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Which Seeds Will Grow
$21.00Add to cartA new collection of poems by Palestinian-American Catholic poet Andrew Calis, Which Seeds Will Grow? ?finds hope in the Holy Land.
Grappling with his identity as a Christian Palestinian American, Andrew Calis recalls his father who saw Israeli jets swoop over his house in Jerusalem and a military helicopter fire bullets into his front yard. The same father who wouldn’t teach his children Arabic, for fear that they would have accented English, who kept his past close to his chest–unknown to his son. He recounts the death of his grandfather, a grandfather who would beat his father, and for whom he could not fully mourn because Arab men don’t cry.
Andrew Calis digs through the pain of his family and of his homeland to find the fragile seed of contained life and delicate hope for the Holy Land–and reflects on how tenderly that seed must be nurtured.
Steeped in wonder, Which Seeds Will Grow? explores the past and the present, from ancient Jerusalem to Baltimore’s gardens and alleys through the lens of a Palestinian American. The poems are patient, waiting for seasons to end, waiting for space to expand outward, and waiting for light to touch the earth. Despite the difficulty of waiting, readers will find hope in hopelessness and comfort in the contemplation of the world and its sacred mysteries.
From Which Seeds Will Grow?
Planting a Garden
Stealing clippings from neighbors’ yards
And smiling as they grew their own blooms
In the safe and hidden rooms where we
Keep watch on them like they are our children.
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Nothing grew. We knew this was
A possibility, had read
It sometimes takes two years,
And we hoped in spite of only dirt
For the green that could be anything.Perhaps we dug too shallow or too close
To the shade, or stepped where we had already planted,
Either crushing roots or breaking their curled
First shoots before they broke the surface.
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So when one survived, wove a green line
Of its own, thinly sprouting something unknowable, I ran
Inside and for a moment felt
What John must have felt
Leaving Peter, old and unsteadily running,
And running breathlessly
To tell everyone —
Everyone
What had happened
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Classic Christmas : A Collection Of Timeless Stories And Poems
$16.99Add to cartThis beautiful, giftable Christmas collection features 15 old-fashioned works from classic authors who invite you to a feast of holiday nostalgia.
A Classic Christmas includes stories from Louisa May Alcott, L. M. Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol, the world-renowned holiday favorite). The volume also includes poems from Clement Clarke Moore, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Christina Rossetti, Margaret Deland, Libbie C. Baer, and Anna de Bremont. This collection is a timeless reminder that the heart of the holiday never changes.
*Affordable and giftable size
*Presentation page for writing a meaningful message for gifting
*Perfect as a stocking stuffer, white-elephant gift, or host gift
*Filled with hopeful and encouraging Christmas stories and poems
*Makes a lovely keepsake companion to A Vintage Christmas and A Timeless ChristmasFilled with stories that have been part of the Christmas season for generations, A Classic Christmas is a unique collection of Christmas tales, reflections, and poems from beloved authors across the centuries and makes the perfect gift for any reader in your life.
*Revisit the most beloved Christmas story of all time, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.
*Delight in the wonder, joy, and humor of Clement Clarke Moore’s classic poem “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.”
*Discover the magical story of a tree whose secret thoughts come to life during the holidays in Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Fir Tree.”
*Share with your family the beauty and warmth of the Yuletide season with poetry from Paul Laurence Dunbar, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and many others.
This beautiful treasury will take you back to firesides, simple gifts, and cozy family moments of Christmases past as you cherish the timeless truths and joys of the season.
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Fast Cheetah Slow Tortoise
$18.99Add to cartA whimsical portrait of animals–and antonyms–in action.
?How do you contrast creatures as different as cheetahs and tortoises, or as similar as butterflies and moths? In this lively book of poetry, antonym pairs introduce thirty-two members of the animal kingdom. Each spread presents the voices of two unique creatures: are you more like an obedient sheep or a rebellious goat? What about a tidy pig or a messy warthog? A bossy gorilla or a meek monkey?
With bold, vibrant art and amusing free verse, this collection is a memorable way to explore vocabulary, opposites, and animal traits with young readers. Every flip of the page brings a new set of faces–and another chance to laugh.
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Dont Take Your Elephant To School
$16.99Add to cartHave you ever thought about the rules a lion would need to follow in school? Or considered the worst thing about a queue?
You haven’t? Then these poems are for you?
In this collection of over 70 poems, Steve Turner returns to much of the word play and wit of his best-selling The Day I Fell Down the Toilet. Using the alphabet as a framework, he has written three poems for each letter (including X and Z!). This highly entertaining book will delight all Turner fans and teachers will appreciate the varied poetry forms (shape, limerick, nonsense, free, rhyming, etc).
The fun, witty poems – often written from a thought-provoking point of view – cover such diverse subjects as aardvarks, cars, sausages, love and yo-yos, so there’s sure to be something to interest both boys and girls.
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Dad Youre Not Funny And Other Poems
$16.99Add to cartThe second hilarious poetry collection from the author of The Day I Fell Down the ToiletThe second hilarious poetry collection from the author of The Day I Fell Down the Toilet
Have you ever formed a secret club with friends? Or witnessed the flight of a cow?
Have you ever heard a duck whistle? You haven’t? Then read this book now.As always, Steve Turner’s poems present a fresh and quirky view on life. Many of the poems in this collection are about childhood: school and holidays, dreams and monsters, food, friends…
This collection of over seventy poems will entertain and interest children both in the classroom and at home. The themes and ideas are thought-provoking as well as witty and fun, and the entertaining cartoons reflect the mood of the poems.
Steve Turner is the award-winning author of the best-selling poetry collection The Day I Fell Down the Toilet.
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Day I Fell Down The Toilet And Other Poems
$16.99Add to cartHave you ever been punched by a cabbage or fallen head first down the loo?
Have you ever had fun with a poem? You haven’t? Then this book’s for you.
Whacky poems that take a roller-coaster ride from the crazy corners of dreams to the big questions of life.
This collection of over seventy poems for children by Steve Turner is regularly in the best-seller lists. Full of wit and fun, his thought-provoking poetry has been used by teachers in classrooms and entertained children at home over the years. These poems make an instant impact, as the themes and ideas in them offer lots of food for thought for young minds.
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Be Thou My Song
$12.95Add to cart“Be Thou my Song” is a line from seventeenth-century poet Edward Taylor. In his meditation on Philippians 2:9, Taylor finds that his ability to compose poetry falls short of his desire to glorify God, so he prays, “That I thy glorious Praise may Trumpet right, / Be thou my Song, and make Lord, mee thy Pipe.” In one way or another, all of the poets included in the chapters of Be Thou My Song strive to convey their wonder for God’s unending grace and mercy in their own limited ways; He provides the content, the song, while the writers are merely the conduits, the pipe. By reading these poems carefully, we can share in their gratitude for how God cares for us, both here on earth and in our final heavenly home.
In each chapter, you will find a poem, presented in its entirety, followed by an exploration of that poem and some questions to contemplate afterwards. The goal of these explorations is to provide readers with a deeper appreciation, a deeper understanding, and a deeper love of what each poet has given to us.
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Touch The Earth
$18.99Add to cartGather it from memory.
Let it touch the earth.In Touch the Earth, Drew Jackson continues the project he began in God Speaks Through Wombs, reflecting on the Gospel of Luke through poetry. Touch the Earth picks up in chapter nine and continues through the end of Luke’s Gospel. Part protest poetry, part biblical commentary, Jackson presents the gospel story in all its liberative power. Here the gospel is the fresh words / that speak of / things impossible.
From the feeding of the multitude (The best hosts always provide / take home containers”) to the resurrection of Jesus (the belly of mother Earth / is, indeed, a womb . . . the humus of life is where we become fully human), this collection helps us hear the hum of deliverance–against all hope–that’s been in the gospel all along.
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Fatherless Child : You Are Never Alone
$30.00Add to cartWords of wisdom by Abraham Ali. These spoken words are a short introduction into the life and journey of Ali. A young Black man striving to be free and define his identity in this negativity. This is my therapy. My art for life contribution to the human family are the words that empower me to see my true destiny. Hopefully, they will help to guide you through the darkness that the mind must navigate through to ultimately find and define you.
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Through The Storm
$16.99Add to cartA collection of honest, conversational poems,Through the Storm explores the place where faith and fear meet. It will inspire you to find your voice and dream bigger than you ever thought possible.
Through this collection of authentic, conversational poetry, poet Michael Agnew vulnerably shares his story through the highs and lows of life, touching on themes such as insecurity and identity, weakness and wounding, healing and hope. With a refreshing candor, Agnew explores the place where faith and fear meet and invites you to honestly share your story with God and your uniqueness with the world.
With the message that every voice matters and that life’s storms can ultimately become our biggest strength, Through the Storm will inspire you to step out into the unknown, face your fears, and dream bigger than you ever thought possible.
“I believe that poetry can change the world, and I believe that together we can change the world. Because whenever we take the emotions and the feelings that are inside of us and express them by creating poetry, it allows others who have experienced similar emotional journeys to connect with these experiences in powerful ways.” – Michael Agnew
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Holy Land : Poems
$21.00Add to cart“Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” -Exodus 3:5″The Holy Land is everywhere.” -Black Elk
The two epigraphs that preface Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s Holy Land introduce the reader to the central theme that permeates her poems: that holy places deserve to be regarded with reverence and that all places are holy places. In her afterward, the poet traces these foundational concepts to her Catholic childhood wherein religious instruction consisted largely of memorizing the Baltimore Catechism. “One of questions the Catechism poses is ‘Where is God?’ The answer is ‘God is everywhere.’ We believed this to be true. God was in church, but God was also in our house (a crucifix in every room), in the backyard, in our Buick (rosary beads swinging from the rearview mirror), at our birthday parties in the basement, and in our own bodies. And though those places may not sound very holy, they were. Because God was there. Is there.”
In addition to affirming this foundational belief, these poems extend the terrain, moving beyond the geographical and the physical to the temporal, the carnal, the intellectual, and the spiritual realms. They assert that our days are blessed, our bodies are blessed, our minds and souls are all blessed and sacred ground. The poet explores a broad spectrum of physical locations, beginning with poems set in the Holy Land and moving on to places closer to home, ranging from the west of Ireland to rural Minnesota, from New York City to the Texas border. She also probes the temporal spaces we occupy, experiences of death and birth, love and loss, desire and desolation that mark our human passage.
The English word holy is related to the Germanic word heilig, a word that means blessed and also carries within it the idea of wholeness. Holy Land attempts to honor both the holiness and the wholeness of our world-from Gotham to Golgotha, the Bronx River to the Sea of Galilee-and to honor the holiness and wholeness of our blessed and broken humanity.
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Language Of The Birds
$21.00Add to cartAccording to legend, the language of the birds was a mystical language God used to talk with Adam and Eve when he walked with them in the garden of Eden. Amy Nemecek listens for this divine dialect as she communes with God on her walks along country roads and creek banks, through forests and hayfields. She observes the world around her with expectation, knowing that God still speaks to us as he is at work making all things new. If we have ears to hear, we can catch snippets of his grace in the watercolor silhouette of a bird, the thrum of a tractor engine, the tang of a grapefruit, the curvature of an ampersand. Amy doesn’t want to miss any of it, so she remains attentive to the smooth grit of beach sand, the tendrils of a nebula, and the steady gaze of a fossil. She delights in the details, and you will too.
In this collection of lyric and narrative poems, you are invited to walk with her as she reflects on larger themes of beauty, loss, motherhood, family, and vocation. She contemplates the sacredness of ordinary moments that we usually don’t recognize except in hindsight. Twining through every line is an aching hopefulness that ties together her love of words, her devotion to scripture, and her deep gratitude for each of life’s joys and griefs.
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Century Of Poetry
$26.99Add to cartAll good poetry has the power to transport and transform us, to inspire and challenge us, to comfort and heal us, and to hold up a mirror to the world around us.
In A Century of Poetry, Rowan Williams invites you to reflect with him on 100 poems from the past 100 years poems with an originality and depth that can impel you to search your heart, and to explore your own experience and emotions at a deeper level.
Featuring the work of both famous and lesser-known poets, from different faiths, languages and cultures, A Century of Poetry gives you a fresh perspective on works you may be familiar with, as well as introducing you to poems you’ll be pleased to discover for the first time or perhaps discover again.
These meditations, by a writer who is both a poet and a theologian, will open new doors into the experience of reading and absorbing great poetry, highlighting the ways in which their language and imagery can touch unfamiliar places in the heart and enliven the lifelong adventure of spiritual growth and exploration.
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Christian Poetry In America Since 1940
$25.00Add to cartShowcasing thirty-five American poets born in or after 1940, this anthology confirms that one of the most vibrant developments in contemporary verse has been a renewed engagement with the Christian faith. Across a full spectrum of Christian belief, including the struggle to believe at all, these poets bring the power of their art to bear on serious questions: how to understand the goodness of God in a fallen and tragic world, how to reconcile universal truths with the particularities of human experience, how to render familiar events of salvation history in new language that generates its own epiphanies. As Christian engagement assumes a multiplicity of modes and voices, so does contemporary poetry in America. This volume, then, selective yet representative, features the work of early-, mid-, and late-career poets, formalists, free-verse poets, and experimenters in prosody. This anthology bears witness to the poetic mind as it seeks that which is above.
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From Shade To Shine
$20.00Add to cartThis collection of poems begins in the growing darkness of November, stretches through Advent and the seasons leading to Easter and to Pentecost, and ends in the budding light of the Scottish Orkney Islands, where the canonical hours measure time over centuries and where God broods over an austere and beautiful landscape. The measurement of time passing and returning, year after year, in the rhythms of the seasons and of the liturgical year, create the pace and the song. But in the biblical voices of Magdalene, Mary, Abel, and Eve, and in the grim historical and political realities of war and suffering, one also hears lament and finds the poet’s clear-eyed gaze straight into life’s challenges. Memory is at work here, too, in personal reminiscences and in theological reflection. As one philosopher has said, “All truth is God’s truth.”
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Begin With A Question
$20.00Add to cartBegin with a Question explores how the life of faith is a continuous voyage, launched anew each bright day of the spirit or dark night of the soul. This is a book of contemplation and motion, a journey–often in stops and starts–toward the Divine, a pilgrimage paved with prayer, praise, pause, penitence, and (of course) questions. Urgent and universal, joyful or joyless, tinged with doubt or rinsed with hope, here are honest queries that probe, lift, and lead to discovery. Begin with a Question keeps us moving, seeking, reaching, lifting us out of ourselves to something beyond. Using a variety of fixed forms and free verse, the poet examines our relationship to the one who asks, “Who do you say that I am?” A book for seekers, doubters, and believers alike, these poems bring us face to face with anguish, anger, awe, and adoration. They give us permission not to demand answers, but to follow the questions that lead to the Alpha and Omega, to the I AM that keeps us spiraling along this twisting path toward God.
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Raising The Sparks
$19.00Add to cartRaising the Sparks, Jennifer Wallace’s sixth poetry collection, is inspired by the alignment of Christian and Judaic traditions. The idea of raising the sparks, tikkun olam, comes from 16th century mystical Judaism–the belief that, if people worked to “gather or raise the sparks” from the sacred vessels that shattered at the moment of creation, a repair of the world from its initial splitting would be complete. It is the duty of each one of us to raise the sparks from wherever they are imprisoned and to elevate them to holiness. Also informing this work is the Jesuit idea of finding God in all things and conversing (without clerical intervention) directly with Jesus. The poems in this collection engage with these theological traditions by witnessing the human joys and challenges of attending to their mandates.
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God Speaks Through Wombs
$16.99Add to cartbirthing prophetic utterances. . . . Enough of this unbelieving religion that masquerades as faith. Divine favor is placed on what we have disgraced.
In God Speaks Through Wombs, Drew Jackson explores the first eight chapters of Luke’s Gospel in a new poetic register. These are declarative poems, faithfully proclaiming the gospel story in all its liberative power. Here the gospel is the “fresh words / that speak of / things impossible.” From the Magnificat (“That girl can sing! . . . She has a voice / That can shatter shackles”) to the baptism of Christ (“I stepped in / Committing insurrection”), this collection helps us hear the hum of deliverance–against all hope–that’s been in the gospel all along.
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Hill We Climb
$15.99Add to cartAmanda Gorman’s powerful and historic poem “The Hill We Climb,” read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition.
On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Gorman captivated the nation and brought hope to viewers around the globe. Her poem “The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country” can now be cherished in this special gift edition. Including an enduring foreword by Oprah Winfrey, this keepsake celebrates the promise of America and affirms the power of poetry.
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Holy Spirit Inspired Poetry
$19.95Add to cartThis book contains much of the poetry written to accompany the weekly sermons at Willow River Baptist Church of Houston under Pastor Al Cabrera. It contains poems written over several years. Pastor Cabrera gave me the sermon scriptures each week to write a related poem to print in the bulletin. Many poems came to me in the middle of the night, and I would quickly rise to put them on paper. Only the Holy Spirit could allow me the words to write.
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Litany Of Flights
$21.00Add to cartWinner of the 2020 Paraclete Poetry Prize, Litany of Flights is a luminous examination of the journey of the soul, from moments of loss to moments of incandescent transformation. These poems remind us to behold the extraordinary in the ordinary, and that the secret workings of the divine occur even through the difficult: “the painful paring of your hollow bones has made you light.” Drawing on the beauty of the natural world, the devastating effects of drought and wildfires, tender moments of daily experience, and lessons of the saints, the poet creates a landscape of light and darkness, with unexpected turns into divine presence and absence. Through a spiral of red-tailed hawks, the nest of a mourning dove, the parting of waters, and the ripeness of a persimmon, this shimmering collection invites the reader to singular and transfiguring flight.
Litany of Flights
(from the forthcoming collection)First, the winged movement, steady, forward. Scrub jays in flitting
progress, hawks in predator glide, a ringing up, a knife-sharp slopedown. Second, the effortless type, wind-splayed, motionless pinions
in thermal recline, as the Psalmist says, blessings breeze his love evenin sleep. Third, the hungry, against the gale, the destination singular
and the sun dipping crimson. Fourth, the metallic, business or pleasure.Fifth, the whirring kind, all hummingbird. A picnic, apples and chocolate
in the garden with roses, both flower and child. You miss it when it’s gone.Sixth, a baffling flight of stairs, winding upward, passage and yet vehicle,
spiraling to unseen landings-hope courses in the kaleidoscopic lights.Seventh, soar to the sun. Eighth, melt in bitter hubris. You know the story.
Ninth, escape. A flight out of Egypt, a path through the sea cleared bydivine hand. The times you ran, the times you were left behind in lament.
Tenth, only rotting in the belly of a whale tames your stubborn turn fromNineveh. Eleventh, flights of despair and of yearning, two sides of one
letting go, hard-earned release back into the wild, unbound by expectation,featherlike. Twelfth, in a moment, caught up high by the Beloved, the one
making all things work together, wings, body, arch, air-caught up, like theShulamite bride, to regions beyond aeronautical wisdom, transported in joy.
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Therese : Poems
$21.00Add to cartIn this collection, poet Sarah Law presents lucid, lyrical reflections on the much-loved saint, Therese of Lisieux (1873-97), whose life and writing has been an inspiration to so many people. For Sarah Law, there is something about Therese that catches at the heart, and her poems flow from that sense of friendship and tenderness with her subject. Many of the poems meditate on events, large and small, in Therese’s brief but spiritually significant life. The first section explores her childhood, and the second, her nine precious years as a Carmelite nun; years of both sweetness and suffering. Several poems are inspired by well-known photographs of Therese, some of which are included in this volume. A final section considers Therese’s legacy, as her ‘little way’ of confidence and love became known throughout the world. Each poem may be read as an individual reflection, and as part of the larger biographical sequence.
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Generosity : Poems
$20.00Add to cartRejoice, readers, as you receive the generosity of Luci Shaw’s 76 new grace-infused parable poems. Autobiography once more merges with theology as these poems illuminate in splendored natural detail how the seasons of creation parallel and explain the seasons of her life as a poet. Again and again, these poems shower us with glorious epiphanies from the natural world as it reflects God’s generosity at work such as “spring’s impossible news of green.” These poems confirm that in poetry as in faith “ripeness is all.” Like Wordsworth, Luci is celebrated for being a highly gifted landscape poet whose works are rich in imagery from the physical world-meadows filled with seeds, flowers, and also poems which are like “shoots” in Luci’s writing life. Animals, too, great and small (beetles, cricket, and voles to bears and whales) play a major role in Luci’s poetics of creation; God is likened to a great bear who leaves paw tracks for us to follow. In their deep faith and vibrant colors and designs, the poems in Generosity might be considered Luci’s Book of Kells. We need to be like Luci’s father who carried her poems in his briefcase to show his friends.
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Prayerful Poet : Found Poems In Hymns Of The Past
$14.99Add to cartBeverly Stock is a feature writer turned poet from St. Louis, Missouri. Noted for her whimsical, thoughtful style, Beverly is passionate about creating work that explores the joys, challenges, and surprises of everyday life. The Prayerful Poet is her first collection of verse. Brimming with joy, wonder, and tenderness, this stirring volume takes inspiration from traditional Christian hymns and classic spiritual works.
Each poem combines Beverly’s poetic adaptations with the time-honored hymnal lyrics and finds fresh meaning in traditional songs of praise. A mixture of grand voices and elegiac laments, The Prayerful Poet engages readers with its hopeful perspective, and is a perfect read for anyone who finds beauty in the divine.
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Exploring This Terrain
$21.00Add to cartWhat is the terrain that Margaret Ingraham explores in Exploring This Terrain? It ranges from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Pluto. The path crosses the trails of memory and illness, the natural world and disintegration, and various parts unseen. Yet it stays, as Margaret says near the end of the book, in the ‘secret places of my brokenness.’ It is the beautiful landscape of wonder, the uneven country of love, the difficult ground of faith.
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Andalusian Hours : Poems From The Porch Of Flannery O’Connor
$20.00Add to cartAndalusian Hours: Poems from the Porch of Flannery O’Connor is a collection of 101 sonnets that channel the voice of celebrated fiction writer, Flannery O’Connor. In these poems, poet and scholar Angela Alaimo O’Donnell imagines the rich interior life Flannery lived during the last fourteen years of her life in rural Georgia on her family’s farm named “Andalusia.” Each poem begins with an epigraph taken from O’Connor’s essays, stories, or letters; the poet then plumbs Flannery’s thoughts and the poignant circumstances behind them, welcoming the reader into O’Connor’s private world. Together the poems tell the story of a brilliant young woman who enjoyed a bright and promising childhood, was struck with lupus just as her writing career hit its stride, and was forced to return home and live out her days in exile, far from the literary world she loved. By turns tragic and comic, the poems in Andalusian Hours explore Flannery’s loves and losses, her complex relationship with her mother, her battle with her illness and disability, and her passion for her writing. The poems mark time in keeping with the liturgical hours O’Connor herself honored in her prayer life and in her quasi-monastic devotion to her vocation and to the home she learned to love, Andalusia.
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Madonna Complex
$14.00Add to cartWhat does it mean to say yes?–to God, to the Spirit, to art, to love, to motherhood, to the dazzling & tangible world? Mary’s response to the angel, saying “Let it be to me as you have said,” is an essential moment in the life of a disciple, a woman, and an artist. In Madonna, Complex, Mary’s “yes” is a moment of opening, of allowing her very body to become a co-creator with God and a conduit for the coming of grace into the world. However, womanhood in all its fullness–sexuality, marriage, infertility, childbirth, nursing–inevitably complicates traditional Christian imagery of Mary. Madonna, Complex chronicles a feminine faith journey alongside saints like Joan of Arc and Saint Kateri, images of motherhood in visual art, through holy days of the Christian calendar–Ash Wednesday, Holy Saturday, All Saints Day–and sites of pilgrimage, cathedrals, wilderness, and other places holiness can be found. These poems explore the complexities of the messages we receive about what it means to say yes to God, or to something larger than ourselves that demands our attention and energy, whether it’s bearing a child or participating in a political protest.
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Probing Eyes : Poems Of A Lifetime, 1959-2019
$16.99Add to cartProbing Eyes is a collection of 156 poems written over a period of 60 years by a Christian professor of English literature. The first and largest section is called “Scriptural Extensions,” and it seeks to throw fresh light on various Scriptural situations by either projecting the personality of a character though a dramatic monologue or offering a fresh slant on the events depicted. These poems proceed from asking the question, “I wonder what this biblical character was thinking in the midst of these events.” The second section, “Interactions,” presents some of the author’s experiences in interfacing with others, from family and friends to people only casually known. The third section, “Perspectives on Time, consists of poems written mostly as New Year’s meditations, dealing with how we as Christians are affected by the passage of time; while the inexorable flow of time reminds of our finiteness and mortality, it also challenges us to understand how God, Who is timeless, is master of our limitations. The final section, “Personal and Meditative,” is a miscellanea of personal and occasional ruminations, some serious and others playful. The book has four indexes to facilitate finding a poem by title, chronological placement, Scriptural reference, or topic. The author hopes that these poems will thus lend themselves to use for private Bible study and sermon or worship application. The most fruitful reading of the poems, especially of those for which a Scriptural reference is given, will come from a careful look at the relevant biblical texts.
This book is not presented as the work of a main-stream poet, for Prof. Higgs has pursued his poetry writing as an avocation, not a profession. He has opted for clarity over artistic sophistication, which may not commend him to contemporary critics and practitioners of poetic composition. At the same time, the author aspires to go beyond the kind of religious versification whose primary purpose is to convey a moral lesson through rhyming lines. That is not an ignoble objective, but it does not embrace a full participation in the linguistic complexity that characterizes serious poetry. Dr. Higgs seeks in his poems to combine the beauty of art with the beauty of Truth, and thereby to stimulate fresh attention to who God is and how He works with the people of His creation.
The style of Probing Eyes is mainly free verse, but with regular use of internal rhyme, assonance, and alliteration. The reader may see reflected i
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My Sour Sweet Days
$14.99Add to cartGeorge Herbert is one of the great 17th century poet-priests. His poems embrace every shade of the spiritual life, from love and closeness, to anger and despair, to reconciliation and hope. And his work is always rich with audacious playfulness: he seems to take God on, knowing God will win, as if he’s having an argument with a faithful friend he knows is not going to leave. In much of theology and spirituality, God is a critical spectator to human lives, but for Herbert, his sense of relationship with God is primarily of a friendship that can never be broken. These are some of the themes Mark Oakley explores in this outstanding book. He offers a poem for every day in Lent, with a two-page commentary on each of the forty included.
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All Along You Were Blooming
$18.99Add to cartA celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An anthem of freedom. All Along You Were Blooming is the ultimate love letter from the pen of popular Instagram poet Morgan Harper Nichols to your mind, to your heart, to your soul, and to your body.
Morgan Harper Nichols delivers a striking collection of illustrated poetry and prose, inviting you to “stumble into the sunlight” and delight in the wild and boundless grace you’ve been given. There is a purpose in every season, and no matter how you want to race through this day or run away from this place, rest assured that you are invited to live fully–right here, right now. Light will always find you, and even when the sun sets and you sit awaiting the dawn, know you are still blooming in the way you were meant to. And in each small moment, whether in the light or the dark, you can make room for becoming, for breathing, for stumbling, and for simply being–for there is Grace, today and every day.
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Tender Whispers Of Love Poetry
$30.95Add to cart“Poetry? Who reads poetry anymore?”
Actually, poetry is more a part of our lives than we at first might think. The lyrics of songs we love that speak to us in a big way are composed of poetry. The Psalms-from which we can glean so much spiritual support-and the well-known hymns we sing are all poetry.
Ellen invites you on a journey. Together, you can explore the glorious highs and the bewildering lows that life can bring in these powerfully rich poems that express freedom, joy, and hope in Jesus as well as deep grief, loneliness, and other more difficult topics.
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Tender Whispers Of Love Poetry
$13.95Add to cart“Poetry? Who reads poetry anymore?”
Actually, poetry is more a part of our lives than we at first might think. The lyrics of songs we love that speak to us in a big way are composed of poetry. The Psalms-from which we can glean so much spiritual support-and the well-known hymns we sing are all poetry.
Ellen invites you on a journey. Together, you can explore the glorious highs and the bewildering lows that life can bring in these powerfully rich poems that express freedom, joy, and hope in Jesus as well as deep grief, loneliness, and other more difficult topics.
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This Far : Poems
$21.00Add to cartThis collection offers a rich harvest taken from one season in the poet’s creative life. Like movements in a musical composition, these poems share leitmotifs ? grief and the desire to honor those “saints” who have passed on; the sacramental power of nature; and, how works of art illuminate and console as they do. They point to the tension between the practice of monastic silence and the urge to bear witness, interrogating faith in the light of crises facing the earth and our human community. At the same time, the poet celebrates encounters that offer blessings of hope, inviting us to join her in a pilgrimage that leads us, with her, “this far,” and gestures to what lies beyond.
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Wing Over Wing
$21.00Add to cartWing Over Wing clears a path in the midst of everyday life to reveal the holy-whether catching fireflies at night, waiting at a bus stop, or experiencing the death of a loved one. This collection of beautiful poems lives at the intersection of the sacred and the ordinary, from the swirling flight of birds to conversations with the homeless. Wing Over Wing brims with compassion. The reader will find comfort and sustenance, as well as surprise and laughter, in these pages.
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Mystery Of It All
$25.00Add to cartPaul Mariani has spent the past fifty years trying to write a poetry which celebrates the vibrant sacramentality of life in the twilight of Modernity. Many of those years he spent writing the lives of Williams, Berryman, Lowell, Hart Crane, Stevens, and Hopkins, the Jesuit responsible for Mariani’s becoming a poet in the first place. “It is difficult,” Williams wrote, “to get the news from poems/ yet men die miserably every day/ for lack/ of what is found there.” Still, he pleaded to be heard, which is what Mariani asks of us now, as he celebrates a poetry which speaks even more directly of what the good news is.
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Anaphora : New Poems
$20.00Add to cartAnaphora-the repetition of a word or phrase-is a strategy that assists coherence, and draws attention to the repeated terms. In Eucharistic settings, it also indicates the specific liturgical moment when the bread and wine are consecrated, becoming what we in the Eastern Church are pleased to name the Holy Mysteries. Certain poems in this collection employ overt anaphora; many do not. Still, they invite a sense of words as doing more than naming, more than serving as arrows pointing to prior substance; intermittently, these words may acquire due substance of their own, partaking of more than is apparent, but is nonetheless so, and is present.
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Trust God : Poetry To Encourage, Inspire, Enlighten, And Guide
$14.99Add to cartTrust God is a book of poetry written for those who are discouraged, wounded, cursed, oppressed, lonely, doubtful, fear-hearted, sick, abused, despised, rejected, and neglected. Be encouraged, inspired, enlightened and guided to trust God in every area of your life. There are times in our lives when we go through trials and tribulations and there seems to be no solution.?
When you are burdened, beat down, sick, afflicted, hated, deceived, betrayed, scorned, tempted by the enemy, and doubtful that you can even trust God, trust Him even then, because He is able to come to your aid.?
Trust in the Lord with all your?heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your heart (Proverbs 3:5-6). ???
Trust in the Lord, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. (Psalms 37:3)
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Waltzing With God
$11.95Add to cartIn a single moment,
when we feel His presence
drawing us to His grace,
all is possible-forgiveness, love,
being the whole.He saw in each of us
our essence,who we would become
as He spoke our names;
the thumbprint of God
whispered inside each soul.Waltzing with GOD is a collection of inspiring, spirit-filled poetry from a Christian woman who takes a heartwarming approach in writing about her relationship with the Holy Trinity. It is an uplifting read for anyone who wants to curl up with a book in search of peace and comfort with God Himself nearby. Hammond’s poignant words reflect upon Christ Jesus’ Love and Grace. These very personal poems pour onto each page, lifting us ever closer to Him as life taps upon our patience. Her book is a treasured waltz moving in concert with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Piloted by His word, the Bible guides our dance and footsteps leading us ever closer to God’s heart.
Each original poem is enhanced with photos taken in historical Jerusalem and surrounding communities, in actual biblical settings. Pictures include: Gethsemane Garden at the foot of Mount Olives, Church of the Beatitudes and the Jordan River where Hammond and her husband were baptized. Captivating images of nature located in the Pacific Northwest, Eastern Washington and Central Oregon are also included.
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Waltzing With God
$28.95Add to cartIn a single moment,
when we feel His presence
drawing us to His grace,
all is possible-forgiveness, love,
being the whole.He saw in each of us
our essence,who we would become
as He spoke our names;
the thumbprint of God
whispered inside each soul.Waltzing with GOD is a collection of inspiring, spirit-filled poetry from a Christian woman who takes a heartwarming approach in writing about her relationship with the Holy Trinity. It is an uplifting read for anyone who wants to curl up with a book in search of peace and comfort with God Himself nearby. Hammond’s poignant words reflect upon Christ Jesus’ Love and Grace. These very personal poems pour onto each page, lifting us ever closer to Him as life taps upon our patience. Her book is a treasured waltz moving in concert with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Piloted by His word, the Bible guides our dance and footsteps leading us ever closer to God’s heart.
Each original poem is enhanced with photos taken in historical Jerusalem and surrounding communities, in actual biblical settings. Pictures include: Gethsemane Garden at the foot of Mount Olives, Church of the Beatitudes and the Jordan River where Hammond and her husband were baptized. Captivating images of nature located in the Pacific Northwest, Eastern Washington and Central Oregon are also included.
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Pilgrim You Find The Path By Walking
$21.00Add to cartSonnets are familiar to us, but not relevant. What do they have to do with our fast-paced, tech-driven, ever-shrinking contemporary world? But what if the sonnet–invented 700 years ago–could come back like a cat with nine lives? A sonnet in the twenty-first century might serve as a sacramental form, calling us from our work-mad lives to quietness and reflection.
In Pilgrim, You Find the Path by Walking, Jeanne Murray Walker invites the reader to join her on a journey told in 58 colloquial sonnets, beginning in the slangy streets of New York and ending in the holiness of silence and praise. Stops on the journey include reflections on death and grief, but also praise for a migrating butterfly, a knock on the door, the astonishing ocean. This book is designed to be used as a devotional and read slowly; to be both a book of poetry and a spiritual companion.
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Unspoken : An Attempt To Put Into Words The Darkness That More People Succu
$28.95Add to cartThoughts that replay endlessly in your head, nightmares that leave you shaking, pain that brings you to your knees-we may not often discuss these experiences, but they are more common than we might think. Even in the darkest of times, we are not alone.
In The Unspoken, author Alyce Preston exposes her vulnerabilities and fears through poems about personal experiences relating to mental illness that are normally left unspoken in religious circles and within faith-based writing; these include depression, anxiety, and suicide. She seeks to shed light on the darkest of places and bring hope to those who can no longer see. In her poetry, Alyce describes her struggles, shared by so many today, and inspires through her own life and faith.
When we confront our troubles and speak about them, this can serve as a balm to help begin our healing journey. Through these raw and powerful verses, Alyce hopes to bring others with her along the path toward wellness.
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Unspoken : An Attempt To Put Into Words The Darkness That More People Succu
$11.95Add to cartThoughts that replay endlessly in your head, nightmares that leave you shaking, pain that brings you to your knees-we may not often discuss these experiences, but they are more common than we might think. Even in the darkest of times, we are not alone.
In The Unspoken, author Alyce Preston exposes her vulnerabilities and fears through poems about personal experiences relating to mental illness that are normally left unspoken in religious circles and within faith-based writing; these include depression, anxiety, and suicide. She seeks to shed light on the darkest of places and bring hope to those who can no longer see. In her poetry, Alyce describes her struggles, shared by so many today, and inspires through her own life and faith.
When we confront our troubles and speak about them, this can serve as a balm to help begin our healing journey. Through these raw and powerful verses, Alyce hopes to bring others with her along the path toward wellness.
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Dreaming Of Stones
$18.00Add to cartThe poems in Dreaming of Stones are about what endures: hope and desire, changing seasons, wild places, love, and the wisdom of mystics. Inspired by the poet’s time living in Ireland these readings invite you into deeper ways of seeing the world. They have an incantational quality. Drawing on her commitment as a Benedictine oblate, the poems arise out of a practice of sitting in silence and lectio divina, in which life becomes the holy text.
No stranger to poetry, Paintner’s bestselling spirituality titles have often included poems. In this first exclusively poetic collection, she writes with a contemplative heart about kinship with nature, ancestral connections, intimacy, the landscape, the unfolding nature of time, and Christian mystics. It can be read for reflection to spark the heart and to offer solace and inspiration in difficult times. Breath
This
breathing
in is a miracle,
this breathing out, release,
this breathing in a welcome to
the unseen gifts which sustain me each
moment, this breathing out a sweet sigh,
a bow to my mortality, this breathing in
a holy yes to life, this breathing out
a sacred no to all that causes
me to clench and grasp,
this breathing in is a
revelation, this
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Reaching Forever : Poems
$39.00Add to cartReaching Forever is Philip C. Kolin’s ninth collection of poems, the sixth to focus entirely on spiritual poetry. Like the poet’s most recent book, Benedict’s Daughter: Poems (2017), the poems in this new collection are anchored in Scripture.
Organized according to major Christian topics-sheep, water, God’s names, eschatology-Reaching Forever is ripe with scriptural parables, symbols and imagery, settings, allusions, and speakers ranging from God to biblical characters to contemporary figures. Consistent with the Poiema Series, these poems open the “windows” of faith. But they are not simple catechesis. Rather, they “leap over the sills,” to quote D. S. Martin, providing new ways of looking at Holy Writ and applying them to today’s world-to see the sacred in the daily.
Undeniably the most distinctive feature of Reaching Forever is the large number of poems set in the contemporary world, but contextualized through the Bible. For instance, a poem on the polyandrous Samaritan woman is paired with one about a homeless woman in a large city who also has had many husbands and children. A long litany poem about God’s appearances in Scripture is followed by one on catadores (garbage pickers) who hear rumbling below the filth and wonder what God’s voice is saying. A short poem on the riches of Cana seques to a spiritual lyric about monks who transform donors’ pennies into bread for the poor.
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Reaching Forever : Poems
$19.00Add to cartReaching Forever is Philip C. Kolin’s ninth collection of poems, the sixth to focus entirely on spiritual poetry. Like the poet’s most recent book, Benedict’s Daughter: Poems (2017), the poems in this new collection are anchored in Scripture.
Organized according to major Christian topics-sheep, water, God’s names, eschatology-Reaching Forever is ripe with scriptural parables, symbols and imagery, settings, allusions, and speakers ranging from God to biblical characters to contemporary figures. Consistent with the Poiema Series, these poems open the “windows” of faith. But they are not simple catechesis. Rather, they “leap over the sills,” to quote D. S. Martin, providing new ways of looking at Holy Writ and applying them to today’s world-to see the sacred in the daily.
Undeniably the most distinctive feature of Reaching Forever is the large number of poems set in the contemporary world, but contextualized through the Bible. For instance, a poem on the polyandrous Samaritan woman is paired with one about a homeless woman in a large city who also has had many husbands and children. A long litany poem about God’s appearances in Scripture is followed by one on catadores (garbage pickers) who hear rumbling below the filth and wonder what God’s voice is saying. A short poem on the riches of Cana seques to a spiritual lyric about monks who transform donors’ pennies into bread for the poor.
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New Heart
$16.99Add to cartA Thane Keller Title
Ezekiel 36:26 says: “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”
What would you do if you found out you needed a new heart? Would you put your trust in the only One who can fix it?
This is the question that Christian Ford poses to his Aunt and Uncle as he bids them to find salvation in Jesus Christ.
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Eye Of The Beholder
$19.00Add to cartThe joy and responsibility of the poet is to focus on particulars within the universe, finding fragments of meaning that speak to the imagination. Ordinary things may reveal the extraordinary for those willing to take time to investigate and ponder. In this fresh collection of poems, Luci Shaw practices the art of seeing, and then writing what she sees, realizing that beauty is often focused in the Eye of the Beholder.
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Poetry For Life Dreaming In Color
$19.99Add to cartThis book, complete with colorful, captivating, high definition images, reflects the author’s unique, creative ability to express social issues in poetic form. Themes include conflict in school, addiction, mental health, choices, consequences, resiliency and the power of unconditional love. The poems are inspiring, motivational, and divine.
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Consequence Of Moonlight
$21.00Add to cartThe act of writing poetry, for Sofia Starnes, is a “getting out of the way” so that a poem might occur, a poem that must itself become a place of resonance, where the reader might recognize a voice otherwise unheard. The Consequence of Moonlight is a poetic invitation to an awareness of an underlying Presence; it is also a call to be present as a loving witness of valuable–and vulnerable–things.
These poems are written to be depositories for the reader’s experiences. The poem’s truth is its emotion, nothing else. Why moonlight? Because the moon has no light of its own; it lives on borrowed light, as we do. The moon is best perceived and most needed in the dark, fulfilling itself in absence. It is both here and there, as is often true for saints, whose luminosity is seen as lunacy in the world.
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Full Worm Moon
$19.00Add to cartLike The Old Farmer’s Almanac chronicles the cycles of sun, moon, stars, and planets, Full Worm Moon explores the profound transitions from promise to loss, depicting one woman’s endeavor to “”move into a third space / hospitable for another life / more rare, more raw.”” In particular, Julie L. Moore tracks the phases of a long marriage’s brutal disintegration, a year as turbulent as the wind that uproots a birch tree, leaving it “”prostrate on the ground / like one spouse pleading / with the other not to leave.”” Every month’s full moon weaves through seasons of vicissitude, creating a new vocabulary for solitude without loneliness and endurance without passivity. As they delve into divorce’s myriad aftershocks, Moore’s poems remain intelligent and intimate; amid their stunning landscapes emerge both beauty and violence as well as a host of memorable characters: Milton and Monet, Charon and Cicero, Benedictine monks and Cooper’s Hawks, clueless administrators and clever students, an oblivious weatherman and a philosophical neighbor. All are welcome, and in her lyrical, trustworthy voice, Moore guides us, with our “”longing / for answered prayer,”” to press on and “”practice . . . / anything but resignation.
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Full Worm Moon
$39.00Add to cartLike The Old Farmer’s Almanac chronicles the cycles of sun, moon, stars, and planets, Full Worm Moon explores the profound transitions from promise to loss, depicting one woman’s endeavor to “”move into a third space / hospitable for another life / more rare, more raw.”” In particular, Julie L. Moore tracks the phases of a long marriage’s brutal disintegration, a year as turbulent as the wind that uproots a birch tree, leaving it “”prostrate on the ground / like one spouse pleading / with the other not to leave.”” Every month’s full moon weaves through seasons of vicissitude, creating a new vocabulary for solitude without loneliness and endurance without passivity. As they delve into divorce’s myriad aftershocks, Moore’s poems remain intelligent and intimate; amid their stunning landscapes emerge both beauty and violence as well as a host of memorable characters: Milton and Monet, Charon and Cicero, Benedictine monks and Cooper’s Hawks, clueless administrators and clever students, an oblivious weatherman and a philosophical neighbor. All are welcome, and in her lyrical, trustworthy voice, Moore guides us, with our “”longing / for answered prayer,”” to press on and “”practice . . . / anything but resignation.
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Journey : A Daily Walk With The Rose Of Sharon
$30.95Add to cartFor Ron & Patricia Owens, The Journey is a drink offering of adoration poured out to Jesus-the Rose of Sharon. With grateful hearts, the Owens commend to you the poetry, songs, and truths Christ has written on their hearts. May you be encouraged on your journey and drawn closer to Jesus each day.
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Water At The Roots
$16.00Add to cartIn a society uprooted by war, industrialization, hate-filled ideology, and dehumanizing technology, a revolutionary farmer-poet reconnects his people to the land and one another.
Something of a British Wendell Berry, Philip Britts (1917-1949) was a soft-spoken West Country farmer, poet, activist, and mystic. Even as his country plunged headlong into a second world war, he sought a way of life where people could work together in harmony with nature and one another. He found an answer, though it would cost him his land and his life.
These were years of turbulence and disillusionment, in Europe and beyond. Why had progress brought with it so much suffering? Britts saw that in losing our connection to nature and the earth, we are losing our humanity – our connection to one another. He watched as his friends in the peace movement, socialist circles, and Christian churches joined the battle against Hitler, but he refused to resort to violence. Instead he threw himself into an attempt to live out the radical demands of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount on a personal and local level in community.Britts’s story is no romantic agrarian elegy, but a life lived in the thick of history. The international pacifist community he joined, the Bruderhof, was soon forced to flee Europe. Now the earth he tilled was no longer the moist soil of his homeland, but a harsh tropical climate of drought, locusts, and blight. A highly trained horticulturalist, he loved working the land and discovering new wonders of nature, “to see in growing corn the fingerprints of God.” And his expertise and research helped alleviate hunger in Paraguay and Brazil. But now the soil was also shoveled over babies’ graves, and soon Britts himself contracted a rare tropical disease that would take his life at the age of thirty-one, leaving behind a wife and three young children.
Philip Britts’s generation faced great dangers and upheavals, as does ours. His response – to root himself in God, to dedicate himself to a community, to restore the land he farmed, and to use his gift with words to turn people from their madness – speaks into our age just as forcefully. The life he chose, as well as his poetry, remain a prophetic challenge in a time still wracked by war, racism, nationalism, materialism, and ecological devastation. Britts’s insights into our relationship with the natural environment are particularly poignant now that we are even more aware of its fragility.
In a world of concrete and p
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Ampersand
$16.00Add to cartD.S. Martin’s new poetry collection Ampersand brings together portraits & observations where the poet reflects upon artists, saints, reformers, poets, his own elderly parents, & various biblical characters–including twelve poems written for each of the twelve disciples. Ampersand–as the title suggests–brings together many disparate things, giving room for diverse reflections on human experience & the world in which we live.
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Ampersand
$36.00Add to cartD.S. Martin’s new poetry collection Ampersand brings together portraits & observations where the poet reflects upon artists, saints, reformers, poets, his own elderly parents, & various biblical characters–including twelve poems written for each of the twelve disciples. Ampersand–as the title suggests–brings together many disparate things, giving room for diverse reflections on human experience & the world in which we live.
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Habitation Of Wonder
$38.00Add to cartHabitation of Wonder is an offering of poems that travels the intersection of the natural landscape and the landscape of spirit. Here, the moon is a “”white comma / in the breath of space.”” Crocuses are “”ephemeral prophets, first of the sun’s spring projects.”” The ocean is “”a vast / perpetual sacrifice on the altar / of the shell-glittering shore.”” The collection opens with “”Genesis,”” a reimagining of the creation story with song as the divine instrument of creation. Five themed sections flow from “”Genesis”” like a musical thread, investigating the material elements from which we originate and in which we take shelter, as well as the gifts of language and faith, which make us more than merely “”a constellation of salts.”” In its own way, each poem invites the reader to “”tenant beauty””–as well as to tenant uncertainty. When beauty and uncertainty collide, they spark wonder. As these poems suggest, wonder is simply another name for the world in which we live–and the world that lives in us.
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Your 21st Century Prayer Life
$30.00Add to cartWhat does prayer look like in contemporary America? With a welcoming tone and plainspoken diction, the forty poems in Hansen’s collection explore that question. Including elements of autobiography, Your Twenty-First Century Prayer Life investigates Christianity in the present, depicting a faith in God that is continuously in flux. Readers journey through the seasons of the church year as Hansen recounts doubts, conversions, frustrations, and confessions. Ultimately, these poems are concerned as much with words as they are with the Word.
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Habitation Of Wonder
$18.00Add to cartHabitation of Wonder is an offering of poems that travels the intersection of the natural landscape and the landscape of spirit. Here, the moon is a “”white comma / in the breath of space.”” Crocuses are “”ephemeral prophets, first of the sun’s spring projects.”” The ocean is “”a vast / perpetual sacrifice on the altar / of the shell-glittering shore.”” The collection opens with “”Genesis,”” a reimagining of the creation story with song as the divine instrument of creation. Five themed sections flow from “”Genesis”” like a musical thread, investigating the material elements from which we originate and in which we take shelter, as well as the gifts of language and faith, which make us more than merely “”a constellation of salts.”” In its own way, each poem invites the reader to “”tenant beauty””–as well as to tenant uncertainty. When beauty and uncertainty collide, they spark wonder. As these poems suggest, wonder is simply another name for the world in which we live–and the world that lives in us.
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Your 21st Century Prayer Life
$10.00Add to cartWhat does prayer look like in contemporary America? With a welcoming tone and plainspoken diction, the forty poems in Hansen’s collection explore that question. Including elements of autobiography, Your Twenty-First Century Prayer Life investigates Christianity in the present, depicting a faith in God that is continuously in flux. Readers journey through the seasons of the church year as Hansen recounts doubts, conversions, frustrations, and confessions. Ultimately, these poems are concerned as much with words as they are with the Word.
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What Will Soon Take Place
$21.00Add to cartWhat Will Soon Take Place is an imaginative journey through the book of Revelation. It offers a poet’s view of the prophetic, not in the sense of seeking out clues to the “end times,” but a means of taking this strange, fantastic book of scripture and letting it read its way into personal lives. This is not prophecy as foretelling, but forth-telling: telling us the truths of our lives in the light of God’s light. But rather than escape into some safe, heavenly realm, the poems return to our homes and meet us in the form of our neighbors, persecuted believers, and in shopping malls with vivid, edged-up language and the authority to believe and doubt at once.
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Adam Eve And The Riders Of The Apocalypse
$45.00Add to cartAdam, Eve, & the Riders of the Apocalypse brings together 122 poems about the people from the stories in the Bible. It arises from the meditations and fascinations of gifted writers, who ask themselves about the significance of these stories for our lives today. This anthology is a companion for your own reflections–a place for imagination and inquiry–and a collection of poems for you to share with the people who ponder the beauty, and mystery, and significance of Scripture along with you.
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Almost Entirely : Poems
$21.00Add to cartRooted in the grit of urban Baltimore and the forests of rural Massachusetts, these poems remind us that life’s tensions and polarities are energies we carry within ourselves. As poems of witness and commentary, conversation and meditation, they offer moments of close looking, and of looking away; of loving, and of bungled attempts to be more loving. They call us to look long and hard-and generously-at our lives. Written with radiant honesty and fierce tenderness, they suggest a path of inner discovery where mystery awaits us in the ordinary.
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7 Whole Days
$25.95Add to cartArtist Faye Hall has taken Malcolm Guite’s Poetic sequence Seven Whole Days and turned it into a sumptuous visual celebration of God’s good Creation. Guite’s sequence of seven poems each celebrate a day of creation and finally the sabbath day of rest. Hall has taken the poems and re-imagined them in a series of beautiful artistic meditations.
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Love Remember : Poems Of Loss Lament And Hope
$21.00Add to cartThe bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss and reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort, understanding and hope they offer. Some of the poems will be familiar, many will be new, but together they provide a sure companion for the journey across difficult terrain. Some of Malcolm’s own poetry is included, written out of his work as a priest with the dying and the bereaved and giving to the volume a powerful authenticity. The choice of forty poems is significant and reflects an ancient practice still observed in some European and Middle Eastern societies of taking extra-special care of a bereaved person in the forty days following a death — our word quarantine come from this. They explore the nature and the risk of love, the pain of letting go and look toward glimpses of resurrection.
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Out Of The Silence
$18.99Add to cartIn this moving sequence of poetry and prose, Terry Waite recalls the highs and lows of his life, both during his ordeal as a hostage and in the happier years of humanitarian work that have followed. In doing so he gives us a glimpse into the depths of faith, hope and love that sustained him through his time of suffering. At the same time, he bears witness to the enduring qualities of forgiveness, truth and reconciliation that are still so desperately needed in the world today.
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Untamed Gospel : Reflections Poems And Prayers For The Christian Year
$30.49Add to cartUntamed Gospel complements The Bright Field and Darkness Yielding, and offers meditations, reflections, stories, prayers and poems for use throughout the church year. Each one focuses on the often startling nature of Jesusa(TM) sayings and teachings, the raw honesty of the psalms and other biblical texts, and on contemporary issues, such as mental health and displacement, seen in the light of the demands of the kingdom of God. It offers a prophetic challenge to the churcha(TM)s tendency towards management and control. A rich resource for worship, preaching, teaching and personal reflection throughout the year, Untamed Gospel contains hundreds of reproducible items, including seasonal reflections, stories, homilies, poems and some of Jim Cottera(TM)s last writings as he was being treated for cancer: a moving sequence of prayer poems inspired by the psalms.
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From The Heart Of A Servant
$12.99Add to cartAs you move through these pages, you will be encouraged, challenged and richly blessed as C.R. Lord calls on you to see God in every aspect of your life; from raising children to loving and serving God with your whole heart. As a reader, you will experience, with all of your senses, the very touch of God’s Spirit sweeping through the pages, right into your heart. As you meditate on the beautiful thoughts contained in these poems, you will feel yourself lift above the mundane things in life as you are brought face-to-face with our Savior. From the Heart of a Servant is some of the most beautiful Christian poetry that exists today. You will feel awakened by the almighty as you journey through the breath-taking imagery, traditional verses, and very well-thought-out structured rime and meter; that only a true poet knows!
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And God Breathed
$12.75Add to cartAnd God Breathed encourages, and inspires the reader to seek, trust, adore, and thank God for his generosity and goodness. Included in each section are poems created for you, the reader, to seek God for healing, deliverance, freedom, guidance, protection, wisdom, joy, hope, peace, love and spiritual growth and development. God is patiently waiting to be acknowledged and he will direct your pathway. He is willing to transform and set you free from continuous con? icts, and problems that may be causing stress and strife in your life.
Th is book is di? erent from any other book of Christian poetry and prose because it covers every area of life from love to bereavement. Th e contents in this book:
– Ministers to your daily needs – Inspires you to stand on God’s word – Encourages you to acknowledge God – Provide support in times of trials and tribulations – O?ers spiritual enlightenment – Establishes freedom in your lifeA man, called Jesus, came to the world, and paid a ransom to set you free. If the son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:36
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Seeking A Dwelling Beloved
$13.99Add to cartSeeking a Dwelling Beloved is about seeking the truth or is about entering in understanding or entering in true knowledge. Seeking a Dwelling Beloved is about rebirth in life or entering in truth again with all gladness and with all joy and with all abundance in the loving grace of the Father Creator.
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Still Pilgrim : Poems
$21.00Add to cartStill Pilgrim is a collection of poems that chronicles the journey of life as seen through the eyes of a keenly-observant friend and fellow traveler. The reader accompanies the Still Pilgrim as she maps universal terrain, navigating the experiences that constitute her private history yet also serve to remind the reader of his or her own moments of enlightenment, epiphany, and encounter with mystery. Each of the 58 poems of the collection marks a way station along the pilgrimage where the Pilgrim and reader might pause and ponder before continuing with the inevitable march forward.
At the center of this travel book lies a paradox: the Pilgrim’s desire for the gift of stillness amid the flux and flow of time, change, and circumstance. “Be still and know that I am God,” sings the Psalmist, channeling the voice of the divine. “Teach us to care and not care. Teach us to sit still,” prays the poet, T.S. Eliot. Still Pilgrim depicts and embodies this human dilemma–our inevitable movement through time, moment by moment, day by day, and the power of art to stop both time and our forward march, to capture the present moment so we might savor the flavor of life.
“The Still Pilgrim’s history consists of flashes of joy and visitations of sorrow, engagement with saints and with artists (the Pilgrim’s personal patron saints), epiphanies sparked by words and songs and stories, revelations triggered by encounters with beauty and terror. The reader who perseveres through these poems is no longer merely a reader–he or she is a partner in pilgrimage and a friend. These poems have become your poems, this story your story, bespeaking our (un)common beginnings and our equally (un)common end.” — Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, from the Afterword
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Good Bye Poems
$9.95Add to cartThe purpose of this poetry is dual. Firstly, for humor and entertainment so we can appreciate the things we have. Secondly, to get people to think of the very serious and sobering times we are living in. In life we all experience things that breakdown or wear away and need to be replaced or repaired.We can take clothes or items for granted. When certain things are worn away or no longer function, we are forced to take notice. A malfunctioning hot water tank, for example, will really be missed. Like many a property owner, the author knows about the frustration and expenses to replace things. He puts a humorous spin on things with rhymes. For example: “Good-bye, faithful underwear, I will always remember us as a happy pair. But there is no doubt you are all worn out. You have lost your elasticity; therefore, I will have to dispose of you as fast as electricity.” “Good-bye, suppository; you are important, but you get no glory.” “Good-bye, toilet bowl; I must rid you; that is my goal.” “Good-bye, toothbrush; have to get rid of you in a rush.” “Good-bye, long time refrigerator; I cannot say, see you you later.” In Poor Richards Almanac, Benjamin Franklin stated, “When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” We can appreciate big or small conveniences in life. From a religious and serious perspective: “Good-bye, America, sorry to see you go, seeing your character and morals have sunk so low.” Even So Come, Lord Jesus” is a prophetic poem. “Good-bye, Death and Grave” speaks of things and life being temporary. The author ends certain poems with a biblical prophetic and positive message: There is a future hope beyond our physical existence. Editor’s note: In this highly observant yet humorous collection, the author examines various good-byes life brings: to unwanted pounds, to old tools that have been used up, or to needed items in sudden accidents. Some partings are sweeter than others; a spectrum of emotion is covered in these poems. Readers will laugh at some poems and relate to others, making this a well-rounded, enjoyable compilation.
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Communion Of Saints
$21.00Add to cartThis collection of poems explores the saints of the church’s history and contemporary persons who embody something of their charism. Three sections are arranged around the themes of the three “theological virtues”: faith, portrayed as a source of strength in times of trial; hope, the darkest in the book, dealing with matters of the body’s frailty, illness, social discrimination, and the search for a way to live within the constraints of society; and love, offering a panoply of outward-looking characters who give to others in radical or personal ways. The volume ends with a cycle of Franciscan poems that offer a model for the Christian life, not simply in terms of individual moments but also as a complete life-cycle of practice and prayer.
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Unwalled Poetry : A Different Devotional Experience
$15.99Add to cartDo you want a devotional book you can relate to? Are you searching for meditations to inspire you and help you cope with the real problems you face in life?
Unwalled Poetry is a devotional book with a difference. You will enjoy this mix of 101 amazing poems, scriptures, and meditations that get to the heart of the matter. The poems are realistic, powerful, and expressive, yet, gentle and comforting to the spirit. They deal with the laughter and love, the heartaches and pain, the bitter and the sweet moments, the guilt and shame-reality.
Each day’s meditation on the Word and poetry will enrich your spiritual growth and experience, challenge you to a deeper walk with the Lord, and empower you to succeed on life’s journey.
Whether used for morning contemplation, afternoon stimulation or evening relaxation, individually or in a small group, Unwalled Poetry will encourage your heart, edify your spirit, inspire your soul and set you free.
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John Bunyans Poetry
$9.99Add to cartFew Christians have impacted the church as has John Bunyan. If you enjoyed Pilgrim’s Progress, The Holy War, or any of his various evergreen writings, do also allow yourself the reward of soaking in John Bunyan’s classic, Christian poetry. You will be delighted as a child, challenged if a sinner, and rewarded richly as a fellow believer.
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Thieves Of The Sky
$12.99Add to cartWhen I started thinking about my poetry book I decided to write about things that I love and enjoy so much. I feel for poems come out right and enjoyable the poet has to be genuine and true about her feelings and what to write about and word must come from the heart. Also the vocabulary and expressions used must reflect a mastery of the language to choose the most suitable words that will be great match perfect for each situation, that is a skill and a gift that God had blessed me with an I am thankful for that. I have also chosen my subjects and situations based on the simple things in life that people enjoy and find it close to their hearts because I believe that when it comes to poetry the simpler the better. I have also written about a range of topics to make it exciting and give the reader the experience and enjoy different situations and reflections, after all variety is the spice of life. Some of the topics that I picked for my reflections and poems were included animals, nature, cultures and values, and faraway places. I am a huge animal lover and you will feel that throughout this book, I spend a lot of my time looking at them, watching animals and wildlife shows, going to zoos and aquariums. The animal world that shares our planet, there is so much beauty and serenity in connection with nature and learn many lessons in struggle, hard work, and motherhood. However, not everything in the animal kingdom is rosy fairy tales of beautiful fur, colorful feathers, and fluffy cubs, there are also a lot of savagery, blood, and cruel fight for survival. I felt to covey that world as it is just like it takes place in nature in a very unique way that hasn’t been described before that that reader will find interesting and amusing. In “”Thieves of the Sky,”” “”Dracula of the Jungle,”” “”I smell Blood,”” “”Gentle Giants,”” and “”Racing the Wind”” I spoke of the beauty and of heartwarming sights and discipline of these animals, but at the same time I uncovered their schemes and manipulation in stalking their Prays and tearing them apart in cruel and bloody manner as a mean of survival and domination of the strong over the venerable. In a related topic, but also a matter of principle I wanted to make my voice heard to add that to the many calls and protests against the brutality and savagery oh bullfighting in Spain and other places. The torture and sedition that is inflicted on that poor creature is beyond comprehension. I wanted to portray that in an imaginativ
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Narrative Poems
$17.99Add to cartC.S. Lewis often said that the narrative poem was his favorite form of literary expression, although he appears to have written just four, all of which are collected in this volume. Of these, only “Dymer” was published in his lifetime. These four poems exhibit the romantic aspects of Lewis’s temperment and reveal his deep love for the medieval of Renaissance poetry on which they are modeled.
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Masters Bouquet And More
$23.95Add to cartUpon these pages are poetic verses that may help one to laugh, to cry, and hopefully to encourage one to continue on with one’s dreams and life’s work. Hopefully, the book will help people to identify with humanity in the perspective that each one is a creation of God, whom God loves personally.
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Emotional Rollercoaster : A Collection Of Poems
$13.99Add to cartThis is different to your everyday collection of poems about love, heartache, God, humanity, addiction and don’t forget to throw in a little joy too. I have also been able to take a moment and add my own little twist to a subject, it will make you change the way you see the simple things in life. The way two people see something can be totally different and if I don’t show you, well you would have never even known about it. Written by an Australian poet D.A. Hopkins.
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Parable And Paradox
$17.99Add to cartSince the publication of the bestselling Sounding the Seasons, Malcolm Guite has repeatedly been asked for more sonnets. This new collection offers a sequence of 50 sonnets that focus on many passages in the Gospels: the Beatitudes, parables and miracles, teachings on the Kingdom, and the ‘hard sayings’ – Jesus’ challenging demands with which we wrestle. In addition this collection includes:
* A sequence of five sonnets on ‘The Wilderness’, exploring mysterious stories of divine encounter such as Jacob’s wrestling with the angel.
* Poetic reflections on music, hospitality and ecology.
* Seven short poems celebrating the days of creation.
* A biblical index pairing the poems with scripture readings for use in worship. -
Souls Resting Promises Holy Spirit Inspired 2nd Ed
$10.99Add to cartGOD DOES NOT BREAK HIS PROMISES The Soul’s Resting Promises is a collection of poems and prose that will encourage the reader to spend time alone with God and to develop a relationship with the creator of all things. The Lord desires to spend time with us, so that we can learn and grow to love Him and enjoy the blessings He has for us – especially His gift of salvation. Each poem touches on the magnitude and greatness of God in a slightly different way. Sometimes it is pure worship – rejoicing in His presence. Sometimes it is a witness – a proclamation to the world of His eternal benevolence.
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Poems Of Prayer And Thought
$19.99Add to cartThese carefully crafted poems are the heavenly answers to questions and prayers Yvonne (Bonnie) Parks has sent up to the Lord on her journey of Christian faith. She prays that these heaven-sent verses guide and inspire you in your own search for a relationship with Christ.
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Treasures In My Garden
$28.95Add to cartThis is a collection of inspirational writings by the author over the last twelve to fifteen years. Many of the poems and essays were divinely inspired while meditating on the Lord.
With keen insight, the author portrays the divine character qualities of those most dear to her. Intertwined in her thought-provoking work is seen a love for her heavenly Father, family, and nature and creation.
The author shares her journey into a greater awareness and appreciation for God’s magnificent creation. Becoming fond of observing God’s nature and the growth of plant life, she produces some of her literary writings from a gardening aspect.
The book is light-hearted at times, yet it suggests and encourages deeper spiritual growth for the individual.
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Treasures In My Garden
$11.95Add to cartThis is a collection of inspirational writings by the author over the last twelve to fifteen years. Many of the poems and essays were divinely inspired while meditating on the Lord.
With keen insight, the author portrays the divine character qualities of those most dear to her. Intertwined in her thought-provoking work is seen a love for her heavenly Father, family, and nature and creation.
The author shares her journey into a greater awareness and appreciation for God’s magnificent creation. Becoming fond of observing God’s nature and the growth of plant life, she produces some of her literary writings from a gardening aspect.
The book is light-hearted at times, yet it suggests and encourages deeper spiritual growth for the individual.
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Keep Believing : True Testimonies That We Are Not Alone
$30.95Add to cartKeep Believing was written after constant conviction that “God’s stories needed to be told.” Authentic and phenomenal stories have been collected from credible people of all denominations. While our material world continues to grow in secularization, we need to be reminded that God will continue. Life is a challenging and unpredictable journey. When we believe we are alone, our choices seem limited and useless. Knowing God is an everyday part of our lives can redirect our thoughts to higher and more rewarding choices. This book is proof that God, spirits, and angels are a part of our world.
These short stories and testimonies will help us all to remember that God is orchestrating our lives daily. Some of his interventions are subtle while others are bold. Knowing God is there protecting, guiding, and manipulating our paths gives our lives new meaning. We will be reminded that we coexist with both good and evil forces. Which forces we choose and allow to influence our lives depends on the way we are living. This book will leave you with a peaceful feeling and a knowledge that we are never alone; it will be a reminder to choose your path wisely and always keep believing. -
Keep Believing : True Testimonies That We Are Not Alone
$13.95Add to cartKeep Believing was written after constant conviction that “God’s stories needed to be told.” Authentic and phenomenal stories have been collected from credible people of all denominations. While our material world continues to grow in secularization, we need to be reminded that God will continue. Life is a challenging and unpredictable journey. When we believe we are alone, our choices seem limited and useless. Knowing God is an everyday part of our lives can redirect our thoughts to higher and more rewarding choices. This book is proof that God, spirits, and angels are a part of our world.
These short stories and testimonies will help us all to remember that God is orchestrating our lives daily. Some of his interventions are subtle while others are bold. Knowing God is there protecting, guiding, and manipulating our paths gives our lives new meaning. We will be reminded that we coexist with both good and evil forces. Which forces we choose and allow to influence our lives depends on the way we are living. This book will leave you with a peaceful feeling and a knowledge that we are never alone; it will be a reminder to choose your path wisely and always keep believing. -
For Better Or For Verse
$9.95Add to cartSo tiny and helpless, so sweet and so mild,
so dependent and loving-this beautiful child.
A gem, a jewel, a precious pearl-
such a wonderful gift, this little girl.
I can reduce any man to a weeping pile,
but all it takes is that little smile,
and now I’m mush …-Tom Gusky
Tom Gusky does not believe in fifty dollar words or mysterious hidden messages in his poetry. Instead, he prefers to share a tender and sometimes tongue-in-cheek lyrical view of life that reflects on the bonds of family love, the trials and joys of raising children, and the experiences that draw all of us closer to God.
Tom injects humor and emotion in poems for the masses that reflect on his observations about the pilot of his family’s ship as well as an angel in diapers, the face of God, the cycle of life, and the journey of a man as he ages. Throughout each verse, Tom offers gentle reminders about the important things in life: faith, family, and unconditional love.
For Better or for Verse shares a collection of thought-provoking poetry as one man looks back on all the joys and sorrows of a life well lived.
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Message Maker : Words From A World Away
$14.99Add to cartAuthor Leta Rae Pereira is just an ordinary person who never envisioned writing any book of poetry, let alone one where verse after verse flowed freely from her. Even so, this was part of God’s plan and purpose for her all along. The Message Maker presents a collection of her inspiring poems, written to touch and minister to many hungry hearts. Some of her poems, such as The Eleventh Hour relate to events that have touched her life; others consider God’s love and Scriptures and their effect on His children. In the poem Inside Out we learn that when we forget about ourselves and minister to others, the door opens for Jesus to come in and minister to us. Her first poem, Come . . . Follow Me opened the gateway for all of the poems that followed. Each poem has been written with love and spirituality, and each has deeply touched her own prayer life. Now she shares them, seeking to guide you on your own journey and bring you the knowledge of God’s immense love for you.
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Slow Pilgrim : The Collected Poems Of Scott Cairns
$39.00Add to cartScott Cairns has carefully preserved every poem he’s ever published that he cares to preserve. He’s also added previously unpublished work, spanning three decades. A careful introduction by Gregory Wolfe and tribute preface by Richard Howard make this the ultimate collection of Cairns’ work.
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Prayers Of A Young Poet
$21.00Add to cartThis volume marks the first translation of these prayer-poems into English. Originally written in 1899, Rilke wrote them upon returning to Germany from his first trip to Russia. He intended these poems as icons of sorts, gestures that could illumine a way for seekers in the darkness. As Rilke here writes, “I love the dark hours of my being, for they deepen my senses.”
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Just Asking
$28.95Add to cartHave you ever taken a moment to consider how many questions you answer or decisions you make each day? What should I eat? What shall I wear? Do I want a second cup of coffee? What is the weather like outside today? Is it time for bed yet?
But how many times a day do you make a single decision concerning your eternal well-being? Do you have any questions concerning your soul? How many times do you go to your Bible for the answers? You do know, God supplies everything we need to know about anything? I am just asking.
To God be the glory for all the sensationally awesome things He has done and will do! -
Just Asking
$11.95Add to cartHave you ever taken a moment to consider how many questions you answer or decisions you make each day? What should I eat? What shall I wear? Do I want a second cup of coffee? What is the weather like outside today? Is it time for bed yet?
But how many times a day do you make a single decision concerning your eternal well-being? Do you have any questions concerning your soul? How many times do you go to your Bible for the answers? You do know, God supplies everything we need to know about anything? I am just asking.
To God be the glory for all the sensationally awesome things He has done and will do! -
Naked Tree : Love Sonnets To C S Lewis And Other Poems
$34.99Add to cartAlthough best known as C. S. Lewis’s wife, Joy Davidman was a gifted writer herself who produced, among other things, two novels and an award-winning volume of poetry in her short lifetime.
The first comprehensive collection of Davidman’s poetry, A Naked Tree includes the poems that originally appeared in her Letter to a Comrade (1938), forty other published poems, and more than two hundred previously unpublished poems that came to light in a remarkable 2010 discovery.
Of special interest is Davidman’s sequence of forty-five love sonnets to C. S. Lewis, which offer stunning evidence of her spiritual struggles with regard to her feelings for Lewis, her sense of God’s working in her lonely life, and her mounting frustration with Lewis for keeping her at arm’s length emotionally and physically.
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True Gift : A Collection Of Short Stories And Poems
$30.95Add to cartSean Lovedale writes from a Christian point of view as he writes about farm life, the antics of farm youth, eccentric country people, and situations in our society that are so often overlooked. As you read these stories, you will find yourself laughing, and at times, reading with tears streaming down your cheeks. These stories will change the way you look at life’s situations and conditions, which are all around you. A True Gift will allow you to consider new possibilities and more positive outcomes.
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True Gift : A Collection Of Short Stories And Poems
$13.95Add to cartSean Lovedale writes from a Christian point of view as he writes about farm life, the antics of farm youth, eccentric country people, and situations in our society that are so often overlooked. As you read these stories, you will find yourself laughing, and at times, reading with tears streaming down your cheeks. These stories will change the way you look at life’s situations and conditions, which are all around you. A True Gift will allow you to consider new possibilities and more positive outcomes.
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For He Is God
$12.99Add to cartCould you use a dose of encouragement that helps you to: Trust God Be assured of God’s love Recognize that God is your Helper Understand that Jesus saved you Realize the power of prayer, praise, worship, and thanksgiving Recognize that God is sovereign If so, this book of poetry is for you. For He Is God beautifully depicts God’s many marvelous attributes and His deep, steadfast love for you. You will get a fresh glimpse of all He has done and wants to do as you draw closer to Him. The poet shares her own struggles and victories, along with the many wonders God has taught her as she has walked with Him. So settle down in your favorite chair and relax as you experience God and His Word in a new way.”
