Poems and Practices for Discovering Our Fullest Selves” — Church Anew

Why did you write this e-book? 

In a world that always pulls us to maneuver at a velocity that’s unsustainable and wreaks havoc on our our bodies and spirits, this e-book is an invite to decelerate. Whereas tracing my ancestral roots in Maroon City, Jamaica, I befriended a groundskeeper who taught me the way to work with the land on a pineapple farm. I discovered that we are able to’t plant the seed and eat the fruit the identical day – we’ve obtained to domesticate the soil. On this assortment, I gently lean into the endurance and beauty essential to domesticate the soils of the soul.

This can be a apply I’ve to recommit to daily – and it’s a apply most transformative in neighborhood. It’s a apply of digging past the burden of our wounds to reclaim the very best of ourselves. I need to invite my readers: will you dig with me?

You finish your e-book with these fantastic phrases: “I do not need to provide you with flowers.  I need to develop you a backyard”. Please say extra.

Flowers, whereas typically a kindhearted reward, finally wilt and wither when uprooted. I’d a lot relatively provide one thing alive and rising, one thing we can domesticate collectively. That is the backyard I hold referencing all through the e-book. I do not need a love that shrinks and shrivels; I need a love that results in legacy, a love that blossoms and blooms till we’re all flourishing as a result of of it. 

Your e-book additionally has an accompanying Facilitator Information with 21 periods for small group dialogue (because of Rev. Jia Starr Brown).  How do you see this information working together with your e-book? 

The poems and practices I wrote are supposed to be skilled in neighborhood; the workbook gives methods to interact with the gathering in that type of neighborhood. Jia gives methods to deliver the total embodiment and integration of therapeutic knowledge into on a regular basis life. The workbook is wide-reaching: it may be used with youth teams, Bible examine or e-book teams, even intentional retreats.