Book One · The Soft Rebellion
Poems & Prayers
Words for prayer and grief.
Fifty-three poems and prayers gathered into the four seasons of the soul — Winter, the Undoing; Spring, the Becoming; Summer, the Burning; Autumn, the Returning. Roughly one for every week of the year, though you are free to wander. Not polished sermons — field notes from the wilderness, for the days when your own words run out.
“The world does not need thicker skins. It needs softer hearts.”
Who it’s for
For the grieving, the tired, the waiting. For anyone whose prayers have gone quiet, who is carrying sorrow in the marrow of their bones, or who simply wants permission to be tender again.
Why I wrote it
Poems & Prayers began as small notes to myself, written late at night after the children had fallen asleep — reminders that tenderness still matters, and that meaning can still be found in ordinary days. What began as personal practice grew into a conviction: to stay soft in a hard world is not naïve, but necessary.
Whatever happens, stay alive.
Not just breathing, but awake.
Don’t vanish into the scroll,
don’t let the noise rewrite your worth.
You don’t have to be holy.
Just honest.
Even in the half-light,
you are still a constellation.
From “Stay Alive” — Winter, the Undoing
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