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Confidence - David Craig

Confidence

By: David Craig, Robert McNamara

Paperback | 20 February 2020

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Though we Christians don't need subjective texts to understand or live our faith, nevertheless we can often take great joy and insight from hearing how others have "walked the walk," from hearing what our Lord or our Lady had to say to them. Reading these folk can be like talking over a backyard fence. We can get little tips, helps; and we can make a friend. Gabrielle Bossis's He and I really helps the reader to see how sweetly Jesus, the most high God of the universe, loves us. It helps us get a feel for the mystical circuitry, for how we are made--not to be stand-alone units, but rather to be in intimate, continual union with the only One who both knows us and lovingly completes us. It's like a homey road map, or an afternoon of tea and good company. It's like going to a game and the home team wins.

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“It’s possible that what David Craig has fashioned here is a new Book of Common Prayer. Within the universe of devotions, Craig is able to bring about observations and observances that shine with wit and existential piety which succeeds in erasing the distance between perceiving subject and perceived objects, between the quasi-fictive speaker and the chair he sits in. The fluidity of subject, predicate, object in the lived understanding of universal Oneness in the being of God becomes, as in Wallace Stevens, ‘the motive for metaphor,’ and the reader can dissolve in the poems’ momentary transformations.”
—Bill Tremblay, author of Walks along the Ditch: Poems

“David Craig is a psalmist who praises the complexity of the way, as St. John of the Cross once celebrated its darkness, as Gerard Manley Hopkins celebrated the strangeness and depth of the visions which burst one through illusion. I believe David Craig to be the foremost religious poet of the day whose special gift is to reveal the presence and care of God in all things—especially the most unlikely things. He gives poems as rich in humanity as they are in the mystery of God. . . . This is a major work in the mystical tradition.”
—Howard McCord, author of Collected Poems

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