Poetry Is Our Ministry To Touch The Heart

Author : Anelda Ballard
Publisher : Jazzy Kitty Greetings
ISBN 13 : 0976854007
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry Is Our Ministry to Touch the Heart written by Anelda Ballard and published by Jazzy Kitty Greetings. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Believing that God's wants to heal hurting hearts, Ballard offers inspiring and encouraging poems on various daily life problems, matched with wisdom from Scriptures.

Author : Dora Davis-Kennedy
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1639615857
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touching Hearts Through Poetry written by Dora Davis-Kennedy and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I can remember writing poetry as early as the age of fourteen. For me, writing poems was either an expression of young love or a means of escaping farm life. I do know I write what I feel deep in my heart. Sometimes I would daydream about what life would be like after leaving the farm. At that time, I did not appreciate or value the importance of farm life. Then falling in love for the first time gave me words that would flow like water. That was the beginning of my poetry. Then came my retirement from the Air Force. I took a job as a substitute teacher to test the waters and see if I wanted to go back to the classroom. On May 23, 1995, was my last substitute teaching positions for the year. The last period of the day was a literature class, and yes, you guessed it, it was an assignment to write a poem. After directing the students on what they were to do, I sat back, thought about my daughter, who was also graduating, and at that moment, I wrote with them. The poem that came out of that session, "Life Captured," was the first in this book. After that, the words would sometimes overwhelm me. It did not matter where or when. I would sometimes wake up from a deep sleep, and there were words on my heart. Driving down the street, I would have to pull off the road. And can you imagine sitting in church, concentrating on the words of the pastor, and poem comes into your heart? That is what it was like for next few years. When the word came, I made every effort to put them on paper. If I did not have a notepad, I would write on whatever was available, a store receipts, the back of an envelope, or even a paper bag. It did not matter; I just knew I had to capture the words. You see, there was a problem with these abrupt encounters with words. I found, through experience, that I could not ignore them because if I did, they would be lost. Yes, the words that were flowing so freely at the time would be gone if I did not take heed at that exact moment. So I learned incredibly early that it did not matter when or where the words came; I had to stop everything and write them down. So you see, my poetry comes to me at times when the spirit urges it. I cannot just will a poem to be. It must be stirred up in my spirit. My poetry is a combination of spiritual and emotional love. The love for people and my love of God. I never know which will spark the flame, and that does not matter, but I do know I must be ready to put pen to paper when it happens.

Author : Jericho Brown
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 161932119X
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Testament written by Jericho Brown and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honored as a "Best Book of 2014" by Library Journal NPR.org writes: “In his second collection, The New Testament, Brown treats disease and love and lust between men, with a gentle touch, returning again and again to the stories of the Bible, which confirm or dispute his vision of real life. 'Every last word is contagious,' he writes, awake to all the implications of that phrase. There is plenty of guilt—survivor’s guilt, sinner’s guilt—and ever-present death, but also the joy of survival and sin. And not everyone has the chutzpah to rewrite The Good Book.”—NPR.org "Erotic and grief-stricken, ministerial and playful, Brown offers his reader a journey unlike any other in contemporary poetry."—Rain Taxi "To read Jericho Brown's poems is to encounter devastating genius."—Claudia Rankine In the world of Jericho Brown's second book, disease runs through the body, violence runs through the neighborhood, memories run through the mind, trauma runs through generations. Almost eerily quiet in even the bluntest of poems, Brown gives us the ache of a throat that has yet to say the hardest thing—and the truth is coming on fast. Fairy Tale Say the shame I see inching like steam Along the streets will never seep Beneath the doors of this bedroom, And if it does, if we dare to breathe, Tell me that though the world ends us, Lover, it cannot end our love Of narrative. Don’t you have a story For me?—like the one you tell With fingers over my lips to keep me From sighing when—before the queen Is kidnapped—the prince bows To the enemy, handing over the horn Of his favorite unicorn like those men Brought, bought, and whipped until They accepted their masters’ names. Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the mayor of New Orleans before earning his PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston. His first book, PLEASE (New Issues), won the American Book Award. He currently teaches at Emory University and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Author : Emily Gaye Boeve
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781450084604
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems from My Heart written by Emily Gaye Boeve and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of poetry was brought about when the Holy Spirit began working in my heart, right after I accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior, in 1975. He has been working ever since. I would like to express my thanks to everyone who prayed for me and still pray for me and offered words of encouragement. Also I'd like to thank my loving husband Glen, for his faith and belief, that I would one day, ask Jesus into my heart. Also for answering my endless questions until all hours of the morning. We lived in Florida for seventeen years, before moving back home to Ohio. Ten of those years we spent in Prison Ministry. Some of these poems were written about some of the men we ministered to, others came from my own life experiences, and of course from God nudging me to write about them. As I compiled these poems, I kept thinking, "God isn't finished with me yet." It is my sincere hope that by reading this poetry, someone somewhere will see the need to ask our Lord Jesus Christ, into their life. The poems are written as the Holy Spirit leads me. It may be a time of sorrow, happiness, wonder, trials or just plain everyday situations that happens that God sees me through. I do pray that the words will touch your heart and bring you a bit of love, comfort, hope and understanding, whatever the need may be. Perhaps you too will write a book with God. Remember, all honor, praise and glory, belong to God.

Author : C R Lord
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1602477620
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Heart of a Servant written by C R Lord and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As you move through these pages, you will be encouraged, challenged and richly blessed as C.R. Lord calls on you to see God in every aspect of your life; from raising children to loving and serving God with your whole heart. As a reader, you will experience, with all of your senses, the very touch of God's Spirit sweeping through the pages, right into your heart. As you meditate on the beautiful thoughts contained in these poems, you will feel yourself lift above the mundane things in life as you are brought face-to-face with our Savior. From the Heart of a Servant is some of the most beautiful Christian poetry that exists today. You will feel awakened by the almighty as you journey through the breath-taking imagery, traditional verses, and very well-thought-out structured rime and meter; that only a true poet knows!

Author : Dawn A. Minott
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466977744
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moments written by Dawn A. Minott and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age and time where poetry and prose of the heart are slowly being replaced with musical thumps wrapped in loud beats that demand our undivided attention, this book is a solace of poetic expressions wherein you may pause from the “hurried busyness” of life and soothe your soul. It is a candid exposé of life lessons predicated on debunking the widely held misconception that we only live once to heralding the actuality that we, in fact, die at least once but we live every day. It is a masterful fusion of prose, poems, and prayers that challenge readers to first conceptualize their best-lived life and then to live that life fully each day and, secondly, to move a step further and to visualize the benefits and joys of their best-lived life compounded exponentially and to know with full assurance that that abundant life envisioned can be their reality. This book is one woman’s experience of how God pursued her and won her heart with His patient, undying, don’t-want-anything-in-return love and the story of how her life changed on the journey to find His heart. It is a compelling life story that will touch your soul, move your heart, and inspire you to embark on your own quest to having/possessing/enjoying life right here, right now.

Author : Lee Davis Fleming Sr.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669817776
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touching Our Hearts with Poems written by Lee Davis Fleming Sr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of pieces of poems intends to share the moments in the authors life that altered the way he would continue to move and grow. From his faith in God, the love for his family, the loss of both of his parents and the hope he has for our men and women in the military as well as the men and women of God. Seek to read each page and sit in aww... poems like Flowers of our Years, Shoulders in Battle, our Families, A birthday of Though (However), the Love God showed, and so much more. You will experience a southern drawl as you read his heartfelt poems and he hopes the reader will find hope and faith through his experiences as a Spiritual Leader, a Husband, a Father, a Friend. Some of the poems are without dates but chosen to share in the highlights of the poems with dates. Poems that you can share with family, friends, and community. The author is not ashamed to share his heart with his readers. The author also hopes to inspire all to stay encouraged and engaged with the process of growth in their own lives. Where one poem is for one and another poem for someone else, you will see a variety of poems that speak to the complete wholeness of the author, his belief, and his love for his life. Hope, Strength & Love. The author challenges you to enjoy searching for a Poem that speaks to you!

Author : Paul Revenson
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1633381420
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 150 Poems from the Heart: Bible Poems written by Paul Revenson and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Paul Revenson loves to share the Gospel in music and poetry, and he does it with passion and conviction. You will find spiritual comfort and encouragement here.” —David Epstein, Senior Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church, N.Y.C. . “Paul Revenson’s poems are Biblically based and quite imaginative. They brim with truth and common sense, plus interesting rhymes. They are a great devotional source.” —Frank Boggs, First recording vocal artist, Word Records. Smyrna, Ga. “The poet has the uncanny talent to express the Christian worldview in both classical and contemporary flair. Each poem will speak to your heart and mind, and give you a deeper understanding of what it means to be a ‘child of God’.” —Brenda Milliner—N.Y.C. urban missionary.

Author : Rene S. Sanders
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1973637782
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning to Love and Live Again written by Rene S. Sanders and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning to LOVE and LIVE again This unique collection of art and poetry reveals a heart in motion - from tormenting devastation to settled peace. Rene’s raw expressions describing her inner journey can help those who feel shattered to move into hope and healing. —Dr. Joseph Winger, Pastor, Boulder Street Church Rene’s poems touch the heart of the one who is grieving, as her unique and genuine expression of her grief invites you to see inside her world of suffering and victory in the hands of her loving God! I cried reading these poems, as I related to her journey in a very real and healing way! Rene’s poems are heartfelt and powerful! —Kayla Roberts, M.S. Licensed Mental Health Counselor, MH 14803 Co-Pastor of Rivergate Church My husband was killed by a drunk driver. I survived this tragedy. This book is about my healing journey.

Author : A.L. Alexander
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0307489620
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems That Touch the Heart written by A.L. Alexander and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 650,000 copies in print, Poems That Touch The Heart is America's most popular collection of inspirational verse.