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Thought-provoking Poetry

This book is comprised of poems and reflections that the Lord has given me over the past few years. Finding that so many need to wake up to the fact that the Lord is coming back soon, I have felt an urgency for others to read and hear what, I feel, comes from the heart of God. We don’t know when He will return for His own, but He has called me to do my part in sharing His love and His Word with those who will hear… I began writing poetry as my mother-in-law lay in the hospital in Elkhart, Indiana… just days before going home to meet her Lord Jesus, whom she loved and served for over 60 years of her life. Even though I knew her for only four short years, during that time she inspired a longing in me to know my Lord better and to draw closer to Him. As a result, my Father in heaven began pouring into me words that became poems and songs… Some of the poems may make you laugh, some may make you cry, but they will all make you THINK!

In the truly difficult times, when you take a look at your life, you may see only what’s gone wrong. It may be the loss of a job that you thought would be a lifelong career, a broken marriage that was supposed to be “till death do us part” or an accident that would alter your life forever. You may think that life isn’t fair, or that God has overlooked you and is focusing on someone “more deserving” of His attention. But that’s not the way God works. After the dissolution of a 24-year marriage, I was devastated. At age 47, I had to start life over—alone. But in my time alone with the Lord, He showed me that everything I went through in those 24 years—both the good and the bad—molded me into the person I am today. He not only put my life back together, but He used my present and my past to do it. He used it to strengthen my relationship with my Heavenly Father. Three-and-a-half years after the divorce, He brought a wonderful Christian man into my life and called me to leave a successful career in Texas to move to Indiana and become his wife. All of the pieces in my life also prepared me to be a foster parent for the next six years for teenage boys whose lives had also been broken. David tells us in Psalm 38:8 & 9, “I am feeble and severely broken; I groan because of the turmoil of my heart. Lord, all my desire is before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You.” He is there to mend your broken heart, to take all the “broken pieces” that have accumulated through your life, and to use them to make your life something beautiful, something new.