Jessica Jacobs

Being Here

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“With its invitation to read these prayers as given or ‘scratch them out, replace words, write your own,’ Being Here both opens and sharpens our attention. This conversation between prayer, poetry, Scripture, and essay demonstrates how nothing occurs in isolation, how every part of our lives might talk to one another. As flocks of praise-birds lift from these pages, Ó Tuama’s devotional becomes ‘a place of encounter, a place of yearning, a place of reckoning, of discerning . . . ways to choose / what keeps us living.’”