There is something quietly significant about a second volume.

The first gathers what has been written—moments, fragments, beginnings. It stands on its own, but it does not yet know whether it is part of something larger. A second volume changes that. It suggests a pattern. It reveals that what has been written was not only an ending, but a continuation.

A Pilgrim’s Psalter of Earth and Light has been growing in just this way. What began as a collection of reflections—shaped by landscape, by prayer, and by the ordinary rhythms of life—has gradually taken on a wider shape.

And now, the second volume is published.

It continues the same path: attentive to place, to the textures of the natural world, to the quiet moments where something more becomes visible. The same light appears, but differently refracted. The same themes return, but with a little more depth, a little more patience.

I am especially grateful that this volume carries a foreword by The Most Rev. Pat Storey, Bishop of Meath and Kildare, whose generosity in engaging with this work lends it both encouragement and context.

There is no sense in which this is a finished work. If anything, a second volume makes that clearer. It opens rather than closes. It invites the possibility that the journey is ongoing—that there are still more words to be gathered, more glimpses of grace to be noticed and named.

For me, this work is not separate from life, but part of it. These books are how I shape and share what I see, what I pray, what I notice along the way.

As an independent writer, without a publisher, this also matters in a practical sense. The books are available via Lulu.com, linked from this website, and each copy that is bought directly supports the continuation of this work.

If you have read the first volume, I hope the second will feel like a natural companion. And if you are new to it, you are very welcome to begin here.

You can find both volumes here:
https://michaelmcfarlandcampbell.org/a-pilgrims-psalter-of-earth-and-light/

Thank you, as always, for reading, and for walking alongside this work.