Jenny Smith: Still Here, A Journey of Grief

A little over a year ago, Rev. Jenny Smith came on the Lady Preacher Podcast to talk about living the "palms up life." It's a framework for living that holds things loosely and allowing God's Spirit to move freely in our lives. Little did Jenny know, that soon she would rely more heavily on that practice than ever before.

She received a devastating phone call that her brother was in the hospital and likely wouldn't make it. She wrote her first grief-stricken poem on the plane to Alaska, preparing her heart to say an impossible goodbye.

Over the next year, Jenny continued to write. Jotting poems down in her phone or on napkins, eventually she realized she had a collection. Out of her grief, she birthed the book, Still Here: A Poetry Memoir of Grief & Love. She's here on the podcast with us to share some of her story, and invite us to wade our way through grief and loss together.