Love Lessons: One Woman's Journey

By Ann Scheck

Deeply introspective and intensely personal, this collection of poems chronicles one woman's journey of faith as she struggles with her world. The poetry is her attempt to sort through what she's always believed and what she experiences to be true in the here and now with all the related emotions. From:"The Lifeguard", "It's All About Me", "Run For Your life", "When Hell freezes Over", to "Happiness", these poems speak to us all. Ultimately, it is a celebration of and gratitude for the lessons Spirit teaches us as we experience the human condition, love lessons.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 26, 2007
• ISBN: 9781477177501

Ann Scheck

Ann Scheck was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1939. She graduated from Hood College in 1961 after being required to take creative writing twice because her writing was trite. Life took care of that and nobody was more surprised than she was when she began writing poetry in 1995. Over the years, Ann has worked as a teacher, director, clown, massage therapist and Reiki master. She is mother and grandmother to four wonderful people. She is a widow and currently lives in Baltimore with her daughter and family.

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Contents

The Lifeguard

The Garden of Life

The Dolphins

Second Hand Faith

Gifts of Spirit

The Golden Path

Wisdom Comes Late

Inperfection

The Quiet Room

Choose Love

Transformation

The Rainbow

Who Is This Woman?

My Authentic Self

Little Miss Perfect

Child of The Earth

Mindfulness

Let Go The Outcome

Reform of A Martyr

Anorexia of The Spirit

Synchronicity

Twice Blessed

Joy Day

Homeless

In The Name of Should

Joy Carries Me

Mary’s Lament

Why Is It So Dark?

Butterfly Time

Hubris

There Is Still Time

Oprah

God Shines

Exploring Darkness

When Grief Comes

Grief

Wake Up

I Loved A Man

A New Song

Once Again

Joy Robbers

Run For Your Life

Now Fly

Reaching For The Stars

Trust

No Excuses

Healing

Fear, Friend, or Foe

Spirit Walks Upon The Earth

The Body Speaks

The Birthing Room

Welcome Little One

Fear

God’s Small Ones

God Plays Dirty Pool

Invite Love To Tea

The Ultimate Profanity

Emergency

Getting It

God Gathers Us

The Dream Team

In Praise of Persistence

Holiday Gatherings

Ask

Will You Love Her

Fully God, Fully Human

Loving The Enemy

Aids Day

My Heart Doesn’t Care

He Loves Me Still

Moving On

In The Beginning

Sitting At His Feet

A Red Rose

Questions

The Artist

Three Cheers

Remember

Lost

These Feet

The Whine

It Definitely Does

Best Life

What If

What Kind of God

I’m Fine

We Follow

It’s All About Me

Hugs

Lost Boys

Joy

The Bitch

Intention

New Grief

The Apple Tree

Secret Garden

The Old Tree

Evolution

For The Girls

An Unlived Life

Tears

Enough

Happiness

This work is dedicated to my late husband, Bob Scheck, whose life and

death inspired many of these poems. My thanks to family

and friends for their encouragement and to the

Kindred Spirits who acted as midwives for this book.

Many thanks to Lexi without whom this

book could not have been in print.

The Lifeguard

I ran into my life

arms outstretched,

full of bright promise and high expectations;