My friend Duncan Andrews writes over at Moments Now and Then. Here is the final verse of a poem Dunc wrote on his experience of reading the Bible:
And yet such joy! For I set myself
to love you more, to love you best;
but when my love stayed on the shelf,
dusty, weak, I heard ‘Child, rest.
It’s you loved best;
in my love you are blest.
You can read it all on HERE.
What is your experience of reading the Bible? Does it move you to write poetry?
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1 comment:
Hey Justin - thanks for the link!
After I wrote that poem I stumbled across this from John Webster:
...we do not read well, not only because of technical incompetence, cultural distance […] or lack of readerly sophistication, but also and most of all because in reading Scripture we are addressed by that which runs clean counter to our will. Reading Scripture is thus a moral matter; it requires that we become certain kinds of readers, whose reading is taken up into the history of reconciliation ... Anyway, I found this a really helpful insight - my character as a reader is more significant than my 'readerly sophistication'...
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