St. Is
The First Book — God with Us: The Issy Trilogy
by Lisa Samson & Leonard I. Sweet · Salish Sea Press · 2020
Book summary
The first volume in a meditative, semiotic series exploring how the sacred becomes perceptible through language, image, story, and everyday life.
Chapter & section guide
The Sacred 'Is'
Holiness is encountered in presence rather than abstraction.
Attention
Seeing requires slowing down and receiving the ordinary.
Image
Visual signs disclose layers of meaning.
Word
Language can awaken wonder when freed from cliché.
Story
Human stories become meeting places of memory and grace.
Jesus
The scattered signs are gathered and interpreted in Christ.
Practice
Readers are encouraged to become attentive sign-readers.
Editorial note: these are original thematic summaries prepared as a research and reading aid, not quotations from the book itself.