The Bread and the Wine: Evidence of God’s Faithfulness in the Waiting

By Erin Gregory

This is one seeker’s map of a quest to know a God who sees and listens and speaks and moves. It is a trail of breadcrumbs left to mark a path of hope. It is an invitation to celebrate glimpses of the kingdom, and hold hands in the kneeling, leaning, wrestling and weeping of the waiting.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Nov 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781973690009

Erin Gregory

Erin Gregory grew up in Toronto, Ontario and dreamed of becoming an actress. In her late teens she had a life transforming experience in Zimbabwe, while on a short term missions trip and felt called to become a doctor, and return to Africa. In the in-between time, she completed her biology degree at Trinity Western University and her medical training at the University of Calgary. She then spent six busy years working in the beautiful town of Peace River, Alberta, before moving with her husband and three sons to the land of milk and honey, Vancouver Island. God has graciously led her into a variety of medical positions both in Canada, and various countries in East Africa. She is presently serving as a hospitalist and an addictions medicine consultant at the Comox Valley Hospital. Writing poetry has provided a way for her to remember the beautiful, process the hard and record the whisperings of the Spirit.

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Contents

Preface

The Calling

Revelation

Listen

Listening

Freedom Calling

Sowing Seed

The North

Obstructed Labour

Bitter

12

Done

My Heart’s Cry

Submission

In Pursuit of Purity

Take Me

The Aching

The Cutting

The Withdrawal

Falling

The End of Autumn

Forty Below

Spring

Summer

Reflections

The South

Dreams in Green

How do I love?

On Growing of Moss

One

Eve’s Child

Break Through

Kneeling

Pilgrims

Common

Children of the King

Created

Relax.

Hope

Searching for

On Edge

Even When, Even While.

Wide eyed

There is

Our Shelter in Suffering

Joy

Warrior Monk

Of the Moon

and of Mourning

Fall’s Shadow

Earth Weds Spring

Alone in the Forest

Soccer

At the Sea

The In-Between Spaces

Mexico

Italy

The Wooing

St. Paul’s Orphans

Reflections on Bacteremia

For the Seekers of Refuge

Kenya

Soul Salve

The Returning

Salinity

Good Shepherd

God’s Response

Branded

Beloved

Acknowledgements

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This collection of poems was written over a