flesh –
blood of the divine splayed on dirt for thieves,
prostitutes. Reach out your hand and
put it into my side. Feel scars suffered freely.

-----------------John 20:24-29
Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”  Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.” Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

The Redskins Taking Jerusalem #HTTR

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#httr  #KirkisKingDavid


+------------The Redskins Taking Jerusalem

And Aaron Rodgers, you and the Packers
are profane NFL Jebusites: heathen wishing
to  occupy a city unjustifiably, slithering snakes
in Eden pure, savage and uncouth band of
gridiron players with vulgar SNF playbook
in Landover, Maryland - Jerusalem, the
Holy City fortified.  And Kirk Cousins is God’s
warrior, a true King David of righteous warring,
already anointed with oil of a great QBR,
having sling-slain already many NFC East
Goliaths.  Though tonight you claim “The Skins
will not get in here; even the blind and the lame
can ward you off.” Nevertheless, Kirk will
capture the fortress. Touchdowns in HIS Zion.

-----------------2 Samuel 5:6-10
 The king and his men marched to Jerusalem to attack the Jebusites, who lived there. The Jebusites said to David, “You will not get in here; even the blind and the lame can ward you off.” They thought, “David cannot get in here.” Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David. On that day David had said, “Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the water shaft to reach those ‘lame and blind’ who are David’s enemies.” That is why they say, “The ‘blind and lame’ will not enter the palace.” David then took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built up the area around it, from the terraces inward.  And he became more and more powerful, because the Lord God Almighty was with him.

Taylor Swift's Stone In Thebez #TonyvsColbert

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#TaylorDateTony

+------------Taylor Swift's Stone In Thebez; The Death Of Stephen Colbert's (Abimelek) TV Reign 

Stephen Colbert you are Abimelek
son of Jerub-Baal, iniquitous murderer
of reputations, your cruel insipid “comedy”
derisive of Taylor Swift a hired band
of reckless scoundrels loyal- your
monologue like the slaying of seventy
brothers (fellow celebs) in Ophrah on
one stone. And I am Jotham railing,
inciting low ratings for The Late Show as
men of Shechem restless, in a rage
for revenge. And your arrogance is the
siege of Thebez, city of music, and Taylor
Swift a strong woman in its strong tower.
This poem: an upper millstone lobbed from
her hands on your head - to crack the skull
of your fledgling career. Your producers will
mercifully run a sword of cancellation
through your show; You gasping for CBS air.


-----------------Judges 9:1-6; 50-54
Abimelek son of Jerub-Baal went to his mother’s brothers in Shechem and said to them and to all his mother’s clan, “Ask all the citizens of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you: to have all seventy of Jerub-Baal’s sons rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember, I am your flesh and blood.” When the brothers repeated all this to the citizens of Shechem, they were inclined to follow Abimelek, for they said, “He is related to us.” They gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, and Abimelek used it to hire reckless scoundrels, who became his followers. He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, escaped by hiding. Then all the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo gathered beside the great tree at the pillar in Shechem to crown Abimelek king; Next Abimelek went to Thebez and besieged it and captured it. Inside the city, however, was a strong tower, to which all the men and women—all the people of the city—had fled. They had locked themselves in and climbed up on the tower roof.  Abimelek went to the tower and attacked it. But as he approached the entrance to the tower to set it on fire, a woman dropped an upper millstone on his head and cracked his skull. Hurriedly he called to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and kill me, so that they can’t say, ‘A woman killed him.’” So his servant ran him through, and he died. When the Israelites saw that Abimelek was dead, they went home.

Belief Burning #Believe

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+------------Belief Burning; The Thoughts Of Cleopas After Speaking With Jesus On The Road To Emmaus 

And we’ve all walked this darkness
before, disbanding in disillusionment
and delusion in drudgery of defeat; angry
that what we once thought real now
exploited, like the Republic rebellious before
a Caesar deranged. But what if, somehow,
someway, broken dreams could be resurrected,
redeemed? That voice like fire in our hearts
telling us to keep hope still (lit), keep believing
against impossible odds - what if that was God?  




-----------------Luke 24:13-35
Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; but they were kept from recognizing him. He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?” They stood still, their faces downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” “What things?” he asked. “About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”
He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them. When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

The Lying, Scheming Couple #TONYCONTIvsTMZ #TaylorDateTony

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#TaylordateTony #WearePeter

+------------The Lying, Scheming Couple 

TMZ and David Mueller your integrity
is Ananias and Sapphira of shrewd
schemes, husband and wife dispassionate
together, bound only by lust of immorality.
And you held back truth
from the “sale” of Taylor Swift’s court-
sealed photo as a piece of property,
laying contraband at feet of the social
media community as earnest reporting,
yet legally crooked. May your reputations
drop dead in succession, lifeless bodies
(bloody nose pus, mouth agape, drooling)
carried out by the same men
just three hours of court censure apart......


-----------------Acts 5:1-11
Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet. Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”
When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened. Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him. About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. Peter asked her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?” “Yes,” she said, “that is the price.”
Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.” At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.

Taylor Swift and Tony Conti Traveling Towards Love; The Walk To Emmaus #TaylorDateTony

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+--------Taylor Swift and Tony Conti Traveling Towards Love; The Walk To Emmaus 

And Taylor these twilight dirt
paths to true love are long,
serpentine, winding. Thistle
and rock, rejection and sadness
strewn. And my emotions are two
disciples, Jewish, mourning
singleness, speaking as if a
Romantic Savior was notional
only. Sulking from a Jerusalem
of expectation, all hopes of dating
just nailed to a cross. But if you took
me to Starbucks I’d remember you-
a child breast-fed gazing into
matronly eyes for the first time, but
not really. To my heart your blue eyes
like flint, your blond hair like a spark,
your voice angelic cinder striding
next to me. Smiles over iced green tea
a joy-blaze of girlfriend inspiration,
love fire in my heart, your kiss: smoke
from a hearth rising in a village of my
lasting happiness. Emmaus.

------Luke 24:13-35
Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; but they were kept from recognizing him. He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?” They stood still, their faces downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?” “What things?” he asked. “About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all the people. The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.” He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them. When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

Destiny Diving

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* Dedicated to #IamJonah

+--------Destiny Diving; The Thoughts Of Jonah In The  Belly Of The Whale 

There are no candles no paeans sitting
here just groans; the cognizance
of the inevitability of fate as the dark
and dank, uninviting bowels of a
crazed whale plunge. The steady rhythm
breathing of regret, acceptance seesaw-
ing on a fish’s tongue twenty thousand
leagues under the sea, my arms wrapped
around knees bent: musing that somehow
Nineveh was destined for me, always.

------Jonah 1:11-17
The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?” “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.” Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before. Then they cried out to the Lord, “Please, Lord, do not let us die for taking this man’s life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you, Lord, have done as you pleased.” Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm. At this the men greatly feared the Lord, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows to him. Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

To Live To Carry Our Crosses Another Day

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+--------To Live To Carry Our Crosses Another Day; Saint Peter's Response To Jesus Forecasting His Own Death 

This is what we (Judah, Israel)
always pined for: God fleshly, here
with us. You heeding, finally,
our implorations for freedom; King
David’s throne avenged - Goliath
(Caesar) supine, mouth agape tongue
hanging towards the earth cursed by
years of Rome's cruelty. No, you cant
go. Any crucifixion, suffering can wait.  


------Matthew 16:21-28
From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!” Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.” Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life[f] will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done. “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”

A Toast On High Seas Of A Fate Unknown #AmericaUnited

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* Saints pray for me
* Dedicated to #IamPaul
#AmericaUnited

+--------A Toast On High Seas Of A Fate Unknown; Saint Paul's Words To His Fellow Prisoners
Sailing To Rome In Chains" 

276 pariahs tottering in a creaking
hull on waves enchained, sharing
wrist shackles of a destiny shrouded,
snared birds stirred by haunting
crescendos of Caesar’s furtive hunter
-steps nearing. And we cant interpret
our centurion’s gaze, whether
he’s privy to our own death penalty,
pardon, or flogging. None can probe
the Empire-mind of Rome’s obscurity.
But let us seek comfort, company
in meat – to break bread and eat as
familiar men. We thank God for our
nows dismissing unknowns…whatever
may befall us next. For- we have
life and we have each other.

------Acts 27:29-38
Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day. And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship, Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved. Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off. And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you. And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat. Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat. And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls. And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.

The Night Taylor Swift Healed Tony Conti's Dating Ear In Gethsemane #TaylorDateTony

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* Luke pray for me
* Saints pray for me
* Dedicated to #TaylorDateTony
#IamMalchus

+--------The Night Taylor Swift Healed Tony Conti's Dating Ear In Gethsemane

Oh Taylor, its like every girl
Ive ever met is a pugnacious
rollicking romantic scrum in a
Garden of choice. A band of
date-declining soldiers swarmed
by burly sycophants brandishing
torches and staves disputing to
brawl a disheveled raggedy
coalition of excessively critical
commoners wreaking of fish
-condescension, clad in sullied robes
and sandals of crass insensitivity. (Bulls
locking horns with bloodshot eyes
wishing death for themselves to be
freed from holocaust). And I cant
decipher truth from lie amongst lonely
bickers, like whenever I open my
heart, a sword swung randomly severing
my soul’s ear. I hear not, nor understand
love. Oh but babes, youre the Love
-Savior prophesied, tall stately, blue-
eyed, sweet, full of charm. If you took me
to Starbucks, a miracle. A kiss from
your lips like a divine hand over my self-
esteem’s skewered head. Smooch
healing, like restoring my comprehension
of dating hope.  

------Luke 22:47-51
While he was still speaking a crowd came up, and the man who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, was leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss him, but Jesus asked him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?” When Jesus’ followers saw what was going to happen, they said, “Lord, should we strike with our swords?” And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And he touched the man’s ear and healed him.

Pleas From The Other Side

* Spirit Of Jesus pray for me
* Luke, Paul pray for me
* Saints pray for me
* Dedicated to #IamPaul
* Dedicated to The Amity Affliction, Chasing Ghosts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPwMwqfx5no

+--------Pleas From The Other Side; The Words Of The Macedonian Man In Paul's Vision 
Somehow I knew this day
would come, the sun snuffed and ash
like rain falling to earth, when the smell
of blood was too putrid, the stench
of neglected poverty too odious
to bear for us. My night song-
children, embattled, bellowing
beneath an unfeeling moon staring
with disinterest at their missing
mothers raped, slain by Roman
soldiers or vagrant vassals. Caesar
indecorous, insensitive and incestuous
in public supposedly coronated by
moral gods..No. Spare us more pained
harrowing – please. Come to us soon.
The world awaits a man truly sent
by God. With hope.

------Acts 16:6-10
Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to. So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas. During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

-Chasing Ghosts Lyrics
Will they remember my name when I'm gone
(when they know what I did was so f* wrong)
Put the steel to my wrist, lost the breath in my chest
(just to forget all the wrongs I had left)
I took the exit, left my friends in the gutter
(left my life right behind me, left myself, left it all)
Left myself, left it all, not a falter, not a stutter
Not a note, and now?
(there’s nothing at all)

Are you at all haunted by memories past?
Are you ready to make this one breath your last?
Is your chest so heavy you're ready to leave?
Or are you just hoping that someone will grieve?

And now we roll on...
I'm gone now,
I don't remember much,
I just know that I would have been better off if I had stayed,
Spoken to a friend,

Let my heart keep on beating and not given it all up
For the grave, for the grave
There's no one there on the other side (other side)
There's nothing more than what I had.
There's no ghost left to haunt you so you know I'm still here,
Just the end of my life nothing left here at all.
There's no memories here, just the regrets of the dead,
Please don't follow my footsteps - cherish all you have left.

Are you at all haunted by memories past?
Are you ready to make this one breath your last?
Is your chest so heavy you’re ready to leave?
Or are you just hoping that someone will grieve?

There's no one there on the other side
(there's no one there on the other side)
There's nothing more than what I had
(there's no ghost left to haunt you).

There's no ghosts
There's no memories here
Just the regrets of the dead
Please don't follow in my footsteps
Cherish all you have left

There's no memories here (memories here)
Just the regrets of the dead (regrets of the dead)
Please don't follow in my footsteps (my footsteps)
Cherish all you have left.

Are you at all haunted by memories past?
Are you ready to make this one breath your last?
Is your chest so heavy you’re ready to leave?
Or are you just hoping that someone will grieve?

Are you at all haunted by memories past? (memories past)
Are you ready to make this one breath your last? (breath your last)
Is your chest so heavy you’re ready to leave? (ready to leave)
Or are you just hoping that someone will grieve? (someone will grieve)

Family Guy's Comedic Intestines Of Herod Agrippa #FamilyGuyIsOverParty

* Spirit Of Jesus pray for me
* Luke pray for me
* Saints pray for me
* Dedicated to #TonyvsFamilyGuy #TaylorDateTony #FamilyGuyIsOverParty

+--------Family Guy's Comedic Intestines Of Herod Agrippa 

And #FamilyGuy you are the (self
proclaimed) media King of Comedy
ruling over Judea arrogant and vulgar,
appointed by a Ratings-Caesar of Fox TV
execs unscrupulous and desperate
to preserve an Empire, lurid garland of
mulberry, rosemary fastened
behind two deformed, distasteful ears,
your ego an oversized purple robe trailing
you, feces stained. You stand before
warring interests of Millennials and Gen
X-ers a conciliator between Tyre and
Sidon, assuming all esteem crass, slapstick
humor hilarious speech. Mocking
Taylor Swift in skits, you dream of a day
all hail your collective of overrated TV
writers “the voice of a god not a man!!!” But
your imminent fate is more like May 2000,
when inwardly devoured before the masses
your show was canceled. A proud lifeless
body of new episodes twitching as worms
of irrelevance chewed wits' intestines...

------Acts 12:19b-24
Then Herod went from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there. He had been quarreling with the people of Tyre and Sidon; they now joined together and sought an audience with him. After securing the support of Blastus, a trusted personal servant of the king, they asked for peace, because they depended on the king’s country for their food supply. On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people. They shouted, “This is the voice of a god, not of a man.” Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died. But the word of God continued to spread and flourish.

A Son Exorcised

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* Matthew pray for me
* Saints pray for me
* Dedicated to #HeSavedMe

+--------A Son Exorcised; The Thoughts Of The Formerly Demon Possessed Boy Saved By Jesus 

I cant explain fully, but it was
life outside my body wildly shaking.
My mind enfleshed,
suffocating in alternating stratas
of malignant thought, mercurial- first
a deep sea plunge in self hatred, then
a dive into raging flames of a doubt of
God’s existence, goodness. All I knew:
intense pain, deafening screams,
the speech of demons that seethe.
Then there was calm silence. I saw
the face of Jesus. Now I can feel my
skin, breathe fresh air again.


------Matthew 17:14-20
When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.” “You unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.” Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed at that moment. Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?” He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” 

Taylor Swift and Tony Conti's Mosaic Love #TaylorDateTony #TaylorisMoses

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* Moses pray for me
* Saints pray for me
* Dedicated to #TaylorDateTony, #TaylorisMoses

+--------Taylor Swift and Tony Conti's Mosaic Love 

And you know, Taylor, singleness is
Pharaoh, issuing edicts of loneliness,
the State’s slaughter of my romantic
hope as innocent vassal children. My
emotions: birds in a frenzied scatter
before a hunter. My heart a Hebrew
people enslaved, abused by dating
rejection like taskmasters cracking
whips on scars of flagellated back
flesh, wailing beneath the sad moon
while tossing in sleep. But you are
my Hope of a New Day, a chosen
baby boy destiny-stolen. Wrapped
in linen, swaddled in a basket papyrus
of beautiful blue eyes and blonde hair
set adrift down a Nile River of my
greatest expectations. A date with
you at Starbucks would be a stately
man fully grown in Egypt’s royal court
plagued by emancipated thinking. Your
kiss like abdication, like you fleeing
all you knew formerly to set my love life
free. Telling Thutmose II of my
datelessness “Let my [Tony] go!]” firmly.


------Exodus 2:1-10
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the women took the child, and nursed it. And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

A Scarred Soldier's Baptism

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* Luke pray for me
* Cornelius pray for me
* Saints pray for me
Dedicated to #IamCornelius

+--------A Scarred Soldier's Baptism; Cornelius's Thoughts After Peter Baptized His Entire Household  

Ive guarded Rome's senators before,
with sly smiles like stares from a pit of
snakes, laughs like venomous hissing,
and tail rattling, slithering around
fates of societies. I know too the manifold
threats on Caesar’s life- scheming of
distrustful dissidents, of the cursed poor
and the jealous who want revenge on a
nation. But Ive never seen this: a diverse
alliance. The Spirit of God fallen, morphing
tribes, stitching peoples together; one mind
language, heart. Love unbiased and pure

------Acts 10:1-6; 44-48
There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway. He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius. And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter: He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do; While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter, Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.