Month: September 2018
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What Do You See?
This week, I begin a new series on the book of Jeremiah. This first poem takes its inspiration from Jeremiah 1:1-19. I must acknowledge my debt to Eugene Peterson’s translation in The Message of this passage wherein he seeks to make the pun found in the Hebrew between the words…
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What Prince?
This poem finds its inspiration in Psalm 119:161-176 and is the last in a series on Psalm 119. One of psalmist’s antagonists throughout Psalm 119 are the “princes”. Rather than take “prince” as merely one who is a member of the king’s household, I have imagined them as those who,…
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With My Whole Heart
This poem finds its inspiration in Psalm 119:145-160 With my whole heart, I cry. With all of me I call out when in my own company Before the morn, when I in mourning be. Alone I wait and wait to see You rescue from the grave As promised in your…
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