The Needy : Poetic Letter Exercise

Laughing
Uncontrollably

Liking
Fanatically

Calming
Hysterically

Thanking
Profusely

Thanking
Frankly

Thanking
Surely

Praising
Ambitiously

Thanking
Bravely

Noticing
Terrifically

Involving
Needlessly

 Let us learn from Christ how to pray, to forgive, to sow peace, and to be near those in need

I am laughing as I lose control, uncontrollably, to uplift the needy
I am liking as a fanatic, fanatically, to love the needy
I am living in a calming hysteria, hysterically, to ease the needy
It is a profuse thankfulness I learn, profusely, to cherish the needy
I can only be frank and be thinking them, frankly, to honor the needy
It is a sure thankfulness, surely, to offer the needy
I am ambitious to praise, ambitiously, to glorify the needy
I give thanks to the brave, bravely, to cater the needy
One should be terrific to notice, terrifically, to aknowledge the needy
It would needlessly be involving others when we are not near the needy.

Voices

Speak to me so that I may hear
Say to me all I fear

For the darkness may come over me
But not by the purpose of my ear
guarded from the promises of despair

Let the hope of words
cascade amongst the hills
and the voices lifted up
from every work of every zeal

That the coldness of the heart
May not reside in the clear
That the day will glorify in me
That this is why I am here

To hear the words
Of the voice of our year
saying
thy glory will be thee
tear upon tear
wake upon wake
drudging and resisting the mere
Chance to forsake
to abdicate a quake
A rambling
In the channel of the ear

Could it be silent
In their rearing
Could it be seen
Distances ago?

Who was dreaming of the old
When the young were screaming

Whose voices were heard then so?
Who called for the ever glow
Of hope to entail what belonged

As the voices sang
For a new christening
A new below
And the voices shattering
The one to know.
The voice of thee, we shall sow.

Book Promotion

What if Protestantism were true? What if the Reformers really were heroes, the Bible the sole rule of faith, and Christ’s Church just an invisible collection of loosely united believers?
As an Evangelical, Devin Rose used to believe all of it. Then one day the nagging questions began. He noticed things about Protestant belief and practice that didn’t add up. He began following the logic of Protestant claims to places he never expected it to go—leading to conclusions no Christians would ever admit to holding.
In The Protestant’s Dilemma, Rose examines over thirty of those conclusions, showing with solid evidence, compelling reason, and gentle humor how the major tenets of Protestantism—if honestly pursued to their furthest extent— wind up in dead ends of absurdity.

http://protestantsdilemma.com/

from aleteia.org: Atheist to Catholic convert and apologist Devin Rose has a new book out from Catholic Answers entitled The Protestant's Dilemma. The book's unique rhetorical angle is to assume that Protestantism is true, and then to show how it leads to absurd conclusions given various facts about history and Scripture. Catholicism, on the other hand, is shown to lead to reasonable conclusions.

Rose self-published an earlier version of the book with the title If Protestantism Is True in the summer of 2011. With a successful low-budget, blog-to-blog marketing campaign, the book took off and sold thousands of copies. Catholics Answers took notice and offered to help him edit a new version and re-publish it. With the release of The Protestant's Dilemma, If Protestantism Is True has been discontinued (though you can find used copies on Amazon for upwards of $125!).

The website for The Protestant's Dilemma, which has options for buying print or ebook versions, has some impressive endorsements from other well known Catholic converts and authors Brandon Vogt, Taylor Marshall, and Francis Beckwith.