Unto the Hills

By L. Irene Chapman

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 28, 2009
• ISBN: 9781465318343

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Contents

Other books by L. Irene Chapman

Acknowledgment

A Child’s Faith

A Glad Accepting Heart

A Grand Retreat

A Hint

A Mountain Peak

A Neighbor

A New Mother’s Prayer

A New Wealth

A Prayer

A Prayer of Thanksgiving

A Small Kindness

A Smile

A Wedding Prayer

A Woodland Chapel

Above My Grave

Adversity

Age

Aging

All He Asks

Alone With God

Amen

Angel

Another Epitaph

Another Way

Another Way

Answered

Approaching Spring

As A Tack

As Christ Returns

As Peter too Late

Autumn’s Song

Awaiting

Awaking

Back Home in Virginia

Be At It

Be Still

Because He First Loved Us

Beloved

Better Than What You Believe

Blessings

Both Sides

But The One Thing

Butterfly

By Faith

By Faith I live

The Greatest Worth.

By My Silence

By The Sea

By What We Gave

Changing

Character Revealed

Children

Choices

Chosen

Christmas Carol

Cicada

Close Behind

Common Daisy

Concrete Footprints

Consequence

Could they Not Pray?

Country Memories

Credulity

Dare to dare

Dear Lord, More Patience Please

Death Conquered

Dementia Of Age

Diotrephes

Disapprobation

Do It

Do You Know Your Worth?

Don’t Look Back

Don’t let Life get you down

Doubt’s Darkness

Early Prayer

Enchanted

Encounter

Equal To The Need

Escape

Eulogy

Even a Fool

Every Pathway More Severe

Everywhere

Except To Ask

Exhausted

Experienced

Faith

Faith

Faith and Love

Far Worth It

Fellow Heirs

First Deed

First Glances

First Summer Storm

Folly And Misfortune

Fools Do Not Remember

For All The Children

Forever Free

Forgiven Failures

From God’s Word

From Seneca

Fulfilled

Get Out Of The Rut

God Does All Things Well

God Does Not Forget

God Is A God Of Love

God is Love

God Speaking

God Still Chooses

God Uses Failures

God Will Be With Us

God’s Art

God’s Beacon

God’s Love

God’s Season

God’s Song

Good Deeds

Good Words Received

Can Cause Good Deeds

Goodbye Lil Pet

Grace, not Age

Greatest Peace

Happy Is She

Have Faith

He Carries Me

He Dared

He is Near

He Stopped Laughing

He Will Guide You

He wont fail

Heartache

Heaven Records All

Heaven’s Song

Heavenly Love

Heb 3:18-19

Heb 6:12

Her First Words

Here To Stay

Hidden Rewards

His Gift

His Love Note

Hollow Tomb

Home

Homeless

Honey in the Rock**

How Do I Know?

How Many Times

Hug Your Child

I Believe

I Cannot Brag

I Don’t Belong To Me

I Have My Lord

I Know I Know

I Remembered

I Shall Rest At Ease

I Will Not Faint

I will Return

I’ll Live As Though Tomorrow I Will Die

I’ll Not Be Moved

I’ll Yield

I’ve Had My Hour

Identity

If I Can

If I had The Power

Impact

In My Despair

In The Workplace

In Unbelief

Ingathering

It Takes Each

It’s Real

1 John 5:4, 6

Jesus The Lad

Job 14:4

Joy

Juxtapositioned

Knowing

Let Me Grow Gracefully

Life’s Little Deeds

Life’s Storms

Likewise

Lil Darling, Awesome Laura

Lord Be Precious

Lord Make Me Willing

Lord, Don’t Let Me Tarry Too Long

Lord, Open Up Your Sky

Lot’s Wife

Love Can Change A Life

Love That Child

Love’s Fuller Meaning

Mama Waiting

Mistakes

More Urgent

Moving On

My Child’s Request

My Children

My Daddy

My Daddy’s Likeness

My Dearest Friend

My Mama’s Hands

My Psalm

My Reward

Nature

Nature’s Voice

Never A Prayer So Small

New Grave

New Life

No Greater God

No Greater Joy

No More Remembered

No Words

Not Of Our Works

Nothing That Matters Is Ever Gone

Now I Can See

Of Man and Beast

Of Nature Part

Old Age

On Reading The 23rd Psalm

Only A Touch

Opposite

Our Father,

Our Gift To God

Our God Will Never Fail

Our Lil Laura

Our Spirits Free

Out in the Forest

Passing it On

Perfect Rest

Perseverance

Perverse Prayers

Praise

Prayer

Prayer For My Child

Prayer Of Faith

Prayer On Aging

Priority

Proof

Proving Faith

Psalms 37: 4-5

Purposed People

Rain

Rain

Raising Praise

Reading Isaiah 49

Reconcilement

Rejoicing

Remembering Daddy

Renewing

Restoration

Returning

Returning Home

Romans 8:26

Scattering Seeds

Search

Semblance

Serenity

Serving

Sharing

Sharing More

Shows Love

Since He Arose

Since The Manger

Snug

So Much Should I

Some Praying Friend

Sometimes It’s Better To Keep Quiet

Special Angels

Special Gifts

Special Moments

Spring

Spring

Spring Sings

Spring Song

Springtime

Still I know

Strange Appeal

Suffering

Summer Song

Supreme Sanctity

1 Thess 2:4

Take Time

Tempers

Thanksgiving

That I’ve Not Lived In Vain

That Look

The Art Of Forgiving

The Best Christmas

The Canaanite’s Love

The Common Chore

May Be Worth More

The Cosmic Thrust

The Evidence

The Fairest Flower

The Greatest Measure

The Heart’s Inn

The Last Milestone

The Message

The Music Stand

The Old Schoolhouse

The Pattern

The Preacher

The Prodigal

The Rose

The Spirit

The Sword

The Unknown Guest

The Very Best

The Weakest Link

There Is A Day Coming

There is a grief

They Knew The Price

This Day

Those To Be Feared

Through My Verse

For Better Or Worse

Through Pain’s Affliction

Times We Waste In Our Haste

Tiny Hand

To Abraham Lincoln*

To Bertrand Russell

To Janie

To Jonathan

To Leonardo de Vinci**

To Live For Him

To My Loved Ones

To O A Battista

To Ralph Waldo Emerson

To Seneca

To Some Of My Friends

To Whom We Belong

Today Is The Day

Transfiguration

Transforming

True Joy

True Sight

Trusting for Adjusting

Unbeguiled

Understanding

Unfinished Symphony

Unrequited

Virginia Scenes

Visa

Visiting Mama

Wait For Me Lord

Walk With My Son

Watch

Water Of Life

We All May Chosen Be

We Must Have Forgotten

We Shall Know It

We Wonder Why

What Christmas Means

When Faith Dies

When God Closes Doors

When these have passed

When We Seem Alone

When we’re Held

Where You Are Led

Why Grieve, Believe

Wild Burro

Winter

Winter Blessings

Winter Winds

Wisdom

Wonder Why

Worst Loss

Yet To Be

Yield

Your Love

Your Will

Other books by L. Irene Chapman

The Anatomy of Tragedy

Figs of Thistles

Beside the Still Waters

A Place of Springs

A Pilgrims Psalms of Praise

Acknowledgment

This book is dedicated to my Father in Heaven

" . . . in whom also we have obtained an inheritance

being predestinated according to the purpose

of him who worketh all things after the counsel of

His own will, that we should be to the praise

of His glory." **

And, to all who a re suffering, it is my prayer that

you will be drawn more closely to God and know

the sustaining solace of His comfort through

your very sorrow and defeat.

That your life will blossom and grow in a new

upward direction from the harsh stimulus of grief.

That from the cataclysm, will spring a new courage,

a deeper understanding, so that life not be

inhibited by remorse but rather, by it,

be set more firmly on course.

In the initial stage of sorrow, it possesses the soul

but after its refining process, the soul confines,

restrains and uses sorrow more magnificently

than the oyster, which makes of that

irritating, imbedded particle, a beautiful pearl.

**Ephesians 1:11-12

A Child’s Faith

He looked at me with tears filling his eyes,

for answers, to the reasons no one knows

or understands misfortunes harshest blows

and so I feigning strength through strange disguise

hug him moments after his mother dies

and try to tell him how the Saviour chose

his mother for her goodness, and bestows

treasures on such Angels in Paradise.

Yet while his whys were more than I could bear

he quietly accepted, then as we prayed

I hid my tears while hearing his small prayer

and ever since my mind this truth engraved,

with childlike faith we must be reconciled

to enter Heaven one becomes a child.

"Verily I say unto you,

Whosoever shall not receive

the kingdom of God as a little child

shall in no wise enter therein."

Luke 18:17

A Glad Accepting Heart

I prayed for things I did not know

that God would not fulfill

until He proceeded to show

that oft we must keep still

as He reveals His will.

I asked for joy, yet had to see

so I could understand

that God gives what is best for me

and not of my demand

but what is in His plan.

And then it seemed but somber cares

that I was left to face

yet still it was an answered prayer

for there God’s wondrous grace

my cares all did replace.

I thank the Lord, beyond my reach

He gave of Heaven’s art

through my unanswered prayers did teach

a deeper greater part,

a glad accepting heart.

A Grand Retreat

When life’s trials have overtaken

all your dreams, and hope is spurned

and your friends have all forsaken

and your heart with fury burns.

Theres a haven free from worry

for the soul a grand retreat,

in this special sanctuary

filled with glory and with peace.

Souls its grand consolements squander

never willing to come there

where each pain is lost in wonder

by the heart lifted by prayer.

Up each new plateau ascended

where no earthly pain betrays,

where the heart worn battle’s ended

won by worship, love and praise.

O I thank you loving Father

for your kind eternal care

we will never have a problem

where we can’t reach you through prayer.

Forgive Lord, faith’s hesitation

where thy chastening is done,

with such blessed consolation

I can face whatever comes.

A Hint

A Nightingale

has cast its spell

and soon compels

attention there be given.

Through songs he brings

sweet lyrics sings

heralding Spring

and hints a bit of Heaven.

A House Is Not A Home

I built a house upon a hill

high up above

on solid ground

and it was somehow unfulfilled

and not enough

but soon I found

a house is not a home until

it’s filled with love

around it bound.

A Mountain Peak

A horizontal view is oft confining

I must lift up my eyes unto the hills

to the bluer sky beyond that is lining

whatever God’s purpose there fulfills.

And my soul is being warmed with such rapture

and glows as if a special key I own

there opens God’s doorway to capture

a first glimpse of God’s transcendent throne.

My heart lifts beyond the clouds dimensions

soft white dust, where the Angels trod

highways of many jeweled dimensions

paying omnipotent respect to God.

In great joyous wonder I am soaring

as an eagle in wild wondrous flight

above the din of the multitudes uproaring

until strangely, the world is lost from sight.

Higher and higher o’er life’s heartaches

the heart like the sun, starts to climb,

melting all care, as frost on the landscape

and troubles, tiny fragments, left behind.

Come ascend with me by the way of God’s mountain

sail with me far above earth’s despair

by drinking deeply from His holy mountain

from the lofty pinnacle of fasting prayer.

A Neighbor

I put up with her strangest ways

and daily crude oppression,

opportunities she betrays

each calculated session,

but further now memory strays

since I learned this lesson.

With every testing, hard I tried

my attitude to mend,

with my rights to defend

through every weakness, grace supplied,

and she told me before she died

I was her dearest friend.

A New Mother’s Prayer

Oh Lord, You’ve blest me with this child

so help me in return

to be more patient kind and wise

for children love discern

and this is how they learn.

Help me to learn to hold my tongue

and not be prone to fret

for words in anger hastily wrung

that haunt us with regret

the child will not forget.

Give me strength through loving grace

that balance may be seen

through needs projected against waste

to gauge the gulf between

these two of life’s extremes.

Help me in love tend each request

while being bold to warn

to not indulge in some excess

when fearing to alarm

means doing much more harm.

Above all Lord, through love’s precepts

I pray you still teach me

that I may follow in your steps

and good example be

for them to follow Thee.

A New Wealth

Put something in your mind

greater than yourself,

surprisingly you will find

a new and treasured wealth.

No more selfish requesting

of how best we can live,

we gain an added blessing

by giving all we can give.

A Poet’s Prayer

Awake us Lord, lo the horizon

is red with fire of dying day,

it is a time for now arising

the truth more powerfully to say.

Let poets cease our petty chattering,

let psalms of praise instead arise,

transform all silly, foolish babbling

and seek a renewed paradise.

Make each word and thought more holy

commissioned by thy Spirit’s pen,

let each vessel however lowly

be channels of hope for fallen men.

Oh please dear Lord, send forth thy message

oh bless each thought, each searching mind

to bring some good out of life’s wreckage

while pointing them to truths divine.

A Prayer

Lord, I thank you for the dirty dishes to clean

that my children are fed before going to bed

and for all the lessons I’ve seen

I praise your name.

Lord, I thank you for the clothes here to mend

that my children are warm and safe from harm

and for all the blessings you daily send

I praise your name.

Lord, I thank you for the work I have to do,

for you giving me this dear family

to do it as my due

to enjoy all my life through

I praise your name.

A Prayer of Thanksgiving

Lord I thank you for your blessings

Even those of cruelest testings

And for every pain and sorrow I’ve been through

For they showed me what I can and cannot do,

For you helped me in my troubles

What I could not do through struggles

So though afflictions many come, or few

I know these woes just bring me close to you.

Oh I thank you for my children

For I know that you are with them

And are helping each one with their daily plans

All across each lone, adventure’s dangerous span,

How I praise you we are healthy

That with Heaven’s love we’re wealthy

For I feel we all are nestled in your hands

With a peace that we will never understand.

When it seems I can no longer

Stand and face it, I grow stronger

When self moves away and makes more room for grace,

Then immediately these sorrows I can face

For these trials meant to search us

Show a higher nobler purpose

So then let affliction’s Angels fiercely chase

And cover me in woe’s loving, sacred place.

As this prayer, my Lord, is ending

I’ll repeat from the beginning

I thank you for all my sorrows I thought wrong

For I’ve learned to recognize where I belong,

Through distresses hard to mention

Brought through evil men’s dissension

I’ve learned affliction comes with joys along

And God, give enough of each to make me strong!

AMEN

A Secret shared

We know a secret

the birds and I

and our hearts correspond

where earthbound people scurry on by

too rushed to hear our songs.

a synchronous rhythm

fills the air

and beats within each breast,

jubilance too great for earth’s despair

too strong to be repressed

in rhapsodic songs our hearts combine

with joys that repercuss

all because we’ve set aside the time

to let God care for us.

A Small Kindness

Reach out for new purpose

again each new day,

give someone a blessing

through something you say.

If but for a moment

a kindness you show

one long may remember

though you never know.

It may be a small deed

through someone’s duress