In this luminous collection of Scripture-rooted poetry by bestselling author Sharon Garlough Brown, discover the transformative invitation of God's persistent yes.

In Echoes of Yes, Brown invites you into an intimate journey of spiritual formation through poetry shaped by decades of walking with God. These poems trace the unexpected ways God's yes pursues us—in Scripture and prayer, in sorrow and beauty, in solitude and community.

With unflinching honesty and tender vulnerability, Brown pulls back the veil of fiction to welcome readers into the inner space of her own life and conversations with God. She explores the loving dynamic between God's generative yes and our sometimes hesitant, sometimes courageous response.

Echoes of Yes features:



- An invitation into spiritual formation through reflection, honesty, and deeper attentiveness to God's presence;

- Poems exploring God's yes of creation, annunciation, incarnation, redemption, suffering, waiting, resurrection, and his embodied yes in community;

- An introductory guide to reading and reflecting on poetry; and

- For fans of Sensible Shoes, a special section of poetry written in the voice of Brown's well-loved character, Hannah.

This collection is your invitation to rest more deeply in God's love and respond to him with greater trust and surrender. Learn how in Christ, God's word remains yes, even when veiled in mystery. See how you can receive God's yes, even amid sorrow and loss, and offer your own yes in return.



Sharon Garlough Brown is a spiritual director, retreat leader, and author of the bestselling Sensible Shoes series of spiritual formation novels, including An Extra Mile, which was named Christianity Today's 2019 Fiction Book of the Year. A graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, Sharon and her husband, Jack, have served congregations in the United States and United Kingdom and now live in Scotland.



Invitation to a Journey

Part One: An Ever Birthing Yes

Genesis, Again

What She Needed

First Word

Here We Stand

Detector

Daily Liturgy

Domestic Theophany

Catching Fire

Going to School

Blessed Are the Noticers

Bedtime Prayer

Heard and Seen

What She also Needed

Native Tongues

What He Asked

Yes, Still

Assuming

Ministering Messenger

This Kind of Woman

How Could It Be?

Come to Me

Rightful Place

A Sister's Tale

Writing on the Wall

The Next Day

Oscillations

Held Fast

Bound

Needling Thorn

Blessed Are the Ones

There, Too

Signed and Sealed

Pressed

Lifter

Grounded and Buoyed

Waiting Room Faith

What Love Does Instead

Sing to the Lord a New Song

Relics

Since all Water is Recycled

What She Still Needs

The One Who Answers

Sacred Fragmentation

Lauds

Prevailing

Told You So

Recovering Respair

Ascension Blessing

Alight

Call and Response

A Beautiful Thing

One More Beautiful Thing

Immersed

Borrowed and Filled

Prodigal Sowing

The Other Side

Upper Room Revisited

Let Me Pray

What Is Good

A Body that Glows

Magdalene, Apostled

May I Be like the Water Lily

So-Called Common

Christ-Bearers

Magnificat, Again

Your Kingdom Comes

Dayspring

Our Song

Part Two: Hannah's Poems

Named

On From Here

Teach Us to Pray

Making Room

Today's (and Tomorrow's) Work

On Hold

Returning Life

Within and Among

Refuse?

Logos, a Poem

Acknowledgments