I must confess that when I see neatly laid out text in the form of a poem I
\nam tempted to immediately skip down past it. I became an avid reader in my high
\nschools years but mainly read science fiction especially what was considered
\n“hard” science fiction where the science itself played an integral part of the
\nstoryline. C.S. Lewis once said something to the effect that to be an atheist
\nyou had to be a careful reader. I was very careful it seems and never really
\nread anything that challenged my world view. But God does work in mysterious
\nways and even reading pretty much only in the genres of science fiction and
\nfantasy I noticed that the characters and heroes I admired most were those that
\nwere virtuous and had the highest moral standards.. I contrasted that with
\nmyself and and saw how much I was lacking in either.<\/p>\n
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\nmain point of this post, Steven Riddle of
\nto try to read poetry. I started reading his blog because of his insights into
\nthe writing of St. John of the Cross and then he started sneaking poetry in.
\nOther blogs that I admire also would regularly post poetry and I started to
\nwonder if maybe their enjoyment of poetry also gave them insights into the
\nspiritual life and the reading of scripture. If the Holy Spirit could inspire
\nsomeone to write the Song of Songs and inspire King David to write the Psalms
\nthen there must be something in this poetry thing. Anyway, thanks for those
\nbloggers out there posting poetry and helping me to get over being a
\nstanzaphobic; even though I have a long way to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"