Dimestore Saints

This collection of sonnets confronts the tension between human weakness and the call to holiness with honesty, reverence, and poetic restraint. Written against the backdrop of modern religious speech that can feel sanitized or self-consciously pious, these poems insist on a more truthful Christian voice—one that acknowledges sin, failure, and the costliness of grace.

The sonnets move along the fault line between aspiration and inadequacy. They reach for Christ not by denying the human condition, but by making space for it, recognizing that discipleship is marked as much by falling short as by reaching upward. Jesus is presented not as a distant ideal, but as the sustaining presence in which every movement, breath, and act of being takes place.

The disciplined beauty of the sonnet form mirrors the theological vision at the heart of the poems: nothing is self-generated, nothing purely autonomous. Every step is enabled, every failure already accounted for, every human quirk capable of being transfigured. These poems suggest that heaven does not erase personality, but perfects it—and that the alleluia of eternity includes even our redeemed eccentricities.