Bøger af Gretchen Lara-Shartle

This book is a personal account of Jorge Lara-Braud's life.During our twenty-two years of marriage, I was the conservator of Jorge's letters, interviews, sermons, and speeches. Since his death in 2008, I have endeavored to weave his own words into a tapestry that tells the story of his remarkable life.I approached his story as if he were writing his own memoir in his final years, because I believed this approach would bring him closer to you, the reader. My hope is that this writing brings him vividly to life for you, connecting his heart to yours, and inspiring you to aim as he did for the seemingly impossible.

On Earth and In Heaven is a diverse compilation of poems by poet and author Gretchen Lara-Shartle. Each poem is beautifully illustrated by Gretchen's beloved friend and internationally renowned Mexican artist Irma Grizá. From the spiritual to the earthly, On Earth and In Heaven captures life's special moments in verse. Whether "Beckoning the HOLY SPIRIT"; performing daily tasks like "swinging lettuce dry"; praying to reach down into earthen serenity like the roots of the "Tree by the Waters"; being with the half-moon holding glowing beauty in her cupped hands on Christmas Eve at midnight; or celebrating the beauty of the heavens and the Milky Way while dancing back from Compline at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert-for Gretchen, life is "a serendipity when images without and feelings within begin to know each other."