You’ve touched my Heart

You've given me a reason

For smiling once again,

You've filled my life with peaceful dreams

and you've become my closest friend.

You've shared your heartfelt secrets

And the trust you've given me,

You showed me how to feel again

To laugh, and love, and see.

If life should end tomorrow

And from this world, I should part,

I shall be forever young

For you have touched my heart.

Unknown author

Love Birds

The couple walked to the barn to feed and water the brown and black stallions.

They cleaned the stalls and decided to take the stallions for a ride.

They truly loved their horses as much as they loved each other.

They saddled up the stallions and slowly rode them out of the barn into the meadow.

The couple rode through the meadow coming out onto an old country road that was not much traveled.

They were not in a hurry as they held hands, looking into each other’s eyes with true love.

We started down this old country road and I snapped a picture of the couple.

They saw us and guided their horses onto the side of the road.

However, they did not see this big red truck speeding down the road but we did.

My husband pulled off the road as the truck came flying by.

This could have been a disaster for everybody that day.

The quick thinking of my husband probably saved that couple's life.

After the truck, sped by we again got back onto the road and drove away.

I looked back and once again, the couple clapped their hands together and looked into each other’s eyes.

They probably said, I love you and I am so glad you are by my side.

🙏🙏🙏🙏Hope, Faith & Courage ~POEM

Hope is wishing something would happen,

With the desire, my trembling arms reach for the stars

With anticipation, I walk with trembling knees-up to bat

With a trembling hand, my goal is to take that college courses

With an archaic body, I enter the doctor’s office hoping he will find nothing wrong

With the desire, I read God’s Word

Faith believes something will happen

I trust someday I will touch the stars

I believe someday I will hit that home run

I have a conviction that someday I will complete the courses for college

I have confidence that someday I will be that the doctor that I now fear

With God’s help, anything is possible

Courage is making something happen.

In my voyage to the moon, I reached out and touched the stars

Today I hit a home run and our team won ten to one.

Today I graduate college with honors and have become that physician that I once feared.

With courage, I stand on the word of God

Hope, Faith, and Courage come from God's Love.

I AM ~POEM

I am from the English and Irish breed; from panned fried Idaho potatoes and steaming hot Aunt Jamima yellow cornbread.

I am from a warm cozy loving home, full of children running, screaming, laughing and playing from dawn to dusk and the smell of apple pie baking in the oven.

I am from Butterfly, Swamp, Bulk, and Common Milkweed that grow freely in fields.

I am from the fighting Irish Walls and traveling English Rumbold’s; long live the queen of England.

I am from Charles’s many, stormy, sailing voyages to Mary Hasbrouck, Dunedin, New Zealand, Shang High, Hong Kong, China, just to name a few.

My crimson blood flows deep, within for wild adventures, many travels, and the love of history.

Salvation fills my soul with one true God.

I am from the Heart of Dixie, the birthplace of Helen Keller, home of Roll Tide, singing group Alabama, from Hawk Pride Mountain, and the catfish filled singing Tennessee River.

I am a devout Christian woman who would give you her last morsel, a grandfather that loved the spirit of the drink.

Stored away in my attic are memories of letters, and pictures filled with hot cotton fields, raging ocean waves, smoke-filled mountaintops, and the deep love of family.  

What a life!