Breaking Into Light is a collection of poems that imagines our breaking not just into fragmentation but into Light. This time is an apocalyptic backdrop of climate change, racial injustice, and the selling out of lives to the god of Profit. 

And too, this time is defined by those who work for the Good, who make beauty real, who stand outside on a summer night and listen.  It is created with trees that bud during wars.  It is made by those who choose recovery, or repair, or compassion. This book is meant to look at all that devastates, all that breaks, and to proclaim still that the greatest is always the Love. 

Intended as a personal devotional and as a professional resource, these blessings are meant to travel. They are written to go with chaplains into rooms where outcomes are uncertain. They are written for pastors at gravesides or pulpits or in offering prayers. They are written for spouses waking up in empty beds after sixty years of marriage. They are written for the person who sits down to pray in a place where she never wanted to be. They are written for those who hear the news and don’t know what to do next. They are written to proclaim that there is more than just present pain and future hope—that there is Spirit ever-with-us.  And that there are wild angels whenever we look for them!