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    Front Porch Poems: Inspirational Times Alone with God
    Front Porch Poems: Inspirational Times Alone with God
    Front Porch Poems: Inspirational Times Alone with God
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    Front Porch Poems: Inspirational Times Alone with God

    By Grady C. Johnson

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    Travel from the front porch of this earthly home through valleys and experience mountaintops as God takes you on a spiritual journey.

    To feel God move through these poems has been an amazing experience for me. Just sitting alone and hearing His still small voice as it directs the message of His love has moved me to tears many times. Rest assured He is the true author of this book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMay 14, 2009
    ISBN9781440137518
    Front Porch Poems: Inspirational Times Alone with God
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    Grady C. Johnson

    GRADY JOHNSON was raised in a Christian home and taught the values of life. He graduated high school in 1971 and was married in 1973 to his sweetheart whom he met when he was only 12 years old. For 36 years, he has attended Lewis Baptist Church where he serves as Sunday School Superintendent, Assistant Church Clerk, Assistant Choir Director, Sunday School Teacher and Deacon. With 25 years of service, he is a charter member of Wilkes-Iredell Fire Department where he still serves as a volunteer firefighter and board member. Another blessing in his life is the opportunity to be the Saturday Morning DJ, playing Southern Gospel Music on Hometown Christian Radio 1240 3WC in Wilkesboro, N.C. He makes his home in Union Grove., North Carolina.

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      Front Porch Poems - Grady C. Johnson

      Copyright © 2009 by Grady C. Johnson

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4401-3750-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4401-3751-8 (ebook)

      iUniverse rev. date: 04/28/2009

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Preface

      About the Book

      A Good Man

      A Grand Homecoming

      A Heavy Heart

      A Mother’s Bedside

      A Soldier

      A Special Lady

      All Because of Love

      Are You Ready To Meet God

      As a Boy

      C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S

      Dad

      Dear Pastor

      Dedication

      Departed Loved One

      Did I

      Don’t Lose That Burden

      Don’t Turn Him Away

      Giving

      Gratitude for Service

      Help Me

      In The Beginning

      Looking Out Over Glory Land

      Loves Bond

      Marking My Pathway

      Marriage

      May 14

      My Journey

      My Mother-in-Law

      My Testimony

      Nature

      No Gift

      Not Knowing the Future

      Our Spiritual Light

      Peace

      Prayer

      Preacher Preacher

      Searching

      Sinless

      Special Moms

      Stop Abuse

      The Body

      The Gift

      The Leaf

      The Menu

      The Moving

      The Perfect Sacrifice

      The Preacher’s Son

      The Roman Road

      The Salvation Plan

      The Second Coming

      This Old House of Clay

      Traveling With Jesus

      Two Little Boys

      Two Little Girls

      Under Conviction

      Unending Love

      Was It Good Enough

      What Christmas Is About

      What Could It Be

      When I Walk On My Knees

      When People Look at Me

      Why Do I

      Why Not Go To Heaven

      A Statement from the Author

      In Memory Of

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      Acknowledgments

      I first want to say Thank You to God Himself for allowing me to be a part of this project.

      To my wife Colleen who has performed the many secretarial duties and behind the scene functions that have to be done I say Thanks. Many times she looked into the room where I was writing and turned and walked away silently knowing God was moving.

      To my son Jerry, daughter-in-law Christina and grandchildren Dalton, Brianna, Jarryd, and Raegan, Thank You for helping and supporting all my effort.

      To all the other family and friends who have prayed or in some way played a part in this project I say Thank You.

      Preface

      The Prophet Jeremiah said, But His word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. (Jeremiah 20:9) Since the beginning of man, God has spoken with man and given man His word. In the Bible, some men of God were both a King and a Psalmist, some were called Major Prophets, and some considered Minor Prophets. In today’s society, we have well known and lesser known men of God, authors, and poets. The interesting thing in God’s eyes is not whether someone is a king or a pauper, well known or lesser known, but the thing most important to God is whether the man is obedient to speak the word or, in this

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