"The Present Moment of Happiness is a personal journey in which the poetic voice is a guiding spirit lending direction to discovery of the Divine within." The Present Moment of Happiness is more than a collection of poems. It is a gentle invitation to explore our relationship with God, more bravely than before. Jenneth paints a sacred space with her words and the ordinary soon becomes the extraordinary. These are words born from personal struggle, that draw one in to listen to His tender voice that speaks healing over our brokenness. They are a beautiful reminder to seek the sacred in the mundane and for us to be expectant for more of Him, despite the hardship of our journey. Jenneth Graser’s book, The Present Moment of Happiness is a reflective gift of poetry where the writer's heart/soul are open and revealing to writing her personal journey with God. Honest, vulnerable and accepting as to how Spirit moves through her in her beautiful writing we hear healing threads of honesty, listening, and renewing through these pages and periods of her life. Jenneth’s mystical voice teaches and sings at the same time. She guides one through moment after moment of experiences in nature, relationship and specifically with the God who is in our present moments, bringing revelation and deep contentment. |
Jenneth Graser's poems in "The Present Moment of Happiness" gift us with all the paradox of true poetry: a feast for the senses, and also a pathway beyond the senses, emotional richness and also the peace beyond the peaks and valleys of our emotional lives. Reading her work, our humanity is fed with the magic of ordinary experience, and our connection to divinity is gently, deeply opened. Inside, between, around the words: love. The residue of reading her work: happiness and love. Rediscover “jasmine …/ a flush of white stars flung into the kitchen.“ Daydream a little. Hope again. Simultaneously grounded in Creation “where moss lingers/ on the fringes of time” yet “in tune with all wings,” Jenneth Graser’s prayerful poems resonate: invitational, intimate as unnamed yearning, instructive as proverbs. All speak of, and with, Love, venturing among “words . . . threaded into the/ quilt of lives,” where “We are all neighbors.” The Present Moment of Happiness is a rare jewel- literary poetry about one’s loves story with The Trinity God. These poems have no clichés, are not didactic, and are raw full of lines that give that poetic punch right in the heart. Each of the senses are experienced in these poems: the scent of an orange in “The Present Moment of Happiness:” the touch of His hand in “The Beautiful Man;” the sound of the river in “A Tree Psalm;” watching the rain in “When the Day Was Set to Unravel, Here You Are;” the speaking of weeping in “Tiny Seeds;” and the tasting of stars in “You Will Find Your Flight.” |
You know how we all go through different seasons in life? And some of them are far harder to navigate than others? Well, this book is very close to my heart as it is birthed out of one of the most trying times we could have imagined. Some of my questions from out of this time:
What do you do when your dreams feel lost?
What do you do when you find it so hard to forgive?
When you question everything that felt so black and white before?
When you feel like you've come to a dead-end?
When you have to find God... in a whole new way?
My poetry journey took me into words - into God as my Living Word. And I found on the writing trail that was opening up in front of me, that Jesus walked with me, my close and determined companion. His places of invitation never cease to surprise me, because there is always somewhere new and deeper in Spirit to go, like when he walks without shame with us into the places of our greatest mess.
Join with me Friends in the wild healing, and the adventure of a present moment where happiness can be found in the most simple and unexpected of ways - even or maybe especially - in the middle of it all.
One thought can change the way we see. One poem can transform the way we live.
50 poems in 5 themes... live in the moment, hope, love yourself, believe, grateful dreaming.
What do you do when your dreams feel lost?
What do you do when you find it so hard to forgive?
When you question everything that felt so black and white before?
When you feel like you've come to a dead-end?
When you have to find God... in a whole new way?
My poetry journey took me into words - into God as my Living Word. And I found on the writing trail that was opening up in front of me, that Jesus walked with me, my close and determined companion. His places of invitation never cease to surprise me, because there is always somewhere new and deeper in Spirit to go, like when he walks without shame with us into the places of our greatest mess.
Join with me Friends in the wild healing, and the adventure of a present moment where happiness can be found in the most simple and unexpected of ways - even or maybe especially - in the middle of it all.
One thought can change the way we see. One poem can transform the way we live.
50 poems in 5 themes... live in the moment, hope, love yourself, believe, grateful dreaming.