Gently Between the Words: Essays and Poems

by Andrew Taylor-Troutman

Overview

Gently Between the Words guides and instructs our heartsIn his latest collection of essays and poems Taylor-Troutman guides readers through seemingly simple stories of death, life, parenting struggles, successes and failures that speak to larger questions we all face: How do we best spend our time? How can we raise our kids to be kind and confident? Who gives us guidance and wisdom? What does love look like in our lives on a day-to-day basis?In simple and important gestures like cleaning spilled milk with toilet paper, flipping the perfect pancake with your partner, and walking down the beach with your young child, readers find universal truths to guide their own lives regardless of personal circumstances.Gently Between the Words guides and instructs our hearts to keep the endangered language of beauty, love, forgiveness, grace, and sensitivity alive in order that we all might become more and more necessary to the urgency of our times and the dreams of our children. — Jaki Shelton Green, NC Poet Laureate

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611535020
Publisher:	Top Reads Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	09/07/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Andrew Taylor-Troutman is the poet pastor of Chapel in the Pines Presbyterian Church. He has previously authored a theological memoir/sermon collection (Take My Hand), a study of the parables of Jesus through the interpretative lens of family (Parables of Parenthood), and a novella in the form of a pastor's daily journal (Earning Innocence). Andrew holds Masters degrees from Union Presbyterian Seminary and the University of Virginia Charlottesville, and lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife, also an ordained minister, and their three children.

Editorial Reviews

There is such tenderness and reverence for the human spirit. They are dignified and sweet breaths of wonder. -Jaki Shelton Green, NC Poet Laureate

There's a rhythm in these pages that does something to you, if you'll let it. A little story, a little poetry, a whole mess of grace. We could read these pages for information or aesthetics or to feel smart, I guess. But I suggest we read it to rekindle hope, or gratitude, to drown again in wonder. -Winn Collier, author of Love Big, Be Well and other works.

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