From Shade to Shine

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 poets clear-eyed gaze straight into lifes challenges. Memory is at work here, too, in personal reminiscences and in theological reflection. As one philosopher has said, "All truth is Gods truth."

From Shade to Shine is published under Paraclete Presss Iron Pen imprint. In the book of Job, a suffering man pours out his anguish to his Maker. From the depths of his pain, he reveals a trust in Gods goodness that is stronger than his despair, giving humanity some of the most beautiful and poetic verses of all time. Paracletes Iron Pen imprint is inspired by this spirit of unvarnished honesty and tenacious hope.