Into the Great Green Heart of God

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This collection of poems is meant to be a contemplative companion – something you might encounter on retreat. This book encourages the art of moving slowly – of going from one poem to another as though you were in a garden or a forest of tall, still trees. Like trees, poems help us breathe more deeply. May this small orchard bring you solace.

Christine Rodgers is an actor and poet living in San Francisco. Her poetry has appeared in the National Catholic Reporter, Radical Grace and on a variety of websites including The Witness, Poets Against the War and Grace Cathedral. In 2000 she appeared as a panelist in The Forum at Grace Cathedral entitled “The Creative Spirit in Poetry” – with Francisco X. Alarcon, Judy Grahn and Dean Alan Jones. Her poems have also been used in a number of retreat centers, and some are still floating around Africa. She published her first collection of poems, Into the Great Green Heart of God in 2005.

Christine writes
"Writing, for me, is first and foremost a way of praying – a way of wrestling with assorted angels. It is also a way ofgiving witness. The great Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins said, “All the world is full of things that go unnoticed.” I would like to point people in the direction of beauty – turn their gaze just so. I hope many will be nourished by these poems, but in particular those who are longing for a spiritual community, and those in ministry."

The Rev. Frances Tornquist, Former Vice Dean and Canon Pastor of Grace Cathedral writes
"Christine's poems employ small handfuls of words to paint profound pictures of great clarity and abundant grace. To read one is to give oneself a spiritual gift. To have a collection of them is to own a cherished gift to open slowly and deliberately."

Paperback, 71 pages