Life's Journey: The Poetry of Life, Love, and Beyond

Looking for peace and understanding in your journey through this life and your preparation for eternity? Written over the span of 50 years, my poetry highlights the importance of hope, faith, charity, consideration, patience, family relations, friendship, endurance, service, forgiveness, and Christ in overcoming life's trials and tribulations, afflictions and addictions, sacrifices and struggles. Travel with me (photos included) from Montpelier, Idaho to Jackson Hole, Provo, Rio de Janeiro, Telluride, Carmel by the Sea, Washington, D.C., Seoul, Fort Huachuca, Lilongwe, Lagos, Fort Leavenworth, Fort Meade, Luanda, Lusaka, Landstuhl, Brasilia, San Francisco, Suva, Baqubah, Islamabad, Karachi, Boracay, Baghdad, Pyeongtaek, and finally back to Bloomington, Idaho in Bear Lake Valley. Find hope and insight for your own Life's Journey. A few samplings of my poetry include:*** "But peace, joy, and happiness alone would skew the test. Hurt, pain, and sorrow--Embitters, Or brings out what is best."*** "Learn to love, to share, do, and grow, But do not hold on, when it's time to go."*** "You'll live your life and may never know of the thoughts and feelings in others you sow."*** "Then begins love's test as green gives way to golden hue, and letting go is easier than holding to."*** "Ought not we to remember the poor were once as us. And too soon be we beggars, treated as we treated thus."*** "Christ is playing at my (your) heartstrings; Let Him play His tune. I am (You are) but one instrument of His glory coming soon!"*** "In the furnace of affliction God offers each a room; of each and every person the dross He would consume."*** "So much of life is illusion as fish in the sea-- not of the size, nor where they should be."*** "A plus B over 3 equals C So now we know our A,B,C's... Conflating our conflation. Dear God, please help this mixed up nation!" ***"He's done it all and not for self, nor glory to his name; Eternity-- Shall never be the same!"*** "May Christ's Birth awaken a Birth within you too, This I pray-- My Christmas Wish for you."*** "I do believe His offer to change us even now, Unless we wait and hesitate-- When every knee shall bow." A few selected poems from my wife, daughter, brother, son-in-law, and my best friend fill out other important dimensions of our journey through life. *** "Now if you think you know his name, then chances are you've felt his pain. And some my friend might think this fiction, but he is real; he's called addiction."*** "Fear not my friend, for death will come; again you'll see where you came from. For life on earth is short you see, compared to all eternity."