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It’s been a busy and eventful (and really good) semester. I am taking today, Friday (the 13th!) of finals week, to slow and breathe and be alone. I walked to Hale Library’s great room (the “Harry Potter room”) and wrote some poems, and this was one of them. The theme of beauty in the midst of pain is a common one for me (see, e.g., here<\/a> or here<\/a> or here<\/a>, not to mention the many about OCD and … well it’s a theme). My good friend and I had a conversation the other day where just the stories in his own immediate world felt crushing, not even to mention things like the stuff I read today in the news … or the Holocaust. The world groans. It aches. There is so much pain. This really hangs on me–I feel it, everyday–and I write to wrestle and help integrate who I know God to be and the visible world … my lament psalms.

(The title is from a line in a Switchfoot song. The first line is from J. I. Packer’s Knowing God<\/em> introduction. Corrie is Ten Boom; Lali is the tattooist of Auschwitz.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s been a busy and eventful (and really good) semester. I am taking today, Friday (the 13th!) of finals week, to slow and breathe and be alone. I walked to Hale Library’s great room (the “Harry Potter room”) and wrote some poems, and this was one of them. The theme of beauty in the midst […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}