Read alongside the book
Choose a reflection below and walk through Through the Wilderness one poem and one honest devotion at a time.
Get the BookYour eight-week path
Every poem in the book has its own place in this journey. Open one week at a time, or view the complete poem-by-poem path.
Explore by what you’re walking through
Choose a path from the guide at the end of the book to see its corresponding poem devotionals.
Maps Through the Wilderness
These poem devotionals are grouped together in the guide at the end of Through the Wilderness.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
You might recognize what it is like to have reached nighttime only to discover that every thought you avoided during the day was waiting in the quiet? Silence can become deafening when the heart has nowhere to place its pain.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
You might recognize what it is like to have accepted something harmful because feeling nothing seemed better than feeling everything? Numbness can begin as relief and slowly become another kind of prison.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
You might recognize what it is like to have been known as cheerful while privately fighting emotions that felt too intense or difficult to explain? A smile can become both a gift and a hiding place.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
This may feel familiar: you have looked strong from the outside while feeling as though the very soil beneath you was draining life away? Roots need nourishment, not only endurance.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
This may feel familiar: you have let the shower, the car, or a dark room hide tears you did not want anyone to see? Sometimes water carries what our words cannot.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
Have you ever stood inside a silence so large that you wondered whether God could still find you there? Isolation can make every unanswered question feel louder.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
Maybe you have discovered a small spark of beauty in a night you thought held nothing but loneliness? Sometimes healing begins almost too quietly to notice.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
Maybe you have watched someone you love disappear beneath darkness and wanted them to see the light you still recognize in them? Loving from beside the shadows can feel helpless.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
There are moments when you have picked up a worry God already carried because uncertainty made control feel responsible? We can gather answered fears and call it preparation.
Until the next step
Whether you are reading along in the book or joining these reflections here, thank you for allowing me to walk beside you.