Death: His Sting and Defeat (by David Bowden for Church Online)

The Reality of the Resurrection by Odd Thomas (spoken word video)

The Reality of the Resurrection from Humble Beast Records on Vimeo.
A Spoken Word piece written by Odd Thomas for Trinity Church of Portland.

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Hank the Hummingbird

This is something I started at church last week and finished this week. Yay! Enjoy.

A Man Who Transforms You Into Poetry by Nizar Kabbani

When you find a man

Who transforms
Every part of you
Into poetry,
Who makes each one of your hairs
Into a poem,
When you find a man,
Capable,
As I am
Of bathing and adorning you
With poetry,
I will beg you
To follow him without hesitation,
It is not important
That you belong to me or him
But that you belong to poetry.

If I could...I would

if I could simply hold your smile
like a jewel between my ribs
snuggled up next to my heart I would

if I could hold the memory
of the grasp of your hand
deep in my soul I would

if I could memorize the sound of your voice
and let it vibrate through my head
like the bass line in my favorite song I would

if I could keep the feel of your arms
wrapped around me like a cocoon
branded on my heart I would

if I could keep the vision of you
in that first moment of meeting
at the front of my mind I would

if I could only meet you now
I wouldn't have to say if
I simply would

This is how I have been feeling lately....

The Hug Poem by Bradley Hathaway
I read about how you touched them and they were healed
Or even if someone just touched your cloak they were forever changed
You let a broken women bathe your feet in her tears
And you washed your best friend’s feet
I am just wondering though did you just ever hug people

I mean I know that it is a silly question and all I am sure you would have why wouldn’t you
But its one of those things that was never mentioned that got me thinking about it

And how whenever there was a touch from you sins were forgiven and sickness fell
I think I’m caught up in my sins last time I checked all my body parts were properly working, nothing special here
I am just a kid with a heavy heart these passing sunrises and sunsets

I don’t think our encounter would have ended up in the gospels or anything
Because all I really need is a hug 
That is ok for me to imagine right
That’s not going to be conflicting with any sort of theology is it
Ok good, then hug me

But not one of these side ways one arm around the neck type hugs
Or the ghetto right hand clasp fists elbows to chest pit pat on the back back
Or you put your right arm over my right arm and I put my left arm over your left arm and we make this weird sort of diagonal thing
Nah none of those

BEAR HUG ME MAN
Take your old school carpenter arms and throw them over my upper body leaving my arms dangling underneath yours somewhere and I can barely move them because your squeezing so hard
But don’t pick me up and make my back pop because I hate it when people do that

And hold me, hold me here in your arms until I start to cry because 
I WANT TO CRY
But I just can’t seem to do it on my own 
I have been teary eyed once recently but not even enough for a drip down my cheek
Theres just hurt in my soul that needs to be purged so hold me in this hold pose until the pain is flowing from my eyes and nose