Love Bade Me Welcome

Everyone needs wise companions in their walk with God. Through his poetry, George Herbert has been drawing others into a more honest faith and a deeper love of the Triune God for hundreds of years. Whether you are new to Herbert or already love his poetry, this devotional is an invitation to engage with a selection of his poems and to bring yourself and your experiences into conversation with his exploration of the life of faith. From ecstatic joy to profound spiritual depression, Herbert’s example encourages believers to hold every facet of themselves and their journeys before God.



This devotional contains guidance for interpreting the poems and connecting them to one’s life, along with carefully chosen Scripture texts and prayers accompanying each poem and prompts to encourage personal reflection and prayer. It brings together Suzanne McDonald’s seventeenth-century expertise and decades of experiencing the formative power of Herbert’s poetry in her own life, in the hope that journeying with Herbert will enable readers to grow in knowledge and love of God, and in their faith and discipleship.