Even Einstein Knew That: A Poetic Journey from Darkness to Light

By W.F. Rhoads

Warning: This book contains subject matter and language that is not suitable for children or those who do not understand just how dark and foreboding the human heart can become. Jesus did not come to call the righteous, but sinners;

But go and learn what this means: I desire mercy, not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners. Matthew 9:13

this is the testimony of one such sinner.

This is a poetic journey from darkness to light, a journey that has been a lifetime in the making. A journey that would not be possible without the Lord Jesus Christ.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 16, 2008
• ISBN: 9781462836031

W.F. Rhoads

W.F. Rhoads lives in Natural Bridge Station, VA with his wife Dodie and their Jack Russell terrier, Petey. He is the father of 3 married daughters (Erin, Erika and Eileen) and the grandfather of 2 grandsons (Adam and Fred) and 3 granddaughters (Rachel, Holly and Hannah). “In addition to salvation and eternal life, everything that I have, everything that I am, everything that I ever will be, I owe to the Lord Jesus Christ. Without His love and grace this story would be meaningless, just as life (any life) is meaningless without Him. All mankind owes Him more than can ever be repaid.”

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even Einstein knew that

A poetic journey from

darkness to light

W.F. Rhoads

Copyright © 2008 by W.F. Rhoads.

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Contents

Introduction

The Darkness

Hot Summer Nights

SON

Father

The Night

Oh Poet

Dead Places

Night Whore

The Bearded Man

Sigmund’s Full of Shit

Only For a Moment

Etc.

The Last Play

Voices

Sometimes

Some Things

Colorado Gold Mining

This Guy at Work

Where Midnight is Forever

Cruel Intentions

Grocery Shopping

A Chip Off the Old Block

No Apologies Offered

A Dime a Dozen

This One’s for You Scott

Size Doesn’t Matter

Bad Asses

Love and Dead Poets

dead poets tell no tales

not even once

now I know

even Einstein knew that

sometimes now

This Prison

The Light

Parole

Mediocrity

Worthy

Forever

Yeshua

Through You

Lead Me O Lord

Jeremiah 17:14

Just Believe

Rejoice

He is There

Every Tear (Revelations 7:17)

Any Less

300 Miles Away

(Please Wake Up America)

Just the Same

Everything

All That I Have

Just as He Promised

All Things are Possible

A Son of God

Slave

Truth

The Way of Truth (Matthew 7:13-14)

Once Again (Luke 5:8)

I Know

Discipline

Every Breath

Where is Thy Sting?

(I Corinthians 15:55)

The Comforter

Joshua

I Will

One Flesh

I Am So Close

True Love

Vanities and Vexation

In You

The Day is Near

Backup

In the End

Introduction

Imagine standing in a corridor so dark you can barely see your hand in front of your face. As you begin walking down this corridor, you bump into walls and bang into objects, with no idea what they are or where you are going. The darkness grows darker until eventually you are completely enveloped by a black veil, unable to see anything at all. Then off in the distance you see a light, just a spec at first, and you slowly begin to make your way towards it. As you get closer the light grows, until eventually it illuminates the passageway that you are standing in. In the light you can see the sad, pathetic state of your life. You can see all the imperfections and mistakes. For the first time you see yourself as you really are, all the things you could not see in the dark. Then out of the light comes a voice which tells you not to fear, just believe, that He can fix all the things you see wrong, if you only trust in Him. And it is a free gift, which He has already paid for.

This is a poetic journey from darkness to light, a journey that has been a lifetime in the making. In addition to salvation and eternal life, everything that I have, everything that I am, everything that I ever will be, I owe to the Lord Jesus Christ. Without His love and grace this story would be meaningless, just as life (any life) is meaningless without Him. All mankind owes Him more than can ever be repaid.

I can never remember a time when I did not believe in the Lord. I accepted Jesus into my life as a child, where I periodically attended church, but I never allowed Him to become Lord of my life. Around the time I was 20, I did ask the Lord to come back into my life, and I walked with Him for several months, but I was more interested in satisfying the desires of the flesh, as many are, and I fell away once more. There are many reasons for that but none of them are excuses, eventually we all have to make our own choices and be held accountable for them. Fortunately, as He says in the bible, He never leaves us, (we leave Him), and I am here to testify that He always stands knocking just outside the door of our hearts, waiting for us to hear His voice and open the door to Him.

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