Bücher von Jessica Jones

Can a prodigal find his way home? Can a prisoner serving a life sentence find redemption and hope in the most debilitating place?There are many prodigal people in our world, most believing they have gone too far to make a return home. People have been broken by abuse, abandoned by people they trust, made horrible choices, and have unsuccessfully navigated through a world that has chewed them up and spit them out. Fortunately, there's hope under the most trying of circumstances!In this book, we hope you will:experience the transformative power of redemption;come to understand that with God, all things are possible,including change;reevaluate who is salvageable;accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

Traversing the sparse and sometimes rugged territory from Stevensville, Montana to the Flathead Indian Reservation, Bitterroot poignantly witnesses the complex intersections of Native and non-Native culture in Montana. A testament to the spirit of the land and those shaped by it, this collection reveals the ways in which the West remains both fraught with tension and modeled by beauty. Narrated by a young teacher with unexpected ties to the children in her classroom, each poem unfolds another layer of mountain life- from hauling wood and making fire to navigating a blizzard and grieving the loss of a student. Page by page, life presses closely against that which is raw and wild, lending individual moments a sense of urgency: "What I remember/ from Ovando, though, is stars. Stars and ice/ and the shock of our short inward breath." Attentive to a long tradition of tough Montana poets, Jessica Jones pays homage to giants such as Richard Hugo and James Welch while befriending contemporary writers like Jennifer Finley Greene and Robert Lee. A runner-up with Open Country Press and honorable mention with Cutbank at University of Montana, Bitterroot is essential for any avid reader of Western literature.