WELCOME TO DAVID JENKINS POETRY
Exploring Grief and Spirituality Through Poetry
READERS' THOUGHTS
This book is not merely a tribute to a lost partner, or the heavy burdens carried from military service; it is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. David Jenkins has woven a tapestry of loss, memory, and love-threads that bind the past to the present, the personal to the universal.
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Amy Lane, Spiritual Director and Pastoral Counselor
David Jenkins invites us to travel with him on a profound journey that begins in the depths of grief and moves not toward solutions or resolutions but toward a deeper connection with love, gratitude, and our shared humanity. He invites us to sit with our emotions, to bear witness to one another's pain, and to honor the complexity of the human heart.
Amy Lane, Spiritual Director and Pastoral Counselor
BIO
David Jenkins is a Kansas native and an Episcopal priest with over forty-five years of pastoral experience with both the Episcopal Church and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He holds two master’s degrees and has specialized training in counseling and family systems with a two-year certificate from the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences in 1986. He has a wide range of inter-faith and ecumenical experience and is a retired U.S. Army colonel with over twenty-six years of military service and four overseas deployments, retiring as the State Chaplain for the Kansas National Guard in 2015.
David served a Topeka hospice from 2008 until his retirement in 2020 as a Bereavement Coordinator spending most of his time doing individual grief counseling and facilitating grief support groups. He is a retired Episcopal priest who continues to do pro-bono grief counseling and spiritual direction one day a week at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Topeka.
David was widowed in April 2017 when his wife Mary Anna died at home in hospice care after a three-year battle with four different kinds of cancer and a brain hemorrhage. He remarried in 2019 to Eva who is a retired registered nurse. David and Eva enjoy their grandchildren and love to spend time at their Colorado mountain home about 20 miles north of Rocky Mountain National Park.