Everyone wants to know
life’s greatest mystery.
It’s simple:
read your history
and exchange your brokenness for beauty,
your porcelain mask for the Japanese art
of Kintsugi.
Androgynous highs and lows—
testosterone freezes
and estrogen flows
like snow,
sun-bathin on top of Kilimanjaro,
meltin glaciers below.
You exuded confidence
like one of Zeus’s thunderbolts
and beauty, oh greatness,
beauty that rivaled the cause
of the Trojan War—
Helen of Sparta’s passionate revolt.
Light bends, as we know, when it passes through substances of different densities. And, in this case, light passed through the glass ornaments, hanging on my evergreen, extrapolating a symphony of numbers that danced all around me.
Observations within Christian subculture in South Orange County. What does Jesus and SOC have in common?
Engage the contemporary culture with Christian apologetics and aesthetics!
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I am sharing with you what is now Chapter 7 of my book Biblical Ethics. This happens to be my favorite chapter because it’s chock-full of vivid explanations of God’s emotional life and flourishing. It’s also a topic that is not talked about much from the pulpit, which I believe needs to be discussed in…