Horeb's (Championship) Rock #TonyandDurant

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+------Horeb's (Championship) Rock 

Kevin we Golden State fans,
Israelites Exodus-trekking fretful;
nursing skin-weals, 2016’s callous
playoff whip-tyranny administered
by servile teammate-taskmasters
driven by Pharaoh: Lebron
James in Egypt. The scorched sun
of a shameful game 7, blistering,
unbearable. We of dire thirst (for a
championship). But you, a
Shepherd full of passions- playing
junior ball in PG county like being
stowed away in a wicker basket
covered by tar and pitch of the
greatest-of-hopes, pushed
down destiny’s Nile- now 2017’s
Messiah come to save…
May your 3-pointer be a staff
striking tonight’s opportunity,
a rock at Horeb before us. Then
victory’s water will spew forth;
Wild celebrations at Massah
and Meribah.


------Exodus 17:1-7
The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. So they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?” But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?” Then Moses cried out to the Lord, “What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.” The Lord answered Moses, “Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?

Lions of Anarchy #IamDaniel

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+------Lions of Anarchy; Daniel's Words To The Lions In Their Den 

All of us are hungry
but principled. I saw me
in your eyes, torch-lit, flames
battered by guards’ heavy breathing
like tress in tempests when
they hurled me in. I saw my
soul in your bared fangs, an
anarchist’s malcontent in the
deep baritone pitch of growling.
You weary of degraded meat
of the maimed, the stale widows,
the crippled old. The atrophy
of not hunting. Me coerced into
bowing to a god-fraud, pagan.
If you spare me, I swear
to you - revolution. The God of
Abraham for me, the King; fresh
blood of the most formidable
former soldiers for you. I promise
you the death of this present world.


-----Daniel 6:6-16
So these administrators and satraps went as a group to the king and said: “May King Darius live forever! The royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers and governors have all agreed that the king should issue an edict and enforce the decree that anyone who prays to any god or human being during the next thirty days, except to you, Your Majesty, shall be thrown into the lions’ den. Now, Your Majesty, issue the decree and put it in writing so that it cannot be altered—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.” So King Darius put the decree in writing. Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before. Then these men went as a group and found Daniel praying and asking God for help. So they went to the king and spoke to him about his royal decree: “Did you not publish a decree that during the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human being except to you, Your Majesty, would be thrown into the lions’ den?”
The king answered, “The decree stands—in accordance with the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed.” Then they said to the king, “Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, Your Majesty, or to the decree you put in writing. He still prays three times a day.” When the king heard this, he was greatly distressed; he was determined to rescue Daniel and made every effort until sundown to save him. Then the men went as a group to King Darius and said to him, “Remember, Your Majesty, that according to the law of the Medes and Persians no decree or edict that the king issues can be changed.” So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions’ den. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!”

Promises On The Plains Of Mamre

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+------ Promises On The Plains Of  Mamre; The Angel's Words To Abraham and Sarah 

And so we came. Cosmic-wind
thrusted. Crossing planes to a
dust stirred and briared plain far
from Eden to exorcise old paradigms
of the old. The aged (trite) trope
that time is linear only, a
hobbled lamb limping succumbing
in his own mind to his
own death stalked by a famished
wolf spry. No the beneficence
of the divine, unbound. Man’s
dark Rules of impossibility chased
by bright rays of grace. We have
seen too much suffering. We
proclaim Salvation in unlikely places.
The New World Order
is coming next year, a son. Birthed
from your barren wife’s womb.


-----Genesis 18:1-15
And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth. And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it. And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh. And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

Taylor Swift's Calling Of Tony Conti (To Love) #TaylorDateTony

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+------Taylor Swift's Calling Of Tony Conti (To Love) 

And Taylor what is single
life but nets of interwoven
twine, my heart like two
fishers dawdling for
a girl’s smile. On a coracle
romantic-drifting, peering down
through dark obscurities of
female rejection as into
a lake for fish expecting schools
of dating hope to swirl beneath
the hull; Atop the Sea of Galilee
moved by breezes of nihilism.
But babes, I imagine you
saving me – your blue eyes
like the pure, unsullied sky
in Heaven, your tall frame
silhouetted by the rising sun of
my dreams fulfilled. Finally. You
taking me to Starbucks’d be like
you walking to me on Love’s shores.
Extending a hand to my soul
(over coffee), beckoning
“Come, follow me [as my boyfriend].”

-----Matthew 4:18-20
As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” At once they left their nets and followed him.

Five Fish and Two Loaves For A Championship #TonyandDurant

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+------Five Fish and Two Loaves For A Championship 

Kevin I know your Shepherd's heart -
a divers Hebrew crowd sitting
on weedy, itchy grass in Rome’s Empire
(the NBA). And your desire for
a championship like women, children
saddled with famine’s indignance,
like 5,000 men hungered
with no provisions for the family:
a wolf, pack leader (Golden
State Warriors), worn by playoff
anxieties, prior losses in a career
wilderness’s NBA ring's barrenness.
And so far your two Finals wins
like 5 fish and 2 loaves only. You
must look to the sky, breaking bread
as invocation for much more: passing,
dunking, blocking. If you multiply wins,
like enough fish and bread to feed a baller’s
soul till satiety, your pride and joy (Lebron’s
anger) in victory'd be12 full miracle-baskets
leftover for Klay, Steph, Draymond Green.

-----Matthew 14:13-21
When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns. When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick. As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.” Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.” “We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered.
“Bring them here to me,” he said. And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.

Our Resurrection #IamPaul

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+------Our Resurrection; Paul's Speech On The Sabbath After Laying Down On Eutychus's Body 

Our appeal is not from Zeus
on Mount Olympus;
Delphic oracles on narcotics
hallowed, prophesying platitudes
as mythology - Caesar-speak
sublimated for State subjugation.
No, our message isn’t nostrum…
but as edifying to the
famished belly as bread,
sweet to soul as wine. Multiplied
for the masses, by the One who
died for fallen Man to eat (His divine
flesh). Forever. No…ours is a
love message...delivering the world
community from death to life…
time to eternity…body to Body.

-----Acts 20:7-12
On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight. There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting. Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead. Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “He’s alive!” Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left. The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.

The Game One Defeat Of The Midianites #TonyandDurant

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+------The Game One Defeat Of The Midianites 

Kevin, your basketball skills,
the angel of the Lord, your jump shot
his sword forged by fate’s blacksmiths
in Mount Zion’s mines, your court
vision his staff of wisdom-analytics
firmly clenched. Watching... your hopes
and dreams - film studies, free-throw
honing, gym sessions- like Gideon
threshing wheat in a winepress
whispering jeremiads of last year's
losses. Striving to keep your
goals safe from the Cleveland
Cavaliers, savage court-Midianites,
unscrupulous floppers. And now, angel-
speak: KD “go in the strength you have
and save [Golden State] out of Midian’s
hand. Am I not sending you?” Tonight’s
win, your meat (GOAT), bread offerings
miraculously burned as holocaust by
the staff. Smoke rising from your
Game 1 victory as confirmation:
the favor of the NBA Finals God
is with you.              (You shall win it all)

-----Gideon 6:7-22
When the Israelites cried out to the Lord because of Midian, he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors; I drove them out before you and gave you their land. I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.’ But you have not listened to me.” The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, “The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.” The Lord turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?” “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.” The Lord answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.” Gideon replied, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me. Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.” And the Lord said, “I will wait until you return.” Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak. The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so. Then the angel of the Lord touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the Lord disappeared. When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”