Fly To You

Here is another poem from my forthcoming book: Popcorn: Poems You Can Munch On.  Enjoy and be blessed!!!!!  Jerry

Fly To You
written by: Jerry S.
(c)2012 Jerry S.

This road is long and hard

How I worry and how I fret

The labor doesn’t seem to end

My body is covered in sweat

How I long for the day

When I can finish this race

But until that day comes

I’ll just depend on Your grace

So I’ll dig deeper in Your word

And by faith believe what it says to be true

I know when I take my final breath

I’m gonna fly to You

Each day brings another chance

For me to display Your glory

Each day brings another way

To get rid of all shame and all worry

I will trust in You

To bring me through all this pain

One day all my loss

Will be turned to gain

There will come a day

When you will break open the sky blue

And in that moment

I know I will fly to You

Poetry Book Update May 31, 2012

Hey guys!

Hope everyone is doing okay! Just wanted to forward some great news I received earlier today! 

Publish America has agreed to publish my first book of most Christian and some secular poetry entitled Popcorn: Poems You Can Munch On.   I have read the sample contract and am waiting to receive the permanent contract!  Please pray that this whole process goes smoothly!  Also, I don't know much about promoting my book, so please pray that God will give me wisdom in that area and that He will surround me with people that can give me counsel in that area as well! 

Please join me in praising Jesus for this opportunity!  This has been a dream of mine since I was a teenager over 20 years ago! 

Please pray that God will use this book to minister to as many people as possible! 

May the blessings of Jesus be with you!!!!

In Christ,

Jerry

Rain

As Promised in the last blog, here is another poem from my book I just submitted to be published .  Enjoy! 

Rain
by: Jerry S.
(c)2012 Jerry S.

I love to wake up on the mountain top
And breathe in that crisp fresh mountain air
Basking in the warmth of the bright sunshine
While breathing out a prayer

From a faraway distance
I see a dark cloud beginning to near
And suddenly without warning
My heart becomes paralyzed with fear

Wash me in Your grace again
Please protect me from the pain
But even if I go thru it
I know it will be for my gain
Because a soul can never grow
Without some time in the rain

I don’t know if I can handle this
With the lightning aimed right for my soul
But little-by-little
Your peace begins to speak to me
As the thunder begins to roll

As the wind starts to blow around me
And the rain begins to hit my face
Your grace like a warm blanket surrounds me
And it gives me the strength
To stand tall in this place

Poetry Book Update/Copyright Basics May 27, 2012

Hey Poetry Peeps! :)

I have some good news!  After church today (Sunday), I submitted my book of poetry via e-mail to Publish America!  According to their website, I should hear back from them from anywhere from a few days to a few weeks!  So the wait the begins!  How exciting!

Plus, my poetry is officially copyrighted!  I submitted it to U.S. Copyright Office.  Did you know that it only cost $35 to submit your work to be copyrighted via online submission?  This is really affordable considering that if you mail in the application form and your literary work by snail mail, the processing fee is $65.  So you save $30 by submitting it online! 

The website does say that once you create your work it automatically has copyright protection.  But I don't necessarily agree with that statement.  Because the website  states that if someone steals your work and you want to sue that person to comp the money you lost from that person stealing your work then your work has to be officially registered with the Copyright Office.
Here's some helpful links if you want information about Copyrighting.  Just click on the link!

Copyright Basics

Copyright Law

How To Register Your Work

God willing, soon, I will share with you a little bit more of a sampling of my poetry from my book!

Until then, God bless you!  And have a great night!

Jerry

My LIfe and Poetry Book Update! May 26th, 2012 edition

Greetings!

I hope this Saturday night finds you tremedously happy and in the best of health! I received some sad news that my best bud Jon is in the hospital.  Please keep him in your prayers that God will provide a miraculous healing for Jon either through God speaking the word and/or giving the doctors the wisdom for treating Jon!  Thanks!

I have great news!  I am pretty much done with typing up my manuscript for my book of poetry.  The next step for me is to type up an "About The Author" section and then I can submit it to the publishing company for consideration!  I am very excited!   It has took me 2 1/2 years to write this book.  Writing this book has been such a rewarding experience! It has really improved my relationship with God.  I feel the closest to God when I write!   Out of the 91 or so poems I have written for this project, 78 of them has made the final cut. Unless God gives me more poems to write between now and Sunday afternoon, the poem count should stay at 78. 

This weekend, my wife and my sons with my in-laws decided to go to my in-laws cabin.  I had to stay home since I have to work on the weekends.  I hope they are having a wonderful and a relaxing time!  It's a little strange having the whole house to myself for more than a couple of hours. But I also enjoy having some time to myself.  Last weekend, my oldest son went camping with his Grandfather and my son's church group---Royal Rangers.  He had to come home a day early due to some storms.  And speaking of storms, we have been getting a ALOT of rain lately! This week, my oldest son and I had to go to the library 3 times this week so he can have something to do before he goes to school.  The outside has been too wet to go to the park.  Normally, my oldest son (who's 6) and I will go to the library to use their computers once a week. Then the rest of hte time, we will either go to the nature center or to the park.  But it has been too wet to do either one! 

My youngest son turned 4 years old this past Tuesday. The day before (on Monday) we went to Chuck E Cheese to help celebrate his birthday with is Grandparents.  It was a lot of fun playing games with my 2 boys.  The next day, on my youngest actual 4th birthday, we had a pull apart cupcake cake that we celebrated with.  (these were left overs from the day before). And he opened up his presents which he was delighted to receive.

Well, I hope everyone is having a great week!  Remember to pray for Jon!

  Jon, I hope you get better soon!  Zach, please keep me posted on your Dad's condition!

If you have prayer requests, feel free to leave it in the comment section or to e-mail it to me at bibleprophecy77@yahoo.com

Here

Well, as I promised here is a poem from my upcoming book.  Hope you enjoy it, and it ministers to you!  God bless you! 

Jerry

Here
written by:  Jerry S.
(c) 2012 Jerry S.
Hello sad eyes
Full of tears
Struggling with a heart full of sorrow
And a head full of fear

Since the day she died
It’s like you became frozen in time
Not living life anymore
You’re beginning to stink of your own slime

So strip off those dirty rags
And step into love’s shower
And be cleansed from all your fear
Don’t you dare give up
Start living in My power
For I still have a lot for you to do
Here

Yes, what happened was tragic
Yes, it was quite a shame
But my child, you are not to blame
Don’t you know that she is at peace
And she’s resting in the palm of My hand?
It's time for you to dust yourself off and stand

My LIfe and Poetry Book Update! May 18th 2012 edition

Hey guys and gals!

What's up?  Hope you are all enjoying the nice warm spring weather!  I sure am!  I have been taking my sons to the park any chance I get!  Every Wednesday I have a "Daddy Day" with my youngest son.   My oldest son hangs out with me from 830 am until I have to take him to school for Kindergarten which is close to 1pm.  We tend to go to the park as well on those days!  My oldest son will be leaving this afternoon for a camping trip with his church group--royal rangers. Over a week ago, I started watching more closely what I eat...how many calories I am ingesting.  Plus I am trying to eat every 2 hours...at times every 3.  So far I have lost 4.7lbs in a week! I am down to 249.2lbs.   I just hope and pray that God gives me the will power to help me continue to watch how many calories I ingest!   Please keep me in your prayers for that!  Because I like to eat and I'm all about how food taste!  But I am determined with God's help to lose as much weight as possible! 

Thanks to my best friend Jon , he has convinced me to start sharing some of my poetry on this website!  So be looking for some soon! Keep checking!  And please give me feed back! I really appreciate it if you would!

More about my poetry writing...

There was a period for a week or two that I was going through major writers block!  I was going through a famine when it comes to my poetry!  Last Sunday, i realized that the reason I was going through such a famine was that I wasn't taking time to spend with God by reading the Bible.  That Sunday afternoon, I took some time to listen to Margaret Becker's song "Say The Name" that I blogged about previously.  After I listened to it, I felt so at peace!  And guess what!  That night at work, I began writing some more poetry!  In fact, since I then I have written 5 new poems!!!! There's nothing like giving birth!  Who says giving birth is always painful?!?! Haha! Kidding! :) Ladies, please don't send me nasty grams! :)

Some of the new poems I have written are called "I Need You", "Idols Fall Down", "Come Together", etc...

I currently have a couple more that I am writing.  One is called "Sound".

Well, thanks for taking the time to read this!  If you know of anyone who would benefit from this blog, please give them a link to this! 

God bless you all!  And until next time....

Poet For Christ