Don't Take It Personally
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Submitted: Monday, May 28, 2007

Last Updated: Thursday, June 21, 2007

About the Poet
Growing older with some pains and discomfort, graying hair, glasses, partial plate and hearing aids but with complete assurance of my eternal domain. Saved by choice by Gods free grace by Jesus life, death and resurrection. Born and bred in the Bluegrass State for 24 years, I crossed the Ohio River and became a Hoosier forever thereafter until that time God calls me to my heavenly home. Christian for fifty-five plus years. Church musician and SS teacher for most all of my Wednesdays and Sundays. Public school teacher for thirty-six school terms; retired with a class now of three grandchildren off and on during the week. Wife for half my life to the same superman. Mama to two unique sons. Mother-in-law to a fine daughter; Nana to one darling girl and two handsome guys. God has blessed me abundantly; thank you, Father. God quiets my hackles; God quickens my heart; God quells my hunger. Blessed be His holy name.

• 12 Days of Penning
• A Colossian Crystal
• A God-Thing
• A Godsend
• A Heart Half Full
• A Kingdom of Priests
• A Leg Up, Down
• A Legacy for Life
• A Light in the Darkness
• A Paraclete
• A Place Called Choice
• A Prayer for All Nations
• A Prayer for US
• A Record Traces Ev'ry Year
• A Sculpture I Unveil of Me
• About Face
• Acting in One Accord
• Affirmation of the Father
• Aftertaste
• Agur's Prayer
• America Is Broken, God
• America, the Regretful
• An Exercise in Utility
• An Image Gone Bad
• Answers
• Arrogance or Ignorance
• Artificial Tree
• Be Blessed
• Beautiful Feet
• Beautiful Grace
• Beauty Beyond the Burn
• Because She Needs a Miracle
• Behold, Beware
• Benediction
• Benison - Rejoice
• Berry Fields
• Between Me and My Mirror
• Beyond Salvage
• Bless the Lord, Oh my Soul
• Body Language
• Body, Soul and Spirit
• Breakthrough
• Bridge Builder
• Bridges
• Burning Bridges
• Call to Intercession
• Caught Off-Guard
• Caving In
• Childhood Memory
• Choice Questions
• Christian Riposte on Signs/Symbols
• Christians Use Your Faith
• Christmas Biography
• Christmas RSVP
• Christmas Thoughts
• Cloudless Dawn
• Come
• Corpus Christi
• Costly April
• Crossing My Jordan
• Crusades
• Daffodils Know Why
• Daily Eclipse
• Daniel - Double-Dealers - Den-mates
• David 's Detour
• David Prays
• Dear Santa
• Decorating for Christmas
• Defining Joy
• Demon Dispatch
• dew on the tulip (haibun)
• Do You Believe?
• Don't Take It Personally
• Dust, the Flavor of His Dusk
• Earth Day
• El Shaddai
• Election 2090 BC
• Epistle-ese
• Essential Oil
• Ezekiel's Call
• Ezekiel's Lament
• Fall Tulips
• Fall's Analogy
• Farewell
• Father, Your Way
• Finding Jesus
• First draft
• Flight Plan
• Foot-in-Mouth Disease
• Foresight
• Forgiving Oneself
• Free Grace
• Free-for-all in the Forest
• Friendship with God
• From Pewside
• From the Overlook
• Fugitive from Gossip
• Fully Rely on God
• Go
• God Commands the Light to Shine
• God Loves Her Best
• God Never Sleeps
• God of Mercy
• Gold at the End of the Rainbow
• Good Christians, Rejoice
• Gossip Mushrooms
• Grandmothers
• Great Animals of the Bible
• Great Granny's Blessing
• Hallelujah
• Handicaps of Heart
• Happiness Is...To a Teacher
• Happy Birthday, Caleb
• Happy Holidays
• Hear the Bells
• Hear the Voice of the LORD
• High Noon for Ruth
• Holding On
• Hope Secured
• Hosanna, Help Us
• How Can He Be Both?
• How Great Is Our God?
• I Am All That You Need
• I Am Not Alone
• I Remember When...
• I Thirst
• IMHO (In My Humble Opinion)
• In God We Trust
• In Memory of Dad
• In Your Presence, God, We Pray
• Inner Strength
• It's Snow Secret
• Jabez (a minute poem)
• January 31, 2010
• Jars of Clay
• Jehovah. . . Hallelujah
• Jerusalem, Jerusalem
• Jesus, Our Stimulus Package
• Jesus, the Open Door
• Jonah (rubliw)
• Judah's Best and the King
• July Rain
• Just a Little Taste of Heaven
• Keeping His House Clean
• Learn to Learn
• Lessons from Qoheleth
• Let's Get This Straight
• Li'l Bo Peep
• Life in Christ
• Life-Long Lessons
• Light
• Light from Trundle Beacon
• Light in the Doorway
• Like Him There Is No Other
• Look Up, My Countrymen
• Lord, Have Mercy
• Lord, I Believe
• Loyal Enemy
• Make No Mistake
• Malchus
• Man's Appreciation of Man
• Man's Appreciation of Man # 2
• Many the Prayers
• Maranatha
• Mindset
• Modus Operandi
• Morning Prayer
• Mother's Day Hero
• Mother's Day Revisited
• Mother's Nature
• Moving Mountains
• Multiple Choices
• My Head Runs Circles
• My Hometown
• My Legacy
• My Moment of Silence
• My Wants upon Your Time
• Mystery Revealed
• Naptime Music
• Navigating the Stairs
• Not So Remote
• Notice, Observe
• November's New Normal
• Ode to David
• Ode to Our Lord God
• one plain vanilla ice cream cone
• Orchestrated by Love
• Orison
• Our Lord Sovereign
• Out of Sync
• Out of the Pit
• Passing Thoughts
• Playing Santa Claus
• Points Pondered and Penned
• Praise Triangles
• Pray for the Peace of the U.S.
• Prayers and Pray-ers
• Precious Promises
• Prisms
• Pro-verbs
• Proceed with Caution
• Redemption Gained
• Reduction in Force
• Researching the Riddle
• Reshaping the Plea
• Resolved
• Rest Notes
• Royce's Choice
• Salvation
• Searching? Try Christ.
• Self-Consciousness
• Sell-a-bration
• Settling the Score
• Shall We Dance?
• She Believes in Him
• Short Biography
• Silence Mourning
• Sister's Day Out
• Slipping and Sliding
• small town
• Sometimes, Somethings, Somehow
• Soul Food
• Spider's Purse
• Spring Is Coming Soon
• Starless Night
• Stars Re-Appear at Susa
• Stating My Peace
• Still Hungry
• Stock of Jesse
• Stone Called Blarney
• Stop and Offer Prayer
• Storm
• Strange Beauty
• Strange February
• Stray (for Everett)
• Suff'ring Servant
• Summer Hibernation
• survival
• Sweet Little Girl Child
• Sweet Peace and Joy
• Taking Mom's Place
• Taste and See
• Teach the Children
• Teach Us to Trust
• That Still, Small Voice
• The Bagging of the Leaves
• The Battle Belongs to the Lord
• The Blessing of the Bands
• The Book
• The Cauldron and the Crucible
• The Christian Belamour
• The Cry of a Thirsty Soul
• The Door Disclosed
• The Great I AM
• The Just Shall Live by Faith
• The Law Is Broke
• The Lord Does Great Things
• The Lord Is Near
• The Lord Is Our Comfort
• The Lord's Prayer
• The Message
• The Mystery of God's Will
• The Privilege of Prayer
• The Prodigal of Acts
• The Race
• The Seagull's Call
• The Sign of the Cross
• The Snow Cometh (haiku)
• The Spirit of Christmas Lives On
• The Tribal Dance
• The Unbridled Path
• The Valley of Baca
• The Well-Dressed Thinker
• The Winning Walk
• The Zulu Coconut Speaks
• Then Spoke Our Lord
• Then There Was Light
• There Comes a Day
• There's a Secret in the Air
• These Things I Know
• Thimblerig
• Thirty Days Hath September
• Three Faces of Paul
• Thy Will Be Done
• Time Scores, While Some Sleep
• Tough Love
• Tracking the Tulips
• Transporting Thought
• Tribute to Truth
• Tribute to Two
• Trinity
• Triple A (AAA)
• Trust Assumes that Truth Matters
• Truth Bound by Neglect
• Twelve Stanzas of Christmas
• Two Minutes with Peanut
• Two Triolets for my Man
• Understatement (Pandemonium)
• Upheld
• Vacation Spot
• Valedictory Salutation
• Valentine Exchange
• Visiting Hours
• Waiting on God
• Wake Up America
• Waking Up
• Wants Upon a Time
• Wasted Grace
• We Lift Up Our God
• We Must Not Forget
• What Does the Lord Need?
• What If...?
• What Is Beautiful?
• What's in a Name?
• When to Pray?
• Whence the Rose
• Whispers, Moment by Moment
• Who is My Neighbor?
• Why is it Christmas?
• Wisdom Personified
• Wish I...
• Wonder Well, for Such Is Wisdom
• Worship
• Worship 101
• Wrestling Match
• Writer's Block
• Ye Old Roman Road
• You Are God
• You are the Lord God Most Holy
• You Shall Know...