In “When Fragments Make a Whole,” Lory Hess reflects poetically on Jesus’s healing stories and applies them to our lives.
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Tag Archives: George Herbert
Excess and Deficiency in the Life Force
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Poetic Incentives to Take Long Walks
If you are a walker, read 17th century poet Thomas Traherne to deepen the experience.
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The God of Love My Shepherd Is
The 23rd Psalm is one of the great poems in the Hebrew Chronicles. It also inspired a fine George Herbert poem.
Methought I Heard One Calling, “Child”
For Father’s Day, here are a couple of God the father poems.
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Literature, the Best Medicine
A Guardian article is filled with instances of literature alleviating the suffering of patients suffering from mental illness.
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Tough Lives Need Poetry’s Toughness
A new book on the psychology of life-changing lit has alerted me to some great passages.
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