The Rutted Road is not about the moment faith ignites.
It is about what happens after.
These poems walk the long way — where belief has already been tested by consequence, where certainty no longer protects, and where the path forward is uneven, worn down by repetition, doubt, devotion, and loss. This is faith lived without spectacle: not rescued from the road, not spared its ruts, but carried through them.
The Rutted Road traces a journey marked by choices that cannot be undone and questions that refuse to resolve neatly. It is written for those who have acted, trusted, spoken, or loved — and then discovered that faith does not always explain itself afterward. What remains is motion. Persistence. The quiet courage of continuing.
These poems are not declarations.
They are footsteps.
Here, faith is not proven by certainty, but by movement.
Not by arrival, but by the willingness to keep walking.
Welcome to the road that bears the marks of belief.
The Series
🕯️🕊️ a new step on The Rutted Road
- Washed for the Wilderness 🕯️🕊️ — a baptism that becomes exile
- Prayer of Disrepair — a quiet prayer for those learning to live outside the applause
- after absentia — a reckoning with absence, pressure, and a rent heart
- fire away — integrity under impact
- skipping stones — the absence following action
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