Family, Faith & Finding Meaning

In family, faith, & finding meaning author and poet Jackie Schabert explores themes of love, loss, hope and self-discovery. As a late-blooming author, Schabert began a dedicated process of writing, and through her learning and mentorship with renowned writing coach, Janna Lopez, Schabert discovered a love and knack for poetry. It was from this form's freedom she began to connect on a deeper level with profound memories of growing up on a farm, and her role as a wife, mother, and devotee to her faith.

Poetry enabled Schabert to explore nuances of memories often blurred by time and circumstance; through the freedom of this form, she discovered a connection and clarity often obscured by writing's expectations. Expression became a curiosity, and a way to ask deeper questions about her life's purpose of being a mother, wife, daughter and sister; the impact of a growing up on a dairy farm; the meaning of God's presence and holding faith through life's adversities; and, above all, how to observe and appreciate life's many daily miracles.

Poetry offered an inspired writing path for Schabert. Each writing Invitation gave Schabert a chance to explore prominent themes that had comprised her life which included family, faith, and a search for discovering who she was beside who she became. Through a dedicated learning process, each poem you now hold in this book offered a portal for memories and revelations to birth. Schabert feels thrilled and accomplished to have achieved a creatively-inspired, freedom-filled writing path. It is the author's hope that through her own words and expression, readers will find comfort and joy in their own pursuits for life's meaning.