Making Our Home with God

Patricia Marks

Making Our Home With God is a collection of travel meditations that pair New Testament readings with glimpses of the New Jerusalem in such diverse places as Iona, Chartres, Samburu, and Antarctica, as well as in one’s own home. Marks invites the reader on a pilgrimage that entails taking nothing—no extra coat, shoes, or bag, only an open heart and mind—on a journey home to life in Christ, where our hearts welcome others who hunger and thirst for what we may take for granted. Those new companions, who are Christ in His many faces and forms, change our lives forever.

Patricia Marks, now retired from Valdosta State University as Regents Professor of English, was ordained a deacon at Christ Episcopal Church in 2003. She and her husband, an astrophysicist, live in Valdosta, Georgia, where they continue to research, write, and publish.

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The Rev. Deacon Patricia Marks is a friend and colleague. Her ability to paint the world around her using words is on full display in Making Our Home with God. She awakened in me memories from childhood, living on a farm in Louisiana, through the past fifty years of world travel. My memories exist now in a new paradigm that brings meaning to my relationship with God and the world around me. A delightful read that challenges the reader to examine their past, present, and future.

The Rev. Walter Hobgood
Rector, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Albany, Georgia

Making Our Home with God is engaging and heartwarming. The Bible verses and stories keep you captivated.

Ms. Yvette Owens
Archdeacon of the Diocese of Georgia

Patricia Marks writes with a vivid energy. Her writing exudes a translucent sheen of insight and heartfelt experience. You will find yourself re-visioning her organizing rubrics of journey and home.

The Rev. David W. Perkins, ThD

Deacon Marks is again our guide; under the linden in Berlin, in Moscow’s GUM (State Department Store #1), gazing upward upon an icon-adorned glass ceiling, and at NYC’s Ground Zero. Sheep graze in luscious meadows and wander dirty streets, with the aroma of fig tree blossoms and bells toiling filling the air . . . Jesus’ body and blood feeds us with grace . . . God is indeed with us . . . Marks ushers us . . . Home again.

The Rev’d Hal Joseph Weidman
Rector, Christ Episcopal Church
Valdosta, Georgia

Making Our Home With God is a collection of travel meditations that pair New Testament readings with glimpses of the New Jerusalem in such diverse places as Iona, Chartres, Samburu, and Antarctica, as well as in one’s own home. Marks invites the reader on a pilgrimage that entails taking nothing—no extra coat, shoes, or bag, only an open heart and mind—on a journey home to life in Christ, where our hearts welcome others who hunger and thirst for what we may take for granted. Those new companions, who are Christ in His many faces and forms, change our lives forever.

Patricia Marks, now retired from Valdosta State University as Regents Professor of English, was ordained a deacon at Christ Episcopal Church in 2003. She and her husband, an astrophysicist, live in Valdosta, Georgia, where they continue to research, write, and publish.

Reviews

The Rev. Deacon Patricia Marks is a friend and colleague. Her ability to paint the world around her using words is on full display in Making Our Home with God. She awakened in me memories from childhood, living on a farm in Louisiana, through the past fifty years of world travel. My memories exist now in a new paradigm that brings meaning to my relationship with God and the world around me. A delightful read that challenges the reader to examine their past, present, and future.

The Rev. Walter Hobgood
Rector, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Albany, Georgia

Making Our Home with God is engaging and heartwarming. The Bible verses and stories keep you captivated.

Ms. Yvette Owens
Archdeacon of the Diocese of Georgia

Patricia Marks writes with a vivid energy. Her writing exudes a translucent sheen of insight and heartfelt experience. You will find yourself re-visioning her organizing rubrics of journey and home.

The Rev. David W. Perkins, ThD

Deacon Marks is again our guide; under the linden in Berlin, in Moscow’s GUM (State Department Store #1), gazing upward upon an icon-adorned glass ceiling, and at NYC’s Ground Zero. Sheep graze in luscious meadows and wander dirty streets, with the aroma of fig tree blossoms and bells toiling filling the air . . . Jesus’ body and blood feeds us with grace . . . God is indeed with us . . . Marks ushers us . . . Home again.

The Rev’d Hal Joseph Weidman
Rector, Christ Episcopal Church
Valdosta, Georgia

Making Our Home with God

Patricia Marks