Surprise! I Have a New Book
Come Closer: Poetry, Prose, and Photos for Lent and Easter lives!
Friends, what’s up with you?
On Monday my lumbar spine pinched and spasmed, as it does sometimes, and I spent the day in bed. With my plan to pull weeds this week sidelined I wondered what good I might be able to do in the world from my bed and recliner. The answer: publish a new book!
As a spiritual writer, and having served as a pastor for 7 years, I’ve written a number of poems and meditations for the Lenten season ranging from Ash Wednesday through the Resurrection on Easter Sunday, and have wanted to shape the “best of” into a book. So I went for it, adding my photos to accompany some of the text, and Come Closer: Poetry, Prose, and Photos for Lent and Easter now exists. Here’s to creative inspiration, turning setbacks into opportunities, and following where the Spirit leads!
Join poet and former pastor Cathy Warner as she answers Jesus' invitation to come closer in the season of Lent. From Ash Wednesday through the events of Holy Week, from the crucifixion to the resurrection, Warner extends her own invitation to the faithful and seekers alike as she brings her questions, doubts, and growing faith to Jesus with honest and imaginative prose, lyrical poetry, and inspiring photos.
Easter Sunday is March 31st and I want to get Come Closer into your hands NOW so I am offering the Kindle version at NO COST from Saturday March 9th thru Wednesday March 13. I’d love for you to download a copy and let your friends know, too. No Kindle device needed. You can read on your desktop, smart phone, or tablet by downloading the Kindle app.
[A note as a publisher: I read a lot on Kindle and because it doesn’t preserve page and line breaks from the printed page, the reading experience is not ideal for poetry, but it’s what I can offer as a gift to you. The paperback, on the other hand, should be lovely, if I do say so myself.]
An excerpt:
Holy Saturday
I
Under skies leaden with grief
all that we love blooms, bleeds, dies.
Still we bless hope, its feathers
too long in coming.
II
The Good Friday sky
Blackened by despair finally splits
With blue beckoned hope
III
Think on the lilies
buried, lifeless––and then
behold, behold.
Wishing you all well as we await signs of new life.
~Cathy
Wowie zowie, Cathy! What a brilliant way to use your "down" time... which, except for your back, doesn't sound "down" at all. You've given us all a great up! I'm downloading the Kindle version AND buying the paperback. Can't wait to see it! Bravo, you!