HELP ME BE:  PRAYING IN POEMS by Dale C. Fredrickson

Publisher:  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 

Date published:  January 19, 2013

ISBN:  978-1481870450

Christian Poetry/Prose

Paperback

Reviewed by Lynne

http://www.amazon.com/Help-Me-Be-Praying-Poems/dp/1481870459

Obtained via publisher.

Rating:  5

Dale C. Fredrickson, a teaching pastor at St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, offers us a fresh, heartwarming testimony to his love for God in this wonderfully beautiful book of poetry, HELP ME BE:  PRAYING IN POEMS.  As King David did with his psalms, Dale shares his praise, his struggles, and deep, heart-felt longing for answers from the God he serves with such conviction.

As I do with all poetry, I read HELP ME BE:  PRAYING IN POEMS by Dale C. Fredrickson out loud.  Fredrickson’s are prayers of honesty and truth as he looks to God for answers or seeks to know Him more intimately, or just tries to understand why people have to suffer as they do.  Since truth comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God, it seems that reading these poems aloud is the best way to enjoy them.  This helps strengthen our faith as we seek God more in our daily walk with Him, in our daily struggles.  Such truth can manifest best if spoken aloud so it will seep into our hearts and spirits.  So I urge the reader to read HELP ME BE out loud.  To me, it seems like the only way to fully grasp the meaningful, remarkable content of each of Dale’s poems, which are written from his unique perspective, artistry with the written word, and his talent for communication.

Fredrickson has a way with words that will delight the reader and impress upon him how small his own faith in God may be.  And yet these poems will be an inspiration that will help the reader perhaps venture along the same path of self-discovery in his relationship with God, through HELP ME BE:  PRAYING IN POEMS.  It will help the reader grow more in his own intimacy with God.

Fredrickson is a unique talent, expressing himself through his poems, in prayer-like form.  It is amazing the wonder he invoked in me as I read his words of praise to God, his love and devotion, his child-like faith at times as he speaks to God in HELP ME BE:  PRAYING IN POEMS.

This is indeed a book of poetry I will again take the time to read, to refresh and inspire me to continue seeking God myself more ardently, more sincerely, and more lovingly than before.  Fredrickson is a true inspiration, a talented Christian writer who deserves sincere recognition and encouragement to continue on the road to which God is leading him through his prayers of poetry.

HELP ME BE:  PRAYING IN POEMS by Dale C. Fredrickson is indeed a book to be cherished as the treasure that it is.

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