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Accepted in the Beloved

Oh to love as You love; let it abound in me.

About Me

Free to stand firm. [Galatians 5]

My Interests

Reading, writing music, finding new music to jam to.

I'd like to meet:

Paul of the New Testament.

Books:

Sex God, Redeeming Love, Through Painted Deserts, Velvet Elvis, Orthodoxy, Blue Like Jazz, Searching for God Knows What

Heroes:

Dad, Mum, and Bethany Vernier

My Blog

behold now is the accepted time...

"If I am to be like Him, then God in His grace must do it, and the sooner I come to recognize it the sooner I will be delivered from another form of bondage. Throw down every endeavor and say,'I canno...
Posted by Accepted in the Beloved on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:21:00 PST

Doubting Thomas...

What will be left when I've drawn my last breath Besides the folks I've met and the folks who've known me Will I discover a soul-saving love Or just the dirt above and below me I'm a doubting Thomas ...
Posted by Accepted in the Beloved on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:09:00 PST

as they have longed...

Psalm 12 For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by an eight-stringed instrument.      1 Help, O Lord, for the godly are fast disappearing!   &nb...
Posted by Accepted in the Beloved on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 07:31:00 PST

little John Dyer...

One of the mysteries of the gospel tradition is this strange attraction of Jesus for the unattractive, this strange desire for the undesirable, this strange love for the unlovely. The key to the myste...
Posted by Accepted in the Beloved on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:23:00 PST

aged insight...

"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits." -G. K. Chesterton
Posted by Accepted in the Beloved on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:22:00 PST

slivers...

But in this boat I know I am apart, distant; in this boat, I feel that as it thumps my heart is safe for I belong. But though I know its mass and deck, and though walking this safe haven's boards I'm ...
Posted by Accepted in the Beloved on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:36:00 PST

Home is...?

A realization has recently overcome me: I shall never be truly whole til I see my birthplace; the home of my parents' hearts and mission; the home of my heart.It is with the very same form of passion ...
Posted by Accepted in the Beloved on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:13:00 PST

swinging into adulthood...

walking...running...sliding...slipping...but oh;I am swinging into adulthood.riding...dripping...cunning...talking...oh no,I am swinging into adulthood.wondering...pondering...colliding...uh oh;"I am ...
Posted by Accepted in the Beloved on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:14:00 PST

A New Year Resolution...

Sunday, December 31st, 200611:46 PM Sometimes, when it's especially cold in my room, I feel as though everything in me, right to my very core, freezes. I feel as though all I want to do is to be st...
Posted by Accepted in the Beloved on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 11:07:00 PST

Old Man Winter...

Click! Tap-click! Tick tick tick! A confused sleet collides into four-by-four glass panes, sticking at first, then melting and sliding slowly down, returning to tear shaped drops that puddle in perspi...
Posted by Accepted in the Beloved on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:03:00 PST