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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

In Order to Glow in the Dark, You Must First Be Energized by the Light

For years I sojourned as a humble inchworm
Hanging all my hopes
On one day emerging as a brilliant butterfly
For my moment in the sun
Inching ever forward towards the spotlight
Only to find that my misguided faith in the light
Had been rewarded nonetheless
For as the light receded I found myself
Enveloped in the expanding darkness
 
Still a worm, no wings to take flight
Staying right here, but now aglow with my very own light
And while the phoenix knows the glory of rising from the ashes
The glow-worm outshines him minus all camera flashes

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St. Francis of Pachisi

I don’t care about birds but I thrill when the squirrels can’t get to the birdseed
It’s All Fun and Games Until It’s an Eye for an Eye

The American cure for the boredom of meaninglessness is not to pursue meaning but to outpace boredom which is why our mass nihilism
Haiku

If there is one thing we can all agree on it’s moral certainty
The Subject of Desire

Because there is no I in lions, if a lion could talk, it couldn’t say I Which is to say, a lion can starve but never lacks,
E = MC Squared, Explained

God is infinitely demanding (MC… Because (=) God is infinitely rewarding (E)
God, Reimagined

The biggest shock of Judgment Day Was that they don’t give out grade… Just comments Which, of course, is worse Mine said:
Desire Makes a World of Difference

When God says Do what you want He knows You’re going to anyway His risk is betting you want
If You Can’t Be with the One You Love, Love the Room You’re In

Pay attention to what is said: “One day we hope to enable every p… to feel as strong a sense of conne… as you feel when you’re physically with someone you love”
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Fail Abetter

As the civil war raged on between too much, too soon and too little, too late I thought I’d found
In the Three’s Company of Strangers

As the world closed in the Pollyanna sought safety in numbers only to find herself taking a number
The Call Is Called Desire and Desire Is the Will to Do the Impossible

It’s obvious that God is doing us… But it’s less widely acknowledged… God calls in all His favors And the only way to return the fav… Is to try and do the impossible
Live Free or Lie

The human condition is either thinking that we’re free when we’re actually held captive or thinking that we’re captive when we’re actually free
Where and When? Here and Now in Neverland.

Language is great for Letting us tell each other Where it hurts And you keep telling me It hurts when I don’t listen
“Sweetness, Sweetness I Was Only Joking”

Thinking of happiness as the meaning of life is like thinking of sugar as the meaning of food
The Choice

I can demand control Of my fear Or I can accept That I am not in control And be not afraid



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