Tyler Staton

What do you do with the silence after you say amen?

After Amen is an invitation to live inside that question. Not a tidy answer. An honest reckoning with what prayer actually costs, what it forms in us, and what it asks of the ordinary moments that follow.

If you've been waiting to read it, there's no better time. Available now everywhere books are sold.

Today, After Amen: 50 Days of Poetry & Prayer is out in the United Kingdom, everywhere books are sold. Get your copy now at tylerstaton.com/after-amen to find a retailer near you.

It's crazy to think that in a week, this book of poetry will be out in the world. I can't wait for you to read it. You can get After Amen in the US on April 21st, and in the UK on April 23rd everywhere books are sold.

Reminder that our second to last After Amen IG Live is happening this coming Thursday at 11am PT with on "The Path to Healing - Beauty, Suffering and the Presence of God".

I'm looking forward to this, I hope you'll join us this Thursday on Instagram Live!

My mind is busy with tasks, preferences, and plans.
With things left undone and remembered,
things to do discovered
and so many things wanted—all of them inessential.

What I can’t seem to remember is the one thing I most want,
most need to recall:
Who I am, why I live, and, therefore what,
no better yet, who really matters today.

In this time of prayer, will you collect the pieces of me floating
in the overflowing, spilled mess that is my life?
Remind me who I want to become, what of this day will grow weightier as I grow old,
and what will dissolve into weightlessness.

Fill me with love enough to share,
words enough to pray,
things to want that aren’t things, and are, therefore,
actually worth wanting.

Whisper to me again, Holy Spirit,
not in new words but old ones forgotten.
And satisfy my soul on the bread
that this world knows not.

Amen.

Amos, Dec 2025