Helen Stetson has traveled extensively and Faithful is her first published book of poems. She uses poetry to describe the places she visited and lived as well as the people she met along the way. "Direct me toward love and compassion, not to be consoled but to console, not to be understood but to understand. For it is in giving that I receive; for it is in selflessness that I find myself, for it is in dying that I will be resurrected."