Gentle Wisdom,
Fierce Love
Jenny Smith writes at the crossroads of mental health, spirituality, grief, and neurodivergence, crafting words that hold both ache and wonder. A pastor and poet, she explores what it means to live awake to beauty, complexity, and the quiet work of becoming whole. Jenny’s disarming grace and humor offers hope that the way to wholeness is often right through the heart of the hard things.
Gently Fierce:
Poems of Faith, Rage & Holy Imagination
When every facet of who we are as a collective is disintegrating, “Gently Fierce” listens for the rhythm of the sacred. These poems are dispatches from the fault line—where faith meets fury, where the body remembers what the spirit tried to forget, where tenderness is an act of resistance.
A neurodivergent pastor writes her way through the fog of the first year of Trump’s second presidency as our nation’s story unravels. It’s confessional and collective, simple and honest. It names our grief as holy ground and insists that stubborn, trembling, embodied love still has work to do among our ruins.
In language that hums with urgency and grace, “Gently Fierce” becomes both prayer and protest, both wound and balm. These poems do not offer easy hope. They offer something truer: Healing lies within the places we most fear to venture, so let us travel there together.
