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God Rests In the Lows

Do you delight in exaltation? In those neon bright lights I’ve been mesmerized before You are in the breathless highs But best in the captivating lows Exquisitely in temptations Divinely in the mundane How long will I deny you? Seeking your high like a drug I forsake you on the cross Run to sin city with a die High on my own ego, I go But you are easy in the lows Cloistered in empty times Chastened by old high times I make dull your ordinary Keep me sharp as your tool Or stalwart as a boring tree If only I have faith in cycles Not flickering with exaltation Not dulled by the doldrums Then I will praise you In the dying of my highs Down in the ordinary life

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Date: 8/20/2023 2:49:00 PM
I use to think, It was a drug addict that offered Jesus a drug when he said "I thirst" but he didn't drink the spunge. Really he couldn't just like he couldn't touch the woman who touched the hem of His garment. Compleatly innocent of all sin.
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Triny Xiang
Date: 8/20/2023 3:04:00 PM
Thank you for your reply. I wish I could be as innocent as Christ did threading himself through the eye of the needle without the aid of cheap Roman wine tainted with myrrh and hyssop. He wanted to be clear-headed on his way to Golgotha. He above all understood and felt the ordinary in dying well.
Date: 8/20/2023 11:26:00 AM
This is fascinating - my personal response to it is that I both resonate then get lost again within the words, like a tangle.
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Triny Xiang
Date: 8/20/2023 3:06:00 PM
We're all Repunzels respectively unbraiding our tangled but mundane lives. Thank you.

Book: Shattered Sighs