What Makes a Post Freshly Press-able: Don’t Touch Me
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It’s been said that there are only two story plots in the whole world: somebody comes to town, and somebody leaves town. Don’t Touch Me by Delusia is an intimately personal take on the former. When a woman’s lover returns after a long absence, her feelings for him teeter between familiarity and uncertainty. Here’s why we liked this post:
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Question: Trying Hard To Be A Better Christian, But I’m Stuck
Anonymous asked:
Why is it that I want to get better, I want to be unstuck from where I am, but I don’t do what I should do? If I really wanted to experientially know and serve God, I’d at least try. But I don’t. How to I really learn to WANT something desperately? Resolve in my heart that I want it? People keep saying resolve in your heart to follow God but I don’t know how to want something that badly no matter how much I’ve suffered and no matter how much good I know He is. No one seems to understand.
So a long, long time ago (in a galaxy called here) was a dude who had the same problem, and he wrote about this struggle in a letter that we now call the Book of Romans, in Chapter 7, which says,
I do not understand what…
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agonia
Gnawing, howling …
The worm of despair
Gnawing, howling …
It tore a hole in the middle of my chest
Gnawing, howling …
After devouring my left ventricle
Gnawing, howling …
It gains its strength from words
like
“You’ll never be good enough!”
or
“You think so highly of yourself, don’t you?”
or
“Don’t you ever THINK – at all?!!”
or even
“You simply don’t CARE!!!”
…
…
stop
stop it, worm
…
“I SAID STOP!!!”
…
…
© 2013 by Patricia Acevedo
Books in Art: “Adversity” Illustration by Edith Mahier
“Adversity” illustration by Edith Mahier, from the Tulane University yearbook. 1915.
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