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
Maybe you have felt your past and future twisting together until you could not tell whether you were moving forward or simply repeating what hurt you? The mind can turn searching into exhaustion.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
This may feel familiar: you have asked God to lead you somewhere new while secretly wishing He would show you the entire map first? Trust becomes real at the edge of what we know.
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
This may feel familiar: you have awakened to realize that shame and fear had become walls around your life? The cage can feel permanent when its bars are made from beliefs.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
There are moments when you have remembered the child you were in church before faith became complicated by pain, questions, or people? Sacred spaces can hold both comfort and confusion.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
You might recognize what it is like to have needed to climb above the noise just to remember what you believe? Creation can quiet the voices that make God feel distant.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
You might recognize what it is like to have realized that the thorns you grew for protection were also keeping you from receiving love? Survival can defend the seed while eventually restricting its growth.
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.