"I try to read (and watch and listen to) everything Joshua Luke Smith puts out. He's fast becoming the poet laureate of a new generation. There are thoughts, phrases, lines in here which will soon become your friends. They will be cherished in solitude, quoted in cards, shared at weddings and funerals, for many years to come." - Pete Greig, bestselling author "You had me at the title--'This is the main event' is the kind of phrase I'd like to tattoo on my arm--and my spirit. But the excellent title is just the beginning: this is a thoughtful, artful, soulful meditation on life and faith and time and what really matters. The books I'm interested in right now--and the books that I'm pressing into the hands of everyone I love--are books that invite us to swim upstream, aggressively away from our culture's screaming demands for shallow, shiny and immediate. This is one of those books.
" - Shauna Niequist, New York Times bestselling author "Joshua Luke Smith's words come as an extravagant grace and an elemental, essential one. Like no one I know, he tells the whole of this brutal and beautiful life, showing us that this is the precise place where the life we most hope for is already being made in blessing and in love." - Jan Richardson, author of How the Stars Get in Your Bones "There are very few writers who can combine raw, even painful honesty about how brutal life can feel with a grounded hope. Joshua Luke Smith is one of them. This book is beautiful, humanizing and profoundly nourishing--soul medicine for our times." - Elizabeth Oldfield, author of Fully Alive and podcast host of The Sacred "Some books tell you what to do. This one helps you see what's already true. Honest, disarming, and full of hope, Joshua has given us something beautiful here.
" - Bob Goff, New York Times bestselling author, coach, and chaser of whimsy "[Smith's] musings on what it has meant to "slowly fall back in love with my life and the world around me" are resonant and affecting. The result is an earnest invitation to savor the moment." - Publishers Weekly "Joshua Luke Smith, a fine spoken word poet, also reveals himself as a writer of powerful prose. His affecting craft connects heaven to earth, and uplifts earth to heaven. Joshua moves words in his kinetic poetry: words distilled to authentic truth with vulnerable candor and prophetic alacrity. This is a book for generations of dreamers, sunflower seeds of words scattered in the poisoned soil of culture, ready to chase the sun." - Makoto Fujimura, artist and author of Art Is "What a book. I've always been so encouraged by Josh's words, so I'm glad we now have a whole book with pages full to the brim of honest poetic stories, teachings and lessons that feel they come from a kind big brother gently shuffling us all forward while also keeping us beautifully in the present.
" - Elle Limebear, artist and storyteller.