Life's Blessings: What a Joy!

Life's Blessings:

What a Joy!

Pattie Trebus

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Published by AuthorHouse 03/06/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4817-2301-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-2300-8 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-2299-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013904279

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Contents

Listen Attentively

A World With No End

What I See

What is Energy?

What I Hear

How Marvelous the Imagination

God is Good

In My Mind’s Eye

We’re All a Patchwork Quilt

Memories

As We follow Along This Path

The Grammar of Faith

A Supernatural Language

As We follow Along This Path

Delight in Creating My World

A Puzzle is This World

Capturing Time

Conquering the Enemy of Disappointment

What God Dreams for My Life

The Universe

Through Loss We Gain

What is the Definition of Great?

A Precious Gift

A Prayer

Renewal

End of an Age

A Writer’s Wish

Peace

A Little Light

A Different Good Night Prayer

The Brilliant Topaz

A Cache

The Bedtime Story

Choose Joy

The Purpose of Money

The Weeping Willow

The Wishing Well

Our Wants

Learning to Draw

The Warm Sap

Discard the Moods

Simple Pleasures

Moving through the Valley

A Handprint

A Death

Press Forward

All Kinds of Days

God’s Grand School

Write a Letter

A Wish for Faith

The Color of My Faith

Missing Virginia

A Friend’s Visit

Protection

Our Five Senses

Shopping for Affirmations

The Glass Table

Finding Your Own Philosophy

A Book of Excuses

Learn a new language… .

A Wound

When is enough enough?

Bulbs of Light

Servants

Concentration, an Asset

What is Money?

Use Your Language… .

Have a Little Faith

Counting… .

Reading the Scriptures

Finding Your Passion

Self-Hate

My Two Little Angels

The Bell’s Sound

The Forgotten Family

The Piano

Purses

Reaching

A Manual

Climbing the Mountain

The Enemy, Our Tongue

Compassion

Sketching

Turning

Caring for Your Body

Days Gone By

Give It Your Best Shot

Predicting a Win

Surviving the Day

Development and Progress

Purpose of Mistakes

Keep Looking Forward

Loss

An Operetta

No Use for Worries

A Raccoon

The Bavarian Family

The Hummingbird

The Future

The Trinket

Hope as a Habit

Shutting out Evil

A Fast

Receiving

Affirmations

Things Tucked Away

Word Stress

What is Patience?

The Groundhog

The Austrian Place mat

Bringing It to Fruition

Supply

Gripping Change

Me-ness

The Ideal

An Apple

Old Hymns

A Rubber Stamp

A Bedtime Prayer

Fads

Enthusiasm

Prophecy

Combating the Enemy

Holding Out Your Hand

Looking for Help

Encouraging Words

Images

The World, Word, and Love

A Little Sailboat

To Find Blessedness

What Would Like Be

Celebrate…

One More Day

A Visit

Barriers

Senses

Happy/Unhappy Family

Finding Meaning

We’re Shadows

A Battle in My Mind

Winds of Change

God’s Time Zone

The Butterfly

Technology

Missionary of Laughter

Polish Pottery

The Christmas Tree

All I Need

Friends

Praise Your Condition

Eyes to See

The Wheel

Don’t Faint

A New Home

Don’t Faint

A New Home

Grief

God’s Attention

Edelweiss

Looking Forward

The Locket

God Remembers All

Embossing

Faith

Thankfulness

Humility

Feel the Breeze

When Friends Have Gone

A Wishing Well

Harness Imagination

Giving

Our Body

Power Praying

God is Close

Confessing

Remove the Ink

It’s Raining Blessings… What a Joy!

Materialism

Slowing the Pace

God’s Benefit Plan

Grief

Prepositions

Create Experiences

Destiny

Of the Heart

Hope and Hop

Murmuring

Symbols and Sounds

Curse Those Birds

My Middle Name

Strike a Nerve

Black-Eyed Peas

Fear

No Passport Needed

Zeal

A Few Seconds

A New Day

Develop Health

A Good Filter

Wrong Motives

Eyes

Givesome

The Wind Vane

The Ring

Getting Lost

The Tree

The Tightrope

Massage Your Mind

Elvis

To Know and to Question

Confounded Language

Procrastination

Indifference

Look to the Old Testament

The Snake

A Picture of Life

A Stage of Life

Believers

Idioms

An E-State

A Secret Place

Not Alone

A Dream

Believers in Every Season

Becoming a Writer

Going Home

When Earth Withers Away

Inherited Gifts

What Do You Really Want

Childlike Wonder

God’s Class

The Truth

Set Your Thermostat

The Apple

To Sleep

Creation

Max, the Canary

The Bubble

A Clay-Filled Pot

No Words

Weaving

What will you have done before you die?

Bitter or Better

What is Happiness?

Resilience

Eliminate Negativity

Assured Fulfillment

Luminosity

Noise

Living Longer

Memorials

The Future

Wrinkles

My Little Goldfish

The End of Life

I Know I Can

Building a House

Abundance

Singing in the Choir

A Secret

Instead of Saying…

Be the Master of You

The Cardigan

The Dream

The Mockingbird

The Chord

An Impasse

A Classic

Pomeranians

The End

To Realize

Therapeutic Praise

Listen Attentively

A squared, pink framed note

Labeled While you were out

Is conspicuously placed on my belongings

For my eventual review.

I quickly find out to my surprise

the caller and the reason for the call.

Why do we rush to answer the calls of friends

When there is no immediate need?

Are no there more needs in this world

More priorities, more opportunities, more ways

To find meaning than merely

To fulfill and satisfy our own desires?

Time is a commodity

To use up foolishly or to spend in meaningful tasks.

But we are the choosers on what to do with this precious gift.

Toil away we spend our days in endless requests

Satisfying others while not fulfilling what we really need.

The worldly cares distract and disrupt our lives

And fractures our ability to focus.

Lost are the opportunities that we

could have achieved, should have achieved, and might have achieved

Devoted to what we will encounter after we die.

Communicating in this high-tech world is like a a murky puddle

Rushed and skewed in thoughtless response.

How wonderful to return to a time when our response

Is attuned to a Higher Being

Who desperately wants our attention

Look up, seek out, and listen attentively to that voice

And respond to a call

from One above who as bestowed upon us

breath, thought, and imagination

Meant only for you to discover what an exciting adventure

Life is.

A World With No End

Out of the vast universe

Of nothingness and limitless space

And serene tunnels of space

Devoid of growth and color

Was fathomed a majestic creation

By a glorious God—

Who planned, developed, and brought into being

This awesome world,

Founded on faith, hope, and love which is

An inspiration out of an incredible desire

To a Life everlasting.

Sent forth from the heavens

Into this kaleidoscope of unimaginable colors

Molded into mountains, hills, and valleys,

And sparkling lakes and rivers

Gleam like a life-warming ball of radiance

Framing a backdrop for life’s events that will come to pass.

Energy sparks forth joy

As we express emotion and completion

To move forward in time

Anticipating it with gladness.

When Evil and Sin attempt to take over

And seven horses march in

Commences the tribulation, troubles, and famine

Which will reawaken the mind

Calling in redemption

To visit us again like an old, forgotten friend.

Jesus, Who is Our Savior,

Will reinvent our world

To save our world

To christen us

With forgiveness

To free us from this world

That has no end.

What I See

I see a world of people looking up for hope

But only looking around for ways to cope.

I see a world of people longing to know

What would make their heart sing

Yet spend their days

Longing for their money to grow.

I see a world of people filled with anxiety

Yet refuse to take the time

to learn about wisdom

And that blissful feeling of serenity.

I see a world of people who cannot find quiet days

Yet God is all around inviting us to daily worship

Of triumph joy, gratitude, and praise.

I see a world of people paralyzed by fear

Who cannot see all that glory there is to receive

And a desperate need to escape

Circumstances which will never leave.

I see a world of people who live out no purpose

Some who believe and others who stray

But we pray for those

Who seek no reward

Who believe and share their unwavering faith

And will spend eternity in sweet repose.

What is Energy?

From the sky above to the ocean below

From the farthest planet to our world

Energy abounds and mobilizes

And this energy helps to mobilize everything, all life.

Energy causes…

the sun to radiate a glowing fondness below

the stars to sparkle with merriment

the fire to punish the wrath

the miracles to abound.

Glimmer casts shadows from cathedral walls

And makes the hills to chant at nature’s sweet sounds

And the candle to lament lost lives at dusk.

Scientists ascribe E to equal Energy, however it represents

the Energy from God

that forgotten element that produces the stage

for life’s events to be played out in God’s total control

And to be recorded in history’s annals.

Energy could only