A Measure of Breath

Mark Richard Robinson

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9798385256105
• Print ISBN:
  9798385256082
  9798385256099

On a train journey to a church disciplinary meeting, a minister carries the weight of illness, memory, and the quiet ache of betrayal. A Measure of Breath is a contemplative novel that explores what it means to lead when one's own wounds remain unhealed--and when silence in sacred spaces has done deep harm. As the train moves forward, so does a reckoning. Through memory, lament, and moments of hard-won clarity, the minister confronts not only his past but the cost of survival itself. This is not a story of triumph but of witness. Of choosing to speak when it would be easier not to. Of breathing, even when breath is pain. A Measure of Breath invites readers to sit with uncomfortable truths: about faith, justice, leadership, and the stories our bodies carry long after words have failed. Whether you are a person of faith, a survivor, or someone who knows what it is to walk through fire and still serve others, this book is for you.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Beneath the Skin
• The Weight We Carry
• Breathing in the Past
• When God Is Silent
• Beneath the Ash
• The Hands of the Clock, the Hands of God
• The Sound Between Words
• Words Born of Pain
• Breath Found in the Telling
• A Bruising of Heaven
• Shared Breath, Shared Pain, Shared Grace
• The Breath That Remains
• Marked By Time
• Breathless, But Not Broken
• The Voice That Speaks
• The Light Within