Eugene H. Peterson has long been known as a pastor, professor, and provocateur. With this first-ever collection of verse, Peterson will become known as a poet, too. Holy Luck emerged over many years, initially as individual poems sent to family, friends, and church congregations. Now, the translator of the bestselling Bible paraphrase The Message has collected his poems into three thematic sections of verseson the Beatitudes, the kingdom of God in the ordinary, and following Jesus everydayhere released as one transcendent volume.