The Yearning Life Mary ’ Joy Jordan-Lake strips away

’ Joy Jordan-Lake strips away the clichés and church-bulletin nostrums and exposes the honest

They may even influence the way that you treat others

I've not heard it

and claims of Jesus for yourself

practical advice and guidance

The Yearning Life Mary ’ Joy Jordan-Lake strips awayThese are meditative poems that seem to rise from a long and deep looking at life, in its most ordinary and familiar moments. They invite us into the gaze, suggesting how the surfaces of things might reveal stronger truths for those who know to wait and wonder. These pages call us to consider our lives as lent by the mystery and borrowed back, as the poet puts it, showing us what yearning might requireand yield. Mark S. Burrows, Editor for Paraclete