The 1981movie
Chariots of Fire includes a scene of
the Scottish runner Eric Liddell talking to a group of spectators after a race.
Liddell asks a rhetorical
question about faith, and running and winning a race: “Where does the power
come from?” And he answers it by saying, “The power comes from within.”
That scene
kept playing through my mind as I read the new poetry collection Almost
Entirely by Jennifer
Wallace. The collections 74 poems are about faith in the context of being
human and living a human life, and looking within to find what can sustain and
grow. As much as we might try, we know that life is not those Facebook happy
face emojis. But neither is it the sad face. It is both, and sometimes at the
same time.
What
Wallace does is to look deeply at what makes us human, and what is within us
that keeps reaching for the divine.
To continue
reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak
Poetry.
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