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By Geneva Poynter
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No answer becomes an answer.
In Matthew 12:30 Jesus says, “If you are not for me
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Submitted: Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Last Updated: Thursday, May 7, 2020
About the Poet
I asked Jesus to be my Savior when I was 11 - that was almost 70 years ago as of June 2015.
My husband and I had been married for 54 years as of March 2010 before he went Home to Heaven, and we have one son & daughter in law and 3 grandchildren.
Other Poems by Geneva Poynter
- A Clear Reflection
- A Cloud
- A God's Eye View
- A Holy Trickle Down
- A Man Called Ted
- A Midnight Peek out My Window
- A Rare Day in Spring
- A Sure Vision
- A Tale of Two Kings
- A Thousand Years
- A Time to Reflect
- Abba
- Abiding in Hard Times
- Able
- About Christmas
- About This Mother
- Acrostic
- Agape Love
- All His Things
- All I Need
- Always
- Amazing!
- America's Independence Day
- An "Old Folks" Spring
- Answers
- Apprenticeship
- Appropriate Fear
- Are We Sheep?
- Are You at Home on Earth?
- Arithmetic
- As I Sit Here Thinking
- As Long as Earth Remains
- At His Feet
- At Just the Right Time
- Audible
- Autumn
- Autumn and the Leaves
- Autumn, Winter, Spring
- Be Real
- Be Still
- Be Yourself !
- Behold a Great Multitude
- Beloved Country
- Bill's and My Story
- Blending Word Chimes
- Books
- Both Fear and Peace
- Can Anyone Change My Future?
- Can I Have Joy?
- Can We Resist Fear?
- Can You Change Your Mind?
- Cart before the Horse?
- Celebrate Christmas
- Certainty
- Chaos or Peace
- Choice
- Choices
- Chosen
- Christ in You - the Hope of Glory
- Christmas Bells
- Christmas Day 2021
- Christmas Reflection
- Christmas Spirit
- Cindarella Will Go to the Ball
- Clouds of Doubt
- Come and See
- Complicated Life
- Connected
- Constant
- Created to Image God
- Creation Expresses Praise
- Day After Day
- Deceit
- Declaration
- Deer Moss
- Definition
- Dependable
- Desolate - Restored - Finale
- Devotion
- Did God Say, 'Wait'?
- Difficulties
- Direction
- Discernment
- Discontentment
- Distracted?
- Do We Betray God?
- Doing This Life
- Don't Trip on Your Tunic
- Down and Out
- Downstairs - Upstairs
- Dreams on God's Altar
- Dusty People
- Earned or Given?
- Elijah
- End of the World
- Enigma
- Eternal Perspective
- Every Day
- Example or Warning
- Eyelashes and Such
- Facing Tomorrow
- Faith and Reason
- Faith's Realities
- Faithful
- Fallacy
- Familiar?
- Feelings or Facts
- Fidelity
- Flawed
- Focus on Verbs
- For Eternity
- For This Time
- For Us
- Free and Focused
- Free to be Who You Are
- Frisky Pup
- From Your Heart to God's Ears
- Fruits of a Godly Life
- Frustration
- Genuine Love
- Gifts
- Glory
- Go My Own Way?
- Goals
- Goals - Not Resolutions
- God Don't Make No Junk
- God is Working
- God Never Leaves
- God of Wonders
- God Sees
- God's Glorious World
- God's Pattern for Life and Work
- God's Purpose for My Life
- God's Signature
- God's Standard
- God's Voice
- Golden
- Good - Better - Best
- Good Roots
- Good Seeds and Weeds
- Got to Get It All Together
- Grasping the Truth
- Growth
- Guard
- Hands
- Have You Missed It?
- He is Able
- He is Faithful and True
- He Is Sufficient!
- He Won Me
- He's Faithful
- He's the Reason
- He's Waiting
- Here's Hope
- HIS Legacy
- His Steps
- HOME
- Hope
- Hope Is Mine
- Hostile - Helpless - Hopeful
- How Do I Follow
- How Do We See Church?
- How Then Do I Live
- Huh-oh!
- Humility
- I Am an Eternal Being
- I Am Who I Am
- I Believe in Miracles
- I Can't Know
- I Didn't Come to Stay
- I Don't Need God
- I Inherit
- I Need the Lord
- I Won't Sit Still
- I'd Like to Have Been There
- I'm Pleading - Help!
- If These Keep Silent
- Imagining and Reality
- Immanuel
- Impulsive Living
- Indelible Ink
- Influence
- Is It Ordinary?
- Is Meekness Weakness?
- Is This Your Life?
- It Was Always God's Plan
- It's about the Potter
- It's All About Who He Is
- It's Called Trust
- It's Hard - But Just Think!
- It's Loud Out There!
- It's the Greatest
- Jacob's Heir
- January
- Jesus
- Jesus - God's Final Word
- Jonah
- Journey
- Just Imagine
- Just Quotables
- Just Thoughts
- Knowledge vs. Perspective
- Lawless one
- Lazarus and Jesus
- Lazy Days of Summer?
- Learn to Be Still
- Let God Use You
- Let Us Live Cream
- Liberation
- Life
- Light
- Like Grass
- Little Old Lady
- Live and Learn
- Living Hope
- Living the Acts
- Long Ago and Tomorrow
- Look at the Love of Christ
- Looking Back - Then Ahead
- Looking Out the Window
- Looking Through the Keyhole
- Looking to the Future
- Lord, Only You Can Do It
- Lost in the Temple
- Love Through Me
- Made for Heaven
- May His Will Be My Way
- Miracle
- More Than a Name
- Motive
- Much More
- Musings
- My Boardroom
- My Praise and Thank You List
- My Prayer
- My Refuge
- My View vs God's View
- My Worry List for Prayer
- Need
- Need Him
- Never! Not a Chance!
- No Comprehension
- No Downsizing - Upgrade!
- No Other Way
- No Water on the Fire
- Nostalgia
- Not About Me
- Not Heaven, but Nearing Its Coast
- November Snow and Thanksgiving
- October's Almost Here
- Old Lady Poem (a haiku style)
- Old Lady's Lament
- On My Knees
- Only ME
- Only Need to Sow the Seed
- Oppresive?
- Our Calling
- Our Place
- Our World Today
- Overwhelmed
- Peace in His Presence
- Perfectly Sufficient
- Plans
- Potential
- Praise
- Praise for Fall
- Presence
- Pretense????
- Preview of Autumn
- Privileged or Desperate
- Problems and the Solution
- Providence
- Purpose
- Question
- Questions
- Questions, Questions
- Read Instructions
- Realignment
- Realization
- Relationship
- Respond Through Me
- Resurrection
- Resurrection Coping Power
- Resurredtion Life
- Scenes of Christmas
- See with Wonder
- Selfish
- Shaped
- She was my Mother
- Shelf Life
- Shine Through Me
- Signs
- Signs of Life
- Sing His Praises
- Socks and Trousers
- Something Better
- Sometimes
- Soul's Agony
- Still Trying to Get it Right
- Summer
- Summer Haikus
- Sure Guide
- Swallowed Up in Victory!
- Take a Look
- Tedious Changes
- Thankful
- Thanks
- That Divine Team
- That Simple Christmas
- The Answer
- The CEO
- The Christ of Love
- The End?
- The Garden of My Life
- The God Who Sees Us
- The Great Priority
- The Keys
- The Most Important
- The Most Valuable
- The Music We Love
- The Music We Love
- The Old Songs I Love
- The Only Savior
- The Potter's Wheel
- The Right Target
- The Road
- The Shepherd of My Life
- The Source
- The Struggle
- The Surprise of Getting Old
- The What and Why of Life
- The Word Became Flesh
- The World out There
- The Wound
- Then - Real Living!
- There's Real Life in Me
- Think - Then Speak
- This Is Fall
- This is Her Life
- This Life
- This Season
- This Snow
- This Strange Experience
- Those Forty Days
- Thoughts From the Hammock
- Thoughts of Heaven
- Thoughts of the Future
- Three Haiku
- Time Heals?
- Time's A-Wasting
- Transformation
- True Freedom
- True God vs. gods
- Trust Me
- Truth
- Truth and Grace
- Trying to Figure out Life
- Twiddle Thumbs - Not on Your Life!
- Understand God's Timing?
- Understanding
- Unique
- Untitled Acrostic
- Useful to God
- Very Deep Repentance
- Vitality
- Waiting
- We Sow - He Works
- We're All Waiting
- Wear White All Year
- Well, Actually
- What Do They See?
- What If
- What is Christmas?
- What is Faith
- What is Faith?
- What Kind of Poem
- What Matters
- What to do - What to do
- What Will I Be Like?
- Where is Eternal Spring?
- Where's My Focus?
- While Word Chimes Sound (WC poem)
- Who Is in Control
- Who's Life?
- Who's Worshipped?
- Why Do We Weep?
- Why Palm Sunday
- Wilderness Blessings
- Winter
- Winter - Christmas
- Winter's First Blow
- Winter's Goodbye
- Wisdom Acrostic
- Would I - Would You?
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