Looking Askance

Sample Stanzas:

You stir the embers and fuel the flame
Of what we were and what we'll be.
You draw me out, and without shame
I yield me up, enslaved, but free.
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Heirs together of the grace of life,
Endowed with richness from above,
We live together as man and wife
At the marriage hearth of comforting love.
 

Insight into how we relate to our world and to one another is the theme of these twenty-five poems. The world is beautiful, but it requires us to face our common realities with courage and grace. A gentle sense of humor can be helpful, although some things are not funny. Painful truth is treated here with respect; however, it is probed with an honest eye. These thoughtful reflections are developed within the paradigm of faith and with trust in the divine plan.