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Discerninghearts.com presents Inside the pages, insights from today's most compelling authors. I'm your host, Chris

McGregor, and I am delighted to be joined by Sally Reed, who's the author of Night's Bright

Darkness, a modern conversion story, as well as three books of poetry. She is poet in residence

with a hermitage of three holy hierarchs, and she lives with her family near Rome.

With Sally Reed, we go inside the pages of Annunciation, A Call to Faith in a Broken World, published by Ignatius Press.

Sally, thank you so much for joining me.

Oh, I'm so pleased to be here.

I love Annunciation, a call to faith and a broken world.

This is absolutely fantastic.

Thank you for bringing it forward.

Well, thank you to you. I mean,

I'm delighted. It was something I kind of had to do. You had to do it, I guess, as a response

as a parent who was trying to pass on the faith to her child. In that regard, yeah, you had to do

it, but to be able to share it with the rest of us. Now, that, that's where it becomes a gift. So, yeah, it's beautiful. Well, it's, yeah, it was something that, yes, it's strange, isn't it? Because it really is written as a letter to my daughter, but at the same time, as a writer, you always have that in your head that this needs to be something well done and well and kind of deep. You know, I knew that it was something that she had to be able to read as a grown-up and it had to be something really well-formed. And actually the form and everything just came to me from out of nowhere, if you like. It wasn't like I decided one day to write the book about the enunciation. It just seemed awful into place. I think you hit on something that's very important.

I think it organically came from you. I mean, this is who you are and this is how you can relate

and talk with your child and by expressing what's deep down inside of you. And I think that's all

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