Jeromy Johnson | May 13, 2011
ShareEverywhere Bodies curl tightly, clutching knees. Falling tears, pooling. Alone Everywhere Wounds bleed secretly, hidden from eyes. Stinging words, haunting. Alone Everywhere Hopes shatter slowly, dreams fade. Damning lies, cursing. Alone Somewhere A voice whispers quietly, spoken to all. Loving words, healing. Embraced :: I wrote this poem as a reflection on the notes, comments, [...]
Jeromy Johnson | May 10, 2011
ShareThis was shared by a friend of mine yesterday: I found myself overwhelmed with His presence in a way I’ve never felt before, or as intensely since. I can only describe it as an overshadowing. I lay there and cried and said, “it feels like you are touching me. How can you….I’m dirt.” He said, [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 6, 2009
Share She dipped her head in shame, pulling away to hide her scar. On her left cheek lived a four-inch scar caused by a knife wielded in power. Even in the arms of the one who loves her, her shame guided her response to love. He tenderly turned her face back towards him for a [...]
Jeromy Johnson | April 2, 2009
SharePlease allow me to humbly share my witness to a deep wound that showed up at the Emerging Church Post-Conference Conversation in Albuquerque. This wound was expressed quietly all weekend long but finally came festering to the surface during the last morning of our time together. It is a wound shared by many of those [...]
Jeromy Johnson | February 23, 2009
Share Three years ago a friend of mine lost his voice and became mute, but yesterday morning his Papa unmuted him and is giving him his voice back. That sentence may not make any sense to you, but to my friend and me it rings of Papa’s unrelenting grace and restoration. Yesterday morning was a [...]
Jeromy Johnson | November 10, 2008
Share I am getting more and more convinced that for us to truly love someone we need to see them as beautiful; to see their beauty, their dignity, their worth, their value. If we do not see beauty in the other I believe we cannot truly love them or even claim that we love them. [...]
Jeromy Johnson | July 31, 2008
ShareIs it not from the selfish desires that wage war within you, me, us? 90% 100% of the conflict that rises up within me and rears its ugly head stems from the selfishness that lives within my being. Then you merge that with another human being who has selfish desires waging war within them and [...]
Jeromy Johnson | July 14, 2008
Share A face I have not seen or thought about in over seven-years (2001) invaded my dreams last night. Just out of the blue this old childhood friend appeared as I slept. So when I woke up this morning I did what any sane person living in the age of the internet does, I Googled [...]
Jeromy Johnson | June 27, 2008
Share[Note: it may be helpful to read this out loud or in a whisper as it is more stream-of-thought] So here it is God, Friday evening and my spirit seems deeply burdened. I’m not sure why. The blog name, A Carnival in My Head, comes to mind as a close descriptor of what I am [...]
Jeromy Johnson | May 19, 2008
Share It was clear from the beginning that this should be my role. God blessed Abraham to be a blessing to others, not to simply enjoy his blessing. Jesus said, come follow me. Jesus was clearly all about his Daddy’s mission. His life and death modeled a missional life that did what the Father did, [...]
