Recover The Wild: Unfiltered Poems and Prayers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798667738343)

I feared I had lost my wife, I raged at the suicide of my grandfather, and lamented the loss of my career, and moved across the globe. My life felt like the ruins of an ancient city, demolished. Rumi said, "Where there is ruin, there is hope for treasure." Jesus said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit." In my ashes, I longed for a blessed treasure. I was going to recover the wild, and it would prove that time in the wild would be key.Prayers, Poems, Laments, and Blessings were to be my pathfinders in the transitions, deaths, and new beginnings I found myself in. Solitude by rivers, on top of mountains, in tents at midnight, by the fire with friends, jotting my observations and desires, would stoke the wildfire in me. I would live true. Those places proved to be the launchpad for this book.I became more candid with Life, with the Holy Mystery, and myself. I stripped off the constraining filter of prayer and let the anger, passion, confusion, doubt, desire, and love flood my notebooks' pages! Daily, I dismantled the conversational sieve I had long utilized with Jesus and others. It was that old prayer-filter that kept me from voicing frustration, rage, lament, joy, and my haunting unknowing. I was becoming more alive. I was recovering myself. In this reclamation project, tears, emotions, hopes, and pain all began to be experienced at deeper levels. This happened in wild settings, in natural places, by lakes, and in solitude. I was recovering my connection to the wild Earth. The momentum grew and the pretense diminished. I began to come home to myself and the mysteries alive in my body. I was recovering not only an awareness of flowers, birds, spiders, and leaves, but also, my own nature. Long had I been domesticated by religion, shame, divisive habits, and addictions. Grace launched me into a recovery of my true self. A recovery of the wild. Forgiveness catapulted me into a reclamation of the beauty of the world. A recovery of the wild.Inside are my questions, my unfiltered prayers, tearful laments, and joyous moments of connection with God and creation. They are pages describing my inner life as I was physically, spiritually, and emotionally, recovering the wild.

Author: Matthew Ray Lyda
ISBN-13: 9798667738343
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2026
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d