Christmas 2024

Christmas 2024

This Christmas season reminded me of my last poem about Grace. Grace of God supplied me with the inspiration to write the poems in this book. I was encouraged to share this journey with you all in my book, when I was in the secret place of my heart while at rest with God.

The process of publishing this book took me into a world of demands and expectations for the sales of this book.  Structure and certain things have to take place to produce such a book which I was just not used to. The Spanish version, I do not speak Spanish added its extra stresses.  My mind was being swamped with what would be good, and it sounded good, but my heart was starting to lose its peace more and more in the process.  The complications of living in the Netherlands as my book was published in America started to reveal other complications which I did not know how to solve.  At the age of nearly 78 I was realizing I needed more wisdom Grace now than I had before.

After spending a lot of time just alone with God writing all these poems and was suddenly in a world with others and situations I did not know how to deal with, I went into stress with it all.  Instead of staying in the delight and joy that I had when writing this book, I became anxious about everything. I could not get back into my flow of writing poems again. I had stepped out of my place of Grace and started to not be as gracious as God has been to me.

Now just before this Christmas I have stopped to reminisce who God had been for me in this last year. The last poem Grace in my book talked about Him not considering my mistakes or failures but Grace and Mercy from His throne sustains.

Well!  This poem has been more real to me this year as I became aware again it is a journey I am on, and He is with me in all the surprises.  I may fail but He never does.      Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to you all.