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
There are moments when you have called constant movement freedom because standing still might force you to feel what was underneath it? New rooms and new roads cannot always quiet an unsettled heart.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
Maybe you have disappeared into sleep, isolation, or darkness because functioning in front of others used everything you had? Private suffering can remain invisible even inside a shared life.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
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
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.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
There are moments when you have watched an old video and remembered how freely you laughed before responsibility and pain took up so much room? Earlier joy can feel like evidence of someone you lost.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
This may feel familiar: you have kept reaching toward someone living inside addiction, instability, or another borrowed room? Love can remain even after certainty and trust have disappeared.
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.