Burnt Offerings | Wilderness Readings for Lectionary Year A (Brooks)

For the Singed and the Burned-Out To gaze at the dumpster fire of injustice, to practice joy and love while acrid smoke burns your eyes: this is the labor of faith. Come, you who are burned out. Come, you who feel less like a phoenix in the fire and more like burnt toast. Come, you who are singed by the sun's daily glare. Come and drink from the well of shared stories, remembering that God is present in this wilderness. You Are Wholly Loved For those who worry that they have failed life, or who rage that life has failed them, Burnt Offerings is an understanding companion, holding space for pain as well as hope. "Belief is no small matter.To embody hope togetheris to engage in holy audacity." Burnt Offerings sits alongside the readings of lectionary Year A, adding modern reflections to each Sunday and holy day. As with her first book, Another Scroll, poet Amy G. S. A. Brooks writes with the sheer honesty and expansive hospitality that undergird holy, revolutionary love.  Ideal for use i