Sometimes, you simply invite them to look into themselves. Our time is drawing to a close and I can't stop without asking you to comment on the emerging importance of poetry in our culture. The guys who brought poetry back to us are the rhymists, the rappers. They brought the very concept of poetry back to us again with vigor. Although it's perhaps best known in the inner-city, it is reminding the rest of us that poetry is a fundamental and living art and that it has the power to create an intimacy for us.
Poetry is the language of intimacy.
Our culture is crying out for intimacy and relationship amidst all the technology that surrounds us. Yes, that's right. When you share a poem together and suddenly there's that silence, the delight of the discovery, the beauty of the poem hits you, it creates an intimacy that cannot be duplicated by anything else. Windows Windows of Opportunity announce North Texas Conference-related leadership events designed to equip church leaders to share in God's continuing process of making disciples of Jesus Christ.