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Journey Through the Wilderness

Choose a reflection below and walk through Through the Wilderness one poem and one honest devotion at a time.

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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.

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Maps Through the Wilderness

Choose a path from the guide at the end of the book to see its corresponding poem devotionals.

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Maps Through the Wilderness

Carrying Grief

These poem devotionals are grouped together in the guide at the end of Through the Wilderness.

Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness

Still My Number One

Have you ever reached for the phone, remembered a familiar voice, or wished you could tell someone one more thing—only to feel the ache of their absence all over again? Grief can return inside the smallest moments because love still remembers.

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Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness

After Memory Fades

You might recognize what it is like to have worried that forgetting the sound of someone’s voice or the details of their face means you are losing them again? Time can soften memory, and that can feel like a betrayal of someone you still deeply love.

Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness

The Last Goodbye

Maybe you have made ordinary future plans with someone, never imagining the conversation would become a last goodbye? Grief often begins in memories that once felt completely normal.

Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness

Silence in White

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

Where Have You Gone

This may feel familiar: you have drifted from God so gradually that you could not identify the moment His voice became difficult to hear? Distance often forms beneath layers of fear and exhaustion.

Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness

Might of a Lonely Night

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

Version Through Darkness

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.

Until the next step

Keep walking.

Whether you are reading along in the book or joining these reflections here, thank you for allowing me to walk beside you.