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    God's Potpourri of Love
    God's Potpourri of Love
    God's Potpourri of Love
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    God's Potpourri of Love

    By Evelyn B. Ryan

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    This book lets the reader see into the personality of God and His love for all. He is a very diversified God and allows us to laugh or cry in these poems. We can move on from the spiritual to the very human comedy of errors that we are prone to make and we can laugh at ourselves. Some poems also describe the beauty of the world that God made exclusively for us. We can touch the face of nature and know that God is giving His approval. These poems are not so deep that they cannot be enjoyed by anyone who reads them. They were meant to be enjoyed with your favorite beverage of choice, sitting in a comfortable chair or beside a loved one in a quiet setting. Good poetry links heart to heart, mind to mind, and promotes an understanding that heightens spiritual love. May these poems do that for you, the reader.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateDec 14, 2010
    ISBN9781426948169
    God's Potpourri of Love
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    Evelyn B. Ryan

    Evelyn has always had a deep desire to share her faith in poetic style. She rhymes lines that create pictures in the readers mind. Her spirituality comes through her poems. Her hope is to touch the heart of the reader, bringing him/her closer to their own spiritual awareness.

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      God's Potpourri of Love - Evelyn B. Ryan

      © Copyright 2010 Evelyn B. Ryan.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      Printed in the United States of America.

      isbn: 978-1-4269-4815-2 (sc)

      isbn: 978-1-4269-4816-9 (e)

      Trafford rev. 11/22/2010

      missing image file www.trafford.com

      North America & international

      toll-free: 1 888 232 4444 (USA & Canada)

      phone: 250 383 6864 fax: 812 355 4082

      Contents

      DEDICATIONS

      PREFACE

      …AND THEN THERE WAS LOVE

      GOD’S JEWEL

      THE BOOK OF AGES

      THE FIRST DAY OF LIFE

      WORDS FROM GOD

      MAGIC MOMENTS

      ALONE IN SPACE

      MY FATHER’S WATCHIN’ OVER YOU

      JEHOVAH AND ME

      SIMPLICITY OF LOVE

      FLEETING TIME

      CRYSTAL TREES

      QUILT OF LIFE

      PRAY FOR ME

      THE TREE

      THE PAINTER

      WATCHERS IN THE NIGHT

      THE THIEF

      LOVE IS…

      I WILL BE LISTENING

      BARNYARD GHOSTS

      SEASON’S CHANGING SCENE

      THE RIGHT CHOICE

      BE STILL

      APPRECIATION

      THE LESSON

      GIVE IT GAS

      GARDEN OF LOVE

      FRIENDSHIP

      WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?

      SPRINGS PREVIEW

      PRISONER’S?

      COMMON SENSE

      LEAD ME, DEAR LORD

      SAILORS AND DRAGONS

      JESUS CAME

      THROW-AWAY AMERICA

      JEHOVAH’S CHRISTMAS GIFT

      HOSPITALS

      GODS QUESTIONS

      GRANNY’S CHURN

      I WANT TO BELIEVE

      JEHOVAH’S DIVERSITY

      TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCE

      METAMORPHOSIS

      MY DREAMS

      GOD’S PROMISES

      WHAT COLOR IS LOVE?

      FAITH AND BELIEF

      I SEE A GARDEN

      ENCOURAGING WORDS

      AMAZING LOVE

      DADDY’S LEARNED DAUGHTER

      YOUR TREASURES

      APPEARANCE & PREJUDICES

      FOR YOU, LORD

      BUS DRIVERS LAMENT

      BE BOLD

      GOD’S FRIEND

      WAR-TORN WORLD

      THE ANCIENT WARRIOR

      JESUS’ WORD

      JUVENILES

      A BEGGAR

      CHILDHOOD FANTASIES

      GIFT OF LOVE

      ANGELS UNAWARE

      COUNT THE RAINBOWS

      APPRECIATION

      MESSAGE ON A BRIDGE

      I THINK OF YOU

      SPRING HOPE

      CHANGED

      CONTEMPLATION

      BALTIMORE’S CHILD

      HELP IS JUST A PRAYER AWAY

      MY OLD BUS

      RAPERS OF THE FOREST

      THE HUNTER

      ALABAMA’S HILLS

      THE SHOE THAT FITS

      THANKSGIVING AND LOVE

      MY FOREVER FRIENDS

      FALLS DELIGHT

      THE ROAD TO LOVE

      CHESAPEAKE KING

      FOLLOW THE SON

      FUN WITH MY SISTERS

      LET GOD

      WILLING EAR

      TOIL

      PURPOSE

      LOVE AND FAITH

      BUS EVALUATION

      TEACH THE CHILDREN

      WHAT LOVE IS

      THE PEACOCK

      FEARS IN THE NIGHT

      THE LIGHTHOUSE

      RUNNING LATE

      SEEK KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM

      THE SENTINEL

      HAPPY HEART

      JUNE

      THE GOODNESS OF GOD

      TRUST GOD

      BEHIND THE WALL

      BELIEVE

      THE KEEPER

      TRACKING

      THERE IS A TIME

      BRIGHT STAR

      I SEE HIM

      MOMENTS IN PRAYER

      CORN SHOCK MEMORIES

      MY PRAYER FOR YOU

      THINGS OF THE PAST

      THE POWER OF GOD

      MY FOUR-FOOTED FRIENDS

      FAMILY LOVE…THE WAY

      LOVE LIGHT

      SENSELESS WAR

      SILENT ANGELS

      NEVER GO HOME

      REMEMBER?

      SUPERSTITION

      PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER

      THE FARMER

      RAIN IN DISGUISE

      GOD LIVES

      OLD?

      SOMEBODY CARES

      IS THIS REALLY CHRISTMAS?

      OCTOBER’S MAN

      SILENT HUNTER

      MOTHER, PRAY WITH ME

      YESTERDAY’S DREAMS

      I AM LIFE

      PEACEFUL HIDEAWAY

      THE TOUCH OF GOD

      OVER THE HILL

      PETITION TO GOD

      FAREWELL, MY LOVE

      VALLEY OF DREAMS

      HEY, DOCTOR!

      WINTER’S REALITIES AND EXPECTATIONS

      SIMPLE TIMES

      I WALK ALONE

      THREAD OF LIFE

      THE CLOWN

      I SEARCHED FOR YOU

      SURVIVOR

      WINGS

      I WISH YOU LOVE

      HER PRAYERS

      I AM LONELY

      FRAGILITY OF LIFE

      THE WINTER STORM

      MY GIFT OF LOVE

      SEEDS OF LIFE

      ROSES OF THE HEART

      TEACH ME TODAY

      QUESTIONS - ANSWERS

      RESURRECTION EXPECTATIONS

      MAN’S DESTINY

      MY COMFORT, MY JOY!

      Biography of Evelyn B. Ryan

      DEDICATIONS

      I dedicate all the poems in this book to the only true God, Jehovah, the Father and His Son, Christ Jesus, because they all came from Them. I also dedicate this book to my wonderful family, my husband Charles, who has loved me since I was a child of thirteen, and with whom I have spent most of my life. To our three children, Charles, Jr., Patrick Alen, and Evelyn Marie, whom I love so very much. To my beautiful mother, Edith Marie, who loves me unconditionally, and who first brought me to Christ and has always supported my writings. To my three sisters, Iva Gene, Barbara Ann, and Leasa Juanita, to whom I have always remained close no matter how far away I was, and to my young brother, Charles, a soldier of protection in dangerous times. Thank you all for being my Family.

      PREFACE

      All of my life I have felt a closeness, a deep connection to a Spiritual Power. I have always felt a Presence moving within me in a deep place known as my soul. I have a real need to let that Spiritual Presence I later came to realize as Jesus work within me, out of my inner self through my thoughts, into my hands and off the tip of my pen. These expressions emerge as poetry, real, emotional, sensual, whether rhyming or prose. The words and feelings are what God gave to me. They are my special gifts from God to you, the reader. The product is an invitation to you, to partake of the meaning of the words, to deepen your faith, to flow toward His Presence and feel His love flowing toward your heart. If these poems touch the inner core of your being and draw you closer to God, then they have fulfilled their purpose and I have fulfilled mine…to share my love of the Father, Jehovah God, and His Son, Jesus Christ.

      In this book of poems you will see into the personality of God and learn that He is a very diversified Entity. He is generous, forgiving, merciful, loving, kind, tender, patient, compassionate, and has a marvelous sense of humor. i.e. - He gave His children (mankind) the ability to laugh at himself. Without that quality, Satan might lock us in a box of depression and self-destruction with every mistake we make. I am in awe of the power of God.

      Because God is a diversified Spiritual Being, I can embrace diversity too. Therefore, besides spiritual poetry, I have included poems of humor, nature poems, poems for my family, sad and happy poems, and some deep, thought-provoking poems. I hope they all give you reason to pause and put yourself into them, hopefully gleaning the feeling behind them. Ultimately, these poems are not really mine. I am just the instrument that God chose to put them on paper so that you can all enjoy them and hopefully draw closer to the Creator. As Jesus prayed, so should we. "Our Father, Who art in heaven. Holy is Your Name!" Amen. Amen, indeed!

      "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the

      earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

      And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."

      Genesis 1:1, 2 KJV

       …

      AND THEN THERE WAS LOVE

      In the beginning there was only blackness,

      a void, a nothingness. Space.

      Then a finger of light split the darkness

      and set a burning light in place.

      Creations unending kept rolling and

      set in place with blue firmament above.

      Two creatures like God were created.

      God smiled…and then there was love.

      GOD’S JEWEL

      God poked His finger in the clouds

      to let the sunshine through.

      He stirred up all the winds

      and away the dark clouds blew.

      He covered the earth with a blanket of green

      and commanded the flowers to bloom.

      He placed them in a rolling meadow

      where they’d have plenty of room.

      He planted the forests with thousands of pines

      so they’d stay green all year ‘round.

      He placed the songbirds in the branches

      to make a beautiful sound.

      He made the butterflies full of color

      and the bees to buzz the day through,

      He made the mornings cool and wet

      so the flowers would be kissed by dew.

      He pulled the hills way up high

      so they’d be called ‘mountain peaks’.

      Then He laid a blanket of snow up there

      so it’d look pristine and neat.

      He caused the mountains to weep in places

      and water began to flow

      and fill the streams that fed the meadows

      and valleys far below.

      He looked below and made the animals

      and they began to roam.

      He placed them just where they should be

      and each one found a home.

      God took another look around

      at His universal space

      and then He chose an empty spot

      and hung earth in its place.

      God stepped back and reassessed

      and with a satisfying sigh,

      proclaimed His earth a jewel

      hooked on nothing in the sky.

      + + +

      "He stretched out the north over the empty place and

      hanged the earth upon nothing."

      Job 26:7 KJV

      "The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world,

      and they that dwell therein."

      Psalm 24:1 KJV

      THE BOOK OF AGES

      There’s a lifetime worth of wisdom

      in the lines upon each page

      that never seem to change as we

      go from age to age.

      There are stories worth the telling

      of love and peace and war

      that never wears from telling,

      though ten thousand times and more.

      There are lessons to be learned

      that never seem to change

      though Satan’s tried for eons

      the morals to rearrange.

      What is this Book of Ages

      where the wisdom is like gold,

      where stories are still fresh

      and never will grow old?

      Just look on top the bookshelf

      in any house across the land

      and you’ll see the world’s

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