Ink on skin.
It's a name,
It's a memory,
It's a place,
It's all the time between the past and the future, it’s now.
Words etched forever,
A place to rest;To be,
To talk,
To sleep in silence,
And wake to the sun.
Skin on skin,
Ink on skin.Saturday, July 30, 2011
The Parking Spot...
Skin on skin.
Ink on skin.
It's a name,
It's a memory,
It's a place,
It's all the time between the past and the future, it’s now.
To be,
To talk,
To sleep in silence,
And wake to the sun.
Ink on skin.
It's a name,
It's a memory,
It's a place,
It's all the time between the past and the future, it’s now.
To be,
To talk,
To sleep in silence,
And wake to the sun.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Augustine & Sexuality - A Question...
Because Augustine felt guilt and shame over or due to his sexuality does that then mean that all those in the western Christian tradition have to bear the consequences of his conclusions and subsequent actions?
Brian McLaren on Premarital Sex...
Q & R: Let's talk about premarit - Brian McLaren
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Gay & Christian - A Letter...
Who Would Dare Argue This Gay Man Isn't Christian? | JohnShore.com
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
My Place Today...
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"So this is how the story went..."
"So this is how the story went
I met someone by accident
That blew me away
That blew me away
It was in the darkest of my days
When you took my sorrow and you took my pain
And buried them away, you buried them away
And I wish I could lay down beside you
When the day is done
And wake up to your face under the morning sun.."
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Siobhan...
"Waking in the morning
To the feeling of her fingers on my skin
Wiping out the traces of the people
And the places that I've been."
"She ain't ashamed to be a woman
Or afraid to be a friend
I don't know the answers to the easy way
She's opened every door in my mind."
"Loving her was easier
Than anything I'll ever do again..."
All Journeys Are Risks...
"You're soft as glass
and I'm a gentle man;
we got the sky to talk about
and the earth to lie upon."
~ Townes Van Zandt
You have to fill the voids left by emptiness and loss
Fill them, fill them,
With new love, and experience even if one day they too may leave a void,
(That is hard to swallow)
We all leave voids, create spaces and those that fill them are healed and those that don’t become bitter, sad and lonely.
All journeys are risks.
"We all got holes to fill
them holes are all that's real.
Some fall on you like a storm,
sometimes you dig your own.
The choice is yours to make,
time is yours to take;
some sail upon/dive into the sea,
some toil upon the stone."
them holes are all that's real.
Some fall on you like a storm,
sometimes you dig your own.
The choice is yours to make,
time is yours to take;
some sail upon/dive into the sea,
some toil upon the stone."
~ Townes Van Zandt
What Is This Blog About?
My blog is not specifically about God, or for that matter not only about grace. As I had hoped would become evident over time and in the choice of the name “A Cup of Grace” that it would be and become about life, even the life that can be experienced in enjoying a cup of coffee on a beautiful morning – alone or with a person, “…as good as spring itself…”. Whatever it may be that gets you through difficult times, what allows grace to seep into a particular darkness or sadness. And, also whatever it is that allows you to celebrate happiness and good times and be able to be thankful for grace in those moments of equilibrium and peace.
A cup of coffee was at a time in my life a literal manifestation of grace and has now become a metaphor for any and all grace filled experiences.
So what is this blog about or what has it become to be about?
In its simplest it is an expression of my life, a place to speak what I feel and know (at least in part) and as a result it has been a source of reflection, healing and grace. In being those things for me I hope that it has and will touch others as we navigate together our journey’s – as we form friendships, fellowships and communities we can share and move with each other and be fully alive human beings.
“A Cup of Grace” is a place to encounter life and life in all its entirety, to be human in all of what that may mean: love, loss, joy, pain, hurt, celebration, new friends, old friends, lovers, confidants, betrayers, acquaintances, strangers passed by on the street – the time spent in a kiss and the time between kisses, a pint of beer or a glass of wine, acceptance, forgiveness, distance, closeness, bodies bare, naked humanity, imprinted with the image of God – relationship.
It is my desire to give some sort of expression to all of these things through words, pictures, movies, art, poetry, music, silence, and sound, and in doing so to create and share a life worth living soaked in grace.
A cup of coffee was at a time in my life a literal manifestation of grace and has now become a metaphor for any and all grace filled experiences.
So what is this blog about or what has it become to be about?
In its simplest it is an expression of my life, a place to speak what I feel and know (at least in part) and as a result it has been a source of reflection, healing and grace. In being those things for me I hope that it has and will touch others as we navigate together our journey’s – as we form friendships, fellowships and communities we can share and move with each other and be fully alive human beings.
“A Cup of Grace” is a place to encounter life and life in all its entirety, to be human in all of what that may mean: love, loss, joy, pain, hurt, celebration, new friends, old friends, lovers, confidants, betrayers, acquaintances, strangers passed by on the street – the time spent in a kiss and the time between kisses, a pint of beer or a glass of wine, acceptance, forgiveness, distance, closeness, bodies bare, naked humanity, imprinted with the image of God – relationship.
It is my desire to give some sort of expression to all of these things through words, pictures, movies, art, poetry, music, silence, and sound, and in doing so to create and share a life worth living soaked in grace.
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