Mercy is the House of God: Stories on the Nature of Joy

"The thing is, I don't love a lot. I feel like the only thing in the world I really love is you.""That's not right," Jay said simply. "You'll always be unhappy if you're heart's that small."That surprised me and he said, "The heart is big. There shouldn't be only one person in it." He turned to me said, "Try to learn to love the whole world."I was going to ask him to come back to me. In bed he sat up a little straighter and pulled his knees to his stomach so I saw all of him, brown and soft, smooth and thoughtful and he said, "Don't come to me unless you have a full heart. I'm trying to get a full heart. That's all I'm interested in. You have to love things. You have to love this world. It is worth loving. You know?"After a decade together, the depression that dogged Jay Strickland and Michael Cleveland threatens to overwhelm, and so Michael sets out into the West for answers as to how to live again. But the sadness within reflects the madness without and working through their sorrow toward Joy, Jay and Michael learn they are not alone. Russell Lewis and an expanded portrait of the town of Geshichte Falls Michigan return. In Lassador a one time homecoming queen prepares for a high school reunion and in Rhodes, Ohio, Isaac Weaver and Efrem Walker learn the secret of joy.

Author: Chris Lewis Gibson

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: Oct 30, 2020

Number of Pages: 400 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: NA

ISBN-13: 9798555467614