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Ocean of Grace

Short Stories, Poems, and Reflections

2nd Edition 2026 Paperback · 200 pp ISBN 979-8-9965489-1-0
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Between the Coromandel Coast and Southern California. Between the oldest shores in the world and the newest. Between loss and return.

Ocean of Grace moves through Ordinary Time, Advent and Christmastide, and Lent and Eastertide in short stories, poems, and reflections. Grace here is not abstract theology but something encountered in memory, daily life, and the pull between two distant shores.

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About the book

These pieces move among narrative, image, and personal essay, approaching faith, longing, and homecoming as subjects for literature rather than instructions for devotion. Grace is approached three ways here — through story, through poem, and through reflection — drawing on Protestant and Catholic experience shaped by a library life and a literary life in South India and Southern California. A book for the long way home.

Forms and themes

Contents

Front Matter

v
Preface to the Second Edition
ix
How to Use this Book
Ordinary Time p. 1
3
The Journey to Joy
9
A Song of Assurance
11
Hummy Mummy: A Porch Trilogy
11
Mrs. Hummingbird Doesn't Read the News
13
The Hatching of Memory
17
The Hummingbird's Nest
19
Infinite Grace
21
The Borage and the Bees
23
Grace in the Wilderness
25
Grace in Disguise
27
Costly Grace
31
Irresistible Grace
35
Ralph Bunche and the Promise of Peace
39
The Way of Women
41
The Shape of a Rose
45
Lydia of Thyatira and Her Household
49
Crispy Seaweed
51
The Pomegranate Tree
53
Sundust
55
The Kitchen of Grace
59
Sunlit Diamond on a Winter Beach
60
Seeing Hope in the Dark
63
The Perfect Gentleman
73
A Garland for Mary
Advent and Christmastide p. 75
77
Haiku on the Beach
79
Haiku from the Beach
79
Days of Grace
80
Seasons of Grace
81
The Sea of Advent
85
An Advent Wedding at a Dravidian Chapel
89
Advent as Preparation for Death and Eternal Life
95
Glowing Embers
97
Pink Candles and Indian Embroidery
103
The Longest Night – OC Remembers
107
The Gift of the Unfolding
111
The Christmas Tree
Lent and Eastertide p. 113
115
Ash and Grace
121
The Yoke
125
Thrice Named Grace: A Lenten Series in Five Movements
129
Grace at the Font—Laetare Sunday
135
Grace at the Altar—Passiontide
143
Grace in the Far Country—Palm Sunday
149
Grace in the Good Country—Holy Thursday
157
The Shore She Belongs To—Easter Vigil
167
The Paschal Mystery
169
A Sonnet to Life
171
Haiku from the Coromandel Coast
171
Elliott's Beach
171
Marina Beach
171
Mahabalipuram
173
Christianity Was Not Brought to India
177
Acha-cha
179
The Unknowns: Acknowledgements

About the author

Anita S. Coleman is an information scientist and independent scholar by training and a literary writer by calling. Her writing draws on a life formed in dioceses and parishes on two continents. Read more about her research at Infophilia.

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Book details

Author
Anita S. Coleman
Title
Ocean of Grace: Short Stories, Poems, and Reflections
Edition
2nd edition
Publisher
Infophilia Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2026-08-11
ISBN
979-8-9965489-1-0
Subjects
Literary collections · East Indian Americans
Classification
Christian living literature