Listen with Your Heart

By Alvina Y. Platt-Gregory

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 5, 2006
• ISBN: 9781465316233

Alvina Y. Platt-Gregory

Alvina Y. Platt-gregory, a health and physical Education teacher at Carroll Robbins Elementary School here in Trenton has recently received (3/01/02) The International Poet of Merit Award from the International Society of Poets. Alvina’s poem “To Thine Own Self Be True”, was written in memory of her mother, Lillie Bell Moody, who died April 26, 2001. She wrote the poem 3 days later after having a heart to heart conversation with her. Alvina’s poem is published in a book entitled “The Color of Our Dreams”, published by the International Society of Poets. It’s a collection of poems entered in the poetry.com contest. Alvina’s poem has been selected to be in a 3 tape cassette series, on CD and an album. She was educated in the Trenton School System where her 2nd grade teacher , Mrs. P. Newsome of Trenton, recently deceased, encouraged her creative writing. Trenton Still makes and the World takes. Congratulations to one of our own.

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Contents

My Speaking Heart

An Affirmation

Become

God’s Best

Choose Life and Live

Born Again

Born to Die

Beware!

3 G’s to live by

G-12*

Fight!

Jesus, I Want You!

I will remember

Let

God Would

Give Me Rest

Life in a Funnel

Life is a Play

Mind your Mind

No Room to Stray

Excellent with You (God)

Dancing with the Wind

A Holiday union

Don’t Wait

Don’t think

Marital Bliss

HOLY Matrimony

Mother’s Day

Poor little fifth grader

The New One

The Face of Age

November 29th

Oh Lord

A Closer Look

Pastors from God

An Ode to a Prophetic Songs tress

Everything

Free Indeed

Peace

Relationships

A Salute

Reveal

I sought God

I Receive

Shining Star

A Radiant light

The Stone

"SHOES, the different souls

of MAN"

Thank You

Things Happen

The Oneness of You

I am

The Great Sacrifice

My Sneakers (friends)

To Thine Own Self Be True

Can’t Stay

True freedom

You

Twenty-Five

The Nifty Fifties

Walk Away

Unconditional Love

Whenner

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

In a Season

A Holiday union

Steps to developing a

Spirit of Persistence

Part II

My Reflective Notes and

Prayer List

A Prayer for our governments

A prayer of praise and thanksgiving

A prayer to Become Trusted

Prayer Warriors

A prayer to break the strongholds

A Prayer to receive Holiness

A Prayer asking for Sanctification

Opening Prayer

Steps To Salvation

I dedicate this book to the Holy Trinity: God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Thank you for giving me the courage to obey and put it into print for others to listen with their hearts as they read each poem that will speak to them right where they are.

My Speaking Heart

I dedicate my life to the Holy Trinity,

Who I will love, honor and respect

Forever throughout eternity.

Thank you for compassion to reach the mark,

The passion to live and do my part.

The courage to stop complaining and start,

Listening… to my speaking heart.

Thank You!

An Affirmation

I am a representative of God. I won’t think more highly of myself than I ought. I will keep God’s statues and commandments and please him, because of this he will not put the diseases of the Egyptian on me for he is the Lord thy God that healeth thee (me).

Become

Jesus said become like me for I became like you

To experience all the things that