IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY MOTHER

 OPHELIA G. HALL

1942-2013

This poem embodies my mom, the way she lived and ended her life, I love you and will

miss you, your one and only son Jerry.

HEAVEN'S GROCERY STORE

I was walking down life's highway a long time ago. One day I saw a sign that read,” Heavens Grocery store”. As I got a little closer, the door came open wide, and when I cam to myself, I was standing inside

I saw a host of angles, they were standing everywhere. One handed me a basket and said, “My child shop with care. Everything a Christian needs was in that grocery store, and all you could carry, you could come back for more.

First I got some Patience. Love was in the same row. Further down was Understanding, you need that everywhere you go.

I got a box of Wisdom. A bag or two of Faith. I just couldn't miss the Holy Ghost, for it was all over the place. I stopped to get some Strength and Courage to help me run the race. By then my basket was getting full, but I remembered I needed some grace.

I didn't forget Salvation, for Salvation that was free. So I tried to get enough of that to give both you and me.

Then I started to the counter to pay my grocery bill, for thought I had everything to do my masters will. When I went up the aisle I saw Prayer and I just had to put that in for I knew when I stepped outside I would run right into sin.

Peace and Joy were plentiful. They were on the last shelf. Songs of Praise were hanging near so I just help myself. Then I said to the angle “Now how much do I owe?' he just smiled at me and said, “Jsut take them everywhere you go”.

Again I smiled at him and said, “How much do I really owe?” He smiled at me again and said,”My child, Jesus paid your bill along time ago”.

THE MUSTARD SEED

THE MUSTARD SEED

In the The new Testament of the bible ( ) we are told by Jesus Christ that the faith of a mustard can move mountains and that if we have the faith of a grain of seed () we will be able to tell the mountains in our life to be thrown into the sea and they will obey that if we have faith we will be able to cast out spirits and cause the lame to walk and the blind to see but it all starts with that minute bit of faith. First I want to say that faith is the substance of things hope for and the evidence of things not seen meaning that you have such a strong belief that God himself will honor you faith, but if you don’t have the mustered seed of faith all that is for nothing so lets look at the mustered seed itself.

Many cannot forgive themselves for the way they live or the things they may have done in the past to themselves or other therefor they cannot truly release the love that we all have inside of us. I believe that the mustered seed is love and if we cannot forgive our self for mistake than we cannot release our love, because we all no if you don’t love yourself you cant love anyone else, you may pretend but the truth will come eventual,so not loving one self means we cannot completely release our faith unto God. The word says If we trust in him he is faithful to forgive our sins( ). So the bottom line is this you have to first forgive your self, then you can start to love your self, then you release what ever it is to God and be patient In faith and he will honor your prayers. I believe this is the secret of the mustered seed.