He/Him

You are my beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased—
words of affirmation
from the Parent to
the Word became flesh
(was made man)

Coming Out (Jeremiah 20:7-9 Plagiarized with an Emphasis on Queer Narrative)

“They decide to live ‘divided no more.’ They decide no longer to act on the outside in a way that contradicts some truth about themselves that they hold deeply on the inside.”*

O Lord, you have enticed me,
    and I was enticed;
you have overpowered me,
    and you have prevailed.
I have become a laughingstock all day long;
    everyone mocks me.
For whenever I speak, I must cry out;
    I must shout, “Violence and destruction!”
For the word of the Lord has become for me
    a reproach and derision all day long.
If I say, “I will not mention him
    or speak any more in his name,”
then within me there is something like a burning fire
    shut up in my bones;
I am weary with holding it in,
    and I cannot.

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* Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening to the Voice of Vocation (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2009), 32.

We Are As God Has Made Us (The Consummation)

We are as God has made us
(time shall come when all is new)
so as creation waits and groans,
let us groan with pleasure too.