The 7 “I Am”s

Bread! Light! Door! Good..Shepherd! Resurrection and the Life!

The Way…the Truth…the Life!!

The Vine!

The bread, the light…the…door! Shepherd! Resurrection and life! Way-truth-life-

Vine.

Once there was a loaf of bread in a lighted room where the door opened and a shepherd walked in

He said

I am the resurrection life

Way truth life

Vine

He is the bread of life

He is the light of the world

He is the door of the sheep

He is the good shepherd

He is the resurrection and the life

The way the truth the life

The true vine

Remember…

Girl, remember

What it means to be “finished”

The day men ringed around the young man

Who had just finished a longish sermon

And crushed him to death

Rock by rock

Man by man

His King had already made his own mysterious pronouncement—

It is finished

The anger flows through my veins, the helplessness of ordinary losses

Nothing like a martyr’s death

And yet in both cases the mysterious sentence hangs over the grief, anger, loss and unanswered questions

It is finished

Until the sky opens wide for each of us in relief or judgment

Hope your name will be changed

Pray your sins will be forgiven

And you will know how

To define both “finished” and “rock”

In his Word,

Ours are not enough

Psalm 22:29-31 KJV
[29] All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. [30] A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. [31] They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

Exposing the lie

For the past 50 years or more our culture has been dominated by a lie that can be encapsulated by “between a woman and her doctor.”

This phrase is a subset of a bigger “right to privacy” ethos in law and medical ethics which has led to a wide range of repercussions.

But what if there was no privacy in the discussion and what if the medical decision was made by aesthetic consensus rather than some other more anchoring standard of care?

I am referring to two recent studies that involved asking medical students (of both genders) to view and rate women’s chests.

Why was this necessary? Ostensibly for plastic surgery.

Ladies, please be advised, when people start photographing, rating, and categorizing your briskets, you may need to ask yourself whether those people are

Healers or pit masters.