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Your Word Unlocks
Several years ago, as I was preaching through Psalm 119, I wrote a series of poems inspired by their verses. This sonnet derives its inspiration from Psalm 119:129-144 and especially verse 130 which reads, “The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.”
When I was posting these poems, my father-in-law recorded himself reading one and texted it to me. He was a bit unsure if it was presumptuous, but it wasn’t. Rather it was a completion or fulfillment of the poem. Words that find their expression in others voices is one of the ways a poem becomes a poem. So…
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