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    More of the Same: Further Poems and Thoughts on the Christian Faith & Life in General
    More of the Same: Further Poems and Thoughts on the Christian Faith & Life in General
    More of the Same: Further Poems and Thoughts on the Christian Faith & Life in General
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    More of the Same: Further Poems and Thoughts on the Christian Faith & Life in General

    By Stewart French

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    This is the second volume of Stewarts poetry, a worthy successor to From Heaven and Back Again. The poems are again a flavourful mix of the deep, of the spiritual, of the funny and downright amusing and the ones that cry out with anger, pain or frustration. What gives them life is that they mean something profound to all of us, read them and you will feel a resonance and a connection. Modern living can be tough, we can lose our sense of time and perspective; or else we can forget that our God is so big, so high and so mighty. These poems are easy to read, on occasion they show Stewart's emotions laid bare but, my, what love for his fellow man is revealed and what joy in knowing Jesus as real in his and his familys life. The poem Living in the fast lane is a picture of the times and pace we seem to live in yet we are bidden to remember that indeed Jesus is Lord. This is good stuff and reveals the man and his family, his life and his daily walk with God not through rose tinted spectacles but with honesty that we can truly identify with. Just dip in and enjoy, read about and experience a normal life living with God like you and me?

    Nicholas Beach April 2011
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateOct 27, 2011
    ISBN9781456783778
    More of the Same: Further Poems and Thoughts on the Christian Faith & Life in General
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    Stewart French

    Stewart French has been on life’s front line for many years. From his days in Wiltshire, experiencing the sudden shock of redundancy with a new family to support, the consequential emotional and financial shock waves and then after many uneasy months to an uprooting to Kent with the family to a new job and new life. It was not easy and there were hardships, crises even, a spiritual desert unfolded for a time but through it all Stewart was honest, seeking and faithful. He is a man who has spiritual antennae and yet who is utterly himself. Indeed he is someone who lives next door to you but who has been given a gift for writing and putting into words that which touches and seeks the inner person with all of its emotions and senses. His Christianity is part of his DNA, not obvious or loud, but there in his life and work and play. Stewart has been married to Gwen for almost forty years, and is a father of three, and grandfather to a growing number of children. Together they worship in a small, but very loving, Methodist/URC Fellowship in Ashford, Kent in the UK. He has been involved in the wider Christian Church through the Full Gospel Fellowship (for which he was Chapter President for some 7 years), Churches Together in Ashford (where he served as Chairman) and various other ecumenical means.

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      More of the Same - Stewart French

      CREATION: FROM GOD’S POINT OF VIEW

      Very early one morning in 2004, when sleep just would not come, I was thinking about the Creation, and I wondered how God might tell the story… I realise that this is not 100% the order as described in Genesis, but it is how it came to me…

      In the beginning there was only me. I AM from eternity past, and I AM to eternity ahead.

      I looked. Nothing. Only emptiness.

      So I created the heavens and the earth - shapeless and without any living thing, in perpetual darkness until I provided light. You do not need to know how I provided it, that is my secret, but believe me, it was no accident. As the unformed world turned, even as it does now, there was light, and there was darkness, there was day and there was night.

      There was a lot of water - this was essential as you are 90% water, and the surface of your world is 70% water. I made the dry land to appear in the midst of the sea, in order that you would have somewhere to live.

      I knew that you would need food so I provided plants of incredible complexity and variation, plants of beauty. Plants with seeds and plants bearing fruit, and I established them long before I lovingly made you.

      I love beauty, and because I knew you would as well I wanted you to be aware of the bigness of my creation, so I gave you the sun, and the moon, and the stars to gaze on, and wonder. But you mean more to me than any star or any sun.

      As I wanted my world to have variety - so you would have pleasure in what you see - I next created, for you, the birds and the fish: to see, to eat, and to enjoy. Likewise I made animals - the wild animals and those you would come to domesticate and use for food, and whose skins you would use for clothing. My world was now ready for you.

      I knew what I wanted when I made you. Someone to care for their world. Someone who would love others I made, and who would be in fellowship with me. Someone with my characteristics of goodness, honesty and truth. I took all the love I had to spare, and I made you, my cherished one. I brought you into this universe, onto this world I had made especially for you to enjoy, and to protect. I even made allowance for the fact that you would lose your innocence and so I became one like you. I felt your fears, I understood your temptations, and I showed you how to live.

      My child: all that I have ever done, I have done especially for you - won’t you come home?

      Yours, with love

      God

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      CHOCOLATE CROISSANTS ETC

      In June 2003 I was sitting in a service station, on my way to a meeting: surrounded by food, drink and discarded newspapers I started to think of the disparity between the aspirations of those of us who live in the rich West, and those in the poorer parts of the world.

      Chocolate croissants, coffee, tea. Things I want to `pleasure` me.

      Growing rice, picking tea. Things I do to sustain me.

      A bigger house, a better car, will show I have arrived.

      A scrap of bread, a cup of rice, with these I might survive.

      A second bath, or Jacuzzi, please, to make my life complete.

      All I want is a place to sleep, and something I can eat.

      Running water - hot and cold. A shower, bath and sink.

      Water that’s clean is just a dream: pollution’s what I drink.

      A new TV and video; a DVD’s a must!

      My home is on a rubbish tip - and I choke on clouds of dust.

      Give me more or I’ll go on strike, for that’s my legal right.

      Please let me have a living wage. I’ll work all through the night.

      My clothes are old - they’re last year’s style. I’m getting out of date.

      I’m naked, and I’m hungry: does this have to be my fate?

      All my money is tied up - there’s nothing I can spare.

      "Look after others, help them live, and show them that I care.

      The blood I shed is not reserved for the rich and

      well - to - do;

      I love the poor and starving ones, and you must love them too.

      I gave you life, and gave you wealth, so listen when I call.

      Can you see my bloodstained cross and say that "I surrender all?

      All to Thee, my precious Saviour, I surrender all?

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