poetry prayer

Poetry is one of those things that I think I pretend to understand and interpret. Maybe if I read it certain way, like in a deep profound tone, then ill get out of it what I should. But that doesn’t seem to work.  I like that we are reading more poetic stuff in class, especially in the bible.  When we talked about the reading for transformation, it made me think of that quote “read for transformation, not just information.”  The quote that stuck out to me the most was one hat we read in class.. “When we pray with poetry, whether the biblical poetry of the psalms or non-biblical poetry open to Christian appropriation, we open ourselves to the possibility of spiritual experience.”  I was thinking, a lot of times when people pray they pray with a certain tone.  It is almost a poetic tone.  Whether it is from the Bible or our own words to God.  I think when we pray from the psalms, we open ourselves up to a spiritual experience.  There is definitely something different when we pray a God prayer as opposed to a good prayer.

I also just want to touch on when we talked about language in class. I’m not one who gets offended when we read books or stories that having cursing in them. I would rather read stuff that did not, there’s a lot clean material out there.  But I understand that we need to be exposed to the real world as well. The fact that we read literature that has bad language and fail to take it out is not so much about making God angry. Why would God get angry because someone says a curse word? That’s against God’s character. But it’s the heart behind it. When I read Colossians 3:8, that set it pretty clear in my mind that I should use profanity or any kinds of words that are socially unacceptable. I don’t think it’s right try and bargain with God on something like that.