Poetry also becomes an avenue for sharing understanding, and in fact, wisdom. We ingest poetry on a deeper level than we do other things we see and hear. You have to think about a poem to understand it. And a reader/performer who grasps the meaning of a poem conveys it to others who hear with their hearts. This may be a difficult concept for a society that measures intelligence by reading speed. But a higher level of understanding is expressed by such tools as nuance, metaphor, clever diction, and surprise.
This collection requires an additional openness beyond that of similar work. I want these poems to bring you into the presence of the living God. For this to happen God Himself must show up. I encourage you to ask God to reveal Himself to you. I do not believe it offends God for someone to sincerely pray, “God, if You are real, reveal Yourself to me. And if You do, I need you to help me surrender myself to You.” I suggest that you prayerfully read the scripture printed with each verse and make notes on what you sense God saying to you before and after each poem.
When I first envisioned writing this book, I told a friend I had already begun to think about a poem on John 1:1. He could not believe I would attempt to write a poem on that verse. “How could anything be worded better than the scripture itself?” But another friend told me, “It would be better to write a lesser poem on such a profound word than to write a much cleverer one on lesser thoughts.”
The crux of this collection is not my poetic sense or diction, but the marvelous person of Jesus and the age-old freshness of the Spirit illumining through His word.
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