Ann Putnam

Through the Church Door

“"Harold Simonson's Through the Church Door covers a six-month period when he served as an interim pastor, but it encompasses a lifetime. The book is comprised of seven meditations which chart a pilgrim's progress into the world of suffering, loss, and grief and toward the redemptive power of grace. The book is rich in the way poetry is rich. For Simonson has the soul of a poet and the poet's eye and ear. Penetrating richness of detail is woven into cadences so resonant that the prose attains the compression, beauty, and intensity of poetry itself. This is a book for the heart and the spirit.”