At Backward Mutters I'll be posting thoughts on various topics of personal interest which will likely be limited to poetry, C.S. Lewis, and Jesus because, try as I may, I can't stop talking about either. <br/><br/><a href="https://backwardmutters.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">backwardmutters.substack.com</a>
Backward Mutters Podcast
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At Backward Mutters I'll be posting thoughts on various topics of personal interest which will likely be limited to poetry, C.S. Lewis, and Jesus because, try as I may, I can't stop talking about either. <br/><br/><a href="https://backwardmutters.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">backwardmutters.substack.com</a>
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April 5, 2026
A Pet Poem for Easter
<p>Good morning, listeners. Today’s poem is a poem for Easter. It was originally written in response to a poetry prompt in which we were to write a “pet poem.” At the time I was preaching a series from the book of Job and was thinking a lot about the monsters in that book: Rehab, Behemoth, and Leviathan. I was really taken by the image of Leviathan in Job chapter 41.</p><p>Up to that point in the book of Job, Job has been suffering calamities, suffering so-called good friends trying to set him straight, suffering the silence of God, pleading his case, but in Job chapters 38-41 God asks Job some questions, and in Job 41, the Lord asks this,</p><p>1 “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? 2 Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? 3 Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words? 4 Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever? 5 Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls? Job 41:1-5</p><p>The image of the Lord making Leviathan nothing more than a pet for young girls sealed the deal for me. I had to write a pet poem about Leviathan.</p><p>At about that same time, I was looking for the ways aritists imagined Leviathan. I found one image I particularly liked that was included in a 12th Century manuscript titled, Hortus Deliciarum (The Garden of Delights), a book was compiled by Herrad of Landsberg. In this image of Leviathan, some artistic monk drew Leviathan being fished for with a hook featuring Jesus’ human nature on the cross as the bait. I’ve included the imagine in the episode’s notes. The fishing line is composed of several patriarchs and prophets which resemble a Jesse Tree or a chain of prophecies in the Old Testament foretelling Jesus’ coming. Leviathan attempts to swallow Jesus, but in so attempting, Leviathan pierces his own jaw on the hook. In looking at the image, you can see how the text and image relate.</p><p>One other thing, seemingly random but really related. Have you ever caught those TV shows about “noodlers”? Noodlers are catfishers who catch these huge catfish by sticking their hand in a catfish hole until the catfish bites their arm. Once the catfish bites, they pull the fish out of the water. Do they use dough balls? Chicken livers? [Nope.] They use themselves. They are the bait. In some way, that is just what Jesus Christ has done. He became the bait so that we might get the catch. In a manner of speaking, I’m saying, that Jesus’ resurrection on Easter morning means, the catfish hole of death is empty. Life has swallowed up the grave. Jesus makes death no more dangerous than a tame bird or a pet your little girls lead around on a leash.</p><p>So, I’d like to wish you a Happy Easter. Hallelujah! Christ is risen!</p><p><strong>A Pet Poem</strong> Tied like bait and fastened to a tree He descended, cast himself to the depths Of this world’s chaos and calamity Sank ‘neath its waves and breathed his last breath. Swallowed by the gaping mouth of death In the dark of its belly he lay Until the barbed hook of justice set On the morning of the third day. Holding his rope in the beast’s jaw fixed fast The one who went down, was drowned, arose Bursting death’s belly, the scorned and outcast Led Leviathan out by the nose. In our loving, Redeemer’s victory The fears we fear, the terrors and threats Are of no more concern for you and me Than a bird a young boy might get, And Leviathan that dragon of death Is led for your girls on a leash like a pet.</p><p><strong>Description: </strong>God fishing Leviathan, using Jesus Christ’s human nature as bait. Jesus is depicted crucified, at the bottom of a <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Tree">w:Jesse Tree</a>. Miniature from <a target="_blank" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hortus_deliciarum">Hortus deliciarum</a>. between 1167 and 1185. <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrad_of_Landsberg">w:Herrad of Landsberg</a>.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://backwardmutters.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">backwardmutters.substack.com</a>
March 10, 2026
Where Are You?
<p>Well, friends, spring arrived in my neck of North Carolina while my wife and I were in Lancaster, PA at this year’s Square Halo Conference. Square Halo’s a wonderful two-day conference for those thinking about how art and creativity intersect. It is a community big on collaboration, and I am grateful for how they’ve worked to collaborate with other artists and groups of artists across the US and the world.</p><p>As I was saying, spring arrived. And one of my favorite things about spring is that the almond tree on the grounds of the church that I pastor is now blooming. This tree was planted in 2018 by some friends who heard my longing for such a tree after preaching a series on Jeremiah. Our church’s almond tree first bloomed in March of 2020. I cannot tell you how timely that was for me. As we entered the Covid pandemic, I was able to see a living picture of the Lord’s promise of presence and faithfulness. That tree has been preaching to me through the seasons ever since. I highly recommend getting one for yourself.</p><p>So, how does this almond tree preach? Firstly, the almond is an early flowering tree. It is one of the first trees to bloom, and it oftentimes does so before ‘spring-ness’ has arrived. The almond blossom takes on the symbol of a fore-sign of the good that is coming even though the present circumstances don’t seem to show it.</p><p>The almond tree makes several appearances in the Bible. The menorah candelabra in the Tabernacle and the Temple was fashioned to look like an almond tree — with leaves and blossoms. The almond tree also makes and appearance in Jeremiah 1. In Jeremiah 1 we read that the Lord calls Jeremiah into ministry at an early age. Jeremiah questions as to whether he’s worthy or old enough to be of any use to the Lord let alone have anything to say that his people would be inclined to hear. The Lord answers Jeremiah with a question. Apparently, Jeremiah is having his conversation with the Lord in the spring of the year outside somewhere. The Lord asks Jeremiah, What do you see? Jeremiah looks and replies, I see an almond branch. To which the Lord responds, “You see well son, for I am watching over my word to perform it.” Now that sounds good in so far as we understand it in English, but embedded in the Hebrew is something more.</p><p>The Hebrew word for almond is “shaqeed”. Jeremiah says, “I see a shaqeed.” And the Lord responds, You see well son, because I am shoqued (watching over). Right here in this significant moment of calling, and right in the moment of doubt and unconfidence, the Lord responds to Jeremiah with a sort of ‘dad joke’…a pun. I find that delightful. What kind of father is our Heavenly Father? The Lord uses the almond pun to assure Jeremiah, that just a child desires their parents’ approval at something they are undertaking, Jeremiah’s Lord and Heavenly Father is watching approvingly over Him. And the beautiful thing is that whenever Jeremiah saw an almond tree from that day on, he not only saw an almond tree, but he heard the Lord saying that he was shoqued-ing over Jeremiah. Now, that’ll help you.</p><p>Today’s poem is one I’ve been reworking since 2020. It is my Jeremiah 1, almond tree poem. I’ve borrowed a line from Eugene Peterson who somewhere translated “almond branch” to “almond stick.” He employed stick to try and get at the pun of shaqeed and shoqued. I’ve borrowed it here in my poem. I hope it helps you as it has helped me. So happy spring. If it’s not where you are yet, take heart. The almond tree is blooming.</p><p><strong>What Do You See?</strong> I loved you before I made you in love In the hidden place of your begetting; The mission of your life comes from above; As my watchman, you’ll speak, my word spreading. “Ah, but Lord God, who am I? Can’t you see? I am just a youth; I cannot speak. Who would hear or listen to me? I don't know how; I'm not strong but weak.” Ah, indeed. Do not say, “Ah!” Do you hear? I’ll put in your mouth my word of power You shall say what I say. Speak! Do not fear; Though they beat, you’ll remain my strong tower. “But how will I know that you are with me?” I said to myself as I walked along. Jeremiah, tell me, what do you see? I looked up, “I see a stick of almond.” You see well, son! I’ll be sticking around — To watch you work my word for years to come. You watch each spring when this stick of almond Reminds with its blooms the sticking I’ve done. Remember this stick, son. I’m sticking around Whether you work to plant, pull up, or tear down.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://backwardmutters.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">backwardmutters.substack.com</a>
April 28, 2025
A Poem for Your Pocket
<p>I learned several years ago from a member of my congregation that April 29th was Poem In Your Pocket Day. Though it’s a part of National Poetry Month, I’ve just discovered that it isn’t a fixed day during the Month, but rather it can move. Maybe it’s something like a moveable feast in the church calendar. Or maybe it’s something like the difference in Easter Sunday between the Julian and Gregorian Calendars.</p><p>Though I’m a week and a half late, every day one should have a poem in their pocket. So, for all my Substack, Poetry Pub, Goodness Tea Party, Almond Tree Peeps, and anyone who has an empty pocket out there. Here’s a Poem for Your Pocket.</p><p>I need a poem for my pocket-- One that I can take with me, One that turns into a rocket, Shoots me up and out and free… One that lifts my eyes to heaven, Enables me to see, Words that work in me like leaven, Or root me like a tree. My pocket holds an iPhone Some change and several keys But my pocket needs a poem To put my mind at ease. (So) Here’s a poem for your pocket: One to take where’er you go, A promise in a locket, A promise you should know. His word is written in you Is seed a Sower’s sown, It sprouts and grows within you, Till you become a poem That sings His Hallelujah Or weeps in sad lament, Leaves you speechless in the awe Of the Gospel Word He’s sent. Like a poem in the pocket Of His waistcoat near His breast You are sealed in the locket Of His loving heart, and blessed. </p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://backwardmutters.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">backwardmutters.substack.com</a>
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