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    My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert and the Journey of the Soul
    My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert and the Journey of the Soul
    My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert and the Journey of the Soul
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    My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert and the Journey of the Soul

    By Mark Oakley

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    Mark Oakley reveals George Herbert as a fine companion with whom to examine the journey of the soul. His poems are 'heart-work and heaven-work', embracing love and closeness, anger and despair, reconciliation and hope. There is too an appealing and audacious playfulness about Herbert: he seems to take God on, knowing God will win, confident God will not abandon him. This sense of relationship with God as primarily friendship is one of many intriguing and healing aspects we are invited to consider.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSPCK
    Release dateNov 29, 2019
    ISBN9780281080335
    My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert and the Journey of the Soul
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    Mark Oakley

    Mark Oakley worked in animation for years before, enthralled by the idea of having complete control over a project, he moved to Wolfville, NS, and started drawing comics. His major works include Thieves & Kings and Stardrop.

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