David C. Weiss (STH '72, GRS '80)
Westbrook, Maine author, David C. Weiss (STH ’72, GRS ’80), announces the release of his poetry collection, A Heart on Fire, Poems from the Flames, published by Maine Authors Publishing.
This collection of poems draws from Weiss’s near-death experiences as a young boy. In his adult life, Weiss has come to believe his childhood was filled with the numinous presence of the Divine. Some of his poems express warmth, playfulness, and a heart open to love. Other poems convey loss, grief, forgiveness, and healing. Weiss uses earthly images to give voice to his passion and gratefulness for life, as well as his awareness of aging and death.
Weiss has a writing style that reflects his experience of the Divine and invites readers to travel a path that can lead them to discover the Divine within themselves. According to William Boyd Grove, Bishop, United Methodist Church, “These poems…express a spirituality that is born of his life experiences and is lodged deep in his heart. They reach deep into the life of the reader and awaken there an awareness of connection to a kindred spirit.”
Weiss is a presenter, workshop leader, and consultant in the areas of spiritual growth and group development. He has a master’s degree in theology and a doctorate in pastoral psychology from Boston University and practiced for thirty-five years as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Boston, Mass. and Portland, Maine. Weiss now spends part of the year teaching poetry to Tibetan Buddhist monks at Sera Jhy Monastic University in South India.
A Heart on Fire, Poems from the Flames is now available from www.maineauthorspublishing.com, www.davidcweiss.com, Amazon, and local bookstores.