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Poetry is not the domain of the elite. Poetry traps Strunk and White in a steel barrel and plunges them over a roaring waterfall. Poetry nose dives, screaming above the drone of history, razor close until you smell its carnivore breath and glimpse your own silhouette reflection in its cataract eyes. Poetry is not search engine optimized. No algorithm can hold it, no logic model predict the lumbering swing of its axe against the glacier of apathy it climbs. Poetry leaps the icy chasm in its path, its laugh echoing down the abyss. It chainsaws the zenith off and leaves a jagged terminal preposition. Poetry drops the fetters of meter and rhyme like Houdini shedding handcuffs. It is the wild beating heart of the trained bear that makes him point his unicycle toward the exit. Poetry is making, forming, creating, genesis, the big bang, the sound of hammer on chisel. Poetry is air molecules filling a vacuum. Poetry is the fire that devours Rome. We are entrusted with that fire. We feed it the fuel of our lives.
The theme of WORDS OF LIFE for 2012 is faith. This edition looks at our 'Faith Journey'. Beginning with a series on prayer, we then have the Israelites moving into the Promised Land. Observing the rise of a united kingdom under King David, we see how human weakness can break even those close to God. After Ezra's story of reconstruction and regeneration, we consider the question of suffering in the compelling book of Job. Guest writer Major Sasmoko Hertjahjo (Indonesia) provides a beautiful Pentecost series. In the New Testament we explore God's story recorded by Matthew, along with the opening of John's Gospel; then, in Acts, see the good news spreading and the Church being started. In various psalms and proverbs, as well as hymns, we find that our faith journey is both corporate and personal.
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