Roberta Teague Herrin

Gracious Plenty

Christian Living

“Readers will want to keep Gracious Plenty at hand so they can open it again and again. Its meditations, poems, and aphorisms invoke the Bible and Faulkner’s old verities. Sharp similes (‘like a drop of sweat on the tongue from Golgotha’) and wise sayings (‘The currency of life is not money, but time’) are apt for our times. Braswell offers shades of Walt Whitman (‘Plant me beneath the trees deep into the soil I came from’) and a tinge of Will Rogers (‘Sooner or later the truth will set you free / But not before it beats the hell out of you’). In short, this collection offers balm and omens for ‘our busy-bee world.’ We should read it often and listen to it.”