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Spiritual encounters can upend one’s life. Karen Luke Jackson discovered this firsthand while sitting at the bedside of a dying friend. She didn’t know who to confide in. She’d grown up in a small country church and knew nothing about mystical traditions. Only when a therapist told her that such experiences were a divine gift did she realize she was not alone. A quest to know more took her to the secluded island of Iona, St. Clare’s humble monastery near Assisi, the Pacific redwoods, and an interfaith mikvah. In You First, Jackson shares what she gleaned. The title poem records her initial bewilderment until she learned about three Christian mystics: “I would have gone mad / had I not heard of / Julian. Teresa. Hildegard.” Later, at St. Columba’s Bay, “I picked up a stone, infused it with useless regrets, and tossed it into the sea.” And her insights from walking labyrinths, “I enter a path with no false turns, no dead ends / . . . Everything is stellar dust.” As readers dip into these poems and essays, may what is discovered shed light on their own sacred explorations.
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Karen Luke Jackson companions individuals on their spiritual journeys. Her own personal work with respected spiritual teachers and wisdom keepers, stint in higher education, and twenty-five years as a retreat leader with the Center for Courage & Renewal founded by Parker J. Palmer qualified her for this calling. Her poems, essays and stories have appeared in more than forty journals, and she has authored three poetry collections. Her fourth book, a collection of poems and essays about her spiritual journey entitled You First: A Love That Will Not Let Me Go, was published by Wipf and Stock in 2026. Karen lives in a cottage on a goat pasture in western North Carolina, where she draws upon contemplative practices, family lore, and nature for inspiration.
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