Reflections Series Poetry - Special Edition


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This is a special edition release of my Reflections Poetry Series. The experience of life in its ups and downs can be inspirational if you are inclined to see it that way. Poetry is not the lost art some think it is. I relish the reading of poetry for the beautiful expression of true soul and spirit that it is and so I have contributed through my work, the musings of my own heart, soul and spirit. I see things often in terms of a poetic theme with infinite depth and endless meaning. I view life from the eyes of an inspired spiritual and artistic poet from my greatest moments of elation to my darkest moments of despair. But I know that these life lessons that stem from our inspiration, those things that call to our souls are important. They matter.




Footprints


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Based on the well-known 'Footprints' poem. NIV Scripture verses, reflections, and soft images encourage you to renew your walk with God.




Morning Reflections


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Morning is a time to embrace renewed opportunity, fresh perspective, and an overall sense of rejuvenation. Morning Reflections is a collection of powerful and inspirational reading that is dedicated to helping you begin each new day in a positive way. Christian and inspirational author and poet Karen Jean Matsko Hood has woven together poems, prayers, and Biblical verses to fill your soul and spirit with peace and understanding. Just like a hearty morning meal strengthens your physical body, it is equally important to center your emotions and nourish your spirit with the sure footing that can only come from a personal connection with the Creator. Morning Reflections offers enlightenment and wisdom through blending encouraging prose and Scripture passages. This truly insightful new book of reflections makes for a perfect bedside companion or as a topic of conversation over the coffee table. This book is a wonderful gift to friends and family for daily morning prayer and appreciation of Christ’s teachings. It is also for those with whom we are given the opportunity to share and experience it.




Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle


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Here are modern poems chosen for their individual excellence and their special appeal to young people. Exciting photographs accent the contemporary tone of the collection. From lighthearted Phyllis Mc-Ginley to pessimistic Ezra Pound; from the lyricism of Edna St. Vincent Millay to the vigor of Lawrence Ferlinghette; from Carl Sandburg on loneliness to Paul Dehn on the bomb -- such is the range. The little known or unknown poet and the widely recognized appear side by siide. Whatever the subject matter -- pheasant or flying saucer; lapping lake water or sonic boom; a deer hunt, a basketball, or a bud -- it is all poetry reflecting today's images and today's moods. The editors spent several years bringing together 1200 poems they considered fine enough to include, then slowly and carefully sifted out of 114 which appear in the book. Readers of Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle . . . and Other Modern Verse may well be tempted by Eve Merriam's suggestion in "How to Eat a Poem" center Don't be polite Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick The juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.




Solving for X


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Solving for X is not the exploration of the language of math as the name might imply. Rather it is an exploration into consciousness. This exploration is intended not to define consciousness but rather to help with the understanding of it in order to determine what seems to be unknown; your life's theme and purpose. The language of our own consciousness is speaking to us all of the time and we just haven't learned how to understand the parts of it that would truly guide us to where we'd most like to go. Through beginning to understand the language of our conscious experiences, you can learn to explore the patterns and themes in your life that specifically point to the lessons you set out to learn. This is the final book in a 3-part series of exploring various aspects of consciousness for the purpose of practical application and facilitating a greater sense of health and well-being.




Seasons of Your Heart


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In this masterpiece of simplicity, Macrina Wiederkehr offers a series of meditations to bring us closer to a "God for all seasons," revised and expanded into this new edition. Designed for daily use as well as for retreats, Seasons of Your Heart is an eloquent and lyrical invitation to journey through the spiritual seasons of wonder, hope, love, mystery, and faith. Macrina Weiderkehr shares her "seasonal struggle with God" and encourages us to reconize those same peaks and valleys in our own spiritual life. Using biblical passages, poetry, and excerpts from her journal, Wiederkehr provides meditative ideas and prayers as "postures" for realizing and approaching the holy in our daily lives. These reflections and prayers, then, have grown out of a daily listening to God in the changing seasons of my spiritual life, "writes the author. "These reflections have grown out of my conviction that our God is not some Almighty Being beyond us, but a Mystery within."




Exploring the Conscious Self


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For the serious student of life here in the Earth School, this work may help you push your own boundaries of beliefs, perceptions and assumptions and lead you into a deeper course of inquiry within the heart and soul of you. It's in large part why you are here. So, I've gathered together three works that explore different aspects of consciousness with a small "c" and along with painting a different perspective of the big "C" in terms of the Cosmic Consciousness, Source or God, however it is you might like to reference it. It is my contribution towards helping to create that little instruction book we all could use. It is my greatest hope that you might find something of value, something to make you think or something that might give you pause to realize you are so much more than you've been taught by conventional religion and various courses of earliest teachings from elementary school and beyond.




Reflections of the Soul


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It is my mission to broaden the stage for the writers of Spiritual Writers Network, and that is why I run quarterly contests for publication. When the time came to announce the second quarter writing contest for publication, I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that the writers and poets of the site would benefit greatly from a poetry competition. For this contest, we received several wonderful submissions from many great poets, and this anthology is a collection of those poems.I Am the Gentle Rain that FallsBy Bernadette PriceWhat a Wondrous DayBy Pol MacmathunaYour Mini MeBy Rylee Rioux BlanchardI Shed A Tear For BostonBy Sonnia J. KemmerResurrectionBy Debbie Aycock WilliamsConstant CurrentBy Kathleen M. ReganThe Eye of the StormBy Wendy SammutDetachBy April ColdsmithBelieveBy Holly GranthamDivine LightBy Agnes TaiSun on the RapidsBy Gary BennetA Wanderer's SoulBy Matthew PensylThe Anima InitiationBy Lydia FraserPeacocks at a Fountainby Tazeem MoledinaSymmetria (for David Ligare)By Robert SmithHands of Destinyby Elizabeth VaccaroThings I Love or Didn't Know I LovedJanet R. SadyA Million White FeathersBy Sue DanielsBlank Pageby Coleen SkinnerAnnunciationBy Cynthia SchaubMemoriesBy Debbie WilliamsVeilBy Christian LucaInto the QuietBy Nancy SchenkelThe Key to my HappinessBy Bernadette PriceBreathe Me to Life ~ A Sestina VariationBy Carolyn E. FordThe FloweringBy Pol MacmathunaMother DivineBy Nithya KavyaroopiniBe StillBy Beth TerrenceThe Fluid ChildBy Rani Lee JohnsonThe Dance of the ButterfliesBy Janet R. SadyOn Bended KneeBy Steve NestorBless the ChildrenBy Pat YacboucciAre There Answers To Cancer?By Angela GreenwoodSo On And OnBy Steffan GilbertA Message From AboveBy Bernadette PriceCotillionBy Jennifer BatemanShedding The HumanBy Frederic WiedemannI Am Glad That I Met YouBy Andrea TheiszovaThe last DaysBy Alberta felderSomaBy Jennifer BatemanHello, it's Me!By Bernadette PriceThe Daydream RoomBy Megan MoffittThe Blessing in DeathBy Aasiyah I. FarishStay Close To the ValleyBy Pol MacmathunaI admire these poets for writing so openly about their emotions, life experiences, joys and hardships. It was such a pleasure to compile this anthology for them, and when choosing a theme for the book only one phrase came to mind -- Reflections of the Soul. These writers have put their hearts and souls into these poems for you to enjoy. I hope you will find as much delight and admiration for this collection of works as I have.




Expanding Horizons: Growth and Beyond


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Expanding Horizons begins where Changing Perspectives left off...expanding on the concepts previously shared along with adding a few new tools and suggestions. Expanding Horizons is for the spiritual traveler seeking to learn about his or her path in life, the things to look for, the tools to assist on the journey and the perspectives to open your mind to hold that will hopefully enrich the spiritual seeker's journey. So many embrace a spiritual path in the absence of a specific teacher other than the tools one possesses within one's self. This book is a guide for such souls interested in learning how to listen to their bodies, listen to their hearts and to pay attention to the lesson plans all around them as they make their way through their lives. Keeping the mind and heart open for life's amazing experiences is the message of Expanding Horizons. Where the heart and mind are open, great understanding of life will come.




Awakening from the Dream


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This work represents both an ending and a beginning and that is much the way life is....endings and beginnings. Dreams begin and end. Lives begin and end. There is one thing, however, that has no end and that is our Consciousness. Within this work I explore Life in the context of a Dream and the impact of our eventual awakening within that Dream. We all carry the seeds of awakening within us and at just that right moment, we will all awaken from The Dream.