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Anoint This Threshold
What do we do when the world feels like it’s unraveling?
When anger rises, when grief lingers, when love feels fragile—what words can carry us through?
In Anoint Our Threshold, John Roedel—bestselling poet, storyteller, and retreat leader—offers a collection of blessings, litanies, and small prayers for messy, beautiful, ordinary lives. These pages aren’t polished sermons or tidy answers. They are handholds for weary hearts, simple refrains to repeat out loud until hope takes root again.
With humor, honesty, and unflinching tenderness, Roedel writes blessings for the sleepless, the angry, the grieving, the doubting, and the hopeful. His words invite us to step to the threshold of our own lives and discover that—despite the chaos—we are still held, still connected, and still capable of blessing one another.
This is not a book of dogma. It is a book for anyone standing at the edge of change, longing for language to carry them forward.
When anger rises, when grief lingers, when love feels fragile—what words can carry us through?
In Anoint Our Threshold, John Roedel—bestselling poet, storyteller, and retreat leader—offers a collection of blessings, litanies, and small prayers for messy, beautiful, ordinary lives. These pages aren’t polished sermons or tidy answers. They are handholds for weary hearts, simple refrains to repeat out loud until hope takes root again.
With humor, honesty, and unflinching tenderness, Roedel writes blessings for the sleepless, the angry, the grieving, the doubting, and the hopeful. His words invite us to step to the threshold of our own lives and discover that—despite the chaos—we are still held, still connected, and still capable of blessing one another.
This is not a book of dogma. It is a book for anyone standing at the edge of change, longing for language to carry them forward.
147 pages, Paperback
Published November 12, 2025
About the author
John Roedel
12 books92 followersJohn Roedel is a comic who unexpectedly gained notability as a writer and poet through his heartfelt Facebook conversations that went viral and became an Amazon best-selling book titled, Hey God. Hey John.
He is the author of nine books—Hey God. Hey John, Any Given Someday, Untied, Remedy, Upon Departure, Fitting In Is For Sardines, WonderAche, And Now A Word From Your Ghosts and his latest work, Anoint This Threshold, which is a collection of prayers and blessings for this wild modern worn world.
Offering a sincere and very relatable look at his faith crisis, mental health, personal struggles, perception of our world, and even his fashion sense, John's writing has been shared millions of times across social media and lauded by fans and readers worldwide. He teaches at universities and retreat centers across the US, blending his trademark comedy with creative exercises, journaling, dialogue, and introspection to help people fearlessly embrace and share their personal stories
He is the author of nine books—Hey God. Hey John, Any Given Someday, Untied, Remedy, Upon Departure, Fitting In Is For Sardines, WonderAche, And Now A Word From Your Ghosts and his latest work, Anoint This Threshold, which is a collection of prayers and blessings for this wild modern worn world.
Offering a sincere and very relatable look at his faith crisis, mental health, personal struggles, perception of our world, and even his fashion sense, John's writing has been shared millions of times across social media and lauded by fans and readers worldwide. He teaches at universities and retreat centers across the US, blending his trademark comedy with creative exercises, journaling, dialogue, and introspection to help people fearlessly embrace and share their personal stories
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December 29, 2025
More beauty from John Roedel
As always, John Roedel’s words are a breath of fresh air to my weary soul. He speaks the longings of my own heart.
As always, John Roedel’s words are a breath of fresh air to my weary soul. He speaks the longings of my own heart.
February 19, 2026
3.5
I love poetry. John Roedel speaks to weary and confused hearts everywhere.....
I love poetry. John Roedel speaks to weary and confused hearts everywhere.....
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