This week’s promotional discount is on my 2005 book Heaven Touching Earth, one of a four-part series I wrote that features also Touching Down, Touched By His Hand and Touching the Seasons. Subtitled ‘Prayers for daily life’, the aim of each of the books is to locate faith firmly in daily life – to bring heaven, if you like, down to earth.
Normally priced at £7.99, this week, until 6 September, you can purchase Heaven Touching Earth at a 10 per cent discount, using the code HEAVEN10 when ordering the book from the Kevin Mayhew website. Just type the code into the relevant box at the checkout between the dates given.
Meanwhile, here’s the fourth of seven extracts I’ll be posting this week from the book, to run alongside this promotion:
The puzzle book
I could work some out easily enough,
but not others.
They left me scratching my head,
sitting with furrowed brow,
bemused and frustrated.
There was an answer somewhere, of course,
a solution to them all,
but what it was
and how to get there
eluded me completely.
So much in life, Lord, leaves me equally baffled,
hard to square with faith or reconcile with your love.
Tragedy, pain, injustice and evil cause me to flounder,
searching in vain for a credible explanation.
Are there answers, Lord?
I believe so,
and I’ll keep on seeking understanding,
but help me in the meantime to live with questions,
and to keep faith despite them all.
Amen.