Marney Ault Wasserman is a retired Presbyterian pastor, who served congregations in Iowa, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Texas and Arizona over a 38-year ministry. After nearly forty years of ministry and seventy years of living, Marney Wasserman has found her place as a theologian and a poet. She has been writing poetry since the early 1990's, and between her poems and her preaching, claims her life's calling as a wordsmith. The writing is an essential part of her practice of a life with God, and has been a source of strength in her current battle with pancreatic cancer. A THOUSAND GRATITUDES (Dos Madres Press, 2021) is her way of giving back.