Sugar Mule

Great news today! Sugar Mule, an online poetry magazine, accepted two of my poems for publication! Progression and Uncertain Future. Of course, they won’t be published until July, 2010, but that’s okay. I’ll share a different poem here (a silly one).

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If fear were a crawling
beetle bug monster
sneaking into your room
you would shut all the doors
and latch every window
and chase him around with a broom.

You would seal up the mouse holes
and chase him in circles
swat him with mama’s flyswatter
you would throw him into
the kitchen trash can
imprisoned, for he doesn’t matter.

Now if by chance
fear still exists
this beetle bug silly ole monster
catch him again
don’t let him run lose
tease him with old fashioned laughter.

New Book Finished

My second book has been completed and tested! Yeah! My writing friend, Alesa Campbell taught Jesus, One on One, to a group of Henderson Hills Baptist church ladies. Their feedback has been beneficial and their encouragement wonderful. I thank all of them.

I started writing Jesus, One on One about 8 months ago. During my personal Bible study in Matthew, I looked at what an individual encounter would look like. How did Jesus respond to a person standing right in front of him? As a Biblical counselor, I wanted to know. I learned more than I expected. Jesus treats each person differently. Each individual was unique and he addressed their specific issues in specific, practical ways. No two were alike.

Like us. We all struggle with our own issues and no two are alike. Jesus can address our uniqueness in a unique way.