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
Somewhere in your story, you may have realized that someone taught you how to live without ever sitting you down for a lesson? Their habits, work ethic, faith, or steady presence became part of you simply because you stayed close enough to watch.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
Somewhere in your story, you may have wondered whether being chosen can carry even more meaning than being expected? Family is not formed by blood alone. Sometimes love becomes most visible in the person who had every opportunity to leave and decided to stay.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
Somewhere in your story, you may have compared your beginning to someone else’s confidence and quietly decided you must be behind? It is difficult to recognize your own gifts when you are measuring them against a person God never asked you to become.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
There are moments when you have noticed a dream, phrase, habit, or strength in yourself and realized it began with someone who came before you? Some of the most meaningful inheritances never arrive in a box or appear in a will.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
Somewhere in your story, you may have wondered whether you are running away or simply still searching for where you belong? Restlessness can carry both fear and a genuine longing for home.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
Somewhere in your story, you may have realized you learned to read a room before you learned to rest inside one? Family patterns can train the body to anticipate tension as a form of survival.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
There are moments when you have learned new information about your family and felt pieces of your own identity rearrange? A changed story can unsettle roots you thought were settled.
Poem Devotional · Through the Wilderness
Have you ever caught your reflection and recognized a parent in your expression, laughter, or way of caring? Inheritance can arrive through the smallest details.
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.