{"product_id":"kiss-the-earth-when-you-pray-the-father-zosima-poems-forty-two-meditations-and-a-prayer-paperback","title":"Kiss the Earth When You Pray: The Father Zosima Poems: Forty-Two Meditations and a Prayer - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Hudson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Hudson has that quality, all too rare in evangelicalism, of embracing mystery and thus giving his readers that freedom.\u003cbr\u003e --Philip Yancey, author, Where Is God When It Hurts? and What's So Amazing about Grace?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf 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. \u003cbr\u003e --Leonard Sweet, bestselling author, Bad Habits of Jesus, professor (Drew University, George Fox University, Tabor College)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpare, 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.\u003cbr\u003e --John Leax, author, Tabloid News and Recluse Freedom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAchingly 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.\u003cbr\u003e --Drema Hall Berkheimer, author, Running on Red Dog Road\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 82\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 29, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42091365335175,"sku":"9781944769307","price":18.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/29e18540d74a97120d5cc029e0c8d0e2.webp?v=1732291345","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/kiss-the-earth-when-you-pray-the-father-zosima-poems-forty-two-meditations-and-a-prayer-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}