Some Moments in My Life

By Wilfrid Amisial

If you enjoy calypso, the battle of the drums, the containment of a serpent in a nice circus, may your imagination and the wanders of life take you into Some Moments in My life. This collection of poems, thoughts and prayers inspired by Wilfrid Amisial's life explores a journey in rhythm with the love of God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 20, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481720939

Wilfrid Amisial

Biography of Wilfrid Jean Amisial He is the first to be President of the Engineering Student Council at Howard University, first of Haitian descent to be an alumnus of M.I.T. electrical engineering department. He believes that as humans we should practice the following virtues: patience, tolerance, perseverance, charity, and love for and with one another for these are divine gifts to eternal life. He lives most of my life in the United States. He has a Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University and a Masters in Business and Public Administration from Southeastern University. He is known throughout his career to pursue quality and performance excellence. Although his journey was a big challenge for him, he follows the path that God has set for him by trying to do his best striving for excellence. To strive for performance excellence, he strives for perfection and aimes for good health, longevity, prosperity, continuous improvement and thus achieves quality in his life. Some of his hobbies are collecting coins, writing poems, and participating in American, Caribbean and Haitian cultural events. During his career, he managed private, public, union and nonunion organizations as well as real estate properties and healthcare facilities. He received several Outstanding Performance Awards and recognitions. His dream has always been to inspire his and all the children in the world to stay focus on doing what is right and just for everyone, as the circumstances of life are revealed to them. It gives me great joy to share words from my heart with you.

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Contents

Foreword

About the Author

Transformers and Vibrations

A State of Depression

Friendship

Suspicious People

People Labeled

Success

Meaning of Some First Names

Arvon

E-mail Exchange between October 19 and 20, 2002

Thanks to God

One Love in Three Persons

Happy Valentine’s Day to My Wife and My Love!

Night

Flowers

War

Love Me Tender

The Union

God Protects One during War

In Memory of My Mother, Inez Cayard Amisial

Jean Baptist DuSable, Born in St Marc, Haitian, Founder of Chicago

Midsummer Night

The Triple-Filter Test

Smile and Chuckle

Baldrige Awards

Receive God’s Blessings

A Famous Quotation

by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

Mom

An Appreciation of Self

Unique

Benediction before Dinner

The Birth of My Brother

The Birth of My Oldest Daughter

The Birth of My Second Daughter

The Birth of My Nephews

The Birth of My Niece

The Birth of My Last Son

Dad

The Birth of My Cousins

Uncles

Aunts

The Birth of Twins

Faith

Mood Change

Feelings of Love

It Is You

Birthdays’ Mystics

Weather

Recreation

My Neighborhood

Shopping Nightmare

Shopping Success

My House

Precious Love

First Names

Haiti

Soccer

Sports

Pains and Aches

A Message to Daphne Dufresne and Joseph Amprey (Married)

My Wedding

Seasons

News about Haiti

The US Armed Services

United States of America

Mardi Gras

Invocation

Music

Piano

Mother’s Day

Happy Days

Church

Flying

Apple Jacks

Death

Life

Suicide

The Wedding Dress

Pasta Roni

I Cannot

Dreams

Hang on

Future

Be Happy

Take a Stand

A Beautiful World

Employment in the United States

A Prayer

Reflections: Together We Can Improve the World

Life at the Ranch

Freedom

Lunch

Nature

Circle of Life

My Home

Cure Your Cold

Animal Watch

Weekend

Modern-Age Courting

One People

Love Laughter

God’s Presence

Romance

Love

A Nice Baby

To Our children

Basic Structure for Survival

Basic Knowledge for an Organization

Worship

A Mysterious Moment

A Faithful Countryman

Basketball Fundamentals

Season’s Greetings

A Moment of Appreciation

Life

Celebration of the Life of My Father-in-Law

Flashback

Mother-in-Law

Christmas Lights

Angels

My Only Valentine

A Play of Words for Your Interest

Fort Henry Christopher

My Childhood

The Forbidden Tree

Happy Valentine’s Day to You

Some Residents

Assisted Living

Dream

Dog’s Care

Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area Winter 2005-2006

Sunset (Haiku/Senryu)

Happy Mother’s Day

Life

A Prayer before a Meal

Happy Father’s Day

Prayer to Your Guardian Angel

Prayer for Our Nation

Halleluiah

The Eight Ts for Every Season

Message from the Chair

News Release

Happy Birthday

Be Close to God

Intelligence v. Smarts

Happy Birthday, Jesus

Christ Rose

Food for Thought

Saint Patrick’s Day

March

Who I Am in a Few Words

Who Am I? Fear God. Do Not Fear the Truth.

A Moment of Mental Instability

I Don’t Look Haitian?

Our Lady of Lourdes

A Prayer

Barack Obama

Father

Amazing Grace

About the Book

Foreword

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

—Jim Rohn

Life’s experiences are the result of perplexing events and emotions. To express feelings with words that signify something to you, our readers, is a difficult task. An artist sometimes finds words or a canvass to share a moment, an important moment in his or her life. He or she wants to reach out to life challenges with the intention of helping the human spirit grow and meet the expectations of this inevitable fate. Poetry is part of the story of my life. Some topics came through the desire to achieve better rapport and relation with our readers. Some topics are merely a conversation between you and God. Some topics are an assembly of a confused moment.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you, you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

—Waldo Emerson

It is with courage that a couple decides to have a family or live together. It is with courage that babies are born and conceived. It is with courage that countries become a unified entity. These difficult subjects can be addressed by some with a few strokes of their brushes, and with others they may be expressed simply with a little imagination on their penmanship. Unselfish desires sometimes seem unreachable because of a lack of courage and not a lack of knowledge.

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

—Albert Einstein

The theory of relativity of Albert Einstein was challenged by Ralph Rene. In the same light the above formula may be challenged as well. Considering Einstein’s theory and Ralph Rene’s self-published book The Last Skeptic of Science, I tend to wonder how much contributions if any would be acceptable to those who would read these pages that I took time to express merely because I wanted to leave behind a trace of my path on earth to my final destination, which God only knows.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.

—Nelson Mandela

I am inspired by these words, and I hope that I have learned and that I have passed on to my children and grandchildren the great desire to stand up and fight no matter how hard, steep, and rocky the hills are to climb, to rest but not stop until our last breath. It was with great emotion that I wrote my words.

To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract.

—Jim Rohn

I love attractive people, and I try my very best to surround myself with committed people. I thank God every day for allowing me to be part of this world. Every day when I get up I already have a plan and a to-do list that I set for myself the day before. I seek excellence and try to keep my heart pure in this world of temptations, and I remember every day the original sin that our Savior, Christ the Lord, died for to give us a new beginning.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush; anxious for greater developments and greater wishes and so on; so that children have very little time for their parents; parents have very little time for each other; and the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

—Mother Teresa

It is with great joy that I raised three children. I learn every day the importance of family and the responsibility of parents, and I face up to this responsibility at all times. This has always been for me my major task and my priority. My wife and I love our children, and it is with great respect for Mother Theresa that I suggest to my readers to meditate on her words because I do.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

—Larry Bird

You must learn to know who you are and apply these words as you should to join the winner circle.

It is always wise to look ahead,