The English Language Enjoyable

Are these ashes
Do I see coals
My fingers floating above sacred infernos
The stream is alive and nigh
swishing and teasing
I only need ask
for it vows to save me and perhaps
maybe I

Huh
The other day I got reprimanded for using a couple of words that my professor did not know existed.

So what's with the poem?
I don't know. The extra-long stretch of journalistic inactivity accumulated into a heavy, paralyzing fear of written language. Like a wall. Like unpenetrable fire.
So I decided to write a poem. No one can really say it sucks. But on the other hand, no one can really prove that it's good. Either way, it's a win-win situation for me. (I was just trying douse the fire and start writing again). Then I wondered if poetry originated from the mind of one absolutely flabbergasted by something, and the only way he could start talking again, was to mumble some absurdity.


The man said,
"This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called 'woman,'
for she was taken out of man."

- Adam

Not to say woman-kind is absurd.

So what's your first thought when told that you get to plant churches?

Darn. I probably have to be nice to everybody now.

Honest Conjectures 

First off, I must say that I'm quite ignorant about the Hezbollah-Israel war going on now. That is a fact. Now that you're read the disclaimer, we shall proceed. I want to talk about the natural despisement for the 'enemies of Israel' that I've noticed quite prevalent here in the States. In short, why is Israel automatically assumed to be the protagonist and Hezbollah the antagonist of the story?

"They started it." - Israel

"No. They started it." - Hezbollah

Maybe I don't "get it" because I'm Malaysian. My passport works anywhere in the world except in Israel. But I follow Christ. I have no Muslim sympathies, nor do I give myself any advantage by raising this question... So why? Why do Christians side with the nation of Israel? Must they? Again, being so "enlightened" about this issue myself, this could potentially be a very dumb question.

Someone asked me the other day: "Why did God choose the Jewish to be his chosen people? Why not others?" Well. First, look at it this way: Jesus had to come as someone. He couldn't have come as both male and female. He had to be either male or female. He came as a male. In that same way, maybe the "chosen people" label was given to Israel because that is where Jesus was going to come from. The whole deal is because of Jesus Christ; like the whole Bible is essentially about Jesus. Am I wrong here?(seriously.. I'm asking)

I thought that in Christ Jesus there is no Jew nor Gentile, male nor female, slave nor free....etc. It only matters if one knows Christ or rejects Him, right? So is Lebanon a Christian nation? No. Is Israel? No. There is no Christian nation. The same goes for the States: the United States is not a Christian nation.(Am I allowed to say that?) Christians live in it, of course! ...Christians played a huge part in its history, for sure... but that's it. There is no Christian nation in the same way there is no Christian music. There are only "Christian PEOPLE."

There is, however... a Kingdom of God. Thank God that's a totally different thing.

I really hate writing disclaimers. Truly I do.

By the way, did you see Spielberg's Munich? Eric Bana rocked as an Israeli. Now we know - assasination hit-squads really do exist. For fear of my dear life, I would like to take this opportunity to proclaim to my readers that I am not anti-Semitist. I'm not Nazi, and my daddy ain't a remnant of the Third Reich. So there is no need of infiltrating the fortress that is Warrensburg to pawn me...

 

She's coming back in a few days.

Me and My Transport
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A picture from a month ago or so.
Oh yeah- check out the Campus Church DNA here. Those of you who will be in Warrensburg in the fall and are interested in this, just give send me a message or something. Would love to talk to you more about the church.