Aug 5, 2026 · 46 min · 11 segments
In this episode I talk about a few books I've read recently, and I begin talking about how Paul unfolds God's triumphs in terms of divine combat in Ephesians 1-2.
Tim GombosHost
Speaking of beautiful, beautiful mornings, this morning as I was walking, I had my poems with me.
I've got about five or six Mary Oliver poems memorized that I rehearse on my morning walks, and then I've got four others that I'm working on.
And that reminded me that last weekend, Steve and Allison and Laura and I went to go see the Mary Oliver documentary that has just been made.
Well, first of all, it was cool to just... get some insight into her story and into her narrative and the pain and the pursuit of beauty that she embarked on.
It was cool to see the particulars, the relationships, the places and all of that.
And, you know, Steve and I have talked about this in the past, but Good writing is hard.
It takes editing and editing and editing and chopping and revising and then sharing your work with other people and taking their feedback.
letting other people give you honest feedback about your work and then chopping some more and editing and it was really cool it was really cool to hear her talk about the disciplines associated with poetry especially because if you know if there's any sort of form of writing and any art form where you know conciseness is necessary it's in poetry and and the beauty is in the conciseness in fact the more concise lines are and the more concise a poem is, the more allusive it is, the more it opens up and the more it sort of brings us into a whole world of thought and a world of beauty and the more it sort of sparks our imaginations, which is sort of counterintuitive.
You would think that the more information you get the more it would spark our imagination, but not so with poetry.
And she talked quite a bit about that, about the disciplines associated with writing and her disciplines, which I thought was really, really cool.
Yeah, and it was also interesting to hear her talk about how absolutely uninterested she was in all of the PR and...
I don't know, the accolades and the publicity and the public relations part of publishing and of becoming increasingly well-known.
the craft and was committed to poetry itself and to the beauty and as a way of really working through her own stuff and her own experiences and just as an expression of her love for the natural world.
Speaking of beautiful, beautiful mornings, this morning as I was walking, I had my poems with me.
I've got about five or six Mary Oliver poems memorized that I rehearse on my morning walks, and then I've got four others that I'm working on.
And that reminded me that last weekend, Steve and Allison and Laura and I went to go see the Mary Oliver documentary that has just been made.
Well, first of all, it was cool to just... get some insight into her story and into her narrative and the pain and the pursuit of beauty that she embarked on.
It was cool to see the particulars, the relationships, the places and all of that.
And, you know, Steve and I have talked about this in the past, but Good writing is hard.
It takes editing and editing and editing and chopping and revising and then sharing your work with other people and taking their feedback.
letting other people give you honest feedback about your work and then chopping some more and editing and it was really cool it was really cool to hear her talk about the disciplines associated with poetry especially because if you know if there's any sort of form of writing and any art form where you know conciseness is necessary it's in poetry and and the beauty is in the conciseness in fact the more concise lines are and the more concise a poem is, the more allusive it is, the more it opens up and the more it sort of brings us into a whole world of thought and a world of beauty and the more it sort of sparks our imaginations, which is sort of counterintuitive.
You would think that the more information you get the more it would spark our imagination, but not so with poetry.
And she talked quite a bit about that, about the disciplines associated with writing and her disciplines, which I thought was really, really cool.
Yeah, and it was also interesting to hear her talk about how absolutely uninterested she was in all of the PR and...
I don't know, the accolades and the publicity and the public relations part of publishing and of becoming increasingly well-known.
the craft and was committed to poetry itself and to the beauty and as a way of really working through her own stuff and her own experiences and just as an expression of her love for the natural world.
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