To Be Held by the Light reclaims the individual's role in biblical exegesis by incorporating poeticism into a traditionally intellectual space to explore the intimate relationship between God and self. This collection simultaneously showcases a pastoral desire to stir up affections of the reader towards God and reflect a genuine desire to share beautifully what Den Bleyker has found to be beautiful in Scripture. These devotional poems linger, amplify, and expound fresh paraphrase and arresting comparisons, and its resonating words reframe even the most ordinary truths and underscore the most astounding, giving expression to our own spiritual experiences and feelings. It will take you to corners of the spiritual life that might otherwise remain unvisited. It is poetry speaking to us at multiple levels, activating us to interpret images and figures of speech to awaken our emotions while adding a layer of verbal beauty that often makes it unforgettable. To Be Held by the Light invites us to establish a relationship of the self with the self and extends an invitation to speaking to and about God. In it you will awaken your affections, cast fresh eyes upon Scripture and the world, and find new avenues into the beauty of the word of God.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Ash Wednesday,
- I Will Eat
- On the Water
- This Is the Time of Loaves & Fish
- Miracles, an Act of Love
- God Waits in Hope
- What’s Broken Leaves an Entrance for Light
- My Redeemer in the Wilderness
- Pilgrimage
- Gone Fishing
- Born of Water & Spirit
- When There Are Storms
- The Shepherd Holds Watch
- Scattering the Word
- Our Good Inheritance
- This Is My Origin Story
- Beauty in Broken Things
- The Water We Were Meant to Drink
- Stepping Over the Threshold
- My Shepherd Calls
- The Sap Flows Richly
- The River, Twice
- Psalm 23 (Revisited)
- Something Strong & Beautiful
- To Be Held by the Light
- The Fruit of Good Action
- An Axe-Shattered Window
- The Faithful Cry Out
- Aching with Thirst
- Salt & Light
- Love Is Greater Than Fear
- Trust in God
- Only Say the Word
- Lazarus
- & He Wept
- & I Am Stilled
- Even if Grief Buries My Face
- Wait for the Lord
- His Steadfast Love
- Make Me Your Colt
- I Carry the Alabaster Jar of My Life into Each New Day
- The Messenger
- Wait With Me
- Lift Your Heel Against Me
- What Great Love Is This?
- Speak to Me of Love
- He Is Risen