Grace
Grace combines a
story about life with poetry written to capture stories from the headlines,
from life, poetry vulnerable to the heart. The poetry reaches out to every
grieving heart that looks to the Heavens for comfort in a time of need.
Grace captures history with a sense of style. Reliving a past while enlightening a future. When Sarah interviews her neighbor Grace, she uncovers poems that Grace had written when she was a young girl. There were poems Grace had written throughout her life that brought tears to Sarah’s eyes and some that brought a smile to her face. Sarah was able to feel Grace’s pain reading the poems Grace wrote about her husband and the poems written to capture stories from the headlines, as only Grace knew best to capture them.
The story includes poetry written after the suicide of my brother, after September 11, the Sandy Hook shooting, and everyday life that needs a little boost spiritually. I tried to incorporate a bit of everything into the emotional side when writing the poems so they could help me, or someone else, heal from a painful life event. My peers that have read the book replied with reviews stating how the poetry helped brighten their day, helped them remember how precious life can be and how quickly it can change, and how important it would be for others to read so they too can begin to heal.
Grace captures history with a sense of style. Reliving a past while enlightening a future. When Sarah interviews her neighbor Grace, she uncovers poems that Grace had written when she was a young girl. There were poems Grace had written throughout her life that brought tears to Sarah’s eyes and some that brought a smile to her face. Sarah was able to feel Grace’s pain reading the poems Grace wrote about her husband and the poems written to capture stories from the headlines, as only Grace knew best to capture them.
The story includes poetry written after the suicide of my brother, after September 11, the Sandy Hook shooting, and everyday life that needs a little boost spiritually. I tried to incorporate a bit of everything into the emotional side when writing the poems so they could help me, or someone else, heal from a painful life event. My peers that have read the book replied with reviews stating how the poetry helped brighten their day, helped them remember how precious life can be and how quickly it can change, and how important it would be for others to read so they too can begin to heal.
Grace has five chapters and shares ten poems, personally written by myself, each one written to hold a special meaning. The poems are titled:
• We Need Your Heart
• Pick Up Your Faith
In Each Other
• I Rely On You To
Guide Me
• I Struggle With
The Words To Say To You
• I Try To Keep My
Faith In You
• Smile Down On Us
Jesus
• Hanging Onto
Memories
• Only Me And Only
You.
• Feeling The Pain
Once More
• The American Way
The story ends with
the realization that being a believer is sometimes harder than it should be,
the curiosity of why Christians are forced to keep their beliefs from the
public, and ends with the statement
…“Nobody” can keep
you from being “somebody” in the eyes of the Lord, so reach out to Him and
share everything He has to offer you.
Sarah is a young girl who is struggling with life. Her parents each work different shifts and she barely sees them. When she does get the opportunity it is a brief glance with basic eye-contact and a quick “hello”. She is struggling in school with her grades; for the simple fact that she fails to turn her assignments in on time, not because she does not know the work. Her struggle is more along the lines of authority but shows in her ability to follow rules. Her English teacher asks her to interview an adult and use that report as extra credit to bring her grade up where it needs to be for college entry applications. Sarah interviews her best friend Grace.
When Sarah begins the interview process, it is brief and really is going nowhere, but very mundane in nature. Sarah’s hobby and skill that she is best at includes writing. She wants to make a good impression with the interview for her friend and for her grade, so she realizes she has to dig deeper into Grace’s past. During the interview, Grace realizes that she needs to share more with Sarah and retrieves a shoebox full of poetry and tidbits of paper with her past written on each piece; birthdays, names, places, events, photos, and other relics of her life. Grace shares this shoebox with Sarah.
Sarah thumbs through the entire box and each poem is read with Grace; a story is built from Grace’s life events that help Sarah’s future. They spend the day going through the shoebox and sharing stories. Sarah writes to her publisher that helps her with her writing and asks that she review a couple of Grace’s poems to help try to get them published for her.
Sarah soon realizes that Grace kept these poems in her shoebox because society had a problem with her sharing them. She realized that being a Christian meant that she had to keep these to herself and Sarah gets furious when she realizes this. When Sarah writes the letter to her agent asking her to review the poems written by Grace.
“Nobody” can keep you from being “somebody” in the eyes of the Lord, so reach out to Him and share everything He has to offer you. He is there waiting for you, even if others feel the need to take Him away.
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My purpose for writing this book was to show that everyone has their own reason for speaking to their God and this should not be taken from them no matter where they are, even publically. Granted the naysayers who do not believe in a God will disagree, but even Christians have rights and we should be allowed to display those rights just like they are. We should not have to hide what we feel; it is obvious the naysayers aren’t hiding their feelings. Just like the last paragraph of the book states… “Nobody” can keep you from being “somebody” in the eyes of the Lord, so reach out to Him and share everything He has to offer you. He is there waiting for you, even if others feel the need to take Him away.
Sarah is a young girl who is struggling with life. Her parents each work different shifts and she barely sees them. When she does get the opportunity it is a brief glance with basic eye-contact and a quick “hello”. She is struggling in school with her grades; for the simple fact that she fails to turn her assignments in on time, not because she does not know the work. Her struggle is more along the lines of authority but shows in her ability to follow rules. Her English teacher asks her to interview an adult and use that report as extra credit to bring her grade up where it needs to be for college entry applications. Sarah interviews her best friend Grace.
When Sarah begins the interview process, it is brief and really is going nowhere, but very mundane in nature. Sarah’s hobby and skill that she is best at includes writing. She wants to make a good impression with the interview for her friend and for her grade, so she realizes she has to dig deeper into Grace’s past. During the interview, Grace realizes that she needs to share more with Sarah and retrieves a shoebox full of poetry and tidbits of paper with her past written on each piece; birthdays, names, places, events, photos, and other relics of her life. Grace shares this shoebox with Sarah.
Sarah thumbs through the entire box and each poem is read with Grace; a story is built from Grace’s life events that help Sarah’s future. They spend the day going through the shoebox and sharing stories. Sarah writes to her publisher that helps her with her writing and asks that she review a couple of Grace’s poems to help try to get them published for her.
Sarah soon realizes that Grace kept these poems in her shoebox because society had a problem with her sharing them. She realized that being a Christian meant that she had to keep these to herself and Sarah gets furious when she realizes this. When Sarah writes the letter to her agent asking her to review the poems written by Grace.
“Nobody” can keep you from being “somebody” in the eyes of the Lord, so reach out to Him and share everything He has to offer you. He is there waiting for you, even if others feel the need to take Him away.
___________________________________
My purpose for writing this book was to show that everyone has their own reason for speaking to their God and this should not be taken from them no matter where they are, even publically. Granted the naysayers who do not believe in a God will disagree, but even Christians have rights and we should be allowed to display those rights just like they are. We should not have to hide what we feel; it is obvious the naysayers aren’t hiding their feelings. Just like the last paragraph of the book states… “Nobody” can keep you from being “somebody” in the eyes of the Lord, so reach out to Him and share everything He has to offer you. He is there waiting for you, even if others feel the need to take Him away.
This story captures history with a sense of style. Reliving a past while enlightening a future. When Sarah interviews her neighbor Grace, she uncovers poems that Grace had written when she was a young girl. There were poems Grace had written throughout her life that brought tears to Sarah’s eyes and some that brought a smile to her face. Sarah was able to feel Grace’s pain reading the poems Grace wrote about her husband and the poems written to capture stories from the headlines, as only Grace knew best to capture them.
The poems in the book Grace have never before been released to the public. They reach out to every grieving heart that looks to the Heavens for comfort in a time of need. Each poem written holds a special meaning to the author. Could they perhaps hold a different meaning for you?
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Bowker Registered ISBN#:
ISBN-13: 978-0-9908673-3-3
ISBN-10: 0990867331
Kindle
Paperback
CreateSpace
Bowker Registered ISBN#:
ISBN-13: 978-0-9908673-3-3
ISBN-10: 0990867331
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