READERS WILL AGREE, OUR HEARTBEATS ARE IN SYNC!

"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake up and live! "Bob Marley

Friends, I encourage you to acquire this outstanding literature and include it in your personal libraries. Present it as a treasured gift, the recipient will be delighted. Keep it in arms distance you'll be glad you did! Heartbeats A Journey Through the Soul by Ronette D. Jacobs is indeed a marvelous present and I am confident that readers will concur that our heartbeats are in sync! We are not alone in navigating our way! It's a fact that on each of our journeys we are yearning, seeking and searching for our truths. In those truths we specifically thirst for the living, lively God that will never fail nor forsake us. The author of Heartbeats has birthed an earnest and real literary work that is well acquainted with her own and our humanity and indwelling divinity! Below is a 5 star book review that I've written. The cover of Heartbeats A Journey Through the Soul speaks volumes about this entreating, rich content. Follow your road!

Heartbeats: A Journey Through the Soul

Paperback

by Ronette Denise Jacobs (Author)

As Daryl Coley sang the lyrics Great is thy Faithfulness Lord Unto Me right there in my living room I realized that it was time for revisiting a sacred moment of thanksgiving during my morning devotion. The music softy beckoned and encouraged my soul to navigate the deeper things of life. My answer was to start with Heartbeats: A Journey Through the Soul! Heartbeats reminded me I am many things to many people but more accurately I too am a part of a beloved community of faithful believers. I realized that it was no coincidence that I would gaze upon Heartbeat’s amazing book cover and take a literary stroll with Heartbeats: A Journey Through the Soul by Ronette Denise Jacobs. Her poems caused me to look inward, "awaken" my spirit, embrace forgotten memories, reflect and appreciate her truthful and soulful deliberations. I saw my issues mirrored and surface in Ms. Jacobs poignant words. These soulful stirrings of Ms. Jacobs spoke profoundly about my own private hurdles and yes, many triumphs. I contend that the author beautifully captures our humanity in her transparent accounts, it’s as though she’s standing behind the reader nudging them to not be sidetracked by the familiar but instead to skip, jump, rest, sing, laugh, wrestle if they must. But more importantly never to abandon their momentum. The reader is encouraged to embrace their life's journey and honor the call. Thank you author, educator, innovator: Ronette Denise Jacobs for your literary jewel! We celebrate you and the gift of Heartbeats: A Journey of the Soul, I entreat you to publish more works, don’t stop what you’ have started, you are a voice in the wilderness! Thank you for your earnest accounts. We hear you, agree with you and await your next work! Thank goodness, thank God! Great is your faithfulness!

Transformed by the Love of God, Linda Mose Meadows; Blogger, Motivational Speaker and Inspirational Author of: Destined To Receive: Reflections and Devotionals Celebrating The Love of God (Createspace, 2013) and Blessedness of Believing  A Devotional Journey of Life's Lessons and God's Promises (Tate Publishing, 2007) 

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CELEBRATING LUCILLE CLIFTON

CELEBRATING THE PROLIFIC LUCILLE CLIFTON !

Expired on Februay 13, 2010 at the age of 73

http://project1.caryacademy.org/echoes/poet_Lucille_Clifton/Defaultclifton.htm

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Distinguished Poet, Author, Humanitarian, Poet Laureate, National Book Award Recipient, Professor, an American Literary Giant, Her book: “Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980” (BOA, 1987) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1988. She won in 2001 for ‘Blessing the Boats.’ She was also the first African American woman to win the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

BORN:

Thelma Lucille Sayles was born on June 27, 1936, in Depew, N.Y., and reared in nearby Buffalo.

MARRIED:

In 1958 she married Fred Clifton and together they had six children.



Some of Ms. Clifton’s early work was published in “The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970” (Doubleday, 1970), edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps.

The Poet Society of America will honor Lucille as planned on April 1, 2010, at 7pm at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park, New York.

This prominent woman shook the literary world with her exuberance and honesty.

May her works continue to inspire and leave indelible impressions in our hearts and minds.

We love you Sister Lucille!

let there be new flowering

by Lucille Clifton


let there be new flowering

in the fields let the fields

turn mellow for the men

let the men keep tender

through the time let the time

be wrested from the war

let the war be won

let love be

at the end

poery from: http://www.literary-arts.org/pim/poems/1997/16/

Expressing Thanksgiving & Joy!

Linda Mose Meadows, Author & Inspirational Columnist:

The Blessedness of Believing A Devotional Journey of Life’s Lessons and God’s Promises

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GOOGLE YOUR NAME!

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord,"plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11

Today friends that's just what I did, google my name! Try it you'll be amazed at what awaits you! Then I typed my name in the search box on YouTube to discover my reading of my poem Destiny by Linda Mose Meadows. This reading was at the Word4Word Anniversary celebration at Aroma's Cafe in Newport News. Generally I enjoy writing devtionals, but since attending the Word4Word Open Mics I thought I'd attempt writing poetry. We were challenged to write about "destiny". Look out Nikki, I am here!(Nikki Giovani is one of my favorite poets :-) I'm having a wonderful time actively participating in my life friends! I thank God for the wonderful opportunities and celebrations that God brings my way! I pray that you too are embracing your destinies!

DESTINY
by Linda Mose Meadows

Sharing, Hearing what the Divine has pushed her to believe,
Struggling, falling, crawling, leaning, swaying
letting one cane fall softly to the warn carpet
she reaches for her prosthesis

Before long, standing proudly and then comfortably moving toward her motorized chair
Destiny delights in newly acquainted freedom
No containing her for another neighbor's "dop-in" interrogation

"Energy to spare" is what rolls off wagging, jealous tongues
"She only got one good leg, while the others a stump!"
"She don't sit still!"
Destiny chuckles in anticipation of
Bumpy, cracked sidewalks,
unpaved roads, hard hats and Warning signs!
Secretly it's a delicious challenge, reborn joy, deep down joy
She whispers How great thou art!"

Destiny's mind races
bygone days of dancing halls, reaching for bursting peaches and walking carefree
Kicking up some dust!

She is assured:
"Greater is He that is within me!"
"For I know t

he plans I have for you!"
"You are not forsaken!"
"Those He foreknew He foreloved!"

Destiny witnesses the bewildering stares, gawking, wondering:
"Where she headed?"
Smiling, eyes twinkling
Nods her heart answers,
"I am headed somewhere, the Lord knows!"
"I'm alive, I'm alive!"



Shared In Love--Keep hope in yor hearts,
Linda Mose Meadow, Inspiratonal Columnist & Author:
The Blessedness of Believing A Devotional Journey of Life's Lessons and God's Promises
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