Poems...

Here's one which I think is kinda cool:
Writing:
   I come to sit at my page,
   my pen, an olive branch

   As I pour myself out,
   letter by letter

   The paper a mirror,
   I am reconciled, to me.

I really like this one as well, which I found scrawled on a peice of paper, and have now rescued :-)
Smile:
   Eyes doth glint and gleam,
     as stars
   That smile, that bright beam,
     outshines the sun
   Intense, overwhelming as a wave,
     that hits me back,
     yet draws me in
   Like a fire, so hot my cheeks burn red,
     my whole being shall be engulfed,
     yet my very soul strong force pulls in,
     helpless, amid the blazing heat

Why Christians Should Think About Anarchy

It is time we began to consider anarchy seriously. Our vocation is to love the people of this world, to stand in defiance of injustice, suffering and oppression. The thing is, much of the injustice in the world, today and in the past, has been sanctioned, if not propagated by, one state or another. Should we not, therefore, at least consider whether there is something wrong with statehood itself?

The bible-writers did. Kind David was more commited & intimate in his relationship with God than I and many I know, yet he was so corrupted by power as to break almost all of the commandments during his reign as king. A little before King David's time, the Hebrew tribes didn't have a king at all, or any real kind of state. And this is how God intended for them to be. When they asked for a king, the prophet Samuel told them that a king would 'lord it over them' and unjustly take their possesions. When in the end the decide to 'become like other nations' (the opposite of their vocation), God says 'It is not you but me they have rejected'. Does this this mean executive power of an individual is a form of idolatry? Like I said, we've a right to ask...

Lovarchy

I stumbled upon an interesting site today: http://www.lovarchy.org. Admittedly I don't quite get what it's about, but something struck me about the name. Love-archy must mean the rule of love, right? Well, if God is love, then you could say that 'lovarchy' is synonymous with 'theocracy', a way of describing the rule of God. It is one of the greatest mysteries of the Christian faith the way that love is entrenched in every part of it. To love God and our neighbour with everything we have is the highest ethical command. A mark of the true Church is how we love each other. Jesus was sent because 'God so loved the world'. And, ultimately 'God is love'. What a strange statement - 'God is love'. What does it mean?