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Heart's Time
Janet Morley
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Description for Heart's Time
Paperback. A day by day Lent book aimed at the individual reader, in which a poem appropriate to the themes of the season is read, along with a short reflection from the editor and a couple of questions to ponder. The purpose is to use a poetic text as the basis for 'slow reflection' during Lent and Eastertide. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCV9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 238.
Packed with riches yet highly accessible, The Heart's Time is at its core a series of short, resonant poems for each weekday of Lent and Easter. It will appeal to existing poetry lovers as well as those who want to start exploring how poems can be a resource for our spiritual lives, whether or not they are written with a consciously Christian intent. Poets often address subjects our culture seeks to avoid, and poetry demands that we 'slow down to the heart's time' in order to discover deeper levels of meaning than at first appear. Janet Morley ... Read more
Packed with riches yet highly accessible, The Heart's Time is at its core a series of short, resonant poems for each weekday of Lent and Easter. It will appeal to existing poetry lovers as well as those who want to start exploring how poems can be a resource for our spiritual lives, whether or not they are written with a consciously Christian intent. Poets often address subjects our culture seeks to avoid, and poetry demands that we 'slow down to the heart's time' in order to discover deeper levels of meaning than at first appear. Janet Morley ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780281063727
SKU
V9780281063727
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Ref
99-2
About Janet Morley
Janet Morley is a freelance writer, speaker and workshop leader. She has worked for Christian Aid and for the Methodist Church, and is the author of several books of prayers and poems, including All Desires Known, Bread of Tomorrow, The Heart's Times, Haphazard by Starlight and Our Last Awakening.
Reviews for Heart's Time
Varied, beautiful, provocative and nurturing.
The Times
Morley has a wonderful turn of phrase herself and her commentaries are beautiful, insightful, and encouraging of a prayerful and personal response. I think this deserves to become a classic and will repay many readings.
Methodist Recorder
Like the Psalms, the poetry is as much rooted in life experience ... Read more
The Times
Morley has a wonderful turn of phrase herself and her commentaries are beautiful, insightful, and encouraging of a prayerful and personal response. I think this deserves to become a classic and will repay many readings.
Methodist Recorder
Like the Psalms, the poetry is as much rooted in life experience ... Read more