This book tells why a mystical poet puts his poems in glass jars.

An old man feels beautifully broken into prayer by God's presence, and these poems are the shards of that breakage.

This is a Christian mystic's archive of writings about feeling God's abiding presence and love in all things, even in the poet himself, but also feeling pain and loneliness because human finitude prohibits knowing God fully. He cannot wholly know the God he wholly loves. Finally the poet comes to feel in the natural world God reaching out to the poet personally, which brings hope and peace.