Karen Kingsbury

Bailey Flanigan Series

I love reading this author's books...  They're about real life, real problems, and real choices:  showing we're still human but strive to be wholesome...  

Some people go through life buckling under the pressure of their peers but there are still people out there that have good old-fashioned values and are not ashamed of them...  

Why would you fall under the negative influences of deviants and sexual perverts?  Stand your ground...  They just want to see you fall!

So evil!!!

This series helped me understand why things never worked out with someone I fell in love with in my college years.  When a woman doesn't go out with a man she is falling in love with, it is because she is dying or wants to protect him...  But when the guy ends up acting like a sore loser, then you know God was protecting you...  

You fall in love with a warrior and fall out of love with a wimp! 

Ruth

1:15

"And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law."

Letting go...  means giving a person a choice...  they have free will to do what they want...  Orpah made the decision to go but Ruth stayed with Naomi and eventually met Boaz!  And got to be in the lineage of Jesus... 

  

 

To My Stalker Times Three

Your Delusional Mind

 

I met you on the rebound

and believed 

your lies 

about the person 

you said you were...

But emotionally intelligent

you were not...

Because if you had been

you would have realized 

how I truly felt about you...

The fear inside my head.

The hives breaking out on my skin.

How I felt myself cringing on the inside...

Having to deal with your idiopathic mind 

living your own deranged fantasy. 

 

When you proposed to me, 

I laughed...

You had no idea obviously

about the men I'd known in my lifetime.  

Men that I liked...

Men that I respected...

Men that I actually enjoyed 

spending time with...

Intellectually stimulating...

Funny to boot...

Instead you for some reason 

wanted to marry me 

out of loneliness 

when we obviously 

had nothing in common. 

Even when you knew 

you had a cheating idiot stick

attached to your body.  

When your ideas of intimacy 

ran towards the perverse.  

The things you told me 

about your previous relationships 

and how you mimed 

what you wanted 

and talked like a deviant.

We took dance lessons

and you lied to the instructor.

That's when I knew...

You lie...

You cheat...

You steal...

Because deep inside 

you don't want to 

appear a loser...

But that is what you truly are...

Your life is inside your head.

Your sad, pathetic life...

Because you live a life of lies...

You smoke, you drink, you do drugs...

Thinking how cool are you?

 

You didn't realize 

that by showing me 

your true self...

Was the reason I ghosted you!

Why?

You, my stalker, are a complete nightmare!

@JoSH Poetic Popcorn Poetry

Have you ever met a wolf in sheep's clothing?  He appears to be something he is not...  But little by little he shows you his true colors...  Never go by appearances...  Or what comes out of his mouth...  Even when someone looks good on the outside, inside he may have a sick, sad soul speeding on the highway to hell.  Good riddance!

 

Think about the sexual perverts riding on subway trains exposing themselves in public...  There are whack jobs and then there are wack jobs...  Comprender?

 

"Knick knack paddy wack..."  

 

And they think that is intimacy...

 

I remember meeting a guy one night and while we were dancing, he acted drunk.  I kept asking him if he was drunk to which he finally replied that he hopes he meets someone like me but one not so judgmental...  And stalked off...  Smart man!  

If I respect a guy then he'll be the luckiest guy in the world, but if he has vices that I can't stand, I would be the world's most persistent nag...  Funny how some men I've known for years and are still friends with but my stalker I only knew for a few weeks... months...  at most...  yet his delusional mind persists...  he was even stalking me after I had been dating someone for almost three years... Why?  What is wrong with him?

Never underestimate me...  I was told that I could have run for homecoming queen at my Alma Mater but I didn't...  My values are not values that the world values...

That Was Then...

This Is Now...

 

What was once something,

is no longer anything.

Nor was it meant to be... 

Older means wiser...

Young means not knowing

what it takes years of living to figure out...

 

Your regrets change over time...  

Especially because 

people change...

 

Some get better with age like a fine wine...  

Some get worse by signing a pact with the devil...

Which one are you?  Do you know?

 

Did you choose wisely?

Or did you play the fool?

 

If you let someone take advantage of you the first time, shame on them...

But if you let it happen again, shame on you... 

Learn from your mistakes...

Lust isn't love...

And cruelty isn't kindness...

Manipulation is just that...  pure evil...  

@JoSH Poetic Popcorn Poetry

Don't you sometimes wish you could be the recipient of a mulligan?  A do over?  

 

I think we all do...  I would have made better choices...  Wiser choices...  

 

Because... 

sometimes what you wished for is the very thing you wish you had never gotten...  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tracy Fagan

When Love Isn't Love

I got to meet this author in person and she personally gave me this book so that I could identify major red flags.  

The main female character meets a man who is the greatest manipulator except she doesn't know it yet.  After reading this book, you will be thankful that you just read this in a book and did not go through this in real living...  

Some movies to check out that help you also identify red flags:

(please be warned, these are not easy movies to watch...)

Beware!

Beware!

Beware!

Beware!

Remember looks can be deceiving...  Be cautious and aware! 

Congrats to all the Newlyweds!!!

Beloved Hearts Day!!!

Sounds like there may be hope after all...  I've been getting word that people are getting married lately...  So optimistic!  Hope you enjoy Valentine's together...  There's always an upside and a downside...  Just be sure and don't rush into things...  Although they say when you know, you know!

Ronald Reagan

“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”

Interesting words...  Remember Thomas Paine and his Common Sense?  Remember our first American:  George Washington?  Do you know how we became a nation?  And how we came to be?  Do you remember our heroes?  And the lives lost for this country?

Happy Presidents Day!   

 

Remember All the Fallen...

That fought and lost their lives for you...

We Salute You!!!

 

Ronald Reagan

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

Some of us were born in the USA and some of us immigrated here...  because of freedom...  But our world is going haywire...  And we seem to be losing our freedoms...  I wonder what the future will look like...  And do you know what is going on in our world today?

Romans

12:9

" Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good."

What is love?  Love is agape, storge, philia, and eros...  In Greek love has many different meanings and nuances...  

For instance agape is unconditional love,  

storge is family love,  

philia is friendship love, 

and eros is passionate love...  

We love all people differently...  It is when you mix up the different loves together that it can get confusing...  and sometimes in wrong ways...

 

Francine Rivers

Masterpiece

Do you know who you are?  We are born and then we die...  But what you do during your lifetime makes a difference...  No one is beyond redemption and we all make mistakes with our lives...  There is just one very important decision that you need to make...  Because it tells you where you will spend eternity...

Karen Kingsbury with Gary Smalley

The Redemption Series

Are you human?  We all are...  There is no difference between a Christian and a non-Christian except that one is redeemed and the other is not...  And we all have free will to do what we want...  Where we spend eternity is up to you...

If you have had relationships in this life and have wondered what went wrong then this is a series that will help you understand what went wrong and what went right.  There are people in this world that are still old-fashioned and are proud of it.  

Roses are Red

And Violets are Not!

Squire Rushnell

When God Winks on Love

Everyone is looking for love, but not everybody finds it...  The ones that do and marry for a lifetime are very fortunate!  This collection of love stories shows you why finding the love of your life is somewhat like a miracle...  

 

Jesus

The Lord's Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from the evil one.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power and the glory,
for ever and ever. 

Amen.

This prayer was given by Jesus to his disciples to show them how to pray.  Most people have this memorized by heart.  First comes reverence, then a submission to his will, food for survival, forgiveness, protection from temptations and evil, acknowledgement of whose kingdom we live in.

Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.

Read more at: https://www.lords-prayer-words.com/lord_traditional_king_james.html

Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.

Read more at: https://www.lords-prayer-words.com/lord_traditional_king_james.html