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Stop and Think Caveman

Stop and Think Caveman

Once again I come out of that dark pit I call my cave, after looking out through my peephole with my narrow view of which I find so comfortable. You may ask why do I come out and have this narrow view of the world or just focus on only this one point alone. Well the truth is there are many sides, but I have been the advocate for all sides before and it just does not work. You still stand still like the rock soup that scientist clam we came from (evolution) of which I my friend believe that God created me. Well if this does not do something to move you to get off the fence and choose one side or the other. Then you people will never be anything but rock soup and evolution is true.

I have seen myself go in the military not once but three times, from 1979 to 1982 US NAVY and then again from 1984 to 1988 US ARMY OCS and then again 2001 to 2002 the NATIONAL GUARD. I never saw war because what I saw they did not call it war they called it a disturbance, yeah right! I was taught that you had to be but one thing and that was Gun ho, a go getter only one speed and that is on the military on and nothing else. I was and still am just doing things one way and never taught to do it any other. I believe that every service man should be compensated for his service no matter what his or her dispassion may be after; there are things that are done in the name of peace that just does not compute in the human remains that we who have served take home to our loved ones. I can show you the scares that remain, if you could look into my mind and electronically detect the difference in then and now, but I am afraid that I can’t. If you were to ask some or all of the service men what happened they would not be able to put it into words what is wrong with them or how they feel and how people still look at us strangely, but I am learning slow, I am.

The pictures that come back with us, the service man are not as accurate, just as they look! You see compassion but you don’t know how it got there, you see the hurt and sometimes the anger but you did not see the steps to get to those places. Man was made to love one another to hold the hand of each other not to just take lives; we do love and we do help but too few to really mention and most of the time it is after the damages are done. “I love my neighbor,” words that we should right here not just take us overseas to do? No! We should do that anyway but after we have done well to the man or woman right next door to us in our neighborhood and in our streets. Maybe if we did then we can see that when someone comes back from the war and things are not right we could help, just that would have saved my friend’s life, for 16 years he suffered and then died alone in his home, he fought for peace well now I guess he has peace now! These pictures only show some of what happens; inside these men they will forever be dealing with this and you will never ever know what in inside. And after when we come home we sometimes bring back the war and what we are trained and how we are trained to deal with this and sometimes it just does not work with life, and there is no one to help us, to bring us back or can they even bring us back once we leave? That is a good question huh? Well the end result may yet be waiting to be explored and the victims that we send to war may not be the victims of tomorrow.

Once the door is opened it is a process

Once the door is opened it is a process

I have found that the life I live is with less burdens and stress. Please don’t get me wrong, I have problems but they are only problems if that is what I make them out to be. First of all I believe in God and He has my attention all the time, so if I do this right then I benefit from first understanding God and how my needs and wants fit in this whole adventure that I have taken on.
The life at first is not easy but just like riding a bike you fall a few times and you get back up the question that we have a tendency to ask is “wow! does that hurt bad enough to make me not get up on this particular journey again?” instead of asking the question “why have I opened this door and what is it I am trying to gain (always reaching for the goal) there is a number of positive questions that could be asked that would be putting you back up on the horse again. I used that as an example, but I hope you get the Idea. This road of a Christ like walk is one with misunderstandings and more misleading; not on it’s own but has help from people who would like to see it’s down fall and also those who do not really understand the walk at all. Then there are those who are not willing to just obey the word of God, but that is what I think! Because of the majority of ample discontented people who would rather just pass up this great opportunity to serve a God that proves himself to be worthy all the time; but the Idea is to read the book for yourself, get to know what it says for yourself!. The idea of any said faith is to know what is the principle foundation and how to use this foundation so that you may benefit from the walk you are now investing in and eventually be able to help another follow that path in which you have come through and found peace. I must say that most religions or faiths have a dirty side; that side which you wish never existed or people would just forget.
It is a hard thing to forget the horror that these misunderstandings or the bad Ideas have left behind, that now have left a scar; because some men had the wrong idea in employing the wholesome teachings of our savior and lord Jesus Christ, and how God loves us or what God wants from us. I love to talk about the Apostle Paul, and as a matter of fact the whole bible and the men and women that it talks about excites me as if I was still a boy listening to the bible for the first time. The words that come to mind are God is good. It is the goodness of God that has brought me here at this hour and time, He had been watchful over me and many others as well, when this world unfolded itself and cause much hurt and misgivings to many, I was spared the sufferings of death and harm; the foundational skills that was employed was a praying mother at all times.
My mother was and is a prayer warrior, a woman that has been through the odds of me coming out alive in so many situations too many to mention at this time. But the focus is that this walk has obstacles, it has snares and all sorts of deceptions and could very well be the cause of your rejection or disbelief in the word of God.
I will somehow tell you about the things that I go through and have gone through over the years and we will walk together through this modern day mystery and reality saga and I hope as I learn you do too but most of all I wish to have you give me feed back so that I may evaluate myself and become more of the word than to stray from it thanks for this opportunity. Now I do not know who this thought comes from but I was told this and I hope this is the exact words that the writer used and that it does not cause conflict in your mind but shows you your purpose in this world and how important you are for God’s word to be told with accuracy and purpose.


God has no hands but our hands, to do His work today. He has no feet but our feet to lead men to His way. He has no tongue but our tongue to tell men that Christ died. He has no help but our help to lead men to His side. We’re the only Bible this careless world will read. We’re the sinners’ gospel; we’re the scoffers creed. We’re the Lord’s last message written in deed and word. What if the line is crooked? What if the print is blurred? What if our hands are busy, with other works than His? What if our feet are leading, where sins’ allurement is? What if our tongues are speaking of things that Christ would spurn? How can we hope to aid Him and hasten his return?

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Overall piece by GtW o8-31-o9

If not for her then.........

What will you sacrifice yourself for or whom? True love is sacrifice.


If not for her then…….

I have been in this corner many times before,
When the devil and his minions try desperately to even the score.
I have waged war with him over the years
And my God had to tell him “don’t kill him but you can bring him to tears”

So my journey has been set and my mother there in prayer,
She was keeping me alive for battles, but I was not yet aware.
I know that I have been spared the agony in my own life and the pain,
And you have saved my unworthy life again and again.

But today I am kneeling before heaven with only one plea,
God save my daughter’s life and if you have to please take me!
She has dodge a bullet or maybe two,
I have lived three life times and committed more crimes, please see with me and just let her go.

I know you said to reason, but lord I am so slow,
I would not know how to convince you but this I do know.
Your will is above me and I must obey,
So I will live out my days and my life I will fill with all of your praise.

I know the story of Hezekiah and when he turned to the wall,
I don’t want to disobedient so respectfully Father that is my call.
You are my Father and I said I will obey,
So why my lord does my daughter have to pay?

And if this a test of which I do not understand,
I am your humble servant Father talk to me and please take my hand.
So if this be your judgment, Father I still have one more cry,
Save my poor daughter from this; it is my crime, so if not for her Father then, do it for me.


By GtW o8-29-o9 cc

Hearing The Call

Hearing the call

The world has many roads that echo with the call to do something and for some they hear absolutely nothing, tone dead, deaf, they march to a drum beat that neither moves their feel to a different drum but not even a heartbeat. That is where I do not desire to be, and God please help me, if I hear no beat at all.

So you walk the streets and every where you can see people, things, and so many things out of place or out of order, something tells you that this should not be; reality says that this is what it is, now the war in your head starts and it is such a constant thing for you all your life. With this urge to just do something, you don’t know! but it looks out of place and does not feel right and it does not even have to happen about you it could be someone else. For the love of my Father in heaven why is it like this, and I know that I could not be the only one who thinks this way (that is what you say to yourself). But life goes on till it hits you and then you say I give up this has got to stop, I am going to do something and I don’t care what the consequence are; I am going to make a difference. Then you find yourself in the fight to just do some good thing, then that is all you see yourself doing for the rest of you natural life, Wow! Isn’t this great but have you asked why you? And were you born with this? Where did this urge come from?
Wow what a thought what a deep thought and where does this lead it leads anywhere, but the thing is where did you begin? Begin with the devil then you would not have a good end why well first it is a thought of self and you end with self and alone to put it simply. But if you start with God then the table looks so different, you would think of others and end with a slue of people behind you and ready to take your cause as theirs. I will briefly explain, we are made in the image of God, which means that we look like Him but are empty vessels from birth. Now if we fill ourselves with the things that are of God then we will tend to give of ourselves as Jesus did and love the ways of God. On the other hand if we fill ourselves with evil then we will live selfish lives and take what we can and look for our self like the devil does and do the things he does. That is to say that God calls all of us to be good Godly men and women but we can look His way or look the other it is our choice but we are all called but who do you listen to and obey?

Please enjoy this gift of a thought that I have put into a poem of my call and the sound decision I made given the call. With lots of love and understanding I hope that God blesses you as he has blessed me with a capability to hear sound and recognize His call and then to obey Him.











Call to obey

I now lock the door, make sure it is tight, I sit up straight and start to write;
My words don’t flow as they once used to.
Then the battle roars, for thoughts which I had previously ignored,
They were only bits and pieces, that sounded nice, but now I think back they were all real nice.

I am a writing fool that is always trying to change some rule,
My only addiction is to write all kind of thoughts, weather truth or not I will even write science fiction.
I have wandered far deep into the minds of others who have gone before,
They have set the tone of writing and even more.

I will always be in this fight to wrestle my thoughts and just write, write, write!
So in my dungeon closed in darkness, if I condition myself well,
I can see the light that leads one out of hell.

I hope one day my purpose be, to write a psalm that will help men see,
But if I be short from my goal, my hopes are that the Holy Spirit takes hold.
My quest is not full of danger and excitement, you have to called and then sent;
I did not argue when I heard my master’s voice, I obeyed as if it were my only choice.

And now as a writer using God’s good sense, I wait for Him when even writing a smallest sentence.
So my thoughts on all of that when it comes to the end of the day,
Ever hear from God just say yes then Obey!

By Gtw o8-29-o9 cc

The last Stand

The last stand

There, at the bed he made his last stand,
There had not been a war he had not seen or a battle he had not won.
He had no more family and just only one friend,
It was made for him especially; it was his old wooden gun.

They made it through the wars and some mean battles too,
Side by side they moved as one but they were really two.
They respected each other as good mates should,
And when they got their medals, “at attention” that is the way they stood.

The two were inseparable as joined at the hips,
One never left the other when they danced they, both took a dip.
But the old guy was fading as if he would die,
If you knew them at all, then this would make you want to cry.

They were humble to the core I saw them fight with my own eyes,
No harsh words ever came out his mouth, let alone no lies.
And through pain and injury he would keep up his fight,
With that dear old riffle, he came out shooting all through the night.

His wars are all over now and he seems out of breath,
But that smile on his face I will never forget.
As he looked up to heaven and asked the dear Lord,
“Permission to approach the deck and then, May I please come aboard?”

But there was sadness in his eyes when he said “may I please say a word?”
I have friend who has been loyal as any friend should.
There are no more warring but he held up his end
He isn’t human but made out of wood and he is the old man’s only friend.

He has seen me through earthy battles and we have never been apart,
I would like to take him he is the center of my heart.
But the Lord simply said no! And he gathered that he would,
Because there are no more warring in heaven everything there is all good.

By GtW o8-29-o9 cc


sometimes we have good friends and we want them to go where we will or even get all of the things that we get too, but the truth is some of us will not get into heaven because we are not living to the standards of God himself and we will not get by the gatekeeper and the unrighteous will not come. please think on it if you know or have a friend that you love then love him or her enough to pray for him and his or her salvation. That my friend is your job once you are a christian love everyone into the kingdom of God.

By GtW o8-27-o9 cc

Keeping a constant pace

Keeping a constant pace

Well when I was watching the Olympics last year, I who have been an athlete in my own right in many sports saw things accomplished by some amazing young people. They had put their lives on hold to constantly day after day practice their sport no matter how hard the task or the injuries they got, they put themselves to the test and were now participating in something that they worked for all their young lives to get a once in a lifetime opportunity to be in but also to make their mark. Now there are only three spots that are rewarded on that day gold, silver, and bronze now there are no consolation prizes for not placing in the top three and most people will not even remember your name and the books will have you maybe in it but it was not about you, you did not place!

Is there a prize for second place? Or is there only two places you do or you did not? Well I am afraid that the answer is simple and complicated but it is going to take a lot of what we need more of. God has no second place but we humans don’t know who and should not have the condemnation on us if we are living the life of Christ (for purpose of understanding we will call it living the Christian life). I have walked a life that was with the understanding that there was no forgiveness in God but more over no forgiveness in man and had a wrong concept of love. I did not believe that it could ever be a time that one could be dismissed from the burdens of their past. The wrong that you did someone saw and they were going to remind you of it, over and over again.

Now with that as the theme for life we all have no future because we would be bombarded with the past all out life and hope just would not ever exist. But there was a moment that I sat with God and found that I am set free from those things that man will hold over your head and constantly remind you of all your skeletons that you are hiding away in the closet. The truth is no more! We do more damage to ourselves and out future when we do this to ourselves, so stop now (it is a lie from the Devil himself) it is an act of none forgiveness when we keep this over our head or even when we let the world speak that into our life and we sit and believe such things. If you know Christ like I do or even better, then you know that forgiveness is the air that a Christian should breathe in and exhale. Once we have taken the Job of being a Christian we don’t have a choice but to do the work of a Christian, as God said to do, we are now under the orders of the High command God Himself, through Jesus Christ His son. So like any Good soldier we practice day by day our art to perfect it and that when it becomes time each day we have to use this art; without second guessing ourselves it is now second nature to us because it is in our heart and that is what we live everyday.

There is an everyday test, and we go through over and over till we get it right, we should be ever so vigilant on the fact that keeping ourselves in a state of readiness so that self condemnation does not make us weak and vulnerable, it is the most liberating thing that we can do for ourselves and for others as to set them free from that which they are already forgiven. The thing is to remember at all times; we are not perfect and should pray for our own flesh to come in line at all times and when we see others out of line doing the same thing having self-condemnation, pray for them as well as for yourself. The magical thing is that if we do this everyday for others, I mean always look out for those who are not doing as well as we and be always willing to sacrifice ourselves and what we have for others God will give you one of those three medals Gold, Silver, or Bronze and the ultimate reward is heaven and there are no other places. So we do what it takes or not and the choice is yours heaven or hell. The fact is that your sins are already forgiven and you now need to accept Christ and then walk the walk, or stay as you are and see what happens (life with God and Jesus Christ or stay in filth and die eternally in the lake of fire) I rather the eternal life, I just hate to get burnt for a long time. I wrote a poem that talks about forgiveness and letting go the past and embracing the future that God has for all of us I hope you like it.


No Condemnation !!!!!
yesterday has been forgiven



Yesterday

They say that yesterday is in the past, but somehow yesterday last and last.

Will I ever have my hopes and dreams?
It’s depressing not seeing these things.

I wish and wish my life away,
I am haunted with thoughts of yesterday.

Renew your mind the Bible says,
For what and why, I criticize!

Because of yesterday I have no hope,
Because of yesterday life is no joke.

Yesterday! This is the past,
But why do we make the memories of it last and last!

It is nice to know what the future hold, of moments bright, more precious than gold,

So I delight my time well spent, on my knees in God’s presence.

Now that I am ever so bold, in Jesus’ arms I will never grow cold,
I have God in my life, and he is in control, yesterday’s story will no longer be told

I seek my fortune there in God’s righteous fold!

By GtW o3-17-o3

What do you believe??????

I am proud to announce to the world what I believe and although it may sound a little strong, please be of sound mind when you read this and find out why I am so focused and why I am standing on this rock instead of the one that you are on. I hold these truths to be self evident for the time I took to read the word of God with the intent to understand His word and to look at it with an open heart. I express myself not to hurt anyone but to give an absolute to what I believe and because this is what i have come to the understanding of the word of God and that I should not compromise God's word and for each time I move closer to God I should be firmly placed on Hid word and not just on my own understanding as the bible says. I have taken the time to look through the bible to see why God looks at things in such a definite program. Well He sets the path and He sets the conditions and He is God not us. And I intend to love the world forever in the manor that He, God says to do it and walk the path of His choosing not my Own. May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight oh lord my strength and my redeemer In the Name of Christ Amen.

Now I release to you what I believe.




I believe

I believe in the God of Israel,
the God of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob and of Moses.
I believe in Jesus Christ the son of the living God, Jehovah,
who made all that is!

I believe that the Bible is complete,
and it is the inspired word of the living God.
I believe that the Bible is the only manual,
designed for man; to live an upright and righteous life.

I believe that Jesus Christ came, and died on the cross for the sins of man.
I believe that Jesus Christ showed us the path; to live a holy life.
I believe that there is only one way to heaven,
and that is through the lord Jesus Christ.

I believe that Christ left clear instructions for us,
and that is to love one another,
and also encompassed in that is the Ten Commandments.
I believe that any man, who does not obey the Ten Commandments,
does not love God.

I believe that God makes no mistakes and leaves nothing to chance.
I also believe that God’s word never changes,
I believe it has been that way; even before time.

I believe that there is a heaven and there a hell,
I believe the answers to our questions,
lay in only one place; and that is the King James Bible.

I believe that any man who Questions my God,
Has never sat with Him and spoken with Him in spirit and truth.
I believe that everyone knows there is a God!
The truth is that they do not know His name, Jehovah, the God of Israel.

I believe that when one truly knows Jehovah God,
and looks in His eyes; they will fall to their knees.
I believe that this should be a Christian’s only pledge.

I believe, that this poem (I believe) was inspired by Jehovah God,
And written me.

by GtW o2-o2-o7

looking for that good man! A man's prospective.

Looking for that good man! A man’s prospective.

Wow! An epiphany (the light bulb went off inside my head; today got up and I just wanted to give everything I had away. All my earthly possessions, all of it) stop! Rewind this, not give all but most of it; Ah well, just a little of it, well see me tomorrow and I will tell you what I really mean (that is more like it). Well that is the way most people look at giving, they will not give it their all; they would hold back something. Because they have been hurt or don’t think that this is the right thing to do. Yes! I will say it. Us Christians too we don’t give our best all the time. We tend to hold back for whatever reason.
Sorry I can’t live that way! I will find myself giving from the heart and the first thing that comes to my mind is what God has impressed on my heart. Then I would try to fight God fearing that I made a mistake. Well I too have to adjust just like a lot of my fellow Christ follower, to stop and just do what God places on my heart; because the very minute that we take another look, we tend to change our mind and then that is it. (We have lost the battle and we are not what we say we are anymore!) Hard but true, there is supposed to be that part of God in each of us Christ followers, which Jesus left for us to finish his work; so that if we let Him do the job, then with our practice we will let the Holy ghost do His job and Christ will do the rest. I know that sounds easy and for some people it is, yes we are human that is why we need help.

There is a good thing to remember at all times that God is always there with us in our pursuit of being like Christ, but we just need to read the scriptures and follow them. Please don’t listen to the he said she said; always read the bible for yourself because when you see the scriptures for yourself it does make a difference.

I have seen men today and we are so lost and women don’t even know if the things they say are true or possible for us to do. I have found that I too have struggled with the man that I see and the man I am and the man I want to be or should be. What a struggle the thing is we have all the fix it books and do it this way books and they become the best seller then fade away into the mist of darkness. Well! There goes virtue out the door and in the trash. Please men look at a book that has been on the best seller’s list for ages and is still there and has changed the lives of so many. If you want to be a prize, then do what prize winners do! Read the bible, keep it in your heart and be the type a man that loves from the heart and soul. Show it in your every action and have God to be accountable to He is greater than you and you live up to a higher call at all times. You will find that you are not perfect but you live at the no compromising zone and you will always be respected for that a man of class. You will find it is easy to love all the way around; your wife and your children at home and the ones who you call your enemies, your co-workers and boss and friends, your neighbors and your church members as well. I am not saying that they will all like you but it would be easy for you to love them.








Labor of my love

The curtain fell today my dear, and the kids are out of school,
I had some laundry to pick up today is that something that you could do?
I think you are over burdened dear so I will put the dishes up,
You are not feeling good to night; there is tea down stars I’ll bring you a cup?

I love to do the things you ask in your eyes; sweet there is so much love,
I’ll wash your feet and rub them every night before you go to sleep.
I worship God each and everyday and He told me the key,
To treat you with greater love, that He given to me.

I will take the garbage out, after we all eaten,
I will tuck the children and you to bed before I end my day.
My first job is to God the Father and all that He has asked of me,
Then to you and all the kids I must provide for daily!

The next day off to work I’ll go to do battle with life,
Though countless hours I will sweat and fight; just to make things right!
And when I come to get some rest I’ll look into those eyes,
And know that my job has just began I have to love my wife.

I see this as no job at all, but doing things just right,
A man may do all the things you ask; and do it every day.
Though some may say that I am over worked,
This is just a joy for me to do, just the labor of my love.

By GtW o8-11-o9 cc

Now what next?

So what is next?

I opened the door and to my surprise I found an unopened box on the door step, so I was extremely glad to see it; but the thing is, I was expecting it and it was on time. Now what if you are not expecting some thing and you were not prepared for that thing? Would you have that joy when it came? And really take it one step further what if it was something that you did not want to happen what if this thing was even something that you were warned about? Well in that case this unwelcome guest may cause you some pain or hardship and would be something to deal with. I know that you have had some of those but really what do you do? What do you say at that time when you knew this was a possibility! Kind of hard to deal with at the time it happens.

Let us look at something close to home and say if you were to die today this very minute. What next well there are so many thoughts on what next, but does anyone know and really what do you even say to something like that? All kind of things like you got to die sometime! And the most famous life is short and you got to go sometime, so live life to the fullest! Wow! That makes a lot of sense, yeah I know because I used all those and had my answers all in a row; but get this one experience is the best teacher so I am going to do it all. That kind of makes me laugh when in my life I have been in four major accidents and have survived them all, did I mention that I also had a three thousand pound car fall on my chest? Well I got stories don’t I? No I have only one story and that is I have been blessed, I have friends who in just one incident their life was wiped out and that was the end! Wow! Lucky! Huh? Bad things happen to all types of people everyday and it does not respect money, clan, ethnic group, or any part of the earth that you maybe. These things just happen and now what? each one of us have just the same chance to die in bed or out in a storm or even giving our new born baby a kiss good night. True! Well now do you life in a box or do you life the best life possible always doing the best we know because all the plans we have made may not even come to being. I choose to love the people in and around me to the best that God has instructed me. And the enemies that want to be my enemies, well they can be what ever they want I will not be that to them I choose to be a lover of men and women (people). I will forgive before I have to, I will give from the heart, I will do before I am asked, I will help whenever I can, I will not make religion take control of the good that is needed at the time I hold myself to a higher call and God, Jesus expects that of me. Then the day that I die I would be ready for anything that pops up on the door step and will not be surprised because I would be ready for anything good or bad.
So I am not afraid of the curtain being closed and the music stopped because I have being doing what I am called for and all mistakes are rectified with the Father. What is your stand today?















The final Curtain

There is a moment in time,
When we all face the final curtain!
Where do we go from here?
Are you ever certain?

The question had toyed with my mind;
This left me totally blind.
The were times I went without direction,
Makes me see I need to make a real decision.

My heart it needs to be plowed;
To remove the disease and the infection!
But how could I have known this,
With out those with deep conviction!

I am so thankful now,
For the unction of the spirit;
That got some one’s juices flowing,
Look at me now I am just growing!

Now this is one thing of which I am certain,
I will be ready before the final Curtain.

By GtW o2-11-o1 cc

Tinsel Strength

Mathew 5:43-48 truth about love




Tinsel Strengths!

There are many ways to love you and it shows, for a bit of truth you love you so much that you would not go without a few days meal unless it benefited you. Oh! Guy, please! Do not say that, I give to others and to people in need. I give my church money on Sunday and I help out at the neighborhood food bank and see to the sick. So there you see I love people besides myself. I do that too, so let’s drew straws for who will choose to die first when the worst comes, are you ready? No I will die for you any day of the week and that will not change no matter if I get the longest straw. Well that is not fair it should be according to situation, not just like that. Well that is what solders do they have made up their minds to fight and pay the ultimate cost for you and some of them don’t even know your name, and they don’t care if you like them or not.

I know this kind of man all too well, I joined the Navy and had a fire in my eye that was not to do anything but be a military man. I wanted to be a man of honor a man that had ribbons on my breast plate, which said that I was not afraid to die for my belief. But the action was not close enough so I tater joined the Army and then at the age of forty I tried to see if this body would make the grade, but my body was torn and tattered. I know the kind of man who says I will give my life for you any day no matter the circumstances and no matter the time you are worth it to me.

Well God test that tinsel strength and integrity everyday and our performance is measured and we should be increasing this strength as we have it tested and need to build it up. I have seen those who love them selves too much and make unnecessary compromises for what? Stand on the principals that you believe love people enough that you would not only help from your excess but sometimes give to those who are in need more than you at the time. It is ok to sacrifice that is the cure element of love and giving is the best part of compassion. And hate just does not have a voice when you do things without selfishness, Wow! that was so easy to say but took a life time to do. I must say that I am learning to love, and most of us are too but it means that we all have to look at love differently and change our minds 180 degrees around because we don’t even have a clue.








Accountability!

There is a place that my God has taken me,
Not just a place to say that I’ve done well.
But a place of great responsibility,
“That’s what Christ said” and we should be.

I stand here accountable,
To help my brother to be free!
To teach him all the things,
That Jesus did teach me.

Not just to feed the man,
But also to hold his hurting hand;
To stay right there with him,
Till alone, he can stand!

I know, I must be always forgiving,
And I know my brother is just a man.
The bible says we are all sinners and there is none righteous, but only one.
But together we can help each other out, and then we have won.

So my friends just like a minuteman,
I am ready and waiting, Just to do the best I can.
Remember please! That I am only human too,
Yet still, I am always eager to give a helping hand.

To God I give the glory,
For He had made me who I am;
I am his servant forever, till the very end.
He makes us all accountable, to all the people that we befriend.


By GtW o4-o8-o7 cc

This man’s cry to God

This man’s cry to God

I found myself on my knees looking on the ground; face down lips almost in the dirt and not one care on how I would look when I raise my head. and I did want to lift my eyes to look in the face of who was in front of me, I dare not; I was before God the Master of my life. Has God left me in this place? Or have I moved away from where He told me to stay? Then I awoke to find that it was just a waking thought, one that I have had before but I never told anyone of these type of things before till now. This was so typical of something that would happen to me, I remember when I was a young boy I would just walk and walk while crying and thinking that I was not loved and I was so lonely; Not even having a friend with me and all I could do was cry and cry, and I would cry so much that while I walked I would not even pay attention to where I was going and then found I had no idea where I was or how I got here. Then my mind would think that this was so cool and I somehow went through time and space and got to a place where there were no more tears. Wow this is it heaven (or at least so I thought and that was good) Now that I am a man I found that to reach that kind of place or euphoria you had to do more walking and more crying to get to that place or state, and then you kind of knew where you were, so that did not work after a while.

I have wanted to get to that place lately, I have just wanted arms as strong as a man’s around me but as gentle and soft as a woman and just as caring. Where would I find that and how could that be possible well I have a secret that I will tell you but before I give you that I will show you that you can cry out and hear answers from God and be sure that it is His voice that speaks. Now this is going to take you into a place that you may not want to go but if you don’t then don’t go! if you cannot I am so sorry that you will not get what I have gotten, but I leave that up to you it is your choice. God does exist and He can be found and it is not my imagination that I am speaking about; He is in my consciousness and very real and very much alive, and should not be taken for granted. When we do we find out that there is a point when we hit reality. Then find the very truth of God's existence and find yourself on one side or another, this could be the time before you die or in a life or death situation, that place is where most men have that epiphany “oh God or something greater than I help” How am I so sure, well it came at a time when my body came under so much stress and it leaves consciousness and I was held there by the mere thread of life, my mind or any man’s mind is hanging there in space and time and your spirit is just in waiting and you have given a chance or a choice to make or to look and make notes of what you see, well I was there! Right there and my choice was to live but not the same as I did before.

I believe that God, my God, the God of Moses and of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob had me see something that pooled all of my senses to be aware of His true existence and tangibility, this was a gift from the Almighty God. The meaning may be different for others but to me, it meant that I did not love enough, there was no sacrifice made, so was I really loving people? I had nothing to loose and it was safe for me in my life. Because I did good things; I was a nice guy and I helped people I thought I should true love! (so what was wrong Guy?) just being a little hard on yourself? And feeling a little sadistic? No!
You see I believe that true love has some kind of sacrifice and should mean much more and kindness needs to go a little further, there should be more fruit and growth with love, and a lot of people would agree with me. So what is it all about? It is about true love! Love that has depth and does not lack substance, it is about how to show it and give it and express it and ask for forgiveness because you lack it unknowingly that is the more that I am talking about. I have two poems that I will share with you, that I wrote to give a bit of a prospective of love and how compassion is the giving side of loving but is sometimes the most misunderstood part of love or the part that gets you in to trouble for not doing it right or to one’s liking and some thoughts that you did not show it the way someone the Christian should. Never fear people are people and you will not always please the world but just try your best and read God’s word in the bible and always have a open heart to do as Christ did. The truth is you will get different views but line them up and see what God says. Hey it is a start to living a life filled with the desire to love others the way God instructs not the way man may confuse it to be.

I wish we could just love as Christ loved but I am afraid that even he was slain for doing that and He is deity. You know that is our only fight that if we at least try to do just that and achieve that kind of love it makes us somewhat civilized.


Compassion



Compassion! Whenever I employ it,
My heart leaps for joy.
I am human, with faults!
That I know.

Humbly I express, I care!
Humbly I express, that I am blessed.

Please take my hand, let me truly help!
How else can I show compassion?

I know my faults, and I won’t call out yours.
Please take my hand!
No agenda attached.

And I hope you can forgive me,
For all the things I lack.



By GtW o2-o9-o6 cc




The Seed

There is a Seed that few may know,
That when planted will always grow.
Into the largest tree your eyes would ever see,
Of which, I will tell and you will agree.

As I reflect in my heart and soul,
Of all the things, this seed beholds.
Now! when I tell you, I hope to be right,
The values in it please hold on tight.

This gift from God, is true love revealed,
The Seed that walked and whose hands did heal.
Who’s heart’s light so did shine,
To suffer the tree and save mankind.

The question is asked while this Seed did bleed,
Will you release your burdens and just receive?
I do confess! He will do the rest,
His shed blood will cover you with His righteousness!

No Seed can grow like this one can,
And save the souls of mortal man.
So plant this seed into your heart, with all intent,
This is God’s true plan! Prepare to be sent.

Once delivered please stand back, watch pray!
Be patient, then you will see what you’ve got.
It will grow I swear of that,
And the spirit in it will keep track.

By GtW o1-21-o4

In plain site

In plain site

Life is ugly they say, it is not a respecter of person but that seems to be so many things today. Where to get the answers that would appease each one of us and have us enjoy the cards dealt us or understand that there is not a thing that sin in this world does not touch or will destroy. I know from my own life that it can be hard and life can be cruel, unkind, wicked and sometime just heartless; so how do you prepare for the worst or even just brace yourself for the shock of a lose?
This has become a good center piece for talk shows and political debates; and is some of the reasons to just do something bad. I heard it said once let that be the reason (meaning that it does not matter what the reason is I will use that, whatever it is) Now I will take you to the streets where much happens and no one does anything about it. Media stands on their pedestal and make their own stories and never get their hands in the mess and call themselves just an none bias observer, ha! Well that is just the thing their view is part of the problem they incite riots and feel no obligation to how the out come of a story unfolds; they feel that they so know what the tail is and they do not have an obligation to help or respond with care to each one of the stories that they have incited or told. Well I feel responsible for the things that I say also write and will help to make things right when it goes out of order. Yes I did say that I have to feel something feel responsible for when something goes bad while I am on watch.
Well that is true that I did not cause it to happen but did I stand by while something was happening and I did nothing? Well I have a higher call in life and even sometimes I err and am careless to stop a kid from doing wrong or help someone who fell and needs some help up. Is that my job or your job well yes! It is the job of all to help in some way. Why? Well I live here you live here and it is my home and your home this earth is our home and although you may have that land in your name it always go back in the pot for someone else to use especially if you leave this world and you have no offspring. So you can’t take it with you be good enough to set yourself above the rest and look out for the other guy no matter who he or she is. It is the same story that has been told for eons and it will not change. There are people right in plain site that could use help or a hand up don’t pass them by do something say something and mean it will make a difference is the life of you and the person that you do it to and maybe the world who knows you maybe the last piece in the puzzle to make it all turn out good. But more over than that God is alive and weather you believe in Him or not let us just make sense and do the right thing no matter what. Yes I do believe in God and I know you do too because you are not the biggest on this earth there is someone bigger than you and for that reason just be good to someone else. All this world needs to do the right thing is a heart and a Godly path to follow; it can’t hurt any if you do the right thing?












A servant’s heart

God had shared His plan with me one day, He let me know just who I am!
So I try each day to walk so diligently, and not overstep my bounds.
It is hard to live the way God wants, but He only expects for us to try,
And watch the step make daily, and let Jesus lead our life...

I have learned to love the quest God gave; it is the Father’s will;
That I and others pass through His gates upon that sacred day.
We all should help our neighbors’ first and then work right down the line,
Our efforts should not just go to waste but to all men be kind!

If I could have but only one wish now, it is to correct the things that I have done;
And to diminish the strips upon the master’s back, I helped to kill God’s only son.
I never thought that I would cry this must, when evil left my heart,
My burdens I give to God each day and He keeps giving good things back.

This walk we have is easier now! Than in the days of Norah,
Still we grumble, we fuss and we fight and cry too much for one to bear.
So please we should all some gratitude, Christ has made our burdens light,
So Father could you please extend my life; so I may keep on the fight.

I love my enemies, sister, brother, family and friends, till time when you call me in!
I am your servant here and now I only want for you to win.
I wait for the day you are at the throne; God’s right hand man,
To take me in your arms and hold me tight; and breathe new life in me again!

By GtW o8-o3-i9 cc

Sky

Sky

I lift my head up high
And gaze into the sky

Looking all around me
This is what I see

Clouds go passing by
My thoughts ask where do they come from and why

Oh where did you come from?
Your beauty! The sun does magnify

Your creator must be awesome
Please tell me where do you come from?

Now sun!
I’ve seen you bring the morning
When my eyes you set on fire
And the birds began to sing

Making dewdrops seemed like diamonds
And the sky turns to crimson
Just before the night

Please give me just one answer
And try to be polite

It just makes my heart just wander
Did you even know that the moon
Comes out at night?

The stars are like an army
They patrol the dark night sky
God position them perfectly and
He made their sparkling smile

I have seen lots of God’s creation
And marvel at their beauty
Each time they catch my eye

But none I’ve seen as pretty
As the heavenly Sky
By GtW 07-17-o5 cc



This is the inspiration for this poem.

The sky is the hardest to figure out, and nothing in this world that can make you feel closer to God than that. The things of this world get better as we know whom God is and having faith in Him and seeing all the things God can do. God opened up my eyes and just for me each day He has the sky display the heavens in a harmony not to be repeated twice. The sky is the largest canvas that I know and it is the most masterful fragment of God’s handy work. Please invest in the sky by thanking God for it and the beauty that unfolds inside your heart when it strikes you. God gives it to us and we pass it by because we don’t look up at Him enough. That is what I think of when I see the sky and it sees me.

A new beginning there is value in faith

A new beginning there is value in faith

The big thing is, I was away and my only excuse is that I was hiding. Why? This got too big for me and I was in a hole. Ha ha yeah I bit off something that I did not know was or could get large, but now I am back with a fire and may God helps me to see this through the dark clouds. I had to say to myself, self get back in the ring maybe someone not only reads but strongly agrees or is motivated to do there thing and even feed me some wisdom. I am never above learning more!

The thing is what will motivate you and start your juices going? I don’t know right off but that should not be just something controversial but it can be something that is as sweet as honey! Yes as sweet as honey. I came back because I met someone who impressed me enough that I am back stepping off in faith. You may ask what faith, well the fact that I left and felt overwhelmed and lost my footing is or should be all that one needs to see the faith. It is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of thing not seen. So I don’t argue anymore, I just work towards the goal and have the faith in God that what I lack He will pick up the slack.

You see I have learned that we put our faith in many things that we do not know why it does what it does and we do not reason that I can do the same with God! But it all begins with that free choice and an agreement to believe in that which God and when we find it fails we get up and work on it, and work it out, why blame? That serves no value it just may be us not using the things that is in our tool belt so to speak right or we failed the test which is set to make us stronger and even learn from for the next obstacle that we will have to overcome. Come on people life is learning and if we do the same thing over and over we just won’t move forward.

Faith can be found in the book of Hebrews 11:1 in the bible.

I have a poem that is appropriate to place here and thanks for visiting my little words of wisdom.

Only if you are silent

Silently the misty morning,
Turns the black night into a pale shade of gray.
This! Makes me go wandering,
What my Jehovah God has for me today.

If I be real silent,
And listen really well.
I can hear all of God’s instructions,
Then, all day in my very fiber God’s presence will prevail.

His silent whispers bids me,
To go into all the world.
And in obedience I listen,
To each and every word.

He gives me spiritual leaders,
That is what I’ve come to understand.
I trust what He is doing,
He is God and I am just a man.

When I fall it really gets to me,
So I get up real quickly off the ground.
And as I stand He helps to adjust me,
He breathes new life in me again.

My God has awesome powers,
He whispers softly in my ear.
And always is so protecting,
And shows me how much He cares.

So read your bible daily and keep it in your heart,
Awake early in the morning.
Then listen to God’s quite whisper,
Now your day has the best of starts.

By GtW 11-o6-o6 cc

Now I can see

Mistaken Identity

What time is it when you are up against the wall? I believe it is time to come clean state what is it you are all about and the light of your true agenda! And if you can do this then maybe you have done right to your kind. Wow that is a lot to say and what does it apply to? Well it applies to everything and about everyone. It is the single most respectful thing that each of us can do when we get into a relationship, that is say what you want from the start (I want friendship and for two years or I am a fool and don’t care for you but you are the woman that I can have a special time with and lets just take it from there no deep attachments just flout on the air that we breath in. Yeah right it is not that easy to do we will hurt one another and we will get hurt because the rules have changed over time and no one is making notes and keeping track of this massive movement. I didn’t and like so many others got caught, and hurt women that I never intended to. I can truly say, I am understanding slowly; that there is a Mecca out there where all our questions can be understood and peace resides, but are you willing to go on the journey?

So the journey begins and the tales if any may give us something that should launch us from the past into the present where we can see that the future will be somewhat brighter. The act of dating give way to a slew of unknowns, that has both women and men not knowing what question to ask so that the answer would be satisfactory and not just leave you saying huh? Why date? Because courting does not work, Courting takes too much time and I am not really looking for the long term. But we find ourselves dating and ending up with some results that takes us off into left field and still no answers. Some good news find out what courting is all about and then make your decision, please follow me for just a moment. I have not been an expert but we can observe others and then decide that we don’t wont disaster. Would it not be better to go through spending some time and soul searching before you get into the boogie-woogie and then we have more to deal with and just can’t make a clean break for it? Now look at his poem and see the place that you do not want to be it leaves a definite scar and that is for life. I know that I have put this poem up before but sometimes some things are timeless and will show up in many places this is one of them. And I hold each of us responsible to be true to each other and especially true to the game be Godly, be good, be true, and be up front on all things, hold your head up high and when you speak look each other eye to eye, this is called showing your soul. In the long run all parties involved will have walked away with more not less even if it does not work out.

A sigh of Hope

While in distant memory,
Away from all the noise!
I find myself thinking.
Of the way things used to be.

I never thought, that you would go,
And leave our love behind!
So I made this resolution to myself,
To! That love, be kind.

My friends see me sad and weak,
And wish I would give up this fight.
But my answer is and will always be,
I lit this candle long ago and still it has some light.

I ask my heavenly Father each night I kneel to pray,
To guide my every stride.
He tells me that I am doing OK,
True love! Just never dies.

So if I die before my time, these words I’ll put on paper now,
To witness my last cry of love,
That still with in my heart I had,
Hopes for you and I


By Gtw o1-12-o6 cc

Old Friend

Old friend

Old friend I almost forgot the way you looked and your last name, kind of took me by surprise but! Hey got back on track and I am on track now. And so it was good to have you back in memory, back where you belong. For a while I thought I was going crazy, but I think you can understand, you know I love you but you have been gone for almost ten years now, I miss you and how! I decided to pass your old house; I was in the neighborhood, ok so I came from my new home 3000 miles away just to say hey. I miss you my friend, how are things where you are? Are you still the rising star when you ran the earth? Well I know that you could be nothing less, you were and are the best. I miss you my old friend, you had a great way of looking at this life, carefree but always her in the present, the future kind of slipped through that was what you said. And so you lived moment by moment, day by day, and you enjoyed every hour. I just couldn’t.

I saw your kids the other day they said to my “when you see dad say hey” I said with a distressed sure will, I am afraid they still don’t know you passed away. Boy! We both knew was a big pill. I wish that you could have seen them. Tom is so tall and Ben I can see he takes after you, short and thickset but he seems to be doing best, he seemed more genuine with that request. I miss you old friend, I really do, could have used a good debate last week, had too many problems and you would have taken things off my mind, you had that gift, you were good when it came to things like that. I really wish you had done like me, then I would know that you are safe, but you did not believe. I miss you my dearest friend I miss you, your imperfect ways was perfect just for me and I miss your ways a bit unorthodox, and a bit screwy but that was you, what is a guy to do? I would not be here if it weren’t for you, you put yourself in danger so I could live and then you gave and gave. You gave me the truth of God and that was love. So I could find the truth, and then I found me just because of you, if only your children knew!

Get this my friend had dinner with an old female friend, didn’t even know that she knew you, I don’t know how but then somehow your name came up and then, wow! Some how she was thrilled too, back then you were good too. Wow only if your children knew the real you, it seems as if you really made your mark, and it is good talk. I miss you my dearest old friend, I really do!
I still pray the way you showed me how, it works and how! I really miss you old friend and I will till the very end I love you, and I am almost there in forgiving you for leaving me here. But we are square and that is I guess fair you had no choice in the matter for a while it left me bitter but hey I am ok, I miss you now old friend.



Who Cares?

As I was walking in the slums one rainy night,
On the ground a letter lay in plain sight.
Inquisitive there to see,
What this letter had to say.

To my darling wife it is I,
I have failed you and the children for that I do cry.
I don’t know what I’m worth,
But I wish I were dead and buried beneath the earth.

I had my chance to choose,
I did and now I loose.
In essence I regret,
I hope this letter doesn’t come too late.

I love the little one,
You know of them I had been fund.
I have taken my course to try to be a man,
When I am finish I will make to you the best presentation.

Please kiss my little ones,
The letter now was done.
But as I looked around,
The only thing that I found.

Was the relic of a gun,
And there was blood all around.
So I asked what happened to the people standing there,
And this is what they had to share.

He really tried,
Not just to get along or just to survive
He had a God plan
To become a God fearing kind of man

He was so close…. Oh so very close,
But his wife and kids will never know.
How much this man went through no one knew,
And how he regrets the things he did ….to you.

But do you think that God ever knew?
I think so, yes I do.
But he was too far,
For anyone to help and pull him back through.

But the question is who cares?
The answer, I do.

By GtW o2-24-o9 cc

When The Day is Done is the Job?

When the Day is done is the Job?

Well I got up and saw the face in the mirror and did not like it, for some reason I did not look like the mainstream but I am! What is wrong with me, why do I feel that everything should be the way I see it and that everyone is all wrong? Now if I am not right then who is and why? Lots of questions are out there and lots of answers too. I can only stand on one and that is just what it is but right or wrong I will put it out there and see what you think.

So this journey begins and only you can tell the end because it really ends with you. Your thought matters and really should be heard but by whom and what for? This is it I am black and the other guy maybe a shade different, where do we take this and where do we say when. Because the rabbit trails are many we have to draw different lines in the sand at different times, for a couple of reasons. 1) The times are a changing and there are really different needs to be met. And 2) so that we have firm foundations to take this thing off the ground and not have good Ideas just die. The fact that I am of different color should not matter but it does, I cannot become that which I cannot see or have never been shown, I have to be shown the possibilities and I need to see the grown up me or something like me.

Well it comes back to this (color, religion, sex and so on) all the time and it makes a perfect since if you look at it from this side of the coin. We! From birth do what our parents has asked of us and we believe what they saw as our difficulties to overcome. But that is not all the media and the news have taken over, and said another story and showed us a different view. I am black and there are other colors of the rainbow that make the standards so different and the fight for some are not so clear, even today.

What to do? Well keep on pushing till it does not even matter; push the barriers out of the way for our children. The barriers like inequality and stigmatisms, and start to celebrate our differences and find the true element of love. We need to teach that some differences are there, but we have some same basic needs that are the same and that we are not without failure or fault. We can overcome the draw backs, and that each of us should be given a chance to do so and teach that forgiveness is not just a word, but it is an action that needs to be taken weather we like it or not. And now I would like to say the Job is not done it is just begun and we have so far to go before we rest. Here is a poem that I wrote some years ago.


Hugs

Here I am standing
My arms at my side
Puffing and blowing
Yet ready to cry

I am the least of your
Neighbors
In a small broken down shack
My front door I can’t open
So I enter from the back

I’ve been living alone here
For more than seven years
I saw when you moved in
I really didn’t care

I know where your church is
Just up the road
You never said anything to me
Not even hello

So what if I am real grumpy
And my life is full of sin
And yes I am a little smelly
But that’s the way I have been

Maybe if you had approached me
And treated me like a man
Maybe I would drop my guard
Then I would shake your hand

With just a little effort
Then God’s love can begin
If you say you love Jesus!
Then hug the lesser man

By GtW 1o-22-o3 cc

I would like to leave this one with you as well I think these go together.

Compassion



Compassion! Whenever I employ it,
My heart leaps for joy.
I am human, with faults!
That I know.

Humbly I express, I care!
Humbly I express, that I am blessed.

Please take my hand, let me truly help!
How else can I show compassion?

I know my faults, and I won’t call out yours.
Please take my hand! No agenda attached,
And I hope you can forgive me for all the things I lack.

By GtW o8-23-o2 cc

The Road on which We met

The Road on which we met

Wow! I didn’t know you yet but I could feel this strong magnetic pull, and for years I just knew that there would be someone that would be the just the core of me. I walked for years and met others that would make me regret and want to forget and have reservations but get this life was not done with me yet. I think that I heard a song go something just like this, we have only just began to live white lace and promises a kiss for luck and we are on our way, we have only began! Wow this song set the tone for why I held my position for so long.

One can only imagine who this person could be, and then the excitement comes when you start to think how they would look, and there are loads of flashing lights that carry hundreds of bits of information to the brain and everyone that you meet who even just have a nice personality, are now suspect to this game which you now play. So you start to breathe disappointment into your life, you corrupt your senses and there is a dull flavor to the taste of the opposite sex. Well this is not hatred or anything of such but the state in which you have got take ownership of, but the next day you go on and it now becomes another day and another.

So let’s play devil’s advocate and go to a place or places and imagine for just a bit; you are looking for the one thing that you seem not to have and that is love. We will make the ultimate female and see if anyone can fit, now remember that this is not real but in the mind.
She is kind, but before we go there lets us look and the first meeting and how she looks. This is the gal of your dreams and she looks like something or does that matter? Well! No it does not. But she is beautiful anyway, smooth skin and beautiful eyes and that is all. Oh I might as well put her height and a few more things after all I am going to be with her for the rest of my life and I can not afford top leave something out. Now do you see how this task can become burdensome and never ending? But the truth is that is what this world has done to us and the small things like this and many more prohibits us from doing the one thing which is deciding just to love the person whom God brings before you to love. We think of going out to get that person and what all they should have that the one person who we already have in front of us may be the one. And the sad part is we set ourselves up for failure. I met the one for me and I may have to be patient as to be on time with her but she first loves to give, she love this world and thinks it is beautiful. I am sure that she loves God and wants to live with her heart on the outside, wow this is great and get this she is the most beautiful woman in the world, why because I said so and no one can tell me different, my final answer.

I have being on this road for a long time and have realized that all the women I have had relationship with have great qualities and I was not there to bring out the best in them, nor was I myself the man I am now to show them the goodness that was in me that I bring to the table. So in conclusion this is to say what? I have been to the mountain top and I have seen the best that man and woman can be and I desire to be the best I can be and hope that just one woman sees the same and does it. Then I know that we could one day meet and no matter where she is or how she looks we were meant for each other because the God of the cosmos has a formula for stars like us to collide and make a big bang in our lives. And that my friends is true love, the workings of two people who decide to better themselves no matter what, then making the decision to love people and themselves and then be willing to love another to the end of life’s path. And the path they choose is ordered of God not by themselves and using the laws of truth and spirit to fulfill there meager existence.

The simple truth is we need to all live by higher rules than the ones we want to make up for ourselves, which fall short all the time and leave us lurking in the dark for answers, then end up reading someone’s self-help book that really does not pick you up from the inside. Please if I ever tell you something that I truly believe and it is that we really need to find out what true love is and just do it, and go absolutely crazy doing it to everyone then you will find out the good part of life.

I promise it works, make it a habit and make it stay.
Here is a poem that I hope you like.

HAND ME DOWNS

As I look through the book of old photographs,
My Grandmother looked so dignified, so set apart.
And as I go back in memory,
I smile with gratitude of the things she taught me.

I live a life now with treasured memory,
And use only hand me downs my grandmother gave to me.
She set me straight to look and see,
Prepared me for the world that has come to be.

She use to set us down with this big old bible book,
Said “gather round lets sing some hymns then all take a look.
There was not a day that we ever missed,
She did her job, and then she gave God thanks for this.

I remember Grandpa too just a man for to see,
When I become a man that is who fashioned me.
He thought the world of Christ and what he came to do,
I can hear the hand me downs ringing in my ear through and through.

As a boy I hated all the old hand me downs,
But today I wear them proud and strong.
They are not old rags like the ones I had,
They are the simple virtues that get you close to God and lets you know He is near.


By Guy T. Woods
4/12/04

The Day After

I first want to apoligize for the delay and promise that you would not have to wait that long again.

Your Friend For Life

Guy T Woods Sr


The day After

It is the day after and here come the pain and the very reasons why this day is so insane. Why do we do this every year? I want to bring to light something that may just as well be focused on today, now before it gets too bad or just get worst. It is the day after and we can see clearly the ones who have failed the ultimate test. This is the Valentines Day black hole. I love the opposite sex and one day would like to be reconciled with the true aspect of love and in a Godly way not the way that I see unfolded today. Valentines! Wow it is a big word and has been the very test that has made relationships either die of for most men cringe and die at the task to provide a pleasantry for the ones we love, and just provide a small token of our love for the ones that we claim to love. Now that has been said here goes. Who sets or creates the harmony between men and women and where does valentines come in with the social acceptance of the way that the opposite sex should act when it come to this day. Is there an illusion to us feeling that we could have an advantage in the game of Valentines and how does it play out as a pressure to each person to respond it an appropriate way according to whom? It is easy to see how this day has done so much damage to good people, who with out this day of expectancy would have lead good lives and not have the pressure otherwise. The very next day it is fall for the absentminded guy or gal who did not cross their tees or dot your I, rough! Life does have its way to be unfair but who cares anyway? Do you?
Then way do we penalize each other while we are just getting to know each other Love is a choice and if we do choose then try to live with the ups and the downs and there is always a sacrifice to be made. It would be just sad that because of the day after affect, we disband something good because we were unwilling to face the good and the bad about relationships. I promise! Not to live by the Valentine affect, but to live by another code and that is the road least traveled in life; I will not be moved by someone’s Idea of love. But be moved by an ideology that keeps me accountable. It is one that has made me correct myself time and time again not just to satisfy others but to hold true to a wholesome and Godly path of life which establishes the Christ in me. I will always have open arms for those who I encounter each day and live a life that is always loving mankind and very humbling.
I choose to love so I choose to give of myself and I choose to listen two times more than I speak. It will give me the advantage of knowing what and how much to give. I believe that it is in the listening that one can see or know what to give and if there is a sacrifice in that giving then it is better. Yes the day after is the day that we all dread, to the victor the spoils but if there are no victors then there is a lot of spoils to be had. I love you all because I choose to and I hope that I have set an example for those or someone to follow into a life of good relationship.

Please accept this poem as a step forward into a life of healthy relationships.

The Marital journey

Alas the moment has come,
The time for permanent vows.
To be together, in sickness and in health,
Till death do you part.

Now! On this road, you will find the worst,
But never fear, you will find, also the best.
These are all the moments,
Of the marital test.

You have made these vows, before God and man,
There, lies your support system.
God placed you together, new thoughts to share,
As Man and his wife, his precious dear.

God has set the manual, in the palm of your hands,
Refer to it, as your daily plan.
You are safe, be comforted,
The marital journey is a Godly thing.

Now as I witness, this majestic junction,
I pray for long life, and a lasting relation.
Please! Remember that you will be a symbol,
To represent God, before others and the youth of this world to see.

So when hardship comes, please do persevere,
I too, hold you both as a glimpse of things, someday I should share.
In all, I would like to stand and say, bravo!
Now! Be off and on your way.

Just a gift on your wedding day,
With lots of love; for both of you.

Guy T. Woods o2-26-o6

The Red eyes of Valentines

This black man's thoughts for today

This black man’s thought for today

So I’m sitting here and thinking in my favorite thinking chair in my bathroom “ the John” and just like that it came to me, that all my life people other than me have said what I think and how my race thinks. Well brothers I think I want to have something to say about that and here it goes. No I am not a typical black man and will never be and I wont stand for you calling me typical at all. We have been reinventing ourselves all the time and it took a swift kick in the groin for me to see and accept this. It is insane if you really think of it but we have done so many things in this world and still are we ready? Well the advancement of mankind has taken what we got to give and will not see tat we are not just monkeys but viable part of forward moving parts of all societies. We breathe into this world a sense of goodness that has expanded world accomplishments and been not only inventors but also deep thinking problem solvers. Are we ready? Is not the kind of invitation that should be sent out but lets go now! We have shown how we can be cool under fire and that we don’t just resort to violence as the only arsenal in our bag of tricks, we sing the angry beast away with our music and we have shown that we can love our women till death do we part.

I thought for sure that I had been cursed and that there was nothing good inside of me and eventually I would be passing this to my children and then they would do the same, well where does the cycle stop and the tides change? Thank you my brothers, the buck stops here and our future generations now have a chance to respond to the next set of lies and build up the good response to who they are. I know that for me the aspect of being black means, That I am good and I am the one who sets my course in operation and I call the way this story finishes not another man of another color. I would however like to place this on the heads of our black women the way you speak it is the way it will be, please look into the brother’s soul and practice calling you brothers good Godly things that you want to see in the brother and there will be more good brothers out there for you to chose from. The simple fact is that we need you to see us as good men and I assure you that we will try our best to live up to that. The truth is we can love with the same depth and passion as good and in some cases better than other men can, and we want to. Ask any black man if he would not like to love a sister till death and he would say yes, but it is who and how she is willing to be while on that journey.

The Footprints Great men

The Greatness of Great men comes from tiny footprints pushing a large object to their common goal,
Over a measured time.
With each footprint humbled in spirit and truth,
Echoing grace and possessing a serving heart.
As they leave behind a morel trail of breadcrumbs,
For the future generation to find
so they may make their way back to a place of safety.

by GtW o1-3o-o9 cc


This I think says it all; this is from the eyes of this black man.

It is true

It is true that I love you,
Please let me in what ways.
In the garden when we walked yesterday that was one,
Honey! I loved the way you touched my face and how genteel you spoke.
I do love you.

We disagreed and just like that we made up,
We said and some other stuff.
Then we hugged,
Yeah disagree and still before the sunset we made love.
I know you know I love you!

Love it has been my only desire, my Godly desire,
To love you and you make it easy everyday you please me.
Loving you is immense and I can’t quite the fire.
You are my life, my wife, my lover and my friend,
And I love you, no pretend.

I love you, that is the truth,
I can even smell your hair when you are not there.
Oh honey we can talk and we have been quiet,
Does not’t matter our love is strong and long.
You call me your man and we have no shame in our game,
We are still the same.

I love when you rub my cheek with the back of my hand,
And caress my hands with your lips.
Girl you lift me up and proud to say I am your woman,
Action speaks and loud too,
You never over power me, you are complimenting when you take the lead.
And when that job is done,
You gently place the rains back into my hand.
For that I love you.

I still go crazy knowing that you are my lady,
And the grandest one that I know.
You assist me with my Godly walk,
My lady I so love you!

And even now that the years have said unkind words to you,
We are still in love, and just as strong.
And so when the day comes when the clocks stop,
This love just doesn’t vanish,
I know that I love you and I made a promise.

So for now I will keep on counting the ways!
Its true I do love you.

Jan 28 2009 GtW cc

The man I want to be and will be

The man I want to be

Well! Here I am telling out to the world the secrets of my brothers and of mine once again, I am probably sounding just like a broken record. And I bet this is the sort of thing that goes on and has been going on for a long time, so the thing is, what is new? And why listen? Well I think I have got a different twist to this or at least I think I do. Well I can remember in the past that I never intended to be considered one of woman’s greatest disappointments and so would like say now for the record to all women young and old that I am so sorry. I can speak for most men that we were boys ones and we did not all intend to hurt you nor did our mothers hate their own kind as to teach us to become Dogs as we are referred to as sometimes. Well I say that with a smile because I have heard that we have some really great names for the woman who are not generally liked by men. I do think that they do the good ones a disservice, and I would like to stop the recycling of that karma, I have a mother and I love her and I have daughters too so if I hold a candle to my own and I best be holding a candle to all women. There are men out there who hold themselves accountable for the words they speak and speak well over all women and lift our sisters up, and give them the right to be free from the ugliness of this world. I too believe that it should be something that we all do to each other, and give it back to their brother and even their sisters. I wrote a poem that was a worthy plea for the great opportunity to set not only me free but also set my boys free. If you want to see good men from the pile of men that are here then be positive, speak the truth at all times and be Godly there is something good in that.

I want all to know that I may not have all the answers, but it is not for the lack of not trying but it may be because we had a slow start and may need some time some encouragement to get this thing right. So what do you say friends ladies? And co-partners in this game called life? You can’t loose the worst thing that could happen is, you help your daughters build a new kind of man and they have something good to choose from. But I have something in the next blog to give you ladies I think you will like that. So please enjoy the next few words of the poem, it is called “To Be”.


To be

I am just a man who wants to be
I am only human can’t you see?
My aim is to be totally free
But there are thoughts I must dissuade.

Tell me how to fight the vultures?
That is so embedded in our cultures
Give me “The Book” and teach me right
And lift me up in spite

Look down deep into the Bible’s core
God’s first plan is for man to soar
And we all are what God is about
To help us up not to count us out

I make no excuse for things I did
I repent to God and He forgave
So help me now is my plea
Our men are suffering just to be



By Guy T Woods
02-07-03

A higher Call to respond to

I found that I was caught in a whirlwind today at the tender age of 48 years, I am now so impressed with today's inauguration, that it feels as if this is the first day of my life. Why you ask? well I will try to be as short as possible, I saw a man who was my age and he was giving this country all that he had, and trying to help people that he did not even know or even meet. He did not care who like him, he put himself and his life and his family and all he holds precious on the line and made an oath to do something and try to make this country better. Then I asked myself what is wrong with you me "Guy?" why am I not thinking with big unselfish thoughts? So I found myself challenging me to live up to the mark of my potential, and so I vow to do just that and to seize the day. And in response to that challenge I wrote this poem it is a just recap of this day. And seeing that I want others to go through the same torture as I am, I challenge all, to say what it is that you can do or even aim for that which you can do that would make a difference for someone other than yourself and do something for this country? let us all be the ultimate Patriot.


Inspired to a March

Where were you on that Day?
When my country and the world opened their hearts to grasp possibilities.
When this Nation accepted, the man not just a color;
Where were you?
Where did you stand?

I remember the movement lurking in my heart,
When this journey for me had started.
I remember my thoughts they were so unkind;
I remember today the beautiful smiles on all the people’s faces.

The smiles that said we have moved on,
If only for just a moment,
The smiles that said Equality for every one
Thanks for today!

And for a brief moment young and old, black and white, yellow and red this country had stopped,
To rejoice, to listen, to what this colorless man had to say!

His aim rang clear, to echo words heard around the world,
He spoke to all freemen about their responsibility,
Not only to our selves,
But to our brothers and sisters and our neighbors;
And even our so called enemies.

He spoke on the world economy not just our own,
But the part we play and how all men have the right to be free,
To have good health and home stability;
And challenged us all, to be the best we can be.

He reached out for world peace,
That he will employ good dialog as best he can,
His dialog will not be weak and we fight to stay free
Then he gave honor and thanks to our men and women who gave their lives in the military.

His speech unearthed people in our government’s past,
Even slaves who fought for equal rights and their lives too were lost,
And those who’s journey made this country great;
The battle they fought gave us all the great possibility of which we all appreciate.

This journey had been started before some of us were born,
It has more room for us to build on, more room to learn.
He said for us to conserve our energy and to gain more stamina,
We must give from our heart and be willing to play our part.

I know that this task for each individual will not be easy,
But together we can make it.
We need to see this thing through,
We need to be on our mark, we all need to join in on this march.

By GTW o1-2o-o9 cc

Add a Discussion - iseecolor

Add a Discussion - iseecolor

Yesterday

Why Do people cheat?

Who Carries The virtues of this Country

A call out of darkness

For most of us we have not heard the trumpet of a military bugler call us on station, to get ready for some kind of alert or to be counted and be accounted for. It is necessary for us to always be on the alert, well we were soldiers standing to the ready, I served in three branches of the military, I loved it and I think I was good at what I did, I served with heart.
If you have never been in a war or such then you may not know how to be at the ready; or to get mobilized in a minutes notice. This is the way it had to be for the serviceman and if he was not there on time it could cost a man’s life or even the platoon’s success.
Well! As an American we have duties, and as Godly Americans we have a greater duty and that is to always to be at the ready for a Godly purpose in this country. We are not to be lead by man but by God, and we are to have a great understanding of this country and how it works and take on a special type of Godly Patriotism. God expects us to help in guiding this country back to a state of moral function, God must be there in all things! And we should be so proud as to be ambassador, and be always willing to help this country in any way no matter who is in charge, See what God says the bible holds the key.
I find that we as Christians pay too much attention to who is in the white office; rather than pay attention to the part we need to play as to bring about the necessary changes that would bring this country its best. It is true that if we have in the white office the person that we think would work for our views it would work to our advantage. But it is sad to say that the only virtues that we can expect to get will be the ones that we would have to fight for. I am afraid that Christians have gotten too complacent, and need to get their heads together and know that we are not special anymore. We are like everyone else and we too need to play our part in this country. The day of getting is gone and we can not hold the common men true to the virtues of God. It maybe kind of strong language to say that we are the only care takers of God’s virtue that much is somewhat the truth. Well I say it in this way because some have not lived up to their pledge to God and have shaken the faith of man and now have to regain these virtues or our country is in peril.








Getting up

Let’s write a new book or something like that,
Set the stage write chapter and page.
About the life we lost, a little love and some misery,
Maybe something with God in it! A bit about His abiding love!

Well our fight goes deeper, deeper than I think,
Have we arrived to a Presidential place? Can we rest for just a bit?
Fathers have died; Mothers have had to bare the weight,
We are but only now getting up, up to stand on our feet.

Getting up came from our ancestors and it can’t stop with me,
I think I can pass it on.
They forged a path, and they did fight,
Who are we to stop right now, we don’t have the right!

So come on, yes you and you,
We are all part of this we just can’t stop.
We all should be getting up!

By GTW o1- o4-o9 cc

A Moment of Silence

In a moment of silence

I was at my computer and I had not a care in the world, but on known to me I was about to get some of the worst news. I got a phone call from a very good friend who was once my girl friend, she told me that her father had died hours earlier. This was not what I needed at this time but neither did she and her family, but I knew this story well, I knew her and the man she called Dad very well.
I know that this is not the time to tell you of all the things this man did right or wrong, He was a good family man that I do know. But right at that time the only thing that came to my mind was how much I loved him and that he also loved me. The whole world just needed to know that this was a good man and that he is not suffering in this world anymore. Yes he was ill and not in the best of health but still you don’t think of how fragile life is; you just sometimes take it for granted that the ones you love will live forever no matter what happens. Well it hurts when you are wrong and that God helps and saves them from the pain that they were having, and there I am.
I cried and now that I have my moment to morn to put things in prospective I have to do this by myself, I wish that I could do this with the family, now I am torn wishing that I could be there for my friend and her family. I told her that I am going to put this in written form the way I feel and I was going to memorialize her father. So I worked on a poem that will be the point of up lifting my friend’s father, my father. He would have been my father and I have not let him go I still consider him as my father.

By GtW o1-o3-o9








In a Moment of silence

I stand here in a moment of silence,
A midst all these somber thoughts;
Standing here not knowing or finding the words to say,
Imagining how you feel, at this moment all I can do is pray.

A tear as you go on your last journey,
This I do know.
This man of great worth,
A member of this beautiful family here below;

Hold steady dear love ones and dear friends,
This is just a moment of silence not the end.
Hold your hands over your heart,
He may be gone but he is not lost.

I know I loved him really deep,
I already prayed to God for him to keep.
And he himself repented for his bad and his good,
He did it right as we would have expected that he should.

So dear love ones and dear friends,
Release your tears and set yourself free.
This is a good in the end we all will see,
Shush! let us have a moment of silence, Please!

By GtW o1-o4o9 cc

A Time For Silence

What a Man says Black or White

A Father’s final instructions
(How to be a Man the essence of a walk)

Son I have tried to pass my every essence On to you day by day;
The truth is that like every father before me,
Tries to pass on the tings that helped him through life’s mystery,
Now I am man not perfect but I am he.

Fathers don’t forget to breathes into your very own sons,
The life giving essentials that can only come from the throne.
The way it was done so long ago that would start them on their way.
As my father passed on love in his way ultimately.

And these are the hand me down that was made just for sons!

So now that your journey is about to begin,
I will stock up with the most useful of things.
My son! please be joyful when lining this life,
It is hard enough; so I would like to give you my lord Jesus Christ.

You may not seem to have to use this as often,
But I give you hate for only one thing.
Love each and every man the best you can;
But hate the sin that lays dormant deep with in, it pops up in us and all of man!

This transition I am afraid may take real long,
But I may not be always here to answer questions or your call.
So you may need this as an essential and it may make you strong;
To give you melody to add to your song!

Here is something that has worked for me over the years,
I have called on God when things go wrong and Dad was not here.
God promised to help, to build, and to always innovate;
He promised to be there, He is on time and never late.

Son there were times that I have questioned myself that is true,
But the questions they kept me straight then I know what to do.
It made me look and accept the wrong s that I did,
But most of all I am no hypocrite, I asked for forgiveness and I also forgave.

By GtW 01-02-09 cc

The rules that I pass on to you

So the rules are
1) Love always with God from the start it sets the tone of your heart.
2) Let the things of life never shake your Godly joy.
3) Hate sin with a passion and don’t give up that fight.
4) Be always discerning and try to know wrong from right and if you ever have a question then that is what the bible is for.
5) Give from your heart till it burst inside there is a character builder if ever there was one.
6) Now there are things that may catch your eye, it is beauty and luster that a woman brings, be gentle, be kind, be the complete gentleman of course in nothing else but Godly way for all men and women to know and see. Be Godly first in this life of yours, ask God ever so often but let him find you your wife, let him choose! I know He will do it but be Godly first and let Christ be the head of this life.
7) But most of all; my Dear son, be ever so humble it is a rear quality in this life we live, something I would love to give you but I am afraid that I too am learning. And it will take the rest of my life for me to get that one right. So let us take that one real slow and maybe tackle it together as we both go and you can take over at the end of my life.

So like so many fathers who have gone before me and have taken on this fight, had forgotten something and I can’t remember it now. I am nervous and I so don’t want to get this wrong I want to get it right. So I am having this open door policy here just for you, to call if there is a question that you need for me to answer and if I can I will set you free.
Here is my secret that has always worked for little old me. I have gone to my source and find out answers to the things I do not know, I call on my father in heaven and He has virtues that all through my life I have used and some I may never have to ever use.
Dear God when ever I have a doubt I am glad that I have always seek you out.
I love you son and this I hope you realize, so now I give to you from the dept Of my heart all my treasures I have gained, I pray good fortune, happiness, love and the prosperity of life itself hold on to it dearly and then when the times comes give it to your very own son.
You are my heart you’re my very own son. The Vail is torn and the door is open I pass on to you manhood and Christ will see you through to the throne of God and there please make sure that you bow.
And Son please be good!

By GtW last will and testament o1-o2-o9