Behind the Poem: Two Pieces of Wood

Behind the Poem: Two Pieces of Wood

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Welcome to the first “Behind the Poem” blog post, where I’ll be giving a bit of a story behind a poem from my book, Write Your Heart. Enjoy the glimpse behind the curtain of poetic words!

Around 1:00 in the morning, those of us who were participating in our youth group’s late night worship entered the dimly-lit sanctuary. From the sound booth in the back, our youth pastor started the music and I settled onto the carpet in the left corner of the stage, sitting in the shadows with my notebook next to me.

Why “Write Your Heart”

Why “Write Your Heart”

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I’m fairly certain that when I first told people the title of my poetry collection, they weren’t very impressed.

In all fairness, it does sound a little…sappy? Cliché? However, in reality, it is anything but.

It came from gentle instruction from Jesus.

God cares about what’s in and on our hearts, and He was calling me to write it out. To write to Him, and for Him. And so, when I decided my first book would be a poetry book, that is the title that pulled them all together.