{"product_id":"2940153764917","title":"Kiss the Earth When You Pray","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of poems explores the confounding, restless joy of encountering the Holy; Father Zosima speaks of the elemental Love that surrounds us and the mystery that is closer to us than the air we breathe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Hudson has that quality, all too rare in evangelicalism, of embracing mystery and thus giving his readers that freedom.\u003cbr\u003e--Philip Yancey, author, Where Is God When It Hurts? and What's So Amazing about Grace?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf poets are \"orators of the imagination\" (Wallace Stevens), this immaculate collection from Robert Hudson is story oratory that stirs two kinds of imagination: the visual imagination of the human, the domain of dreams; and the invisible imagination of the divine, that flies us beyond the stars.\u003cbr\u003e--Leonard Sweet, bestselling author, Bad Habits of Jesus, professor (Drew University, George Fox University, Tabor College)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpare, even austere in their music and language, these elegant poems have their source in the imagination and wisdom of the Desert Fathers. The vision embodied in them is a vision of wholeness and hope. Warmly funny (some made me laugh out loud) and profoundly serious, they are poems I will be treasuring and reading for the rest of my life.\u003cbr\u003e--John Leax, author, Tabloid News and Recluse Freedom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAchingly beautiful, these whispered words are embers, falling, rising. Then WHAM, I am staggered by their power. I will read this book again. I will send it to friends for special occasions and for just because. They too will read it again.\u003cbr\u003e--Drema Hall Berkheimer, author, Running on Red Dog Road\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John R. Mabry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076237836528,"sku":"2940153764917","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940153764917_p0.jpg?v=1764056115","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940153764917","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}