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When I was praying one morning for a sorority house with some Ichthus girls in it where God has been and is clearly at work, I got a picture of the actual house encased in light–like that really strong rubber liner people get sprayed in\/on their truck beds, but made of light instead. (The light then drove out the darkness within the house, and zooming up like a Google Maps view I saw that part of town and even onto campus being illuminated by the light coming from the house.) You’re welcome to pray that vision for the house as well if you’d be willing; it’s the Gamma Phi Beta house to be specific!<\/em>

So the first stanza of this poem was drawn from that vision, but the poem itself isn’t about that house specifically, but is as broad as life itself and as narrow as each one of our lives.

The word HaShem<\/em> is Hebrew for “the Name” and is itself a name for God. (For the most basic and a most amazing biblical revelation on God’s Name, check out Exodus 33:14-34:7. So foundational. And so powerful, ESPECIALLY when one considers the very name of Jesus.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HASHEM<\/strong>\nYour name is a coating of thick bright light\nWith effortless grace\nIt drives out the night\n\nYour name is a balm from acres of jars\nThat heals and restores as\nIt murmurs of stars\n\nYour name is a ranger uncloaking his glory\nWith drawn sword in hand\nEmbracing the story\n\nYour name is a club with seven-inch spikes\nA triune monster-slayer\nThat drops all the mikes\n\nYour name\u2019s a crescendo of salvation fire\nAn inferno of bliss\nRising higher and higher\n\nYour name is ecstatic a wild dance of glee\nA frenzied surrender\nA life-dealing spree\n\nYour name is a stream once pent up now loosed\nThat strips out the stains and\nUnravels the noose\n\nYour name is a word that once spoken runs free\nAnd leads stormy hearts\nTo the most ancient tree\n\nYour name is a Lion sitting over his court\nThe magnificent center\nMy magnificent fort<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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