Download or read book Love Poems from God written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-09-24 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz One of 6 Books Oprah Loves to Give as Gifts During the Holidays “All kinds of beautiful poetry.” –Hoda Kotb In this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky—best known for his bestselling interpretations of the great Sufi poet Hafiz—brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world’s finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the West. Once again, Ladinsky reveals his talent for creating profound and playful renditions of classic poems for a modern audience. Rumi’s joyous, ecstatic love poems; St. Francis’s loving observations of nature through the eyes of Catholicism; Kabir’s wild, freeing humor that synthesizes Hindu, Muslim, and Christian beliefs; St. Teresa’s sensual verse; and the mystical, healing words of Sufi poet Hafiz—these along with inspiring works by Rabia, Meister Eckhart, St. Thomas Aquinas, Mira, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and Tukaram are all “love poems by God” from writers considered “conduits of the divine.” Together, they form a spiritual treasure to cherish always.

Download or read book Poems of Spiritual Praise written by Raymond C. Christian and published by . This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spiritual gift to ease your heavy burden. Raymond Christian is an anointed man of God, multi-talented giving all of his success and glory to the one and true God he serves. "Poems of Spiritual Praise" is a precious book of spiritual poems carefully crafted, revealing the unique talents of Raymond's many blessings. This Christian book of poetry will enlighten the world and give each person who reads it a higher understanding of God and the destiny he has for his children. King David in all of his glory danced naked for the Lord just as the poems within the pages of this book will unclothe the very soul of those reading it. 'Poems of Spiritual Praise' will take you to various heights of devotional awareness, it will take you to your praying closet, your secret room, your private place of worship with God. Here are three of Raymond's favorite poems, A Tribute to King Solomon, My Psalm of Praise and My God My Search, these poems will bring expedient satisfaction to your spirit while feeding your very soul. "Poems of Spiritual Praise" will put you on holy ground, you will feel the anointing of Gods holy blessings as one of his vessel. "Poems of Spiritual Praise; Gods Inspirational Gifts" will take you to the depth of the authors creative talents and will leave you at the very throne of God, another level of worship for the children of God to reach for, which poem will become your favorite? Much prayer much power, a little prayer, a little power, no prayer no power, I will see you in church, Amen.

Download or read book God s Poems written by John Poch and published by St. Augustine's Press. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry is exciting, but elusive to most. This is troublesome for Christians because the Bible, John Poch reminds us, is largely composed of poetical verse. In God's Poems, Poch re-introduces sacred text as purposefully poetic, and explains what that means and invites the reader to with this insight live more thoughtfully and beautifully. But that is not all. Poch as a well-established and regarded poet, turns his eye to contemporary poetry and vindicates its function in a "created and creative world." Today many have abandoned the genre as a wasteland of misguided voice that really has nothing to say. The poet is a truth-teller, and Poch as devoted writer, teacher, and believer sends out a renewed call to turn to verse as a means of seeing oneself as God's poeima, or poem (Letter to Ephesians). The depth of self-knowing relates directly to an aptitude to engage the category of poetry at some level. A tragic void is filled with Poch's effort to exhort the reader to patiently reconnect with poetry even though it has been hijacked by persons who want to be heard more than speak well. (This book is essential, therefore, for aspiring poets.) For faithful readers or those seeking to return, Poch is a place to begin to understand contemporary writers worth knowing and which poets of the past must remain with us. In Virgilian fashion, he can see the panorama behind him and that which lies immediately ahead and instills a recovered love of an eternal medium that will be restored to a state of coherency and enlightened perspective. If Poch has faith in poetry it is because poetry is indeed a source of faith. If Justin Martyr claimed that everything that is true belongs to Christians, Poch shows us that everyone who speaks truth is to some degree a poet. Even God with his revealed wisdom chooses poetry as medium par excellence. It is essential to know how poetry works. "Great poems that we consider literature give us what we never expected. They go beyond the usefulness of conveying a feeling and unveiling beauty; and they tell us who we are."

Download or read book God Speaks Through Wombs written by Drew Jackson and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dynamic collection of poems, Drew Jackson explores the first eight chapters of Luke's Gospel. These are declarative poems, faithfully proclaiming the gospel story in all its liberative power. Here the gospel is the "fresh words / that speak of / things impossible." This powerful poetry helps us hear the hum of deliverance—against all hope—that's been in the gospel all along.

Download or read book Poems Inspired by God written by Frances Saunders and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-08-17 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of inspirational poems inspired by God. Readers, both young and young at heart, will embark on an inspirational journey of the heart, spirit, and soul to find, ignite, or rekindle the most important relationship of our lives.

Download or read book The Poems of Jesus Christ written by and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of some of the words of scripture spoken by Jesus the Christ to the world, put in poetry format, not as narrative as originally given.

Download or read book One Hundred and One Poems for God written by Darryl Johnson and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to enlighten, enrich, and enhance peoples lives. I hope that the words in this book will touch the lives of people and possibly Save and Change there Lives. This book is not affiliated with any religion or doctrine but is filled with Faith and Reverance to God. Within it's pages you will read poetry and some short stories of my lifes events which I know will rivit and woe you. If at the end of it's reading you are not moved in some kind of way by at least one poem please contact me and tell me to give up writing... If in fact you are moved which I know you will be, please share the blessing with someone. Every word and thought in this book is of my own doing and not one thought is of anyone else's writings. I give credit to God as author. I myself only being the hand, tool, device, and pen which he choose to bless you, the reader. Sit back, lay down, stand, walk around, or you may want to strap yourself in at times but what ever you do I know you are going to enjoy reading, One Hundred And One Poems For God.

Download or read book God Inspired Poems Written by an Angel written by ANGEL M. ALBERTSON and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years of my life I have been inspired by God to write my poems of love and worship. It has been an honor and joy that God has given me this gift, for that I will be indebted to Him eternally. I hope these poems will bring you peace, comfort, enlightenment as you read them. I wish God’s richest blessings upon you as you read these poems. These poems were inspired by God and were written by Angel M. Alberston.

Download or read book The Innkeeper written by John Piper and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only two weeks from his crucifixion, Jesus has stopped in Bethlehem. He has returned to visit someone important—the innkeeper who made a place for Mary and Joseph the night he was born. But his greater purpose in coming is to pay a debt. What did it cost to house the Son of God? John Piper shares a tale of what might have been through the story-poem of an innkeeper whose life was forever altered by the arrival of the Son of God. Ponder the sacrifice that was made that night. Celebrate Jesus's birth and the power of his resurrection. And encounter the hope his life gives you for today—and for eternity. This imaginative story has been redesigned and makes a great gift for families.

Download or read book Poems to the Child God written by Kenneth E. Bryant and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems to the Child-God is the first full-length study in English of the verse of Surdas, or Sur, traditionally ranked among the three greatest poets writing in Hindi. Combining introduction, critical study, and annotated translation in a single volume, this work introduces the general reader to a major sixteenth-century mystic poet, best known for his lyrics in praise of the child-god Krsna (Krishna), and proposes, to both specialists and general readers, a way of reading Sur's verse significantly different from that found in traditional critical approaches. A general introduction provides an overview of the poet’s life and time, the religious and literary milieu that informed his work, and the mythology associated with his chosen deity, Krsna. Part 1 looks closely at individual verses from the Sursagar, examining the ways in which the poet manipulates the structures of language, poetic convention, and mythology to develop a theme central to the literature of Krsna-worship: the irony of incarnation. It is, Bryant argues, the irony of a child who never stops growing, beyond manhood and into godhood, seldom glimpsing the still more awesome truth: that he is and has always been the source and substance of the universe. Part 2 presents an anthology of Sur’s verse in English translation. The poems have been arranged to portray the Krsna tale as Sur understood it. Sectional introductions provide the reader with the classical outlines of the tale and point out where the poet made alterations or embellishments of his own. A set of notes on the translations, and a glossary of potentially unfamiliar terms and characters, further assist the Western reader in approaching the work of a major figure in the religious and literary history of India. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Download or read book Glory in the Margins written by Nikki Grimes and published by Paraclete Press (MA). This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thirteen month cycle of poems distilled from chosen scriptures, viewed from her perspective as Black, as woman, as poet, and looking for the glory found in the margins of life"--

Download or read book Poem of the Man God written by Maria Valtorta and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 23 April 1943, Good Friday, Maria Valtorta reported hearing the voice of Jesus. From then until 1951 she produced over 15,000 handwritten pages in 122 notebooks, mostly detailing the life of Jesus as an extension of the gospels. Her handwritten notebooks containing close to 700 reputed episodes in the life of Jesus were typed on separate pages by her priest and reassembled, given that they had no temporal order, and became the basis of her 5,000-page book The Poem of the Man God.

Download or read book Metaphorical God written by Kimberly Johnson and published by Persea Books. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dazzling....She writes with Milton open at her elbow but with the real dirt of a real Utah under her fingertips.--The Yale Review No poet writing today confronts the perplexities of the divine with more pizzazz than Kimberly Johnson. In A Metaphorical God, Johnson showcases her gifts for mining language for its hidden gems and its gospel (my tongue is a fovent choir, / a cloven fire), using what she unearths to delve deep into mysteries both epistemological and holy.

Download or read book Softer God written by Carisa Downs and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you could have a conversation with God Himself, what would He say? Would He be vicious, stripping you with His words, recounting your mistakes? Perhaps you, like the author of this book, have spent much of your life expecting and avoiding a fear-hungry God who watches you hawkishly from the Other Side. Perhaps you, like the author of this book, have found yourself being chased - but not in the way you most feared. From her real and intense encounters with a God who proved Himself mysterious, sacrificial, humorous, and meticulously kind comes this collection of stark and honest Christian poetry from Carisa Downs. On every page of this fully illustrated book, you will have the opportunity to "be found" by a God who may be softer than any of us know.

Download or read book God of Nothingness written by Mark Wunderlich and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent book of hope and resolve written out of profound losses, by award-winning poet Mark Wunderlich

Download or read book Poems Inspired by the Jesus Story written by T. Ronald Haney and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems, Poems Inspired by the Jesus Story, are an attempt to bring the Jesus story in the gospel into contemporary experience. The Jesus story is not a wrinkled document eclipsed in the mist of ancient history. Rather the Jesus story in the gospel has a vibrant impact on and infuses our everyday lives here in the present. These poems are geared to increasing your consciousness so that you can make essential connections between Jesus' life story and your life story. Each poem is a retelling of some part of the Jesus story in the gospel story. Father T. Ronald Haney is a retired priest of the Harrisburg, PA diocese. Ordained 50 years. He has been a principal of a high school; a pastor; and the Executive Editor of The Catholic Witness for 30 years, the diocesan newspaper. He is a published essayist, poet and novelist. He has published inspirational books on the spiritual life, including God Within You, One Minute Meditations, The Jesus Story, The Stations of the Cross and Prayers for Priests. He lives in St. Theresa's parish in New Cumberland, PA and can be contacted at [email protected]

Download or read book I AM with You written by Karen Chisholm and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems are God's gift to me in my morning quiet time and I make of them a gift to you. I am so often amazed at the words that appear on the page as I write. I know these thoughts are not the ones I am used to living with day to day, and I worship God for His words revealed through me, a simple seeker who loves Him. In these pages you will hear God speaking to you. You will also hear me whining at God (seems like when my writing is all about me and my shortcomings, I must be whining). and there follows a section that is perhaps rhetorical, perhaps not. We can all gain from the words written here. May these simple and sometimes inconsistent thoughts bless you and draw you closer to Him.