Ashes To Rest

By Mrs Giulia Viti Heimerdinger

This poetry collection was written across a long thaw.

Beginning in sadness, shaped by shame and survival, and carried through the slow, often reluctant work of becoming, these poems trace a life lived through trauma, love, and the quiet insistence of God. They are not written from innocence, nor from arrival, but from the middle places: where harm has been done, where repair is imperfect, and where grace insists on meeting us anyway.

The book moves through seasons - emotional, spiritual, human - honouring Winter as much as Spring. It resists the urgency to heal quickly, to love neatly, or to believe without wrestling. Instead, it treats love as a verb: something that bruises, tempers, humbles, and ultimately enlarges us. Love here is not sentimental. It is demanding. It asks for choice, for repentance, for courage, and for surrender.

God appears not as a conclusion, but as a presence - watching not for perfection, but for character; not for right behaviour alone, but for the attitudes we adopt after fear, guilt, and failure. Faith is found not in having done everything right, but in the decisions we make when we know we have not.

Written for the spiritually curious, for those healing from complex wounds, and for readers who believe poetry should be both beautiful and honest, this collection is a closing chapter of a life once dominated by ache - and a testament to what can grow when love is allowed to do its work.

For the reader, and for the self that will return to these pages one day, this book offers no shortcuts - only companionship through the seasons, and the quiet assurance that even frozen ground holds life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GKBW58JY
• ISBN13: 9798243264242
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"