Whatever it is that makes a poem inspirational must be a lot more than merely aesthetic. The purpose must be to touch, and maybe even change something in the child who might be reading. That can manifest as a shift in spiritual state but it can be emotional or psychological. There is meditative verse written to help the reader escape from daily stress and see a larger view. Inspirational poems for kids can open up new ways of being and feeling.
It's our good fortune that so much of this poetry is available both hardbound and free online. A collection of stirring verse makes a marvelous gift. However, the most common use for inspirational poetry is at special moments, typically one specially selected poem. They're never unwelcome, and if chosen with taste, they might inspire a fuller love of poetry.
Inspiring verse is a balm for the child who gets sick. If not sending a whole book of them, one might copy one on the inside of a card taped to a present. They can be attached to an email and sent when one has to be working. They are appropriate at other times as well, like during a painful breakup, or right before any sort of big challenge.
If one's memory isn't completely lost to years and bad habits, it would be nice to actually memorize a poem or two. Then they can be available in conversation, which can be helpful if one isn't naturally conversant with people, kids in particular. Fortunately there is rhyme to help the memory, and inspiring poems can be just a single couplet.
There is an important difference between inspirational poetry and religious scripture. That difference is important for religious people and nonreligious alike, though for different reasons. The former may or may not be understood the way so many believers understand their scriptures, which is as the actual words of God.
The general principle is that verse is the account of the seeking, those hopeful for God's beneficence. Speakers are often ordinary sinners, which might be the precisely the intention. Such verse should be read as the report of someone proposed as an example, or even counter-example, for one's own quest for divine truth, rather than the voice of that truth itself.
This could be help for parents worried that inspirational poems might not be coherent with their religion's teachings. Those outside such a religious community might not understand, but such a thing can be important for more traditionally religious parents, who often feel assaulted by the secular world. As far as they're concerned, as long as there is a firewall maintained between the sacred and the secular, however inspiring, secular poems can contribute to a boy or girl's spiritual life by showing that such lives are being lived now.
For atheists, agnostics, and all those who are "spiritual but not religious, " inspirational verse can serve perhaps an even greater function. Remembering that some of this poetry ranks among the greatest ever written, it can sit a young person still and assist his or her contemplation of this cosmos, as well as of his or her own character. Such poetry can help a young person's exposure to the world of the religions and philosophies, but without the constricting dogmas. They can even be used as the textual basis for a symposium or meeting group. Poetry that uplifts the heart will always have a place in the reflective life.
It's our good fortune that so much of this poetry is available both hardbound and free online. A collection of stirring verse makes a marvelous gift. However, the most common use for inspirational poetry is at special moments, typically one specially selected poem. They're never unwelcome, and if chosen with taste, they might inspire a fuller love of poetry.
Inspiring verse is a balm for the child who gets sick. If not sending a whole book of them, one might copy one on the inside of a card taped to a present. They can be attached to an email and sent when one has to be working. They are appropriate at other times as well, like during a painful breakup, or right before any sort of big challenge.
If one's memory isn't completely lost to years and bad habits, it would be nice to actually memorize a poem or two. Then they can be available in conversation, which can be helpful if one isn't naturally conversant with people, kids in particular. Fortunately there is rhyme to help the memory, and inspiring poems can be just a single couplet.
There is an important difference between inspirational poetry and religious scripture. That difference is important for religious people and nonreligious alike, though for different reasons. The former may or may not be understood the way so many believers understand their scriptures, which is as the actual words of God.
The general principle is that verse is the account of the seeking, those hopeful for God's beneficence. Speakers are often ordinary sinners, which might be the precisely the intention. Such verse should be read as the report of someone proposed as an example, or even counter-example, for one's own quest for divine truth, rather than the voice of that truth itself.
This could be help for parents worried that inspirational poems might not be coherent with their religion's teachings. Those outside such a religious community might not understand, but such a thing can be important for more traditionally religious parents, who often feel assaulted by the secular world. As far as they're concerned, as long as there is a firewall maintained between the sacred and the secular, however inspiring, secular poems can contribute to a boy or girl's spiritual life by showing that such lives are being lived now.
For atheists, agnostics, and all those who are "spiritual but not religious, " inspirational verse can serve perhaps an even greater function. Remembering that some of this poetry ranks among the greatest ever written, it can sit a young person still and assist his or her contemplation of this cosmos, as well as of his or her own character. Such poetry can help a young person's exposure to the world of the religions and philosophies, but without the constricting dogmas. They can even be used as the textual basis for a symposium or meeting group. Poetry that uplifts the heart will always have a place in the reflective life.
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