Kiss the Earth When You Pray: The Father Zosima Poems: Forty-Two Meditations and a Prayer
This collection of poems explores the confounding, restless joy of encountering the Holy; Father Zosima speaks of the elemental Love that surrounds us and the mystery that is closer to us than the air we breathe. <br> <br>Robert Hudson has that quality, all too rare in evangelicalism, of embracing mystery and thus giving his readers that freedom. <br>--Philip Yancey, author, Where Is God When It Hurts? and What's So Amazing about Grace? <br> <br>If poets are "orators of the imagination" (Wallace Stevens), this immaculate collection from Robert Hudson is story oratory that stirs two kinds of imagination: the visual imagination of the human, the domain of dreams; and the invisible imagination of the divine, that flies us beyond the stars. <br>--Leonard Sweet, bestselling author, Bad Habits of Jesus, professor (Drew University, George Fox University, Tabor College) <br> <br>Spare, even austere in their music and language, these elegant poems have their source in the imagination and wisdom of the Desert Fathers. The vision embodied in them is a vision of wholeness and hope. Warmly funny (some made me laugh out loud) and profoundly serious, they are poems I will be treasuring and reading for the rest of my life. <br>--John Leax, author, Tabloid News and Recluse Freedom <br> <br>Achingly beautiful, these whispered words are embers, falling, rising. Then WHAM, I am staggered by their power. I will read this book again. I will send it to friends for special occasions and for just because. They too will read it again. <br>--Drema Hall Berkheimer, author, Running on Red Dog Road