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The Psalm Walk is Anna's latest book.
It is the first of her books to be designed specifically as an electronic book (eBook). This has allowed colour images to be used on every page, with images matching her poems to create a powerful book exploring The Psalms.
Click here to view all the sample pages from The Psalm Walk (that are shown below).
The Psalm Walk is now available as an eBook from Epworth Books Limited, Pleroma Christian Supplies, and Interact Curriculum.
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Anna Johnstone now offers us the blessing of The Psalm Walk.
In her unique way, she writes beautiful paraphrases, reflections, expositions, poems on the psalms.
Her words are both grounded and transcendent. She engages with James Bond, Depression, shopping and school boards and had my spirit soaring.
Behind her words are stunning images, an inspiration in themselves.
Anna's writing and images honour the psalms and offer their timeless blessing to our hearts today.
John Hunt, writer in Celtic Spirituality.
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| Crisp, crunchy, timely, apt, with beautifully presented fresh images, verbal and photographic.
"Wow!" I said when it first sprang to life on my screen. And "Wow!" again with each psalm read and pondered.
Well worth loading into my eBookcase!
Andrew Dunn - Refresh Editor.
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Three words...WOW WOW AND WOW!!!
Anna writes from the heart and gives us an understanding of her relationship with God and how intimate and beautiful it can be.
This book is a book of encouragement - it teaches us it is okay to vent all our frustrations and concerns to our God of unconditional love and know that he understands. It teaches me that even if I pummel God's chest in desperation, he still has his arms around me.
How glad am I that Anna has not kept this gift in a selfish, insecure, private space. She has embraced her gifting and worked hard on it, even struggled with it at times, to produce priceless verse for the reader. We need this book in the rushed time-poor world we live in. It reminds us of what matters most - staying connected to our ever-present, ever-loving God.
Mary Shaw, Director Casa Lavanda Limited
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Those of you who have copies of Anna's three previous books, The God Walk, The Cross Walk and The Freedom Walk, will immediately notice that this book is published only in digital format as an eBook. But don't let this new venture into the world of IT publishing put you off. The quality of the content and format is undiminished. In fact I think the quality of the images and presentation have been raised a considerable number of notches; there are some absolutely stunning visuals! As before they offer a wonderful complement to the written reflections. In fact they could stand alone as a focus for meditation.
This time around Anna offers her reflections upon, and conversations with, a selection of psalms. The Psalms have always been at the heart of both Jewish and Christian community prayer. Walter Brueggemann sees them as the voice of our common humanity, speaking about life as it really is, our "solidarity in this anguished, joyous, human pilgrimage".
Because the Psalms are the thoughts and emotions of everyman and woman, Anna is able to contemporise their emotional content in the midst of her own life, even in the seemingly mundane: whether it be her son's graphic art business, a breakdown on the Auckland harbour bridge, James Bond's remarkable escapes, or the annual chore of the tax return!
Indeed, that's how it should be, because if God cannot engage us in the midst of the so-called ordinary, where will he engage us?
Reviewed by Warren Deason for Refresh Journal, Storytelling, Winter 2010
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