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Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

Psalms and Creative Writing: Poetic Praise

When Christ is born within you and dwells in your heart, you see with new eyes and hear with new ears. “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord” (Colossians […]

Filed Under: Poetry, Psalms and Creative Writing, Writing Tagged: living water, poetic praise, poetry, Psalms, Psalms and Creative Writing

June 5, 2014

Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

The Christian Writer: Weave Your Cloak of Light

Psalm 104 (selected verses) King James Version 104 Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. 2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: 3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: […]

Filed Under: Poetry, The Christian Writer, Writing Tagged: Christian Writer, Cloak of Light, poetry, writing

August 1, 2013

Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

The Only Puzzle That Matters

only one koan matters you –Ikkyu Ikkyu (1394-1481) was a Japanese Zen master and wandering poet. “. . .[Ikkyu] developed street Zen, out of the monastery and into the living reality of laypeople. . . . To really wake up you have to step out of the cloistered sacred and be in the midst of […]

Filed Under: Poetry, Writing Tagged: Ikkyu, poetry, The True Secret of Writing, Zen

May 24, 2013

Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

Melted Snowflake

each of us like the water of a melted snowflake a tiny lake existing for a moment –Terry Chitwood Impermanence Meditating on impermanence, my ideas dissolve in the sunlight of a new dawn. My thoughts like shadows scatter before the approaching light. A temple bell rings inside my heart. The song of the skylark resounds […]

Filed Under: Death, Poetry, Spiritual Journey Tagged: death, impermanence, poetry, Spiritual Journey

April 25, 2013
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