After the Rain

By WILLIE M. MEWBORN

After the Rain, is the sequel to Through the Storms and
Through the Rain. It is a collection of poems that continues to
describe how I felt when I was about 25 or 30 years old. I write about
God in almost every poem because He has had such an impact on my
life. He has become such an ever-present Friend until I have literally
become consumed by His presence. Because I am so consumed by His
presence I have come to have a great love and respect for Him. Almost
every poem in some way describes how I learn to trust him and how
I am continuously learning to trust and depend upon Him. It was not
an easy process for me to trust and depend upon God. I constantly
expressed how I felt and the struggles I encountered as I learned to
love God, trust God and depend upon His Word.
In my first book, Through the Storms and Through the Rain, I
describe many of my pent up feelings. I express a lot of self-doubt,
pain, and disappointment. It was not easy having to deal with each
difficulty that came into my life. I felt that if God was who He said He
was then my life would not have to be so full of pain and heartache.
When it seemed that He would not take the difficulties away I would
become angry and accuse Him of all my pain. My philosophy was that
if He were God then He was able to fix any problem and that included
taking pain and disappointment out of my life. And when He didnt I
became even more angry. I often wondered how a loving God could
allow so much pain and so much heart-ache in peoples lives.
He reminded me that we live in a fallen world where there is much
sin, anguish, and pain. Each of us will be affected by it whether we
desire it or not. But it is our attitude toward the heartache and pain
that determines our outcome. So God taught me that pain, heartache,
and sorrow will come because I am not in Heaven. But He has already
overcome this world. I have to focus my heart and soul upon Him. The
prophet Isaiah reminds me that God will keep me in perfect peace if I keep
my mind stayed on Him. (Isaiah 26:3)

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 24, 2012
• ISBN: 9781481701990

WILLIE M. MEWBORN

Willie Mewborn is a author, poet and publisher. She has been writing since the age of twelve. Reading and writing has always been the joys of her life. Willie has published 4 books and is presently working on 3 more. Writing religious poetry, novels and short stories are her favorite past time.

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God’s

Divine Love

Beloved, let us love one another, for love springs from God, and he who loves his fellow men is born of God and is coming to know and understand God and is coming to recognize and get a clearer under-standing of God. And he who does not love has not become acquainted with God. He does not know God and he never did know God. For God is love. In this was the love of God displayed where we are concerned; in that God sent His Son, the only begotten or unique Son, into this world so that we might live through Him. (I John 4:7-9)

The love of God is the greatest love there is. There is no greater love. Nor can any one find any other love that they consider greater than the manifested loved of God. There is none. God’s divine love for mankind is so great that He laid down His life for our sins through the form of His Son, Jesus the Christ, the anointed one. Jesus literally took our place and died in our stead. God is so holy that sin demanded a penalty and someone had to be sacrificed for that sin. But then His love was so great for mankind that He offered Jesus up to die in our place. There is no greater love than the love God displayed toward us through our Lord, Jesus Christ. John tells us that, God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He gave up His begotten and unique Son, so that whoever believes in Him, trusts in Him and relies on Him may not perish or be lost, but have eternal and everlasting life. (John