Travelling Down Life's Road

By Curtis Booher

Life in many ways is like a journey and the journey is not always smooth, most likely it is a rough and hard road we travel. Traveling Down Life’s Road is a book of 70 poems telling of God’s love for man and His amazing grace. The author in his own way also tries to show the sacrifice God made by sending His only begotten Son

• Language: English
• Publisher: ReadersMagnet LLC
• Release date: Jan 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781950947393

Curtis Booher

"Curtis was born and spent his early childhood days in the country. He enjoys the outdoors and though he has never been on a raccoon hunt has known many raccoon hunters who has shared many of their stories with him. He has carried these stories for many years in his mind and now shares them in story form so others, young and old can enjoy them as they run through the pages with Zeek and Gator."

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Traveling Down Life’s Road

Copyright © 2020 by Curtis Booher

Published in the United States of America

ISBN Paperback: 978-1-950947-38-6

ISBN Hardback: 978-1-950947-98-0

ISBN eBook: 978-1-950947-39-3

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dedication

This book is dedicated in memory of my parents

Roy and Eunice Booher.

Acknowledgment

Curtis Booher loves the Lord and he loves to express that love through poetry. You will clearly see that as you read these poems. Curtis was born and reared in central Oklahoma. My acquaintance with him goes back some 40 years. I know him to be an avid sports fan both as a player on the field and as a very knowledgeable spectator and analyzer of various sporting events.

More importantly, however, is the fact that Curtis is a sincerely committed Christian man. Through his poems in this book he presents the Gospel message in all its beauty and power. He exalts God as the awesome and powerful creator. He emphasizes Christ, the cross, and the blood of Christ as the means of our cleansing from sin. Not to be missed is his emphasis on the heavenly home for all who accept and follow Christ. These themes are presented over and over again in many unique ways.

Several of these poems were used by Curtis as communion meditations or as inspirational readings in a church I served where he was a member. They were always appreciated, I recommend these poems as a refreshing read. They speak to that which we all as Christians have felt at times. They will be a clear reminder of God’s grace and love for us through his son Jesus Christ. And by the way, don’t miss the poems entitled, Mother and My Dad, My Father.

Howard Faerber

Christian Minister

Contents

1. My Father Owns the Thunder

2. I Can’t Wait to See His Face

3. One Day Closer to Home

4. Just Beyond the Storm

5. Dance in the Clouds

6. Life’s Road

7. All Better

8. Where All the Children Play

9. Never Further Than His Name

10. Pass It ’Round

11. My Sack of Sins

12. Two Trees

13. A Place to Wait

14. The Master Architect

15. Mother

16. A Song in the Night

17. A Rich and Fertile Land

18. I Am the Reason

19. Found

20. Christmas Together

21. In Remembrance of Him

22. What a Way to Go

23. Prime Property

24. My Dad, My Father

25. Candle Holder

26. The Pathway

27. Footprints in the Snow

28. The Master’s Great Bouquet

29. My Promise

30. The Old Vessel

31. With Me

32. Road to Nowhere

33. Can You Save Me

34. Forgotten

35. My Name

36. Salvation Cruise

37. Death

38. Earth

39. It’s Christmas

40. Highway of Holiness

41. It Was Love

42. Keys

43. Running with the Wind

44. The Sea of Forgetfulness

45. My Ragged Old Tent

46. The Man from the Box

47. He Left the Light On

48. What Would Have Been

49. Lean on the Cross

50. Water on the Rocks

51. The Advocate

52. No Time

53. He Borrowed a Donkey

54. Red Carpet

55. My Guardian

56. The Book That Says It All

57. Three Rusty Nails

58. The Steward

59. A Hammer and Those Nails

60. Guilty

61. The Pitcher

62. God’s Greatness

63. With Both Hands

64. The Man from the Shore

65. Today

66. Exit Signs

67. All Outdoors

68. King of the Hill

69. In the Twinkling of an Eye

70. My Friend

My Father Owns the Thunder

As the rich man gave a cup of soup to the hobo, he did say,

"I will earn my way to heaven by giving you soup today.

And I know not why God made me a better man than you,

or why it is that heaven waits for just a chosen few."

The hobo quickly took the soup, then slowly raised his eyes,

and through missing teeth and bearded lips, to the rich man, he replied,

"Sir, I truly thank you for this meal you’ve given me,

but there are things about heaven, sir, I’m afraid you do not see.

Sir, heaven is not a place you earn, you get there through God’s grace,

no matter what your wealth is or the color of your face.

And if a man’s value to you is just in what he owns,

and you think that rich includes a big ole fancy home,

then, sir, it will impress you that I have a mansion to behold,

a mansion my father’s given me, it’s built on streets of gold.

My Father Owns the Thunder, the lightning, and the rain,

He owns every foot of land from Russia around to Spain.

I am a wealthy Christian in spirit and in soul,

I have an inheritance waiting for me that ole Tut’s tomb can’t hold.

As the hobo soaked some dried out bread in his cup of soup,

he said, "That’s a pretty