Heart of My Own Heart
Poems of Emotion Inspired by The Psalms
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To Feel (1) A dam named normality, an unspoken lie, in a world parched for truth, afraid to feel or cry, the help—the constant flow over rocks in a ravine, water from beneath the earth the Source of rain, water from an old book would trickle then flow mysterious into mind-crevices like melting snow; over time and meditation nearly every day, the dry pages, dry letters and dry moments would convey the words of God’s Spirit etched into rock, and into my mind, heart, and soul, it would lock answers to all my problems, carrying my emotions, a stream I meditated by day and night with calming notions, and the confusion named normality dissipated like steam as I sat still like Sidhartha, but it was Jesus the Supreme, the Source of this Scripture’s living water who spoke, and inside all life’s feelings led by steady thoughts awoke.
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Heart of My Own Heart Healing from mental illness, recovery from disenfranchisement, addiction and emotional abuse, along with moral and spiritual failure and renaissance, passion for Israel, and bountiful blessings from a relationship with Jesus Christ, all experienced by poet, Cheryl Longtine, bear expression in Heart of My Own Heart: Poems of Emotion Inspired by The Psalms. The reality of her theme that God Himself feels all emotions manifests itself in these poems. This especially proves true as one reads each poem, inspired by the one hundred fifty psalms of the Bible, side-by-side with the Psalms themselves. The power of healing that God provides through prayer and scripture offers hope and comfort to any reader, and the poet’s testimony to His deliverance reveals itself in this collection of original poems.