escape pod

the special relationship where two are bound together

in escape from the cruel world

are in an escape pod from a spacecraft that is infected with the deadly disease of sin, guilt, and fear

alone in space except for each other and safe at last

except then you realise that the other person has brought the infection within them

and sin, guilt, and fear are even more inescapable within the escape pod than on the ship

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it is only by surrendering the relationship to the holy spirit that such relationships can be healed

the sin, guilt, and fear i see in you is in me

except i deny it and so see it in you

if i can look at the sin, guilt, and fear in me with forgiveness

the laughter causes it to dissolve into the nothingness from which it came

nothing has happened: the restoration to oneness is a recognition that

only oneness has ever existed