Poetic Devotions — Healing, Faith, Becoming

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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

Learning Discernment

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

Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness

Not Blind

You might recognize what it is like to have assumed you had lost God’s light because you could no longer see the road clearly? Confusion can make faithful presence feel like absence.

Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness

Chosen Path

Have you ever realized that healing eventually asks you to choose what will guide your next step—fear, anger, or faith? Awareness becomes transformation when it changes direction.

Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness

Rose Colored

There are moments when you have kept painting a painful reality in hopeful colors because naming the storm felt disloyal? Optimism can become denial when it asks truth to disappear.

Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness

Visible

You might recognize what it is like to have noticed that pain feels different when someone else finally witnesses it? Being seen can bring comfort and vulnerability at the same time.

Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness

Missing Pieces

There are moments when you have received a story in fragments and spent years trying to make the missing pieces form a whole? Inconsistency can leave the heart searching for an explanation that never arrives.

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.