A Way Less Travelled

By Adrian Rogers

A Way Less Travelled features different ways of looking at the world around us, and the actions of people trying to see everyday things in a different light. It is inspired by the poetry and paintings of William Blake, sharing his spiritual focus on the symbolism of Jerusalem, and expressing a concern for justice and world peace.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Debbie Lee
• Release date: Mar 24, 2020
• ISBN: 9781760418854

Adrian Rogers

Adrian Rogers (1931-2005) was one of America’s most respected Bible teachers, communicating to millions through his Love Worth Finding radio and television ministry that continues today. He was also senior pastor of the 27,000-member Bellevue Baptist Church near Memphis, Tennessee, and a popular author whose books include What Every Christian Ought to Know and The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority.

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Part One

The Way is Hard, But Blake Understands

When the Flood Comes – in a Dream

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Sodden-leaved autumn, root slippery

half strips branches rain seeping,

no misted magically veiling

mellow fruitfulness

only a thinly winding path down-sloped,

levelling, breaking into a clearing

as water rising

laps over fear’s primal rashness

devoid of rational lightening,

dreaming a path’s aloneness

neither hearth nor home remembered

until disquiet

is dismembered by hope

grounded, upraised, sky cleared,

rending

lead-like weighted clouds slung low

yellow sun-shafted,

defining the alchemy of confidence

rectifying a mind’s scope

as lead to gold, mastering

the unexpected

yet present tensed, dry grounded

as trees draw back;

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a higher clearing…

Croagh Patrick Pilgrimage

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…until tossed clouds incense-like

over-roll a rough stone track,

a mountain hare wraith-silent appears

disappears

amid small stone rattles

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a cold-edged self as the soul battles

fears, a clouded unknowing

with bloodied stones

no inspiration but pain,

desire’s silent pressuring,

bones slipping across hard surfaces

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and life/death interfaces

with thunder, lightning, rain,

attacking those sheltering places

fourteen stations of the Cross

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while exorcising our loss

unto nowhere

by a sunburst above the Temple

when the clouds power down

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everywhere.

Blake’s 1st Vision – The Wailing Wall

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Peace, be the dove

hovering above a wall

of stone-embedded prayers

remnant

of a universal temple unfinished

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and undiminished

touch heads, hearts, and hands

in hope, the constant