Leap of Dave Summer Reading Blog: Book #10: The Stranger in the Woods

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Poetry Friday: The Problem of Good.

 It's Thursday night so we all know that mean's it's time for Poetry Friday.  This week's festival of free verse, carnival of couplets, and symposium of sonnets is being held at Bookseed Studio.

I went through about 1.3 million drafts or so of this poem before I got this far. I was driving my family crazy with all the revisions.  Here is what I came up with ...

The Problem of Good.

I tried feeling good

       But ...

Feeling good fades.

I tried being good

       But ...

Being good is impossible

I tried doing good

Doing good is filling a leaky bucket

One exhausting drop at a time

Then I remembered

God is good.

I can ...

Feel His Goodness

Be His Goodness

Do His Goodness

And...

That's not bad. 

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Leap of Dave Summer Reading Blog: Book # 9: Between Heaven & Hell (Plus Next Ten)

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This was not only my 9th book of my Summer Reading Program but the 35th book I read this year.  This puts me on pace to read 69.39 books by years end.

Next Ten

Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis

Knowing God - J.I. Packer

Immanuel: Reflections on the life of Christ- Michael Card

Inside the Voyage of the Dawn Treader - Devin Brown

Writing Poetry from tje Inside Out - Sanford Lynne

What to Do on Thursday - Jay Adams

Dorothy L Sayers - A Biography: Death, Dante, and Lord Peter - Colin Duriez

Dreyer's English - Benjamin Dreyer

Great Short Poems - Paul Negri - Editor

The Light of His Presence - Anne Graham Lotz