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    Burnt Offerings
    Burnt Offerings
    Burnt Offerings
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    Burnt Offerings

    By Cathy Warner

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    Burnt Offerings is filled with poems about life and death, family and faith, hope and despair, creativity and questions. From Billy Collins and Smokey the Bear to Jesus, from kombucha to the Eucharist, from kindling and forest fires to ash and ember, Cathy Warner employs metaphor, humility, and humor to explore the spiritual life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereLectio Publishing
    Release dateJan 14, 2014
    ISBN9781611879582
    Burnt Offerings
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    Cathy Warner

    Co author of: "Healthy Cooking Books: 3 Healthy Cooking Diets".

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      Burnt Offerings - Cathy Warner

      Table of Contents

      Front Matter and Copyright

      I Want a Voice Like Billy Collins

      Possessed

      Becoming Blackfish

      Don’t Walk

      Zeke and the Dry Bones

      Revelations

      I Used to Believe

      We All Sit Beside a Pool of Tears

      The Edge of Your Life

      Shaped

      Waiting for Someone To Unlock the Church Where I Will Preach My First Sermon

      Death Is a Bargain

      The Art of Fermentation

      Serving My Father Communion

      Sestina for Scissors & Thread

      The Texture of Spring

      Things That Are Beautiful

      Remembering My Grandmother

      Transfiguration

      There Is Yes

      The Marriage Feast

      Ash Wednesday

      The Anointing

      Pentecost

      Rowing Upstream

      A Ranting Psalm

      Sestina for the Sequoia Sempervirons

      Jackhammer

      Leave Nothing Undared

      Empty Me

      Was That You, Jesus?

      Safety First

      Kindling

      Let Go

      My Dog at Rest

      Gathered Up, Gathered In

      Mary’s Statue in Her Garden

      Forging Ahead

      Full Ablaze

      Take Up Your Cross

      Fishing With Jesus

      What He Said After Dinner

      Bless the Poet

      In the Beginning

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Burnt Offerings

      by Cathy Warner

      Copyright © 2013 by Cathy Warner

      All rights reserved.

      Cover Design Copyright © 2013 by eLectio Publishing

      Cover utilizes images of Black Over Fire by Tarah Trueblood.

      The author is hereby established as the sole holder of the copyright. Either the publisher (eLectio Publishing) or author may enforce copyrights to the fullest extent.

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      eLectio Publishing wishes to thank the following people who helped make these publications possible through their generous contributions:

      Chuck & Connie Greever

      Jay Hartman

      Darrel & Kimberly Hathcock

      Tamera Jahnke

      Amanda Lynch

      Pamela Minnick

      James & Andrea Norby

      Gwendolyn Pitts

      Margie Quillen

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