Hearts on Pilgrimage: Poems & Prayers

Ive no chisel but this pen chipping at paper like stone begins Hearts on Pilgrimage but what a chisel author Jody L. Collins wields in this exquisitely sculpted collection of quiet poems that bring comfort contemplation and gratitude in difficult times. Her poetry echoes the seasons from winters dormancy and springs new life to summers exuberant growth and the fall harvest looking through the lens of a physical world that also mirrors our interior lives. Whether its picking autumn raspberries listening to a violent thunderstorm witnessing the first flight of a chickadee or contemplating the memory of an absent father Collins invites us to slow down and notice the extraordinary everyday moments in our journeys with nature Christianity spirituality and family.