Walking Between The Raindrops was written over a period of four years. My poetry collection celebrates those who walk with courage in difficult situations as well as highlighting life-changing stories from the Bible. God's plan for mankind is revealed in nature through his animals like the eagles and the transformation of the tiny caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly.

I have tried to reveal in a tangible form - the reality of God and the consistency of his character. He is seen in all of his creation. His love and desire for mankind to know him is limitless.

Much of the poetry has come out of personal experiences and mistakes people who have come before us have made. Mistakes are to be learned from and not to be repeated. Nevertheless, Our Creator never stops yearning for us to know and believe that he truly exists. He is all around us in every situation and event. He longs to be personally acquained with each of us. This is the message I have tried to convey through my poems.

Life can be challenging, to say the least. At times we face situations and struggles that can be quite difficult, even overwhelming. Sometimes trials can threaten to defeat us. How can we not only cope, but conquer? The Lord is absolutely faithful and totally trustworthy. He has given me poetry as a healing balm. He comforts and encourages me as He teaches and leads me into a closer relationship with Him.

I Think I Heard a Rooster Crow is a collection of poems and devotionals intended to inspire God's people to take a closer look at their relationships with the Father. It is intended to evoke smiles and tears, covering a variety of topics in hopes that there will be blessings for every age and interest group. As you take the journey through these pages, please reflect on the messages along the way.

I Think I Heard a Rooster Crow is a collection of poems and devotionals intended to inspire God's people to take a closer look at their relationships with the Father. It is intended to evoke smiles and tears, covering a variety of topics in hopes that there will be blessings for every age and interest group. As you take the journey through these pages, please reflect on the messages along the way.

Before I became a christian I allowed life's difficulties to dominate most of my waking thoughts. As you will see in the first 20 pages, I did not cope well with adverse situations, (lost love, lost job, little money, etc). The remainder of the book shows how Jesus can change lives when it's no longer "all about me", that's when I learn that "I can do all things through Christ who gives me the strength". This is a sort of before and after story in poetry form.

Problems will still come....but God!

Have you ever seen something so beautiful in God’s created world that it took your breath away? These poems are an expression of joy and gratitude to the God who has inspired me through the days of my life by the beauty of His created world. He is the one who has opened my eyes to see His attributes expressed in the world. May you see Him in new and different ways, drawing you closer to Him. May you hear Him speak words of encouragement and peace, bringing you comfort. May joy fill you to overflowing, strengthening you and enabling you to worship and praise the God of all creation.

Down by the Barn features pictures and poems to make you laugh, cry, reminisce, and think. The simple things in life are often the best. Sometimes the challenge is to find them, even though they continually surround us.

Krista believes everybody has a story of their struggles, experiences, goals, and accomplishments, and God wants to turn it into something beautiful. Her story started in 2003 when she was a junior in high school. She developed an eating disorder. A few years later she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. By 2009, she had also been treated for obsessive compulsive disorder, borderline personality disorder, and severe anxiety. Krista went through three psychiatrists, got checked into a behavioral hospital, and tried every prescription medication the doctor had. Nothing worked. So she turned to God and put it in His hands. She hit rock bottom and couldn't handle it on her own. This is when Krista started painting and writing poetry for therapy. This book is a collection of her art and poetry that has accumulated through the years, and it tells her story and how her Christian faith brought her through it. The poetry is about every day struggles, but it is also educational of mental illnesses. We all struggle with something, and Krista has created a new approach to handle hard times: to use our gifts and talents to get through our struggles. She can be contacted through email at kmcguir3@students.kennesaw.edu/

Hope is not too far! In this meaningful collection of poetry, from dramatic monologue to a sonnet, you will feel your spirit being lifted up as Cheris Munoz shares her poetry. Cheris serves as a messenger to invite you to see the goodness of the love of Christ, strong belief of who He is, and what He has done in and for her. As life offers many challenges and trials, these poems too offer a vast array of topics that touch any area humanity would face. You too will be drawn to taste and see that the Lord is good!

Walk of Faith is about living, growing, and walking in the light. Every poem invites the reader to laugh, cry, sing, and pray with the poet while taking a spiritual journey. Each poem speaks, rather than preaching, to the readers about the universal experiences of all who walk daily in their faith. Even the poem titled “Gentle Sermon” is spiritually and realistically insightful, rather than preachy.

Walk of Faith is a collection of inspirational poems covering more than twenty years that Jo Evans Lynn has served as the unofficial poet laureate of her church. The poems inspire and celebrate all occasions and people from every social realm, joyfully flowing from childhood to adulthood, as a girl becomes a woman of faith in a Pentecostal church. The overwhelming message of the collection of poems is that “a spiritual walk with God is a journey of hope, faith, and joy.” In every poem, whether serious or humorous, Jo Evans Lynn affirms that the goodness of God is an ever-present force in our lives and that there is nothing too hard for God.

Life presents the greatest benefits: struggles, pain, tears, fears. That's what it is all about, right? My Joy in the Morning: Rising from the Ashes doesn't simply provide tools; it gives examples, experiences, and expressions of what life truly is: an opportunity to rise from the ashes.

Terrence truly has a passion for knowledge and encourages everyone to do four things daily:
• Open every day in prayer.
• Find one Scripture that relates to your goal or emotions.
• Keep a calendar to track and schedule life progress.
• Jot down feelings, emotions, prayers, and ideas in a journal to express what God has on your heart.

“Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.” —Job 8:7

Life presents the greatest benefits: struggles, pain, tears, fears. That's what it is all about, right? My Joy in the Morning: Rising from the Ashes doesn't simply provide tools; it gives examples, experiences, and expressions of what life truly is: an opportunity to rise from the ashes.

Terrence truly has a passion for knowledge and encourages everyone to do four things daily:
• Open every day in prayer.
• Find one Scripture that relates to your goal or emotions.
• Keep a calendar to track and schedule life progress.
• Jot down feelings, emotions, prayers, and ideas in a journal to express what God has on your heart.

“Though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would increase abundantly.” —Job 8:7

Reflection

If I change the way I look at things
The things I look at change
I think that’s why the Bible seems
So changeable and strange

His word is like a magic mirror
Reflecting each man’s heart
What I see in what I read
Depends on where I start

What I see depends in part
On what I think I know
Do I trust in my own thoughts
Or do I want to grow

I listen to the word of God
And hear what it should say
Conform it to my paradigms
And justify my way

And thinking I have seen the truth
I just see my reflection
A god who looks a lot like me
A god of self deception

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Reflection

If I change the way I look at things
The things I look at change
I think that’s why the Bible seems
So changeable and strange

His word is like a magic mirror
Reflecting each man’s heart
What I see in what I read
Depends on where I start

What I see depends in part
On what I think I know
Do I trust in my own thoughts
Or do I want to grow

I listen to the word of God
And hear what it should say
Conform it to my paradigms
And justify my way

And thinking I have seen the truth
I just see my reflection
A god who looks a lot like me
A god of self deception

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