Life, Death, and Resurrection:: Spiritual Poems from a Monastery

By Dewey John Jones

It has been said that poetry is the art of naming things properly. Life, Death, And Resurrection is a book of poetry that is the fruition of the authors journey into monasticism, a journey which seemingly leads away from the world, but which is actually a rushing into reality; it is a journey to find the ultimate meaning of ones own existence, the ultimate meaning of life, and the name that God Himself gives to each one of us.
This is a book about one souls search for God, and what that soul finds in this pursuit: life, death, and resurrectionGods own poem He hides within every aspect of our lives.
In these poems we find that ultimately it is the journey that will define who we are in the end, and it is the Cross that will show us how to live this journey; we will find our truest self, our true name, only in our love for God and neighbor. As one poem reads:

God comes to us in many ways
In vision and mystery
In the hand to be held
The burden to be born
The scars to be felt
Which are our prisons to be shorn.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781496926371

Dewey John Jones

Dewey J. Jones was born in 1980 to a mostly atheistic household. Lost and with little hope for the future, he dropped out of school at age fifteen. Shortly thereafter, a profound experience of God changed his life forever. Inspired by this experience and seeking God’s presence, he entered a monastery at age twenty-one, and during the following five years, wrote the poems contained in this book. In 2007 he returned to life in the world, and now lives a quiet life of prayer and physical labor, in care for his daughter and his disabled wife and son. They live together on a small farm in Cullman, Alabama.

Book preview

22318.png22354.png

AuthorHouse™ LLC

1663 Liberty Drive

Bloomington, IN 47403

www.authorhouse.com

Phone: [phone]

©

2014 Dewey John Jones. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

Published by AuthorHouse 07/10/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4969-2638-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4969-2637-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014912407

Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

Contents

PART ONE

Life

Tears

The music of God

Whispers of Prayer

The Present Task

Mary’s Shrine

God of the Living

Yes

Cornerstones

Love Endures

To Genevieve, My sister

Triumphal Praise

of a Valiant Leader

Stretching Towards Heaven

PART