The Presence of Absence: A Story About Busyness, Brokenness, and Being Beloved
A spiritual memoir about a longing many of us have for something we struggle to articulate. It’s about fear, brokenness, and the mystery of stillness, solitude, and silence. It is the story of a sacred journey to a lost mother, a found family, and an encounter with divine love.
“Culminating in mystical experience sustained by reading classical spiritual literature, her story will offer hope to all who recognize in themselves an inconsolable, unnamed, melancholy and joyful, longing.” ~ Shirley Showalter, author of Blush: A Mennonite Girl Meets a Glittering World and The Mindful Grandparent: Loving Our Children’s Children
Living Liminal: A Slice of Pandemic Life
A thoughtful collection of journal entries, poetry, blog and social media posts, interspersed with government directives to provide context, written during the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlighting both the grief and grace of those two unforgettable years, the author invites the reader to notice the sacred woven through daily rhythms of life.
Two Hearts: An Adoptee’s Journey Through Grief to Gratitude
Two Hearts charts a course through a complex series of relationships stemming from the author’s adoptive family, her maternal and paternal birth families, and an abusive marriage as the author seeks the one thing she so desperately wants: family.
This is the story of a woman’s journey through grief; of what it takes to go into the abyss of deep-seated wounding, to feel the pain, and to come out the other side.
“Linda Hoye has written a book about adoption that reads like a novel, yet includes the many diverse feelings adoption brings about in adoptees. Her honest account of her experience will inspire others to begin this perilous, but rewarding journey.” ~ Nancy Verrier, Author of The Primal Wound and Coming Home to Self