Devotional Work

Helping you navigate the messy season of waiting for breakthrough, Pastor Sam takes you deeper into the life-changing biblical truths from the bestselling book Your Mess, God's Miracle. Each entry in this forty-day devotional immerses you in God's promises, daily infusing you with hope—and the audacity to replace fear with faith, wash away the mud of the past, and walk through your mess into God's miracle.

In this powerful, sacred, and potentially extremely life-changing audiobook, Jen McCarty shares the direct link between the internal altar and the external altar, and how when we neglect our external altar, this has huge ramifications for us on a spiritual level. Jen goes into great depth about the history of altars and how altars are used in many cultures, and she shares many potent ways to work with an altar, particularly using the five elements of earth, air, water, fire, and ether.

From one of the poems appearing in the interview-article with Scott Cairns, Missouri USA Poet: Advent Scott Cairns. We talked by phone between my home in Mill Valley, California and his home in Missouri; the interview follows. Though Scott Cairns wrote his answers after a background conversation, there was one follow-up to his answers to the questions. That was asked in writing by email and answered in writing by email.