Angels of Mercy
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By David Vanderpool
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I spent a considerable amount of time in the hospital and came to greatly appreciate the wonderful care I received by the nursing staff and health care workers. I also came to realize that these people are very much under-appreciated. I wrote this poem and made it into a bookmark as a way of thanking and encouraging those people who cared for me. I also give it to the nursing staff and health care workers that I see everyday as a result of my involvement with the patients at a local facility where I minister as part of the chaplaincy. If there are any of my fellow poets who would like to use this poem, please feel free to do so. Dave Vanderpool |
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Submitted: Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 13, 2016
About the Poet
I am 58 years old and have lived in the Winona Lake area of Indiana for 16 years with my wife and children. I have written poetry for many years and use it primarily in personal ministry. For most of the past two years I have been recovering from cancer, something that God has used to impact my life in remarkable ways. I wrote a series of poems about the emotional and spiritual struggles that accompany having an illness like cancer. I used these to encourage people I met while going through kemo and radiation therapy. Since then, I have used them to minister to many people who struggle with cancer.
I work with the chaplaincy in the healthcare wing of a local retirement village near my home where two of my three daughers also work. My wife often accompanies me and we find it very rewarding to be involved in the lives of the people who live there.
My website address is http://callofissachar.com (Temporarily inactive)
Other Poems by David Vanderpool
- A Challenge to Fathers
- A Change of Perspective
- A Chapter of My Life
- A Hope That Endures
- A Prisoner of Choice
- A War of Deception
- Alzheimer's Journey
- An All Too Common Struggle
- Angels of Mercy
- As I Begin My Day
- Bumps Are What You Climb On
- Cancer in Our Midst
- Changes of Life
- Choosing Up Sides in the Neighborho
- Comfort or Flame
- Compromise Comes in a Package
- Counterfiet Reality
- Dichotomy
- Do I Hear God Speaking
- Do You Feel Like Quitting
- Everyone Worships
- Fear Can Become Anger
- For Those Who've Traveled Far
- Games Played in the Neighborhood
- God Hears My Heart
- God, I Have Cancer
- Hidden Treasure
- His Guding Promise
- Holding on to Yesterday
- I Come Again
- I Have Sinned
- I Need to Be in Love with God
- I Still Do What I Can
- Interceding Love
- It Seems I Do Most Anything - but P
- Kites Flew High in the Neighborhood
- On Pleasing Self
- Quiet Perspective
- Raise Your Ebenezer
- Reflection of Christ
- Simple Pleasures
- So You Want to Go to Heaven
- The Changes of Life
- The Gift of Youth
- The Great Escape
- The Names of God
- The Neighborhood Store
- The People Inside
- The Point of the Plow
- The World in the Church
- This Religion Thing
- To All My Friends Who Write
- To Love or Not to Love
- To Walk Alone with God
- Too Much Time Alone
- Unchanging Truth in Changing Times
- We Choose What We Love
- What I Know and What I Feel
- What of Sacrifice?
- When Sixty Seemed So Far Away
- When Water Isn't Wet
- Who has What?
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