Tuesday Tome - Holy Luck

I can't wait for this book to arrive. This morning, I ordered a copy of Holy Luck after hearing it reviewed on the Books and Culture Podcast. From what I heard on that podcast, Peterson's preface to the book is worth the price of purchase. In the excerpts read on the podcast, Peterson recounts how the biblical Psalms served as his introduction to poetry as a child. He desribes how it shaped his love of words and informed his sense of language and meaning.

Peterson is a writer and thinker that I appreciate a great deal. I have found insight and beauty in all of his books, and consider his books, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction and The Contemplative Pastor, to be classics.

From the Publisher:
Throughout his many years in pastoral ministry, Eugene Peterson has found that almost everything he does as a pastor -- preaching, teaching, praying, counseling, writing -- involves words. To keep himself attuned to the power of words and to help him use language accurately and well, Peterson both reads and writes poetry.

Holy Luck presents three inspirational collections of Peterson's poems, most of which have never before been published, in one transcendent volume:

• Holy Luck (poems based on the Beatitudes)
• The Rustling Grass (poems about uncovering the Kingdom of God in the ordinary)
• Smooth Stones (occasional poems about "discovering significance in every detail encountered while following Jesus")