Holy Scribbling: Looking at Life Through a Sacred Window

By Katherine Roberts Moore

For some writers, scribbling is minimalon the periphery of their work. In Holy Scribbling, the scribbles take center stage and become the means to the message. With sometimes quirky insight, Katherine Moore takes us to sacred windows that allow the spirituality of ordinary scenes to emerge. From the stark beauty of a Mystic Dawn to the serenity of Simple Solitude, we experience the mysteries of nature, along with the routine demands of relationships and circumstances.

Holy Scribbling is a personal book, but the images in these works expand into a universal understanding of everyman. In poetic form, a sense of reality is captured with a minimum of words. Paradoxically, it is her appreciation of words that enhances a deep spiritual sense of solitude and silence.

As a contemplative commentary on glimpses of life, Holy Scribbling offers you the chance to see not only yourself, but also, possibly, God.

Take the journey with Katherine Moore through this meditative volume of verse, and you will experience more deeply that you are alive!
Jonathan Kelley, D.Min., LPC, director of the Presbyterian Counseling Center, Brunswick County, North Carolina
Katherine Moores collection of poems is visceral and haunting, yet joyful. She reaches into her soul and shows us the frustrations and agonies of daily life, yet through it all she keeps a sense of wonder and delight. Her poems will make you both laugh and cry.
Elsa Bonstein, columnist and poet

• Language: English
• Publisher: Abbott Press
• Release date: Sep 20, 2012
• ISBN: 9781458205940

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HOLY 

 SCRIBBLING

LOOKING AT LIFE THROUGH A SACRED WINDOW

KATHERINE ROBERTS MOORE

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Holy Scribbling

Looking at Life through a Sacred Window

Copyright © Katherine Roberts Moore

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Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. The ‘NIV’ and ‘New International Version’ trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by International Bible Society. Use of either trademark requires the permission of International Bible Society.

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ISBN: 978-1-4582-0593-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4582-0595-7 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4582-0594-0 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012916175

Abbott Press rev. date: 09/12/2012

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Words

Backyard Theology

Fragments

Lament

The Cell

Darkness And Light

Haiku

Circles

To my husband,

whose patience could come

only from God

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

For challenging me to put this book together, I wish to thank my long-time friend, Wallace Sills. I also want to extend my gratitude to the Poetry Revisited group in Ocean Isle Beach, NC, for giving me a forum to read my poems, and to Sandra Hicks for sharing her photograph for the poem Moon Walk.

In addition to the many who have nurtured my spirit over the years, I am especially grateful to the Northumbria Community for the exceptional beauty and wisdom contained within the pages of their prayer book, Celtic Daily Prayer.

INTRODUCTION

I have been scribbling for years. On scraps of paper. Backs of envelopes. Torn notepads. Sticky notes. Margins of newspaper. Only as I began to keep a journal did my scribbles begin to take form. The works included here are quite simple. I look at life. Over the years, I have learned the mystery of stopping, being still, and waiting—with pen in hand.

This book is both personal