jonah / sleepers

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"they are unsatisfied in their million dollar houses.

the extent to which trials and tribulations touches their lives is in thirteen year old dogs that take up space, and inconsiderate roommates. they do church. it adds a pretty frame on their life resume. they don’t know, don’t need, don’t care. i’m not sure what mirror they look into, because somehow they see no wounds. everything is empty and they love it. they are so satisfied in their million dollar houses.

how do you speak truth when they are deaf? when they have their own. how do i speak truth when i feel my throat constricted by sadness and anger.

wake up, sleepers. you break my heart."

i am petulant. i am jonah, shaking my fist and raging at the world. in my squeaky little roar.

dig deep. take root.

The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. Psalm 103:8

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners. Mark 2:17

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Hebrews 12:1