Let Love In

By M. Germaine Hustedde PHJC

Let Love In is a work of art. It takes its place beside paintings, musicals, and stage. Each art form capitalizes on a particular medium to express a plethora of emotions. So too does the poetic anthology!

The author expresses myriad sentiments through photographic, colorful imagery. The prayer poems contain spiritual threads of lifes weavings that form the substratum of the poetic lines. These point to the radical foundation of the love that animates life. It is that which gives the spirit wings. Love can take one to the depth of our being where we encounter our truest self. It can also propel us to the farthest corners of our beautiful world. Let Love In will nudge the reader to see with new eyes and clearer focus, to relish the ordinary as a grand feast.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503587199

M. Germaine Hustedde PHJC

The author currently lives in Donaldson, Indiana. Her religious commitment has taken her to four continents and involved her in such ministry as child care, teaching at every level through primary, secondary, and college, retreat and counseling ministry, congregational administrative assignments in Germany, and missionary endeavors both in India and Africa. Sister holds an MA in education administration from Loyola University, Chicago; a masters in spirituality and religion from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh; and a doctor of ministry degree from the Graduate Theological Foundation.

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Copyright © 2015 by M. Germaine Hustedde, PHJC.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2015911503

ISBN:       Softcover       978-1-5035-8718-2

                 eBook           978-1-5035-8719-9

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Rev. date: 07/25/2015

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Encounter

Tree Of Life

Today’s Child Of Long Ago

(Cont.)

In Answer

Secret

Spring

In Aternum

God’s Embrace

Time

Luke 5:8

Peeking

Rhythm

A Lesson In The Wind

Recycled

Ezekiel 36:26

John 19:20

Cont.

Saturday Song

Awareness- Silent Fire

Irony Of Ways

God’s Alchemy

Centered

Recollection

Antithesis

Morning Bird

John 3:21

Counter-Point

Birthing

Petition

Springtime Prophet

Raphael

Autumn Clown

Spiritual Journey

Questions

If

Growth

Bereavement

God’s Love

Doubled Praise

Come Unto The Lord

Migration

Vision Of Life To Come

Icon Jesus

Prayer

Why

Bl. Mary Katherine

(Cont.)

Desire’s Anointing

Blindness

Daily Mysticism

Autumn Ritual

Living God

Inspiration

Sophia

Serenity

Annunciation

Which Way

Get It Straight

Splendor

A Friendly Place

Metanoia Ground

Cat-Ology

Friendship

Learning

Guest

My Beginning

Legacy

The Tulip Tree

Compassion

Life’s Contradiction

Advent

God’s Nurturing

The Search

Trinity

Longing

Spirit Of The North

Lama Sabachtani

(Cont)

Pleading

Mother God

Tabloid Trauma –

(Cont.)

Awakening

(Cont.)

God’s Fingerprint

The Yahweh Prayer

God’s Apparel

For Family, Friends and

Common Folk who

Have journeyed through Life

With me.

(Proceeds from this book will assist Street Boys in Mitunguu, Kenya to break the cycle of their poverty through Education.)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Grateful