Thank God, I Am Alive

By Frank Jakubowsky

Many people are aware of the eighty-nine earthquake because it happened just before the World Series baseball game between the Oakland As and the San Francisco Giants. It was on television as the game was about to start. This book presents a new idea about healing with regard to any earthquake.

It explains why this earthquake happened and so gives general principles that may cause an earthquake. Author Frank Jakubowsky gives a new idea about this earthquake that can help explain the many effects that cause an earthquake. Probably the most important idea is that there are principles that help in predicting the time of aftershocks. Aftershocks are common after a big earthquake, and to predict the timing of them would be important.

Thank God, I Am Alive were the words of Buck Helm after he was rescued from being trapped for eighty-nine hours. Jakubowsky uses those words as a theme for rebuilding and looking for positive ideas about earthquakes.

Seeking to inspire by offering tales of how God helped in lessening the effect of the earthquake, this collection includes many personal stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Mar 19, 2013
• ISBN: 9781449773823

Frank Jakubowsky

Frank Jakubowsky has written a two-thousand-line poem about how matter was formed, about the galaxy, our sun, life on Earth, and the origin of man. Another book: The Creative Theory of the Universe, gives an original idea how our planets were formed. He lives in Oakland, California.

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ISBN: 978-1-4497-7381-6 (sc)

ISBN 978-1-4497-7382-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012920586

WestBow Press rev. date: 03/18/2013

Also by author: Creation, Jesus Was a Leo, The Psychological Patterns of Jesus Christ, The Creative Theory of the Universe, God Looked Down and Saw a Baby, 49 Steps to Sainthood, Caldecott, Frank on a Farm, Whitman Revisited, Universal Mind, My Inspirational Stories.

Thank God, I am alive,

Those were the words

The man had uttered as he was removed

From under tons and tons

Of concrete slab that was a high highway,

Before the eighty-nine earthquake had struck.

Thank God, I am alive.

Let’s take those words for our own healing theme.

Thank God, I am alive,

Those words do easily roll off one’s tongue.

Thank God, I am alive,

Those words are so appropriate for all of us.

Thank God, I am alive, said Buck

Aft he had lain for eighty-nine long hours,

Because the eighty-nine earthquake had struck.

Thank God, I am alive,

That is a positive, progressive attitude to life.

Buck Helm had every right to say:

"Why in the hell it took so long?

I wait a night, a day, a night, a day;

a night, a day; a night , a day.

You know I’m here, it’s just a mile long."

He could have cursed his luck,

To be that minute on that Cypress freeway

When the eighty-nine earthquake had struck

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay.

But no, he said: Thank God, I am alive.

Let’s use that attitude as