The Promise (To Kirk Cousins)

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* Abraham, Moses pray for me
* Dedicated to #KirksiAbram #HTTR #TonyandKirk

+------------"The Promise (To Kirk Cousins)"

Kirk your greatest strength is your
belief in NFL things unseen,
a Lombardi trophy as a son- though
the Redskins organization, Sarai your
wife incredulous, has many severe years
nursed a barren womb. Your pittance’s
franchise tag like her illegitimate heir. But
look up to the sky (keep throwing balls deep),
your victories shall be as innumerable as
stars. Do not be afraid Desean Jackson
is your shield, Josh Norman your
very great reward. And the Eagles are just
a shanty town in the land of Canaan given
you. You’ll annihilate them: the King of Sodom.


----------------Genesis 15:1-7
After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision:
“Do not be afraid, Abram.
    I am your shield,
    your very great reward.”
But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.” Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.”He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness. He also said to him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.”

Three Tinder Spirits

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* Daniel, Sharach, Mesach, Abednego pray for me
* Saints pray for me
* Dedicated to #IamShadrach

+--------Three Tinder Spirits; The Thoughts Of Shadrach Before Being Thrown In The Furnace

And what can comfort us in a
banal life, captive? Our bodies spared,
our minds always shackled to
obstinacy of belief of dreams of the
return of King David. Glorification of
Israel. Of music: from HIS horn, pipe,
lyre, harp, bagpipe -rather than ones
Chaldean. And the food here
disgusts, the arrogance of Babylonian
satraps unnerving. We’d willingly walk
through fire, our skin tinder of a furnace’s
flame-lust, than bow down and approve a
false god vile, a pagan curse on our people.

------Daniel 3:13-18
Then Nebuchadnezzar in furious rage commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. So they brought these men before the king. Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, “Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up? Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?” Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.

Taylor Swift and Tony Conti On The Other Side Of The Red Sea #TaylorDateTony

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

+--------Taylor Swift and Tony Conti On The Other Side Of The Red Sea

And Taylor I know singleness is Egypt
in antiquity. I know Hebrew feet
blisters, lesions, scabs from hot sands
of overtures cut short, I know balled-fist
bruises of fears of being alone,
taskmasters who don ragged wigs under
dingy headdress. No girl-smile-ligatures
to heal, sleep with tears as bleeding
wounds beneath a stoic dispassionate
moon. Oh babes, deliver me, my heart a
nation enslaved restless? I imagine you
wroth, a night's dash with Starbucks cups
in hand: plagues of horror to comfort
this bitterness: lice, bloody diseased water,
death of my firstborn dateless scars. You’d
stand at the Red Sea of Impossible’s edge
-blonde hair like the sun, blue eyes like the
open skies, soft lips of rare heroism- stretch
out your hand, touch my face, whisper
“follow me….” and I’d run to the other side
of freedom with you on dry land fleeing
the cruelest of love's Pharaohs.



------Exodus 14:15-22
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen. The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen.” Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them, coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.

Your Prison

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* Saints pray for me
* Dedicated to #IamJesus #Iamahippie

+--------Your Prison; Jesus' Words To The Rich Young Ruler 

And the wind does speak, if you let it
…zephyr-lisped prophecies on skin,
dusk whispers of sacred secrets
of a creation once united. If youre
able to perk your ears, the morn’s sun
paeans its love, a bridegroom
beaming boisterously. Trees smile at
birds branch-comforted. Humans
laugh together without guile. All is One:
the beast/foliage, man/woman, earthy/
ethereal Cosmos. Sell your possessions,
come follow me; with threadbare sandals
rock-and-dust riven see a life Divine
you never knew

-----Matthew 19:16-23
Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?” “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.” “Which ones?” he inquired.
Jesus replied, “‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’” “All these I have kept,” the young man said. “What do I still lack?” Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth. Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.

The Last Supper

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* John pray for me
* Saints pray for me
* Dedicated to #IamJesus

+--------The Last Supper; Jesus' Address To His Disciples Before Eating 

And this will be the best Seder for
…it is the last. The blessed soil
 that nurtured the herbs, the intense gaze
of sunlight guiding dreams of holy
wheat of our bread prepped unleavened,
the noble lamb, knees bent and pious,
eyes closed, before the baleful blade
that spewed its blood, grapes that
pleaded from the vine to be our wine –
memorialized; The warmth from your eyes
above these flickering candles singing:
frozen in time forever. I will etch everything
eternally on my heart as I pass from this life
nailed to wood, to the next.......I promise.

------John 13:1-5
It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

Pregnant Together #IamHannah

* Jesus pray for me
* Hannah, Samuel pray for me
* Dedicated to #IamHannah

+------------Pregnant Together; Hannah's Prayer  

And God you’ve seen me
many summers, slouched on the
brook’s bank, feet grief-stilled
in the night’s cool rushing stream, my
head in my arms, tear-wet hair, arms
on my knees bent (in prayer)…your zephyrs
on occasion providing no comfort. You
know my heart, sorrow-rotted. Oh
if you answered me, if only I had
dignity in this tabernacle/society, for just
one day. A womb really pregnant,
not just with expectation this time..
Just say yes…and I swear…my boy
will be your boy…we’ll raise this son,
these hopes.....together.


-----------------1 Samuel 1:3-15
Year after year this man went up from his town to worship and sacrifice to the Lord Almighty at Shiloh, where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests of the Lord. Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice, he would give portions of the meat to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the Lord had closed her womb. Because the Lord had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her. This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat. Her husband Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, why are you weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?” Once when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his chair by the doorpost of the Lord’s house. In her deep anguish Hannah prayed to the Lord, weeping bitterly.  And she made a vow, saying, “Lord Almighty, if you will only look on your servant’s misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the Lord for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head.”
As she kept on praying to the Lord, Eli observed her mouth. Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips were moving but her voice was not heard. Eli thought she was drunk and said to her, “How long are you going to stay drunk? Put away your wine.” “Not so, my lord,” Hannah replied, “I am a woman who is deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring out my soul to the Lord. Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief.”

The Vikings' Walls Of Jericho #HTTR #TonyandDak

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* Joshua pray for me
* Saints pray for me
* Dedicated to #TonyandDak #HTTR #DakIsJoshua

+--------The Vikings' Walls Of Jericho 

Dak, the D-line of the Vikings
of Minnesota, but a tenuous
Canaanite wall to you, Sam Bradford
a denizen of Jericho trembling. Your
accurate passes, nimble evasion of
linebackers, a sacred wood chest
pure gold layered; Hoisted on shoulders
of your coach and owner as smiling
proud priests advancing first. And
Zeke, Dez, your O-line, stout soldiers,
patrol each play menacingly,
like an army 6 times the circumference
of a nervous enemy once for 3 quarters
scoring. In the 4th, when you rush
for a TD, it’ll be like marching 7 times
blowing celebratory trumpets. The wall
of the Vikings’ joy will collapse...
all playoff hopes razed to the ground.
 

------Joshua 5:13-6:5
Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?” “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord have for his servant?” The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so. Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in. Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”