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Love Lifted Me!When you join an online dating service, you are looking for a girl that you can like even come to love. That girl is looking for a guy that She can like or even love. What you aren't looking for is a girl who would like your best friend or your idea of what the perfect guy looks like or talks like or thinks like. So, in order to find the right girl for you and she is out there, you need to be completely honest with yourself when writing the online profile, during the dating process and beyond.
How Children Can Learn To Write Poetry In Six StepsTeaching children to write poetry can be done if the steps are broken down. Children learn best when it is simple and easily accomplished. Basically all you need to do is show children how to rhyme words and then put them together. Here are 6 methods. SsThis is The tale of two individuals whose paths met as a result of sickle cell disease…
They made it thus far having battled the disease for long :Arben lived to see the day where he would play a major factor in curing Tep(the little kid)of the disease...
What could have ended in a tragedy ended in a happy note: Arben already the chief medical officer (free from sickle cell disease) in top medical facility in the village; and Tep leading a healthy and secure life under his care..
Renewing on the Journey by Peter MenkinReligious and spiritual poem about the spiritual journey by aspiring poet Peter Menkin, who reads this audio version posted on Archive.org. The poem begins with an invocation of kind and says in a direct, simply put way that the body mystical is part of the journey. The final version post on Peter Menkin blog was written May 16, 2001 and begins with these words:
Omega, birth with Paschal
blessings into the Spirit
that is renewing me, how
alert one comes to the body
mystical.
The Melody of the Bible by Peter MenkinReligious and Spiritual poem about the Bible, as it is read in Church. This outloud reading of the New or Old Testament text is praised in the poem. Written by a "Parish Poet," Peter Menkin Obl Cam OSB, the work is also read by the same. These words from the poem's text (which appears on Peter Menkin blog):
lovely messengers, you bring
me to desire the Gospel
words that make new testament...
Christ's Enveloping Charity by Peter MenkinReligious and spiritual poem about which aspiring poet Peter Menkin writes: "Today, Friday, I visited a woman in the health care unit of a retirement home. She asked me for a word, and I gave her these. I am thinking about them today: "For God alone my soul in silence waits;/from him comes my salvation..." (Psalm 62, BCP). The poem I post today is a personal statement about Christ and I hope has meaning for you as a believer, or if not a believer, gives you insight into the Psalm quotation.
Sleep, Known and Unknown Petitions by Peter MenkinReligious and spiritual poem by aspiring poet Peter Menkin, read in his voice and recorded Lent, 2008, the work begins: Sleep, invited each night with anticipation. Lull during the hours to instill a deeper sometimes, punctuated with early times of prayer,for refreshment. Often awakened through force... The writer introduces the text which appears on his "Peter Menkin blog" this way: "I hope you will like this effort of mine, and find resonance in it.
Poem About a Dog by Peter MenkinSecular doggeral about the Guide Dog "Christmas" who served Jan Robitscher of Berkeley, California, a teacher at The School for Deacons in Berkeley, California. The "poem" tells of the end of "Christmas'" career, and her moving on to retirement with Carol Luther, a Priest in the Diocese of California (San Francisco Bay Area). This is a sad story in a way, but told here about the service and happy, warm relationship this dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind had with her mistress.
Summer Before Last I Saw an Angel by Peter MenkinReligious and spiritual poem about an angel sighting in Greenbrae, California at a Chevron station, this lightly humorous poem of the California sighting reads in part: "Way out West where cowboys and Indians live (they live in villages, native), two summers ago there was an angel at the gasoline pump--Chevron Station. (Greenbrae, CA.)." Writing an introduction to the vision, aspiring poet Peter Menkin, who also reads the poem on Archive.org, says: "Maybe it was the heat,how the air can rise..."
Wonder of Christ by Peter MenkinReligious and spiritual poem, Christological and Trinitarian in focus. A work of praise and thanksgiving read by the "Parish Poet" Peter Menkin, his comment on it is this: "You as reader may find this a refreshingly short poem, that makes a point using threes. The implication of the use of threes is to elicite a sense of the Trinity's presence. As the poet, I have license to say such things and hope they are within reach by the imagination of the reader."
Poetic Recitation on the Rule of St. Benedict by Peter MenkinA spiritual and religious poem that speaks to The Rule of St.Benedict, written by an Oblate of New Camaldoli, the work appeared in the poem journal Ruah. This is a positive look at Saint Benedict and a kind of exhortation by an Episcopalian who has a friendship as an Oblate with a Catholic Monastery. The journal Ruah is published by The EDominican School of Theology and Philosphy in Berkeley, California USA.
Prayer Time by Peter MenkinReligious and spiritual poem about approaching God in Christ through prayer at regular times during the day. A short poem, these words appear in it: My self approaches, My self it waits, To just be. The consideration of being is implied in the poem, and a reliance on God--as resting. Read by the writer of the poem, this is one which appears on "Parish Poet" Peter Menkin's "Peter Menkin blog," where the introduction to it reads in part: "We want to grasp this eternity, what is there for us..."
Notes From the Study House in March, No. 3 by Peter MenkinReligious and spiritual poem displaying the words of The Very Reverend Robert Hale, from the "Parish Poets" notes taken at the Camaldoli study house Incarnation Monastery in 2001. Peter Menkin, whose reading this is of his own poem, is an Oblate of Immaculate Heart Hermitage, Big Sur, California and was received at Incarnation Monastery, Berkeley, California. Quiet Days at the study house are available to friends and Oblates.
An Event of Getting Older by Peter MenkinReligious and spiritual poem that begins with these words: The surprising thing about the abrupt recognizeable landmarks of our lives comes with speed; please quicken me to fulfill, enriching for allaround me. I recall the dream--
This poem is read by aspiring poet Peter Menkin in his voice, recorded March, 2008 like all in this series. A work of praise and thanksgiving, which is a note of all the poems the poet writes it is said, this one emphasises comradie in Christ, and God's embrace.
The Hope Humility Brings by Peter MenkinReligious and spiritual poem about hope, humility, and Communion. A statement, an expresssion on the experience of Communion in the Episcopal Church (Priest Richard Helmer who is Rector of Church of Our Saviour, Mill Valley, California says the same words as other US Episcopal Churches in Communion). These words from the poem: Coming back, to the self. All day, wait on the love, recognizing relationship-- Self to man, self to others, To the self with God. "Parish Poet" Peter Menkin is an Oblate.
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