Another journal entry: this one is from 11 Aug. 1997. I'm commenting on Mary Oliver's poetry, with its constant intrusion of the surprising divine, and the occlusion of scripture for many us today who find more scriptural force, at times, in non-biblical sources (like Oliver's poetry, for me) than we do in the scriptures themselves. In the Scriptures as they're handed and proclaimed to us by our churches, that is . . . .
