Category: Poetry Publisher: Robin Rumbolt
Pages: 62
Copyright: December 28, 2008
ISBN-13: 9780557037209
“Heart Ablaze” is a book of poems written from a heart passionate for the things of the Spirit. It draws you into a deeper more intimate relationship with God. Some of the topics included are forgiveness, freedom, love and worship. These poems are healing for the heart and refreshment for the soul.
This collection of poems could have no better title than Heart Ablaze: Deep Calling to Deep. Robin speaks so often of her heart, the human heart and the heart of God. Even where she does not use the word “heart”, she touches on the reality. Her poems remind us to open our depths to the deep love of God in Jesus. In “Deeper, Closer” she says “I long to go deeper…I long to get closer.” May we all have a bit of that same longing.
Fr. Richard McNally ss.cc.
Some of Robin’s poems, such as “The Eve”, are so simple you think, “Why, even a child could have written that.” Others touch something so deep inside it doesn’t even have a name.
“Signs,” an arrow pointing to something, but what? Almost fearfully you’re drawn to follow. In “The Journey” you’re left, for a moment, holding onto a hand that is no longer there; then, turn in terror, to find, outstretched, the hand that always is.
These poems are to be read, and read, and read.
Peg Butts, Intercessor
Robin's unquenchable thirst for the presence of God and her passion for worship shine through her poetry. She walks in the promises of God. Her life is a testimony to the power of the Holy Spirit living within her. Her poems speak to all of us who desire a closer walk with God.
Mary Iacobucci, Worship Leader
Rich, deep and energizing are the words I would use to describe Robin’s poetry. This precious work takes you directly into the presence of God because it comes from her being in that intimate place. Out of Robin’s relationship and experiences with the Lord, she pens revelations she personally receives when she enters in that “Secret Place”. May these writings draw you closer to the flame and heart of God, as they have drawn me!
Into the desert you lead me.
It’s so barren and arid in here.
There’s nothing but emptiness before me.
You’re leading but I know not where.
It’s a place with no natural provision;
no shelter, no water, no food.
I trust that you will be my portion;
that you’ll work all things out for my good.
There’s a rock and it’s pouring forth water;
there are flakes from the sky that are food.
There’s a pillar of light that I follow;
on a clear sunny day there’s a cloud.
I can see that my ways are not your ways.
I know that you’re with me to stay.
So, into the desert I’ll follow
and I know you won’t lead me astray.
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Psalm 143:9-10 (NAB 1992)
Rescue me, Lord, from my foes, for in You I hope. Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. May your kind Spirit guide me on ground that is level.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
