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May all your wanderings this weekend, kindest friends,

see the poetry of His Hand everywhere

the Creator God of the universe Who

expresses more than one third of His Word to us in poetry

who is the Word come to make us

fully alive…

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{A very worthy listen today, from his devotions yesterday at Desiring God:
John Piper on The Role of the Poetry in the Life of the Christian}

Piper quotes Edwards:
… “Singing of praises to God seem to be appointed wholly to excite and express religious affections.

No other reason can be assigned why we should express ourselves to God in verse, rather than in prose , and do it with music, but only, that such is our nature and frame, that these things have a tendency to move our affections….

Jonathan Edwards, Religious Affections, Yale:115

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All is grace,

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Resource: The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers Devotions
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