Daily Archives: January 20, 2012
Weekly Photo Challenge – Simple
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Simple
is faith
in God found
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Glorious
the Name
of Son renouned
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Silently
His Spirit
does mankind confound
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Awaiting
His return
upon earthly ground!
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Teresa Marie 1/20/12 ©
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Where Did I Go? – Part Two
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As Susan drove away from the house, her legs were shaking so bad that she could barely press down the gas pedal. Feeling sick to her stomach, only 2 miles down the road, she had to pull over and calm herself.
“Where am I going to go?” she thought. She had planned on driving to her parents house but it was only 5:30am and she knew that no one would be awake at that hour of the morning. Here parents were in the late 60′s and retired.
Susan had not seen them in over 3 years. The family had all long since turned their backs on her over the years when she kept going back to Jason every time she left him. She had never managed to stay away from him more than 3 or 4 months. He always lured her back in somehow, but not this time. Susan was determined to get free of him for good! She had to do it for the kids if nothing else. Never should they be allowed to grow up thinking that this was the way that people who loved each other acted.
She didn’t want her son to become an abuser nor her daughters to grow up thinking that they deserved to be abused either. If she didn’t have the courage to do it for her self, she had to do it for them, for their future happiness and just to give them a chance at normalcy. So, she drove on, gulping in the air to calm her stomach.
When Susan pulled up in front of her parent’s house, the home that she had grown up in, the lights were out. She reclined the back of her seat and tried to relax before she had to go knock on the door. Lost in a surreal fog she began to think about her who she once was.
“How did I ever get to this place in my life?” she wondered. It was amazing to her, when she thought about it, how fear had totally taken over and dictated her life for the last 15 years. And the drugs, never in a million years would she have thought that she would find herself strung out on drugs like she was. A wave of disgust and remorse washed over her, guilt and recrimination flooded her whole being.
As she glanced at herself in the rear view mirror, Susan saw someone whom she didn’t know staring back at her. Their face was gaunt and drawn, dark circles under the eyes, and there was no light in those eyes like there once had been. No longer did they twinkle mischievously back, their life had been sucked out of them. Even the green of their iris was dulled and lifeless.
“Oh, dear God, what will mom and dad think when they see me?!” but Susan already knew the answer to that one. As she bent her head to say a prayer, out of the corner of her eye she saw the front door open and her mother was standing there looking out at the car.
She breathed a quick prayer, opened the car door and got out. Her mother had tears in her eyes when she came out of the house and onto the porch with her arms opened.
Susan burst into tears and ran into her mother’s arms just as her mother was saying, “We never thought we would see again, not alive anyway!” Susan’s shoulders dropped, her body shook with deep racking sobs and she knew that she was home…
Teresa Marie 1/20/12 ©
Babysitting On Gumdrop River
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With mamaw and papaw babysitting
for the kids one night
Before their eyes they saw
the most tragic of sight
As they were all gazing
up at the starlit sky
And pretending into it
they would up and fly
‘Twas then that the moon
from out of it fell
Which left them standing there
aghast for just a spell
And so ’twas they decided
to sail down gumdrop river
To retrieve that fallen moon
which was but a sliver
When it was not far
this little troop had gone
Down the darkened waters
sailing on a swan
They did come to find
what they were searching for
And lifted up that sliver
of moon to sky restore
As the children still awake
all shouted out in glee
That they’d be the heroes
to go down in history
While mamaw and papaw smiled
at the children’s joyous glow
A memory for all time
e’re that they would know
As they turned the swan around
and headed back for home
They discussed of what adventures
over which the world to comb!
Teresa Marie 1/20/12 ©
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I Hope That I Would Be A Better Person Than That – Cruise Ship Revelations
By now everyone has heard about the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia sinking.
This morning I was writing when I heard Dr. Phil talking on the TV in the other room. What grabbed my attention was something that the woman was saying about the cruise ship captain, so I went in to see what it was all about.
I had not planned on spending my next 40-45 minutes in tears but I did. What a powerful and amazing story!!
Dr. Phil was interviewing a couple who had survived. Here is the scenario; they had taken this cruise with two of their three daughters. The daughter not with them was only absent because she had just gotten married and was on her honeymoon (I think that’s what they said).
This couple was describing the mass pandemonium that ensued upon this ship when it crashed. As I came in on the show 15-20 minutes later, I missed what was first being said but where I picked up instantly made me cry and get angry at the same time.
The couple was telling about how people were pushing and shoving, no one was taking charge of the situation, no leadership by the crew (as we know now, the captain was gone already). There were no lifeboats for these people to get on and they were told that, if they could get to the other side of the boat (which meant if you can climb up there), you can probably find a lifeboat there.
There was (I think) an Argentinean couple with a baby that they had been talking to. This couple and their girls, with the Argentinean couple behind them were trying to make their way through the inner part of the ship when they all became trapped in some section of it. The couple lifted their baby up to the woman and asked her to take their baby with them.
The woman did. Then, after a few minutes, when she realized that they were all not going to make it out, she handed the baby back to the couple saying to them “you need to spend this time with your baby”. ”In other words”, she said to Dr. Phil, “we’re all going to die here and your baby needs to die with you, not me.”
Can you imagine how you would feel? I shiver at the thought. Then this family proceeded to say their goodbyes to each other and began praying. They prayed for survival, they prayed to be taken to heaven together, they prayed for the daughter who would be left behind, they prayed!
The Argentinean family drown but God heard this family’s prayers ’cause the boat shifted enough for them to climb up through a grating and stand on a wall that now was a floor of sorts with about 100 other people they said. But once again they were trapped.
At this point, there suddenly came a ladder of some sort that was lowered down to them from the outside of the ship. Can you believe that these 100 people started pushing and shoving people out of the way to get to that ladder?
Dr. Phil asked what the men were doing and the woman said they were shoving people and climbing up the ladder!!!! Unbelievable to me! There were children, not to mention the women, but they were climbing up ahead of the little children!!! The woman said at some point, quickly realizing what was happening, their daughters said “this ain’t happening!” and shoved their way up to the bottom of the ladder. Once there, these wonderful, beautiful young ladies started grabbing the kids and hoisting them up to the ladder while shoving adults back out of the way.
After most of the children had been evacuated, these girls turned to their parents and told them to get up there. The couple said, “you go and we will be right behind you!” The girls reluctantly began to climb up the ladder and the parents, already making their way over, climbed up behind them!!!!
Unbelievable, inspiring, and heartbreaking!! I can’t imagine the guilt this woman must be feeling now about that couple’s baby. I know she started crying as she told about how she handed it back to its parents. She said that right before she did it, she was trying to figure out how she was going to climb with this baby in her arms but then it didn’t matter because they saw no way of any of them getting out.
I would be devastated. If I am ever, ever, ever in a crisis like that, I pray to God that I would be like this courageous family and especially those two girls!! Dr. Phil asked the couple at the end of the show how proud they were of them and the faces of that couple told it all before they even said, “Extremely proud!”
I just wanted to share that with you. It is refreshing to see that there are still wonderful people out there who put their faith in God and act in the way that all mankind should!!
Blessings,
Terri
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Dream – 30 Day Letter Writing Challenge: Letter 5
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Dreaming
to leave
a book behind
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Worlds
of fantasy
grandchildren to find
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Through
my poetry
to be defined
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Glimpses
of what’s
inside my mind
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Teresa Marie 1/20/12 ©
Sun and Moon
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The sun and the moon
had a fight one day
For moon and stars
wanted out to play
But the sun was trying
to keep them all away
“I’m not going down yet!”
to them the sun did say
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“It is our turn now
for coming of the night!”
Moon to the sun replied
who kept on shining bright
“I really do not know
why you’re causing a fight
But I think it’s time
to tell the world goodnight!”
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As the birds chirped in
and gave a mournful cry
“The sun can’t go down
when we still wanna fly!”
And then the sun refused
to give up the sky
Which did the moon’s patience
more than a little try
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A star began to whisper
quietly into the moon’s ear
As moon to sun said,
“Of this let me be clear
If you don’t go down
then I do greatly fear
All you little birdies will
have no food next year!”
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The sun stopped his pushing
’cause the truth he knew
That he had no choice
for go down he must do
And then everyone was happy
no more fighting would ensue
As sun told the moon
“A very goodnight to you!”
Teresa Marie 1/19/12 ©
Killer Smile – Friday’s Limerick
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Wait! Don’t change that dial
or you’ll miss my killer smile
’cause people just run away
when I put it on display
but I do a 60 second mile!!
Teresa Marie 1/20/12 ©
