The Simple Project: Re-Discovering the Simple Joys of Life

By Charles Preston Fletcher

This is a handy chair-side companion to help you with re-discovering the simple joys of life. These are lessons that the author has used in his own life and wishes to share with you. The Simple Project includes love of oneself and others, the use of positive life attitudes, and always a sense of gratitude. The topics of love, gratitude, hope, and inspiration are just a few of the tools that we will use on our journey to re-discover the Simple Joys of Life.

We start out our lives with a strong sense of simple curiosity. We lose the joy to be found in simple things themselves. The Simple Project helps us to get some of that joy back.

The best of life is found in faith: the strength of our faith in God, the strength of our faith in others, and the strength of our faith in ourselves.

Both our love and our faith are strengthened by never giving up. At some point in our lives, many of us come to realize that it is the strength we find in the selfless love of Jesus Christ that is all that has held us up.

The journey of self-discovery can be frightening, exhilarating, confusing, liberating, and often best undertaken accompanied by a caring voice. Charles Prestons poetry shiningly serves as such a voice for all who wish to begin a journey of their own.
Suzanne Beeson, Ph.D.

The project to simplify our lives is where we find the miracles of life. Our lives are a gift that weve been given simply by the living of them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Inspiring Voices
• Release date: Mar 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781462409259

Charles Preston Fletcher

Charles Preston Fletcher is a graduate of DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, and he has dedicated himself to the service of others across the United States, Mexico, and Canada, with friends in every corner of the globe. Mr. Fletcher has focused his life on sharing God’s love in simple ways. The author lives modestly with his wife, Rebecca, in Middletown, Indiana.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

SECTION 1 ~ Love

Heart of Our Gift

Anywhere – Anything – Anytime

A Very Simple Love

Golden Silence

Nothing You Could Do

I See a Side of You

Jesus and Peter

Simple Things

Windows to the Soul

Pain

God’s Church – And Ours

A Person’s Partner

The Spirituality of All

Seeking an Outlet

Our Need for Love

God’s Person Specific Education

Rule of Gold

Making Change and Keeping It

Family Time

Changing

Love Conquers All

O’ My Child

Easter Seals

Is All As It Should Be?

God’s Love 360

Under the Dome

World Without End

Jesus

SECTION 2 ~ Gratitude

I’ve Known

My Faith

A Very Kind Soul and a Very Good Friend

We Need God

Every Day Is A Blessing

Life Rewards

Your Ticket

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

If I Were Blind

SECTION 3 ~ Sharing

Make a Difference in the World

Could Be/Should Be

Your Hands

Wishbone or Backbone

Build a New Bridge

Looking

Being Blind

Your HQ

Kids

What We All Have in Common

Magic Words

Being a Hero

The Equator

Celebrations of People’s Lives

Take a Stand

Gun Control

Sometimes

Living in a Time of Change

God’s Bill of Wrongs

SECTION 4 ~ Hope

Meaning of Acute

Harshness in Our Lives

The Unknowns

God Makes It Easy

Note to Self

Pillow Fights & Restless Nights

All Lives Have Equal Value

The Best Thing We Can Do

Identity Theft

If You Have A Troubled Past

SECTION 5 ~ Inspiration

Storms That Teach

A Man of Firsts

Take On the World

Self-Reflection

Fate is Created

On Books and Judging

If Beethoven

Many Lives

Roadblocks

When We Lose Our Faith

SECTION 6 ~ Smile

Writing is

My Mommy Had A Tummy-Ache

Heartbreak and Humor

What If

The Donut

One Goal

The Easter Bunny Got a Ticket

SECTION 7 ~ A few Closing Thoughts

My Poetry

May God Use

The

Simple Things

Of Life

To open

Your heart to His love…

Your mind to His wonders…

Your life to His presence…

And

Your eyes to…

Simple Things of Beauty

This is a handy chair-side companion to help you with the fun work of re-discovering the simple joys of life.

Charles Preston Fletcher has made it his life’s passion to share God’s love, and his own love, with others by learning to daily, more fully appreciate, the Simple Joys of life.

These are lessons that the author has used, in his own life, and wishes to share with you, in the form of simple poems that can help us take a much needed second look.

The Simple Project: Includes love of oneself and others, the use of positive life-attitudes & always a sense of gratitude. The topics of love, gratitude, hope and inspiration are just a few of the tools we will use on our journey to re-discover the Simple Joys of Life.

~ Charles Preston Fletcher ~

Acknowledgements

On my journey to acknowledge God’s love, I would like to acknowledge a love of my own.

My wife Rebecca or just Becky, to those that know her, has been by my side with continual encouragement and pride, for our entire married life. Thank you dear.

Besides my wife, I would like to acknowledge Ashley, our beautiful and very talented daughter. Ashley, your mother and I have always been very proud of you. You are the sunshine in our blue skies. Reach for everything you want in life. You are already a great success.

To my family and close friends, your dedication and service in helping others has been an inspiration and great comfort to me. Thank you. The love that you show through your caring ways is one of God’s many blessings that I carry with me always.

Matthew Wardwell thank you for your assistance and dedicated efforts in the sharing of this Project to help others.

Dr. John T. Lindquist and Mrs. Evelyn Lindquist, my heart has always gone out to you, in long felt, deep gratitude. You have always been a blessed part of my family. I