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Jen Rose Yokel

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About Jen the Reader

Lover of sci-fi, fantasy, magical realism, and poetry. Exploring the horizons of faith and spirituality. Avid yet lazy analog reading journaler.

Reviews and star ratings are enthusiastic gut reactions and not necessarily final. ✌🏼

About Jen the Writer

Jen Rose Yokel is a poet, writer, and spiritual director. Her words have appeared at The Rabbit Room, She Reads Truth, and other publications, and she released her first poetry collection Ruins & Kingdoms in 2015. She is also the co-founder of The Poetry Pub, an online community for poets.

Originally from Central Florida, she now makes her home in Fall River, Massachusetts with her husband Chris, their rescue dog, and an assortment of books and houseplants.

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Ruins & Kingdoms

4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
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“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
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“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.”
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“...sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself...”
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“There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere. Of course, I had always known He was, but this time I felt it, I realized it, the way a person realizes they are hungry or thirsty. The knowledge of God seeped out of my brain and into my heart. I imagined Him looking down on this earth, half angry because His beloved mankind had cheated on Him, had committed adultery, and yet hopelessly in love with her, drunk with love for her.”
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