The Conversion Of Apollos

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+------The Conversion Of Apollos; Priscilla's Words About Hope, Salvation, Freedom 

Apollos, as Jews; Survivors,
we know the vignette well:
Adam dispossessed of Eden,
the wriggling away of the serpent
of curses under shadows
of the Tree of Life’s leaves cackling
masked by hissing, turning
his face back to Eve with sneers.
(Chased by flaming swords, angels
aggrieved). This…the saga of the
birth of our Age, the seeming
collective psyche-scar with eternity’s
scabs. Partly soothed by Isaiah’s,
Jeremiah’s salvation orations. But
in the interstices… abuses of Babylon,
Persia, Greece, Rome, widespread.
Yet take heart, for all John Baptist
told you of a Savior coming was true.
I know…because I’ve found Him.


------Acts 18:18-28
Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time. Then he left the brothers and sisters and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. Before he sailed, he had his hair cut off at Cenchreae because of a vow he had taken.  They arrived at Ephesus, where Paul left Priscilla and Aquila. He himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews. When they asked him to spend more time with them, he declined. But as he left, he promised, “I will come back if it is God’s will.” Then he set sail from Ephesus. When he landed at Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and greeted the church and then went down to Antioch. After spending some time in Antioch, Paul set out from there and traveled from place to place throughout the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples. Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately. When Apollos wanted to go to Achaia, the brothers and sisters encouraged him and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. When he arrived, he was a great help to those who by grace had believed. For he vigorously refuted his Jewish opponents in public debate, proving from the Scriptures that Jesus was the Messiah.

Somewhere New

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+------Somewhere New; Abram's Thoughts As God Tells Him To Leave All He Knows Behind

Lately, Ive been preoccupied with
it, this ideal….that the God
who fashioned the stars,
the rivers of life gushing
from the soul of Eden, the twirling
swords flaming clasped by angels
aghast at Adam’s defection…
has chosen me. An ideologue, an
archetype – progenitor of a
race of men reset. Nightly I hear hissing
of resentment, whispers faint that it’s
a lie; Two eyes glowing red
undulating, behind shadows. Then I
awake, teeth chattering, body quaking.
....I don’t know what’s next, but
I know destiny’s calling me somewhere
new. I have to leave Haran.


------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

Kirk Cousins Raising The Dead (By Beating Dallas) #TonyandKirk #httr

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+------Kirk Cousins Raising The Dead (By Beating Dallas) 

Kirk, Redskins’ fans are
Martha, Mary: two Hebrew sisters
grieving the (perceived) loss
of playoff berth as a brother
beloved in Bethany (Landover, Maryland).
Two loses to the Eagles, the body
decomposing four days. Dak Prescott,
the Dallas Cowboys, a sizable stone
sealing the tomb of all possibility.
But your passes to Pryor, Doctson,
Davis, full of miracles fitting for a
Season-Savior, your leadership of the
ilk of a bearded Nazarene. With a
QB sense like one Virgin Born,
able to call forth the dead,
even if the flesh rots, stinks. And…
you decipher defenses, like
empathizing with fans, you weeping.
Every TD you throw, the words:
“Take away the stone.” When you send
Dak home with a loss tonight,
resurrection of Lazarus, strips of linen
on hands, cloth on his face.
Jay Gruden will bellow: “Take off
 the grave clothes and let him go”!!!!

------John 11:17-43
On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem, and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary stayed at home. “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?” “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.” After she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary aside. “The Teacher is here,” she said, “and is asking for you.”  When Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there. When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. “Where have you laid him?” he asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they replied. Jesus wept. Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?” Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. “Take away the stone,” he said. “But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.” Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.” When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”

Taylor Swift Healing Tony Conti's Heart's Hunched Back #TaylorDateTony

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+------Taylor Swift Healing Tony Conti's Heart's Hunched Back 

Taylor, singleness is my
heart a Hebrew woman, hunchbacked,
rounded shoulders, crippled
by eighteen years of other girls’
romantic rejections. Pining away
on a synagogue’s bench of patient silent
reverie for love’s healing. My
emotions, her tunic edges frayed
from perpetual dragging over dirt,
stone, marble of remorse.
But babes! Your august smile
like One Virgin Born drawing
near. Your beauty divine, your
voice arresting as the wind
behind angels’ wings. If you took
me to Starbucks, the declaration
“woman, you are set free from
your infirmity” over coffee. If
you kissed me, curative hands
on my soul’s back. My joy’d 
straighten up finally, standing, praising
the power of #taylordatetony.
Forever.

------Luke 13:10-17
On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God. Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue leader said to the people, “There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.” The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water? Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?”
When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.

The Fight For Meaning #IamJacob

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+------The Fight For Life; The Thoughts Of Jacob Wrestling With The Angel 

It happens when Im alone at night,
a sense of foreboding, 
resentment of Esau's eyes
in our Mother's womb, of 
a life cursed for birthright-deceit
approaching, a winged angel,
colossal, with strength incalculable 
surreptitiously stalking me,
grabbing my arm and wrenching me
into subjugation; Justice lifting my body
off the sand and slamming, my
back contorting in pain…gagging on
feathers, rolling over dirt, blood
under the moon. And so I fight,
for acceptance of this dismal script
feels like dying. I resist dying with
regret's scars, I put God in a
headlock of one desperate-
refusing to relent until I receive 
Blessings/Forgiveness/A New Beginning.

------Genesis 32:22-32
That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.  When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered. Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.” Jacob said, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed him there. So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.” The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip. Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was touched near the tendon.

Kirk Cousins In A Chariot Of NFC East Fire #TonyandKirk

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+------Kirk Cousins In A Chariot Of NFC East Fire

Kirk, tonight, in Philadelphia,
rewards celestial of NFC-East heroism.
Of throwing passes against the
Eagles’ secondary with the speed,
precision, of drawing down a blaze
from heaven, plumes of black smoke;
Your TDs like charred flesh of
a bull on an interception-altar. Of converting
 3rd downs like feats of resurrection,
raising Redskins’ fans hopes like
the only son of a widow in Zarephath.
At the game’s end, you shall hear
horses flouncing, golden wheels
of victory splitting cumulus clouds:
You raised on your teammates’
shoulders in a whirlwind, their
smiles and cheers like two horses
and a chariot of fire (of joy).

------2 Kings 2:1-12
When the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here; the Lord has sent me to Bethel.”
But Elisha said, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel. The company of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and asked, “Do you know that the Lord is going to take your master from you today?” “Yes, I know,” Elisha replied, “so be quiet.” Then Elijah said to him, “Stay here, Elisha; the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” And he replied, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho. The company of the prophets at Jericho went up to Elisha and asked him, “Do you know that the Lord is going to take your master from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied, “so be quiet.” Then Elijah said to him, “Stay here; the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” And he replied, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them walked on. Fifty men from the company of the prophets went and stood at a distance, facing the place where Elijah and Elisha had stopped at the Jordan. Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up and struck the water with it. The water divided to the right and to the left, and the two of them crossed over on dry ground. When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?” “Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied. “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.” As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore it in two.

Watching, Waiting #IamMiriam

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+------Watching, Waiting; Miriam's Thoughts Watching Moses Floating Down The Nile River 

All myths of the pagans commence
like this too: the hero chosen
ill-fated before his life
has a beginning, Death simpering
gently tapping its fingers
together, Life frantically
dashing, hurdling adversity barely in time
to intervene. Osiris in a tomb, my
just-born brother in a wicker basket,
set adrift down the Nile swerving at dawn.
Both, I suspect, anticipating, somehow,
a better turn of events. I do. I imagine
seeing Moses next on top of the world,
circling back to get his family out of here.     

------Exodus 2:1-4
Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

Taylor Swift Transformed At Starbucks (With Tony Conti) #taylordatetony

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+------Taylor Swift Transformed At Starbucks (With Tony Conti) 

Taylor, for me, being single
is my heart, soul, dreams as
three men itinerant- Hebrews,
Peter, James, John, idealistic
disciples, patched robes, sandals
battered by treacherous roads of girls’
dating rejections. Ascending
the highest mountain of expectations
of Love, a refuge from despotic Caesarian
loneliness. And you, you are beyond
mesmeric: tall, blonde, with blue sapphire
eyes intent on Romantic Salvation.
If you took me to Starbucks, the tea we
share- you standing on clouds over me.
Your wit and charm like you flanked by
Moses and Elijah, engaging
in cosmic dialectics of the pleasantry,
beautiful melody of your songs. If you
kissed me, me dazed, staggering…your
skin, hair resplendent, your clothes in
colors’ explosion; A fission of beams of
whitest light. I’d try to erect three tents
(nervous), and only great dictation from
Heaven would soothe me: “TONY THIS
IS YOUR BAE WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN,
LISTEN TO HER;” Your smile like words.

------Luke 9:28-36
About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray. As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning. Two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared in glorious splendor, talking with Jesus. They spoke about his departure, which he was about to bring to fulfillment at Jerusalem. Peter and his companions were very sleepy, but when they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing with him. As the men were leaving Jesus, Peter said to him, “Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” (He did not know what he was saying.) While he was speaking, a cloud appeared and covered them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. A voice came from the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him.” When the voice had spoken, they found that Jesus was alone. The disciples kept this to themselves and did not tell anyone at that time what they had seen.

The Lord Gives And Takes Away #IamJob

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+------The Lord Gives And Takes Away; Jobs' Words To His Wife While Suffering 

What is life, but the winds
in winter evanescent? In the end
a soul's skin chaffed, spirit's lips
dried, cracked; hands of a dream unmet
trembling in concert with weakness. A mind
that mused on summer’s joys, trials…and
so…time passing is immolation
to the heart, desire, pulsing for
opportunity’s redeeming.  And death
is tilling of ground fallow, striking
memories cherished…feeding scarred
beasts of burden to give them vigor…
in Spring…to break planes with pickaxe, plow
of a universe renewing; Angel hymns
of hope-harvests for those unborn: To let them
live and love and mourn fully. All is giving
and taking Ive learned. And....may God
be blessed for this life (and loss). And scabs.


------Job 1:8-12; Job 2:4-10
Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.” The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD:  “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has for his own life. But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.” The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes. His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!” He replied, “You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

Goodbye, Old Friend, Former Life #IamPaul #Horses

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+------Goodbye, Old Friend, Former Life; Saint Paul's Words To His Horse A Few Weeks After His Conversion 

And you know I cant do
this anymore…mount you to
upbraid the innocent. Imbibe
the libations of blood-gods, 
satyrs of Dionysus at night -
drunk on the death of Christians
thrust by our skewed interpreting
of Gamaliel, Moses. And you,
your eyes are still Pharisee-black
(yellow at night)…your heart still
manic, inhaling exhaling lunacy. Your
ears unable to forget screams of
the weak. I wipe the ash, cinder
residue daubed inside your nostrils.   
Im sorry I bred you choleric; Oats
and hay of my sin misguided.
Im taking the saddle…run for the
woods…I beg of you now…Live
for the first time. Be free. Start again.

------Acts 26:12-14
“On one of these journeys I was going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. About noon, King Agrippa, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions. We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

Kirk Cousins In A 49ers Furnace, Blazing (But Fine) #httr #TonyandKirk

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+------Kirk Cousins In A 49ers Furnace, Blazing (But Fine) 

Kirk, Kyle Shanahan has erected
an image of gold for the NFL to bow to:
His Superbowl aspirations idolatrous, sixty
cubits high, six cubits wide. Brian Hoyer,
Carlos Hyde, and all 49ers satraps,
prefects, governors demanding 
worship, wholehearted- their passing,
running, and boasting fans, like
sounds discordant of notes of
horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp coercing
obeisance. Teams who refuse homage
on the field– their playoff hopes thrown
into a blazing furnace of futility. Yet you,
Chris Thompson Terrell Pryor don’t care-
Shadrach, Mesach, Abednego standing
defiant. Your TD throws, first downs,
endzone dances like mercenaries, crazed,
reveling in smoke, boys who eat ash.
Clothes, hair not even singed by fire.
After you win Sunday, Nebuchadnezzar
brought to his knees. Kyle forced to sing
#HTTR, leaving DC a humbled despot.

------Daniel 3:1-6
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.”

Today Was A Good Day

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+------Today Was A Good Day; Jesus' Words To His Disciples After Fleshing Out His Parables In Private 

The prophets prophesying
to Israel in Babylon, the Titanomachy.
And now years after: Zeus on the throne
perched on Mount Olympus (me
Incarnated). Privileged, Titan-less…
his scepter stalwart against eleven gods
sneering. For all divine mysteries
inscrutable once, now laid before you
naked… this ageless warring of man
(since Eden) with God to understand His
Ways concluded. Blessed are your eyes…
this day…because they see (my miracles),
your ears because they hear (parables
decoded).              You're the first to know
secrets of how the world shall be saved.


------Matthew 13:10-17
The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?” He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. This is why I speak to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see;
    though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
    you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
For this people’s heart has become calloused;
    they hardly hear with their ears,
    and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
    hear with their ears,
    understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’
But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.

The Light Of Second Chances

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+------The Light Of Second Chances; Paul's Thoughts In Damascus (Without Food or Water) 

What if…your heart was born
blind, Polyphemus afflicted
by Odysseus’s wooden stake
in his (only) eye. Your mind
conceived, nursed under breasts
of false maxims…everything
Gamaliel taught distorted by Pride’s
soul’s ears malformed? Because
the voice I just heard… “Saul, Saul,
why are you persecuting me”…
still haunts, reverberates damning.
What if Isaiah’s prophecies, Messianic,
have already come true? Dismissed
by me; Hidden in plain sight. My folded
arms laced with tears, wrapped around
knees bent. In regret's dark embrace.



------Acts 8:15-19
But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel. I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.” Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord—Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here—has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized, and after taking some food, he regained his strength.

Taylor Swift's Miracle Working For Tony Conti In Nain #taylordatetony

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+------Taylor Swift's Miracle Working For Tony Conti In Nain 

Taylor, my dating life is Nain;
A Hebrew town of tattered shanties
in Caesar’s empire, my emotions its
denizens in funeral procession groaning
a dirge. For all the girls who
broke my heart, the only son of a
widow, deceased, destined for
pyre’s flames, then loneliness’s
cave everlasting. My hope-a boy’s
bones, singleness like streaming tears
of a mother.  But babes! If you smiled
at me, empathy of a Savior. Your blue
eyes, tall comely frame a celestial
painting, your melodic voice: angels’
wings as brushes. If you took me to
Starbucks, the consoling words: “don’t
cry” If you kissed me, the paul bearers
halting, hands still hoisting the bier.
You as my bae, love-speak: “young
man, I say to you, get up!!” My heart’d
sit up and talk again…my joy like a
smiling Mom with an excited tongue. 


------Luke 7:11-17
Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him. As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, “Don’t cry.” Then he went up and touched the bier they were carrying him on, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!” The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. They were all filled with awe and praised God. “A great prophet has appeared among us,” they said. “God has come to help his people.” This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding country.”

Until We Meet Again #IamAbraham

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+------Until We Meet Again; Abraham's Words To Isaac As He Raised  His Knife 

I once fancied us pioneers…
of oneness, of Eden recolonized, our
World United. Adam’s curse fleeing
our seed carried by angels (hands
on sword hilts) to future generations
across lands, oceans; The dove
gliding with the olive branch
in her mouth to Noah, chirping
hope of God’s promise to the Chosen.
But now our faces blanched. Now
prospects appalling of connivances
of demons- murder, the decaying
of dreamers. Yet determinedly,
sacrificial blade sharpened,…
in God, I believe. You will rise, a lamb
who beat death even if in a new
dimension. I swear to God you will
still be a Father to many nations. 
After this.

------Genesis 22:1-7
Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.” Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

Max Bortenschlager's Miraculous Sabbath #TonyandTestudo #TonyandMax

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+------Max Bortenschlager's Miraculous Sabbath 

Max, before you, the Maryland Terps’
season- a man in Capernaum’s
synagogue, hand withered;
quarterback injuries to Hill, Pigrome
like fingers sterile, dreams of gripping
a Big Ten title maimed forever.
But your field aptitude, sudden
leadership like a visiting Savior,
bearded, Perpetual Virgin-Born.
Intent to defy Ohio State- Brutus a
ruthless Pharisee, Urban Meyer a
Herodian - decrying notions of
a UMD victory as healing on the Sabbath.
And your touchdown passes, compassion:
to save not kill, do good not harm. Like
you commanding fans to “stretch
out your hand [to cheer]”. A win against
the Buckeyes like full use of extremities. 

------Mark 3:1-6
Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.

The Passion Of Solomon

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+------The Passion Of Solomon; Solomon's Thoughts Before Beginning Work On The Temple 

When I was a boy my
father fashioned me quixotic;
I spoke in grandiose tongues,
as if God knew me
before the world’s foundation.
I told him in my dreams,
I gallivant with Archangels, that we
share the same trumpets often, our
hearts united by one vision, celestial.
Of Eden restored, to invoke glory of
Adam and Eve interlocking fingers
the first time. To invite God back
to Earth, to Man. I told my father,
“I will build God a Temple…golden.” 


------1 Kings 6:1
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the Lord

Taylor Swift: Tony Conti's Power To Walk (Again)

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+------Taylor Swift: Tony Conti's Power To Walk (Again) 

Taylor, singleness is my
heart’s life lived staccato; a
Hebrew man teetering on dating
rejection’s ledge separated from
normal rhythms of romance
forever lying supine, debilitated on
dejection’s mat. Before joy helpless.
My enthusiasm a spirit trying
to ascend but catacomb-trapped. 
But babes, I reckon you Love Savior
– tall, poised, elegant; Two blue eyes
like one Virgin-born, your smile pure
as Eden’s sun, untainted by cynicism's
dark cloud. If you took me to coffee,
divine pardon. If you kissed me,
your lips miraculous to imbue strength.
Your smile as if heaven proclaimed:
“[Tony] Get up, take your mat
and go home." (And dance with me).

------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.

The Law

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+------The Law; God's Words To Moses On Mount Sinai 

Moses, I have beckoned only
you here, tip of the Mount
of everything possible, supernal
seat between worlds timeless (my
zeal luminous like lightning, the
palpitations of my heart, sonorous
thunder). Separated from the rest- for
them my Will too obscure, thick dark
clouds, the orb of Angels. So
on the ledge of destiny you
stand chosen in fire. To proclaim
Ten Commandments. To reveal my
desire to make the world Holy. To
bring my sons and daughters
back to Eden. To eat from the Tree of Life. 


------Exodus 19:16-20:19
On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the Lord descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently. As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him. The Lord descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up and the Lord said to him, “Go down and warn the people so they do not force their way through to see the Lord and many of them perish. Even the priests, who approach the Lord, must consecrate themselves, or the Lord will break out against them.” Moses said to the Lord, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, ‘Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’” The Lord replied, “Go down and bring Aaron up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through to come up to the Lord, or he will break out against them.” So Moses went down to the people and told them. And God spoke all these words: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before[a] me. “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. “You shall not murder. “You shall not commit adultery. “You shall not steal. “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. They stayed at a distance and said to Moses, “Speak to us yourself and we will listen. But do not have God speak to us or we will die.”

Kirk Cousins Crossing The (NFL) Jordan #TonyandKirk #HTTR

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+------Kirk Cousins Crossing The (NFL) Jordan

Kirk, 2016’s playoff
intent, Moses atop Mount
Nebo exhaling one last
time, dignified (4,900 yds,
25 TDs). And now, new opportunities;
Your feet washed over on the bank’s
edge of the Jordan by rising tides:
new teammates –Pyror, Doctson. And
cries from Redskins fans, Hebrews
Egypt-spooked standing with you,
expectant. Suffrages finally heard- a
Lombardi Trophy like colonizing a Promised
Land. The Kansas City Chiefs, profane
Canaanites. But the Skins’ defense
Levitical priests marching, hoisting sacks
atop their shoulders, the Ark of The
Covenant. Kirk, its time- your passes, first
downs as water standing erect, parted
by dry ground. Raise your playbook
as a sword, dash to opposite shores.
Tonight Canaan falls.

------Joshua 1:7-11
“Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” So Joshua ordered the officers of the people: “Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Get your provisions ready. Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you for your own.’”