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  • Lacunae : New Poems

    $21.00

    New poetry from Scott Cairns on containing the uncontainable

    Often, when speaking of what he has called the poetic operation of language, Scott Cairns has characterized that event as our “glimpsing an indeterminate, inexhaustible enormity within a discrete space.” This is the poet’s continuing fascination with lacunae, those spaces, those openings that offer more within than appearances can register from outside the ostensible covert of their terms. Cairns is here focused upon how an image, a word, or–in the case of the Theotokos– a womb can contain the uncontainable. As Orthodox hymnography avers, she is more spacious than the heavens. So, too, the poet suggests, in its own, modest way, the poem might give birth to more, and more, and yet more than even the poet supposes.

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  • Love Holds You

    $21.99

    From the introduction by Christine Valters Paintner

    Most of these poems were written during the time of pandemic. The call to compassionate retreating came naturally for my strong hermit side. I found myself, rather then getting bored with home, falling more in love with the mundane aspects of my life. The boxes on our patio growing herbs, the way my favorite chair has shaped itself to my body, my dog’s daily eagerness for walks and cuddles. As I lingered more than usual I found deep appreciation for the radical ordinariness of my days.

    In the heart of a season filled with anxieties around personal health and well-being, around economic impact, around tremendous collective grief and loss, I found that there was one thing I wanted to remember daily. My prayers were calling me back to the ground of love that I believe undergirds us all. This isn’t always easy to remember, and sometimes reading the news I question whether it is even true. Writing poems about love became an act of cultivating trust. The moments that trust dissolved, I would pick up my pen and try and remember what I loved or how love had been made visible to me that day.

    Most of these poems are not directly about the pandemic per se. They are love poems that arose out of a desire to pay close attention when things seemed to be falling apart and to name what it was that endures. Many of the poems are dreamlike settings, where a new reality erupts into the everyday.

    Love doesn’t make our struggles vanish. It doesn’t mean carrying perpetual optimism into our days or even having to believe that everything will be okay. Those things are not seductive for me in a world when so many have so much to grieve. It does mean that I believe Love is the foundation of everything and holds us in our sorrow as well as our delight. This is in large part why I write poems, to hold this tension of living in a world that can be so devastating and also so staggeringly beautiful.

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  • Touch The Earth

    $18.00

    Gather 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

    $30.00

    Words 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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  • Holy Land : Poems

    $21.00

    “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

    $21.00

    According 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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  • Christian Poetry In America Since 1940

    $25.00

    Showcasing 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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  • I Sat Down With My Father

    $19.99

    Poetry is the language of love, and God is the greatest author of love. The pages of this book are my heart’s attempt to put God’s love into words. In these words, I pray that you will find the love that I have felt throughout the years, that you will see and perhaps even feel the presence of our Heavenly Father, or that you will be intrigued to investigate beyond my words and delve into God’s Word.

    Seek Christ, and you will find Him, for He is seeking you.

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  • From Shade To Shine

    $20.00

    This 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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  • Angels Everywhere : Poems

    $19.00

    “The word ‘angel’ means ‘messenger’ and the title poem of this book, ‘Angels Everywhere, ‘ presents the idea that what I often glimpse is a flicker of glancing light, as if a heavenly being is darting in and out of my viewing, allowing me entry into a realm beyond my physical, experiential world–brief revelatory messages from somewhere beyond. I’m hoping that as you read these poems, (more than once, aloud if possible) something like Wordsworth’s ‘intimations of immortality’ will enliven your own perceptions of the world as you experience it. Maybe your own fleet of angels will show up!” –Luci Shaw, from the Introduction

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  • Begin With A Question

    $20.00

    Begin 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

    $19.00

    Raising 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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  • Call Us What We Carry

    $24.99

    A collection of poetry by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman

    Including The Hill We Climb, the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, this collection of the same name reveals an energizing and unforgettable new voice in America poetry.

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  • God Speaks Through Wombs

    $16.00

    birthing 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

    $15.99

    Amanda 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

    $19.95

    This 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

    $21.00

    Winner 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 slope

    down. Second, the effortless type, wind-splayed, motionless pinions
    in thermal recline, as the Psalmist says, blessings breeze his love even

    in 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 by

    divine 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 from

    Nineveh. 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 the

    Shulamite bride, to regions beyond aeronautical wisdom, transported in joy.
    See, he says, the painful paring of your hollow bones has made you light.

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  • Therese : Poems

    $21.00

    In 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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  • Christ Our Saviour

    $9.99

    Christ Our Saviour by Gary May. A collection of poetry.

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  • Prayerful Poet : Found Poems In Hymns Of The Past

    $24.99

    Beverly 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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  • Prayerful Poet : Found Poems In Hymns Of The Past

    $14.99

    Beverly 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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  • Madonna Complex

    $14.00

    What 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

    $16.99

    Probing 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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  • All Along You Were Blooming

    $18.99

    A 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

    $30.95

    “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

    $13.95

    “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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  • Wing Over Wing

    $21.00

    Wing 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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  • Be Still

    $13.95

    “Be Still” is a book of poems written and inspired by the love and grace of Jesus Christ. There’s something about the ocean and the sound of the waves that is ever so calming. The gentle creeping tide, sand between your toes and amazing sunsets compliment the spirit inspired words in each poem. The idea of this book is to fill you with peace and carry you away into blissful serenity. At times we need reminders to be still in Gods presence; to find a quiet place where we can shut out the chaos of the world and listen with our hearts, to Gods voice. We all need encouragement because we get so busy and caught up in a world full of anxiousness and despair. Let the power and presence embrace you as you flow through the pages of “Be Still”.

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  • Waltzing With God

    $11.95

    In 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

    $28.95

    In 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

    $21.00

    Sonnets 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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  • Dreaming Of Stones

    $18.00

    The 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
    breathing out,
    freedom.

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  • Hearts Necessities : A Life In Poetry

    $19.95

    A hundred years after her birth, a New York poet inspires a new generation of musicians and artists. Jane Tyson Clement’s poems are introduced and set to music by Becca Stevens in this book and vinyl LP boxed set.

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  • Time Escapes

    $14.99

    Joseph Esposito
    Come on a journey in time, through poetry and story. Find peace and promise through God in the pages of Time Escapes.

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  • Full Worm Moon

    $39.00

    Like 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

    $30.95

    For 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

    $16.00

    In 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

    $36.00

    D.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

    $18.00

    Habitation 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

    $10.00

    What 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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  • Poems By Pamela

    $5.95

    American Freedom Publications LLC

    Poems on faith, family, friends and the beauty of nature from a Christian perspective written by Pamela Kay Capages.

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  • Adam Eve And The Riders Of The Apocalypse

    $25.00

    Adam, 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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  • Love Remember : Poems Of Loss Lament And Hope

    $21.00

    The 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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  • Untamed Gospel : Reflections Poems And Prayers For The Christian Year

    $30.49

    Untamed 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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  • Communion Of Saints

    $21.00

    This 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

    $15.99

    Do 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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  • Thieves Of The Sky

    $12.99

    When 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

    $17.99

    C.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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  • Emotional Rollercoaster : A Collection Of Poems

    $13.99

    This 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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  • Yearning Life : Poems

    $21.00

    With the publication of this title, Paraclete Press announces the first winner of the Phyllis Tickle Prize in Poetry which honors our longtime friend and advisor.

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  • Treasures In My Garden

    $28.95

    This 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

    $11.95

    This 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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  • Joyful In Affliction

    $11.95

    This book contains a selection of inspirational poems written over a period of forty years. “It’s Just Impossible” was her first poem/song and came one dark, dreadful day when the author doubted she could go on. The poem was a miracle that took the sting out of the emotional pain she experienced and turned her weeping into joy.

    This collection of poems covers many topics: self-worth, hope, grace, encouragement, laughter, gratitude, praise, and glory to our Creator and Redeemer. Apart from Him, not one poem would have been written, because the author was simply not capable.

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  • For Better Or For Verse

    $9.95

    So 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

    $14.99

    Author 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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  • Naked Tree : Love Sonnets To C S Lewis And Other Poems

    $34.99

    Although 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

    $30.95

    Sean 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

    $13.95

    Sean 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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  • Wild Things : Poems Of Grief And Love Loss And Gratitude

    $13.99

    How does a person tolerate the intolerable, bear the unbearable? For Roberta Bondi, a more specific question arose. “How will I continue my life when my mother is not in it?” As Bondi put pen to paper, she gave voice to her grief – and created a resource for others who grieve. She articulates her pain so others can know that they are not crazy in their emotions, that they can live beyond the grief and pain and find a measure of comfort. Bondi loses a physical presence but comes to find her mother’s presence in new ways in her life. Just as the “light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overcome it” (John 1:5), Bondi shines a light on the dark face of grief, reminding us of God’s enduring love.

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  • Psalms Redux : Poems And Prayers

    $16.99

    These striking poems take the powerful themes of the Psalms and transpose them from a distant and ancient culture to a contemporary one with recognizable images and metaphors. Combining raw honesty with beauty and depth, they explore every human experience from rage at life’s cruelty to joy at life’s blessings.

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  • Love Nature Faith And Cowboys

    $15.49

    Love. Nature. Faith. Cowboys. Subjects of inspiration and wonder. Much could be said on any one of them: how they make us feel, how they change our perceptions of our world and of ourselves, how they fill us with hopes and dreams, and how our world is better for us having experienced them. Yes, even the cowboys.

    Normally, an author would focus on a single topic, in the hopes of conveying a message. But, in love, nature, faith…and cowboys, Stephen M. Nichols shares four themes which, though disparate, lend themselves to his unique brand of poetry. Together, they share some common elements of interest and involvement to which most readers can relate.

    You are invited to peruse the poetic thoughts and musing of Stephen M Nichols. May you be inspired, reminded of wonder, provoked to thought, and be moved by the emotions contained within his words.

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  • Poetic Short Stories

    $23.49

    This book will inspire you to think and act differently by introducing you to a unique form of poetry called, “Poetic Short Stories”. Each metaphorical verse will ebb and flow through your heart and penetrate the very depth of your soul.

    The reader will feel inspired, enlightened, and free to discuss the content and messages throughout each poetic story with family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, and others.

    Moreover, this book is a compilation of life’s similar experiences, yet unique to each individual. If you find yourself thinking, wow…this is me or I know someone like the character reflected, then, this book has achieved one of its many purposes which is to stretch the reader to love deeper, laugh heartily, listen actively, think carefully, reflect often, meditate daily, communicate honestly, and most of all to act fairly.

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  • Poetic Short Stories

    $12.49

    This book will inspire you to think and act differently by introducing you to a unique form of poetry called, “Poetic Short Stories”. Each metaphorical verse will ebb and flow through your heart and penetrate the very depth of your soul.

    The reader will feel inspired, enlightened, and free to discuss the content and messages throughout each poetic story with family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, and others.

    Moreover, this book is a compilation of life’s similar experiences, yet unique to each individual. If you find yourself thinking, wow…this is me or I know someone like the character reflected, then, this book has achieved one of its many purposes which is to stretch the reader to love deeper, laugh heartily, listen actively, think carefully, reflect often, meditate daily, communicate honestly, and most of all to act fairly.

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  • Glimpse Into My Life Through Prose And Poetry

    $14.49

    During my first years of school, I caught pure hell. I was bullied each and every day. Kids would attack me with “O dumb fly”; I would be standing, talking to some one and another person would pretend to smell me, then say ” he’s ate some shit because he stinks”! Then they would all run away from me. Just try to feel what I felt as a kid. Besides that, my cloths were tattered, faded and dyed. Same colored shirts and pants, but mine came from “GoodWill” and was either patched, sewed or faded. Coats had holes. Mama could only buy one pair of shoes for me/ no two, because I did have a dressed pair to wear to church, but my every day shoes were brogans. Brogans were black boots that had big steel taps on the front and the back of the soles. One could literally hear me coming from a block away.
    I had a fight of some sort almost every day. Incidentally, my Mama enrolled me into Catholic School. (Light blue shirts dark blue pants and ties.). Had I been going to school in this day and time, I would have been a fashion statement.

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  • Christian Poems : Thanks Be To God For His Unspeakable Gift II Corinthians

    $12.49

    Christian poems are about the main personalities in the Bible from Old Testament and New Testament. Other Christian themes are in short poem form to keep the attention of the reader be it young or otherwise to focus on Jesus Christ mission in this world. The poems were started in 2011, the four hundredth anniversary of the Authorized or King James Version of the Bible on which all poems are based.

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  • Etched By Silence

    $20.99

    This collection of poems by Wales’ most famous poet-priest, R S Thomas, is interspersed with short reflections and questions for exploration that connect the timeless poetry to the landscape that inspired it. Originally produced locally for visitors to the North Wales village and church where R S Thomas was the parish priest, its appeal extends to all who know and love the raw honesty and sparse, striking style of the poetry, and whose own faith and questions are mirrored in it.

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  • Haphazard By Starlight

    $15.99

    Unlike Lent, Advent is celebrated when the year is becoming darker and colder, moving into the death and dormancy of winter. Before we can greet the coming of the light, we need to engage with some themes that are challenging and occasionally fearful. Like the magi who travelled a long distance to search out and adore the infant Jesus, and who took some wrong turnings on the way, we too have a journey to undertake.

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  • Reflections : A Book Of Poems Of Love Faith And Hope

    $14.99

    Originally from the Republic of Panama, Central America. He moved to the United States to continue graduate studies.

    Over the years, he has gained experience in public administration, political science, education, health services, and public health.

    His poems have been published in several anthologies.

    Poems are a reflection of life in our culture, as seen through events, personal experiences, observations and testimonies. No matter what the situation may be, lives can be transformed, peace and joy received, by the grace, mercy and compassion of Almighty God. This is illustrated in the pages of this book.

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  • Within This Tree Of Bones New And Selected Poems

    $24.00

    Written over five decades, these poems begin fixed in the human condition, our common experience of an imperfect world. Slowly, under the aegis of the Spirit, they move toward a brighter vision of things: they ask us to ”dream in that fecund darkness until all shapes are shining.” Poetry offers us an experience of union with the alarming and enthralling world we live in, as well as glimpses of what transcends it and is beyond language. It reminds us that all is connected and supports the hope that light will triumph. The author trusts that these poems may do the same as they explore the chain of being from animal to human, from serpent to angel–and that joy is the final dominant note.

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  • Fruit Of The Spirit

    $12.49

    We receive the Holy Spirit when we become a child of God and as Christians we need to learn to walk in the Spirit. The Fruit of the Spirit is a refreshing and unique collection of poems that equip believers to know who we are in Christ and to walk in the power and authority of the Spirit. Each chapter introduces an insightful selection on an aspect of the nine virtues of the Holy Spirit. The poems add a practical dimension and application for believers seeking to know and grow and become more Christlike. The extraordinary way in which the poems are arranged, elucidates how essential it is for the indwelling presence of the Spirit and to develop these characteristics. The Fruit of the Spirit will motivate Christians to flourish, mature and be in tune with the Holy Spirit, drawing from the Spirit’s life-giving power [John 7:37-39]. Read and be inspired to keep on living for Christ. In spite of adverse circumstances, being furnished with the Fruit of the Spirit will help us to persevere for the ultimate goal of eternal life in Christ Jesus.

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  • Pet Fairy

    $17.99

    Christie Joy is a graduate of Texas Tech University. Her loves are her husband and sons. Christie was nominated one of the Top 5 Pet Sitters of 2007 by PSI (Pet Sitters International). Volunteerism is very important to her as she has worked with various animal rescue groups. From 2010-2011 she was the Director of Education for the East Texas SPCA. This position combined her writing and education passion to help children understand pet welfare. Traveling, reading and enjoying her family are her hobbies. God has done wonderful things in nature and hopes that this book will inspire children to dream big and pray.

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  • Wisdom From The Briar Patch

    $16.99

    Clara Ruffin’s Wisdom from the Briar Patch is her most recent book. In it, she shares classroom experiences as only she can. The book is a compilation of devotionals, poems, insights and quotations that depict a few of the very real issues and struggles found in the schoolhouse. Her works have appeared in Christian Educators’ Teachers of Vision Magazine and in Daring to Dream Again (Overcoming Barriers that Hold You Back), a 50-Day Spiritual Adventure for pastors and congregations. Additionally, two of her poems have been published in the Fragrance of Kindness by Cheri Fuller. A segment of her life appeared in Luis Palau’s It’s a God Thing.

    Several of her pieces also appear in The Gift of Teaching, a Handbook for Christians Who Serve in Schools by Daniel Elliot and R. Lewis Hodge.

    Before her retirement, some of her more innovative classroom escapades were written up in the Hartford Courant and Bloomfield Journal.

    Clara’s unpretentious writing style draws you in and holds you. She has written four other books: Esteem, Harvest, We Win, and Tree Trunk Love.

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  • Manna For The Journey

    $11.95

    Many of Andrew’s writings present a perception that is a little off center, a different way of contemplating a thought or a verse. They are, in a way, reflections that are a little fractured and sometimes a little distorted. They provide for a different way of seeing things. Sometimes they generate consideration and enrichment of life, Scripture, and love.

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  • Manna For The Journey

    $28.95

    Many of Andrew’s writings present a perception that is a little off center, a different way of contemplating a thought or a verse. They are, in a way, reflections that are a little fractured and sometimes a little distorted. They provide for a different way of seeing things. Sometimes they generate consideration and enrichment of life, Scripture, and love.

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  • Faith Hope Love Jesus

    $27.95

    This collection presents inspired poems filled with faith, hope, love and strength for life’s experiences. Become one of God’s beautiful, free butterflies!

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  • No One To Tell Someone To Care

    $9.95

    She was raised in church, while behind closed doors, secrets reigned supreme. She repressed the memories, but over fifty years later they came pouring out as she struggled with clinical depression. These poems chronologically tell of the struggle, the failures, the fears, and the victories as Joyce made the journey to regain her life. They show how God is leading Joyce on a journey from tragedy to triumph through Him.

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  • Voice Of One Woman

    $13.49

    The Voice of One Woman is the first book By Adepero Mettabel Okulaja , MD, a practicing internal medicine physician in Bloomington, Minnesota. It is best described as an anthology of poems, prose, original quotes, anecdotes and messages, referencing relevant biblical scriptures. It primarily deals with self-image and how to embrace who you are, and all of who you are and believe that you are “fearfully and wonderfully made”.

    This work was borne out of the experiences that shaped her life, particularly those that led her to accept herself as the woman God created her to be. Passionate living and bold femininity are explored through poetry and prose in this text. Be prepared to change as you contemplate scripture and the musings of the author.

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  • Imago Dei : Poems From Christianity And Literature

    $17.99

    Imago Dei brings together a collection of poets who merge faith, literature, and art as a form of worship and inspiration.

    An anthology of the best poems published in the journal Christianity and Literature over the past sixty years, Imago Dei brings together in one volume poetry which exemplifies the richness and variety of the art. These poems find beauty in the concrete and particular, but they also ask the big questions: Why do we exist? Who is God? Where do we find God? What does the Incarnation mean? When does God speak to us, and why is God silent?

    These poets all have in common an awareness of human experience as part of a grand narrative, of the Imago Dei embedded in human nature, and of the sense of connection to something much larger than themselves. These are poems written from within a theological tradition, though they are not necessarily traditional in form or expression. They upset the usual in their originality; they are Worded words, connected to our earthly life but pointed toward the Kingdom of God; they are redemptive words made flesh.

    Included in the over one hundred poets represented here are Wendell Berry, Mark Jarmon, Jeanne Murray Walker, Dana Gioa, Martha Serpas, Luci Shaw, and Robert Siegel. All of the poets in this collection grapple with what Imago Dei means for them as readers, writers, artists, teachers, and students.

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  • Truthful Color Of God

    $10.00

    How soon do we realize that what we have in our hands is the one thing that we really yearn for? Think of love, chances, and relationships beyond recall, and the regrets that come along. Why does the truth escape us at the time it matters most to us? The Truthful Color of God reflects on such instances in the life of its creator. In “You Are My Soul,” for example, Tho Pham plays with the thought of the convenience of a time machine to change the past in light of recent realization.

    The Truthful Color of God reflects on the cosmological continuum and how Christianity figures in it.

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  • Loves Three Days

    $9.95

    Olive Press Publisher (www.olivepresspublisher.com)

    You have never felt love like this! This is TRUE LOVE.

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  • UnCommon Ground : DowntoEarth Poems For Daily Living

    $9.95

    Such trivial things- a hutch full of rabbits, dishes left over after a church potluck, a bag of sugar, cleaning house- ordinary things and ordinary activities in which Frances Parker once again discovers the extraordinary. She detects the activity and the voice of God in the routine things of life and shares them with her readers in an unassuming, yet surprising manner. Her poetry, focusing on everyday, common happenings, encourages readers to see God in the humdrum sameness of their busy lives. She shows that opportunities to experience Him are all around.

    Parker offers glimpses of God in the ordinary things of life. In Uncommon Ground, she invites you to take off your shoes and discover something extraordinary in the everyday, uncommon ground beneath your feet.

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  • Poem Book : Of Sacred Confessions Scriptural Nuggets Short Prayers And Enco

    $12.49

    SKU (ISBN): 9781612155791ISBN10: 1612155790N. Hazel ClarkBinding: Trade PaperPublished: August 2011Publisher: Xulon Press Print On Demand Product

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  • Tongue Screws And Testimonies

    $16.99

    From the publisher of Martyrs Mirror comes this refreshing, reflective, heartbreaking, humorous-and sometimes irreverent-anthology of poems, creative essays and fiction by new and noted authors with connections to the Anabaptist tradition.

    Featuring writers such as Rudy Wiebe, Di Brandt, Jeff Gundy, Jean Janzen, Julia Kasdorf, John Ruth, Rhoda Janzen and others, Tongue Screws and Testimonies shows how stories from Martyrs Mirror intersect with the lives of writers and their characters-and how these stories continue to have a powerful hold on faith, life and imagination today.

    Collected and edited by Kirsten Eve Beachy, who teaches writing at Eastern Mennonite University, Tongue Screws and Testimonies challenges readers to consider the implications of Martyrs Mirror in their own lives.

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  • Blessed By The Best

    $19.99

    The poetic verses in this book express some of my beliefs on how faith in God can turn things around when dealing with life’s ups and downs. I have shared these verses with many in the course of my duties as a spiritual counselor. I use many of them on a daily basis to remind people about the power of God and his word. Although they are original verses, they are spiritually inclined, inspired by the Bible. They are designed to provide courage and strength as we encounter life’s trial and tribulations. This book is the result of the encouragement and inspiration he has received to publish his works.

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  • Blessed By The Best

    $10.99

    The poetic verses in this book express some of my beliefs on how faith in God can turn things around when dealing with life’s ups and downs. I have shared these verses with many in the course of my duties as a spiritual counselor. I use many of them on a daily basis to remind people about the power of God and his word. Although they are original verses, they are spiritually inclined, inspired by the Bible. They are designed to provide courage and strength as we encounter life’s trial and tribulations. This book is the result of the encouragement and inspiration he has received to publish his works.

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  • Transformation : A Journey In Poetry

    $12.49

    SKU (ISBN): 9781612151113ISBN10: 1612151116Morrison BahawBinding: Trade PaperPublished: November 2010Publisher: Xulon Press Print On Demand Product

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  • All Creation Sings

    $9.95

    Have you ever seen something so beautiful in God’s created world that it took your breath away? These poems are an expression of joy and gratitude to the God who has inspired me through the days of my life by the beauty of His created world. He is the one who has opened my eyes to see His attributes expressed in the world. May you see Him in new and different ways, drawing you closer to Him. May you hear Him speak words of encouragement and peace, bringing you comfort. May joy fill you to overflowing, strengthening you and enabling you to worship and praise the God of all creation.

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  • Elfin Knight (Revised)

    $20.00

    Introduction
    Preface
    Canto I
    Fairy Tales
    Bury The Hatchet
    Canto II
    Off To Bed With You
    Canto III
    Riddle Me This
    Canto IV
    Guyon
    What Do You Know?
    Canto V
    On Guard!
    Canto VI
    What’s The Story?
    Canto VII
    Can You Dig It?
    Canto VIII
    Take The Field
    Canto IX
    Angels
    Do Your Worst
    Canto X
    You’re History
    Canto XI
    Off With His Head!
    Canto XII
    Unicorns
    Let Grill Be Grill
    Appendix: A Play

    Additional Info
    Edmund Spenser (1559-99) has earned the title ‘the poet’s poet’ because of the high poetry of his epic and because so many great poets, including Milton, Dryden, Tennyson, and Keats, cut their poetic teeth on The Faerie Queene.

    The hero of Book II is Sir Guyon, the knight of Temperance. But do not let that throw you. This is not a poem about teetotalism. As C.S. Lewis puts it, The Faerie Queene ‘demands of us a child’s love of marvels and dread of bogies, a boy’s thirst for adventures, a young man’s passions for physical beauty.

    Following in the wake of Roy Maynard’s Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves, Toby Sumpter’s notes are insightful and humorous making this great Christian epic poem accessible for modern readers. The Elfin Knight makes an excellent choice as a homeschool or classroom text.

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  • Cracker Poemer Collections

    $29.99

    SKU (ISBN): 9781609577803ISBN10: 1609577809J. Carroll BarnhillBinding: Cloth TextPublished: September 2010Publisher: Xulon Press Print On Demand Product

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  • Cracker Poemer Collections

    $17.99

    SKU (ISBN): 9781609577797ISBN10: 1609577795J. Carroll BarnhillBinding: Trade PaperPublished: September 2010Publisher: Xulon Press Print On Demand Product

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  • From A Legend And Kingdom Of Darkness Into Poems Of Hope

    $26.99

    A tremendous testimony of God’s grace and love that ultimately births and inspires poems of hope. Antionette Campbell clearly displays her gift of writing. This will offer insight to those who may be walking through similar situations or simply facing obstacles in life. Victory is imminent and God is given the glory. A great mixture of story and inspirational poetry that will keep you reading until the end. This will be the first of many great books to come. -Laura Goncalves… Antionette Campbell’s life is a testimony of God’s grace and love to Deuteronomy 4:29-31. I’ll paraphrase it. If you truly seek God with your heart and soul; and when troubles come to you, in future days, if you’ll come back to God and listen to His voice. He won’t abandon you to ruin or forget the covenant He swore to your ancestors. -Lorraine Lambright

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  • Poems Of Power

    $15.99

    Vivian Scott’s spiritual inspiration is reflected in her poetry.

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  • Season Of Hope

    $12.49

    This book will especially help someone who is in a storm which they have been in for a while. It will help that person to understand that God knows about the storm, is using the storm to make them better and does have a season of hope in store for them. This book includes 20 poems, 20 matching meditations and accompanying scriptures. It also contains a narrative called Season of Hope Story. In his Season of Hope Story the author describes how God has dealt with him in his season of hope in hopes that it will help a reader recognize, appreciate and receive all that God has for him/her in their own Season of Hope.

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  • When The Power Of Christ Compels You

    $13.49

    From the Author:

    My book is for anyone who is struggling to make it thru the storm. It helps to build up their confidence in the word of Jesus Christ. Always remember there is still daylight after every dark storm. Prayer and worshiping is the key to God’s heart, because God is love, And God’s love is what every soul needs in order to achieve.

    Hopefully, my book will help you see this. Enjoy it.

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  • Provoking Thoughts In Poetry

    $15.49

    THIS PRICELESS BOOK OF POETRY IS SIMPLE A POETICAL MASTERPIECE. THE AUTHOR “MIKE THORPE” SKILLFULLY BLENDS LIFE’S ISSUES AND REALITIES WITHIN HIS ART AND DELIVERS EACH POEM IN SUCH A WAY THAT EACH READER WILL IDENTIFY, CONNECT AND BE FULLY SATISFIED. MICHAEL’S BELIEF THAT POETRY IS ENTERTAINING, POETRY IS THERAPEUTIC, POETRY IS HEALING, POETRY CAN CONNECT MIND AND SOUL THROUGH ART IS SURELY ILLUSTRATED IN THIS BOOK AS HE BUNDLES VARIOUS POEMS TOGETHER IN ONE REFRESHINLY APPETIZING AND FILLING POT OF RHYMES.

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  • Journey

    $17.49

    The Journey, set forth in poetic fashion, is designed for those who can understand the hardships that come along with the Christian walk, and it applies to those who are learning to completely consecrate their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ. The author has written this book to parallel those whose hearts have been called on by the Lord to experience God’s boot camp of spiritual transformation.

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  • Streams Of Life

    $14.99

    This collection of poems are a reminder of the oases God provides through human relationships and the healing streams of His redemptive love, mercy and grace as we journey through the deserts of Life.

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  • Morning Prayers : Today You Are Blessed

    $12.49

    As you randomly read these poems and believe the Lord will speak to your heart for that particular day, you will be directed, blessed, and strengthened as you face each day. You will discover what it takes to experience the wonderful blessings as we walk with the Lord daily. Hope and faith will come into our hearts as we meditate upon these words which were divinely inspired.

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  • I Envy Birds

    $17.99

    My father, Joe B. Chapman, was shuffled from town to town during his childhood as his father followed work on the pipeline. He saw many places and met many people. Texas A&M was the college of his choice and where he earned a degree in Industrial Engineering. His education enabled him to pursue a career which enabled him to see what was once considered the far and exotic reaches of the earth. Not only did my father obtain the knowledge found in books, but he saw the mysteries of other cultures. By human standards, you could say that my dad, although not of noble birth, was influential in his field and has great wisdom. (I Corinthians 1:25-31) these verses teach us, the foolish things of the world can confound the wise. Daddy understands this truth and he has kept his eyes on the Lord and trusted in the Lord’s wisdom and guidance throughout his life. When he tells stories of his travels in the past, he does not boast of the things he has seen or done, but he boasts of what the Lord has allowed him to see and experience as well as the protection He has afforded my dad. By God’s standards, my dad is of noble birth. He is covered in the righteousness of Jesus, which makes him a joint heir in all that God has and loves to give to His children. What my dad wants you to know, and tells you through his poetry is that you too can be a child of The King. You can be redeemed and sanctified by God and you too can boast in the Lord. Written by Pamela Chapman Barrett. (Joe’s Daughter)

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  • Messages From Heaven

    $21.99

    Having the gift of the Holy Spirit, under His anointing the author wrote poetry only as the Holy Spirit gave it. By January, 2008, he had written 260 Holy Spirit-inspired poems for a book, and one for the reader.

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