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    By John B. Creekmore

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    This is a collection of 40 poems dealing with problems with which people deal at various times in their lives. Although it does not adopt the exclusive view of any one religion, it espouses principles that are basic to all of them, taking the position that all major problems are spiritual in nature and thus require spiritual solutions. This rejects the notion that strictly material efforts can provide lasting answers to man's deepest concerns or that true satisfaction can come from artificial means such as drugs or alcohol. Rather, it seeks to provide people with words to meditate upon and absorb, the end result being the dissolution of fear, which is the main source of our pain. "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he," says the psalmist, and This tries to purify those thoughts, so that healing may take place.
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    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateSep 16, 2013
    ISBN9781483693613
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    John B. Creekmore

    John Brantley Creekmore is a lifelong resident of the Hampton Roads area of Virginia and a graduate of Old Dominion University. He recently retired from the Norfolk Community Services Board, having worked in the field of human services in that city for nearly forty years. He served as a social worker in a chronic disease hospital for 12 years and then for the mental health division as a crisis counselor, case manager and education specialist for 27 years. John have seen quite a lot of human suffering and his writing is an attempt to help people dealing with pain of all kinds. He currently live in Suffolk, Va., with his wife, who was also a longtime human services worker.

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      John B. Creekmore

      Copyright © 2013 by John B. Creekmore.

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      Rev. date: 09/10/2013

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      CONTENTS

      WHISPERS

      THE LIFE

      LINES FOR THE

      SEASONS OF FUTILITY

      GRATITUDE

      ONE SUCCESS

      APPEARANCES

      EACH MOMENT

      COME THE DAY

      LIVES

      THEN

      LEARNING

      LET IT GO

      THIS ROAD

      THE WANDERING EYE

      MORALITY

      BALLAST

      THE BEHOLDER

      FEAR NO ENDINGS

      THE PURPOSE

      ALONE

      MAPS

      MANY PATHS

      SEE NO EVIL

      GUIDANCE

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