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These short poems may hit you like a barrage of sound bites but after the initial shock there is much to contemplate about God.

Water is faithful

our inner being is clean

with the dew of dawn

God is a loving unit—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—who spurred the creation of the universe.

In a debut collection of inspirational haiku, Cindy Wilkening leans on her Christian faith to lyrically explore the time before time, the beginning, observations of human nature and the natural world, evil, and the God-Man, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Each poem captures a complex idea that encourages the reader to explore the God who came to Earth to meet us where we are and pursue us with a love that will not quit. Through her poems, Wilkening prays others will find that hope is not lost and that a relationship with the divine is not only possible but compelling.

Water is Faithful is a collection of haiku that will inspire readers to explore a relationship with God in a new and introspective way.

Sujets

Religion

Christianisme

Inspirational

Themes

Subjects

Religious

Jesús de Nazaret

Human nature

Jesus

Haiku

Christianity

Poetry

Love

Nature

Jésus de Nazareth

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Publié par	WestBow Press
Date de parution	10 janvier 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781664285682
Langue	English

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Water is Faithful

Haiku for Mind, Body, and Soul

CYNTHIA WILKENING

Copyright © 2023 Cynthia Wilkening.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The “NIV” and “New International Version” are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.®

ISBN: 978-1-6642-8569-9 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6642-8568-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022922192

WestBow Press rev. date: 1/10/2023

Water is Faithful is dedicated to my dear husband, Doug,
who brought us to a church
to meet people,
and
we met Jesus in a whole new way.

He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega,
the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water
without cost from the spring of the water of life.”
Revelation 21:6 (NIV)

Acknowledgments
I especially thank Maurice J. Reynolds, owner-editor of the online Christian poetry magazine, Creative Inspirations, for publishing three of my poems in his May–June 2022 issue (which are included in this book with permission: “Something from Nothing,” “Too Busy, You Say,” and, “There’s Little Silence”) and three poems in his July – August 2022 issue (which are included in this book with permission: “You’ll Find If You Are,” “On Another Earth,” and, “Oft He Allows Storms”).
Thanks go to my husband, Doug, for his support and guidance and thorough proofreading of the manuscript.
Thank you to the staff at WestBow Press for their enthusiasm for this poetry project and attention to details.

Introduction
Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry with a three-line, five-seven-five-syllable structure that traditionally focuses on nature. Water is Faithful retains this structure but has an overarching theme of God as a loving unit: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God wants family, and many of these poems express this incredible cosmic desire. The poems explore the time before time, the beginning, observations of human nature and the natural world, evil, and the God-Man, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He meets us where we are and pursues us with a love that will not quit.
I pray that when you read this book, you will find that hope is not lost and that a relationship with the divine is not only possible but compelling.
December 2022

Water is faithful
our inner being is clean
with the dew of dawn

Something from nothing
only God could do it right
Spirit births matter

God’s zeal can do it
He lives far out of the box
do not hem Him in

Singularity
manifested in Jesus
the big bang was His

In the beginning
light shone before the sunshine
Spirit broke darkness

Space and time move us
spirit realm has a presence
Jesus makes it known