Eyes

Apple talent tributary kick
Chicken dwarf angel value
Tear mc muffin arrow mall
Rank eliminate Tasmanian

Ticking temperature sink
Reading mere pop tease
Tangle type relight paper
Peep Jane jug jeep eke

Pipe pond allow tender
Ticking temple tube into
Leave erudite pal sop
Prevent amiable real

Soup reap mail ball
Antlers write power
Keep mailable pocket
Sent sweep creep

Proper lint tent end
Tend wand weave while
Wipe great geek game
Steep treat tank amp

Gender top ink tinker
Table peer here steer
Rear rile mile tile isle
Cuban tool mule merry

Tarry whopper offer
Coffer copper clock
Walk wet let pet rat
I’ll back lack whack

Jacks Mack rack tack
Liposuction erection
Much muck smut truck
Tuck tip rip mitt lit quit

Stint mint went lint
Much touch lunch
Wall wail tail nail
Whale scale mile

Trial quail stale kale
Male inner roundabout
Inside table enable
Squabble entire rule

Stop track tan main
Rain insane cane stain
Main crane pin bin
Onion Bunyan elbow

Tin win X-ray rowdy end
Mend render tender mind
Quandary zombie I’ll be
Pod real peal prize eyes

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Book has been updated now with a few corrections, here and there. New and improved!

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Make Him Proud!

Make a road
To wherever you’re going.
Follow your soul
To wherever it takes you.

Believe in yourself.
Believe there is a God,
Because to not believe,
Is to give up.

There is still good
In this broken world.
There is still hope
In people’s hearts.

Keep trying.
Keep giving.
Keep holding on
To whatever you believe in.

Strive to improve
Yourself.
Help others
Do the same.

But expect no one
To change for you.
Only you
Are accountable to you.

We are all free
To create our own destiny.
Take whatever talents
God has given you,

And create
Something meaningful,
Something beautiful,
Something new.

God has given us all
A spark of himself
Deep down in our hearts.
Find God in yourself.

And make him proud!

Peace to You

Sometimes,
Words cannot express
What the heart
Knows to be true.

As sure as I am
Of what I think
The truth is,
It may be just the opposite,

But just as true,
For you.
Let us agree
To disagree,

And let our faults
Become virtues,
As we seek
A better understanding

And a more peaceful
Coexistence
With each other.
We can still be friends.

I think that
What you say
In complete contradiction
To my truth

May be more important
Than anything
I can say.
That is because

You are important
To me.
May your heart
Be filled with peace.

True Strength

To resist evil
Without raising a hand
In violence.

To withstand abuse
Without
Throwing back insults.

To lay down
One’s life
As a sacrifice.

To remain peaceful
And accepting,
Even when frustrated.

To love,
To give,
To be one with all,

Even those
Who threaten
One’s life.

This is
True
Strength.

Evil
Cannot be overcome
By evil.

Only
Love
Can do that.

There may be
Many lives lost
In the process,

But that
Is already happening.
Why not

Try
Something
New?

Where is God?

Sometimes,
I wonder,
Would God help me
If I was dying?
I don’t know,
Really.
God helps some people,
But he doesn’t help others.
And it doesn’t seem to matter
How good a person is,
Or how much faith they have.
Really,
It seems quite random.
So, does it make sense for us
To thank God
When we get out
Of some mess we’re in?
Maybe.
Maybe that is just
Something you do
As part of a good relationship
With the Almighty.
But does God intervene
When we’re in trouble?
Some would say
A definite “yes”,
Since sometimes
People survive
In such a seemingly
Miraculous way.
But, where is God
With all the other people
Who don’t get saved?
Did he abandon them?
It may be
That we are looking at God
The wrong way.
Maybe we misinterpret
What is meant
In the Bible,
Or, maybe some people
In the Bible
Misinterpret what God does.
After all,
We don’t go to Psalms
For advice on how God works.
We go there for how we work.
And we can be ungrateful,
Greedy, despairing, vengeful,
Grievous, bloodthirsty, disrespectful–
You get the idea.
Perhaps,
We should not look at God,
As a supernatural person
Who enters into time and space.
Perhaps, God is simply spirit,
And, in that form,
He is always here,
All around us,
And in us.
Perhaps,
He is always a part of our lives,
And how much we connect with him,
Is still up to us, just like
If he was a supernatural person.
So, maybe it is wrong to say,
Where is God?
Or why did God do this?
God is part of everything,
But God is bigger than that.
He is bigger than the universe.
But he is also in your room,
Giving you breath,
Keeping your heart beating,
At least,
Until it is your time to go,
And only God knows that.

Love

Love has no fear
In the face of a fist
Or a pistol to the head.
Love does not give up
When it is turned away.
Love overcomes
When it is denied service.
Love stays the course
When there is not much to eat.
Loves gives everything
When there is nothing
To feed the baby.
Love holds on
When love does not get hired.
Love forgives
Those who maim and torture.
Love does not despair
When love is locked away in prison.
Love wants to believe
If only there was something
In which to believe.
Love believes anyway,
No matter what the cost.
Love has no pride.
Love is not cocky.
Love is not angry.
Love is merciful
To those who are cruel.
Love wants to be
Your new best friend.
Love creates
Something out of nothing.
Love will remain
When all others turn away.
Love follows you
When you enter a dark alley.
Love touches you
Deep down inside.
Love gives all.
Love believes all.
Love hopes all.
Love is always there,
Whether you know it or not.
Love conquers all.

I Believe

I believe
God is here with me.
I believe
He is in my heart.
I believe
God watches over me.
I believe
God feels my pain.
I believe
That when I grieve,
God cries with me.
When I hurt,
God hurts, too.
When I’m scared,
God comforts me.
When I doubt,
God helps me believe
In something,
That is greater than me.
“There’s a sweet, sweet spirit
In this place,
And I know that it’s the spirit
Of the Lord.”
Well said.