Oh my! What a beautiful conversation! I just read it over coffee this morning and I’m smiling at so much of what Padraig said and wrote.
I really chuckled at his take on the 5 love languages. I’m guilty of using that book to teach young married classes. Life is so much more complex. 40 years and counting with my lovely marriage to my sweet man and we’re still discovering our uniqueness.
And when the poem says”You and your certitudes, she said.” Ahhh… like Pete Enns always says. Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith. Certainty is. Or something like that.
I love questions. The open question about do I believe in God? Hmmm. I used to know for certain what that meant and I was more like those young Baptists. Well, I was exactly like them. 😊Thank God for new insights.
That’s why I love poetry. So much to mull over and it stays with me. I loved his book Poetry Unbound. It’s not often that I’ve read poetry and had a poet explain poems to me. So insightful.
Thank you Jeff for your writing that encourages me to see the world differently and for exposing us to new ideas.
Pádraig Ó Tuama is one of my favorite voices. He taught me to, if not love, then appreciate poetry. I resonated with your sharing at the beginning that you feel intimidated by poetry; my black-and-white loving brain struggles to get much out of imagery and I really want to know what is meant by what I'm reading. But through his Poetry Unbound podcast and his own writings, all of which I've devoured, Pádraig has taught me to let a text breathe.
Thank you so much for conducting this interview. The world needs both of you so much right now, and it was such a gift to pretend to be in the same room with the two of you.
Pádraig will be in Indianapolis on April 28 and I can't wait to hear him speak in person for the first time.
Thanks so much for this. it seems what I needed, tho I feel I only grasped small parts. Back for a re-read later.
Oh my! What a beautiful conversation! I just read it over coffee this morning and I’m smiling at so much of what Padraig said and wrote.
I really chuckled at his take on the 5 love languages. I’m guilty of using that book to teach young married classes. Life is so much more complex. 40 years and counting with my lovely marriage to my sweet man and we’re still discovering our uniqueness.
And when the poem says”You and your certitudes, she said.” Ahhh… like Pete Enns always says. Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith. Certainty is. Or something like that.
I love questions. The open question about do I believe in God? Hmmm. I used to know for certain what that meant and I was more like those young Baptists. Well, I was exactly like them. 😊Thank God for new insights.
That’s why I love poetry. So much to mull over and it stays with me. I loved his book Poetry Unbound. It’s not often that I’ve read poetry and had a poet explain poems to me. So insightful.
Thank you Jeff for your writing that encourages me to see the world differently and for exposing us to new ideas.
Love Padraig so. 💚
Cannot wait to see you! on your book tour through Waco. I already have my tickets!
I appreciate his words and yours. By way of thanking you, I send this from a pastor known as The Ornitheologist (not a typo). He writes about birds!
https://www.ornitheology.com/post/seeing-the-world-like-a-great-gray-owl
This was wonderful.
(“Terrible book” made me laugh so hard, my kids were asking what was so funny.)
Pádraig Ó Tuama is one of my favorite voices. He taught me to, if not love, then appreciate poetry. I resonated with your sharing at the beginning that you feel intimidated by poetry; my black-and-white loving brain struggles to get much out of imagery and I really want to know what is meant by what I'm reading. But through his Poetry Unbound podcast and his own writings, all of which I've devoured, Pádraig has taught me to let a text breathe.
Thank you so much for conducting this interview. The world needs both of you so much right now, and it was such a gift to pretend to be in the same room with the two of you.
Pádraig will be in Indianapolis on April 28 and I can't wait to hear him speak in person for the first time.