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Prayers for a Pioneer is an invitation to prayer as a journey, whether life throws up change suddenly or transition is beckoning as a gentle transformation. Seasons shift inwardly and this leads to external shifts, but can often leave us feeling at a loss, looking to discern the unknown one step at a time. Six themes of prayer have been crafted especially for these journeys: Awake, Heal, Tune in, Abide, Inner Journey, Opening. This book is written for Pioneers praying the road with God, searching for the way forward, healing the past, while learning to live fully in the present. "Jenneth Graser is a gifted poet and writer. I particularly like how she communicates the love of God in the present moment. Prayers for a Pioneer walks us through the ups and downs of the transitions we gave in life. Jenneth reflects on her life and lets us see ourselves in her journey. I encourage you to take the opportunity to refresh your soul by meditating on her inspired poetry."--- Paul Bane, MindfulChristianityToday.com, co-author of In the Presence of Jesus "Jenneth offers her readers a generous collection of blessings, prayers, and poems that invite us to slow down and listen to our lives, and then to pay attention to the ways the sacred source is inviting us into new possibilities. Would be a lovely gift for someone discerning a life change or anyone standing on a threshold."---Christine Valters Paintner, PhD, author of 12 books on spirituality including Dreaming of Stones: Poems. "May these prayers lead you into the deep waters of contemplation where you will find hope and transformation."---Phileena Heuertz, founding partner Gravity, a Center for Contemplative Activism Author of Mindful Silence: The Heart of Christian Contemplation and Pilgrimage of a Soul: Contemplative Spirituality for the Active Life "This book is an oracle, and a blessed field guide and companion for the soulful journey. Open it to any page and discover prayerful guidance and upliftment awaiting. Rest your heart within the comfort of Jenneth Graser's consolations and discover wisdom, encouragement and hope as you make your way."---Sibyl Dana Reynolds, author of Ink and Honey and The Way of Belle Coeur

In The Present Moment of Happiness, poetry takes you on a pilgrimage into the listening places of your heart. 50 poems in 5 themes: live in the moment, hope, love yourself, believe, grateful dreaming. Jenneth Graser writes from the inspiration of her own challenging experiences tangibly, making her poetry accessible to everyone on a spiritual journey. This volume of 50 poems is a call to courage, as you embrace the wisdom that abides within your story. The poetry explores how painful shifts in the seasons we go through can lead to even greater expansion when we trust the process. Reviews: "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."- Brooke McNamara author of Feed Your Vow, Poems for Falling into Fullness "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.""- Laurie Klein author of Where the Sky Opens "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."- Liezel Graham, www.liezelgraham.com "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."- Jamie K. Reaser author of Coming Home: Learning to Actively Love this World "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."- Donna Knutson author of Finding God on Mayberry Street "The Present Moment of Happiness is a rare jewel - literary poetry about one's love story with The Trinity God. These poems have no clich s, 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.""- Chris Rice Cooper, https: //chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/