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In the Wheat: Songs in Your Presence

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Inspiring, eloquent and heartening for all God-seekers.

I was inspired by this poetry and came to understand the inner life better by reading it. There is freedom of spirit working here, unhampered by age-old traditions and habits. I recommend this to readers of all ages.

A friend of mine alerted me to this book which I have read and reread. I want to let others know about it. Excellent.

Once you start to read these poems you are carried on a wave of spiritual emotion right through to the end. You can't put the book aside. It is a collection you can pick up and read over and over. Uplifting.

Beautiful, serene, inspiring, moving... Real deep insights in human character and Christian life.

A small, passionate book of taut poetry that lays open the soul of a young monk searching for God.

The religious experience of boyhood.
This book of poems concentrates on the theme of spiritual love: it describes an awakening and flowering, it tells of the pleasures and struggles involved. The author goes back to the time of his religious formation in a seminary at Notre Dame, Indiana and uses that location in the heartland of America as his setting. At that time he was a youngster of 13. The poetry that tells of past events unfolds intimate insights into the experience of this spiritual journey. Some of it views the events from a perspective later in life and imparts a sense that in the poetical experience something has been rediscovered and finally understood. The overall effect for the poet is that of wonderment at the magnitude of the occurrence. The reader might understand it as a song of praise that extols the vitality, spontaneity and freedom of youth.