Feeling Wheels: Poetic Messages of Celebration, Reflection, and Emotions

By Gwendolyn Carole Tipton

GWENDOLYN CAROLE TIPTON has spent three years journaling her life with a mandate to put her daily thoughts into emotional verses.

This small book has five chapters that compile her feelings of joy, sadness, and perhaps madness, to share with readers:

A. Celebration of Lives
B. Reflections and Meditations
C. Songs of Love and Inspiration
D. Poetic Messages of Praise
E. Quatrains Define Emotions

These are 250 verses that represent poetry, spiritual messages, and song lyrics. Each one reflects a time on her journey when those thoughts and observations were prevalent. As a reader, Feeling Wheels will take you on a ride through the spectrum of emotions, tapping into a wellspring of feelings.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781493195435

Gwendolyn Carole Tipton

Gwendolyn Carole Tipton retired from a long career in the housing finance industry. She is the author of Journal It! Take Hold of Your Life by Journaling; two devotional journal books, The Prayor: One Who Prays and The Prayor Worships with Isaiah; and Feeling Wheels: Poetic Messages of Celebration, Reflection, and Emotions, a collection that holds 250 verses of poetry and songs. Tipton grew up surrounded by believers. She learned very early about the power of prayer and filled her books with Bible Verses and Prayers. As a long-time writer before retirement, she spent thirty-seven years as part of her profession, writing documents and newsletters and speaking to large and small groups nationwide. She lectures at universities and churches, where her classes focus on the power of transforming your life by journaling.

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Contents

Acknowledgement

Feeling Wheels

A.Celebration of Lives

1. Give Thanks

2. Fitting Together

3. We’re Celebrating the Christ Child’s Birth

4. To My Daughter

5. Happy Birthday, Mom

6. Mother’s Day

7. Congratulations to Ms. Patricia

8. It’s Mother’s Day

9. It is Valentine’s Day, Mom

10. My Best Friend

11. Be True To Yourself

12. When We Met

13. Our Love Gone Awry

14. Love You

15. You Inspire My Life

16. Love Is…

17. This is My Love Story

18. Good-bye, My Love

19. Friendship Stands

20. Amateur

21. Friendships

22. He Found Someone New

23. Twenty-Five Years of Marriage… Gone

24. My Heart

25. Anger Ultimately Repents

26. Gwen, Stop Grieving

27. Bullying

28. Trust in Our Love

29. I’ve Been Here Too Long

30. I Have Not Wept

31. Emotions

32. My Heart Aches for Understanding

33. Look at the Ladies

34. Women of Color

35. August—Your Travel Month

36. Prison

37. Latin Aerobics Lady

38. Dream Clock

39. Trophy Wife

40. Baby Boomers

41. Time Travels

42. Do You Have a Hobby?

43. Options

44. Sound of Beauty

45. Each Day

46. They Call Him Mr. Black

47. They Say We Look Like Twins

48. Good Steward

49. Death

50. So Much Unfinished Business

51. Watch What You Say

52. The Dreamer Dreams

53. Sometimes I Think I’m Dreaming

54. It’s Been a While Since I Cried

B. Reflections and Meditations

55. Affirmation

56. Intermezzo

57. I Am Most Complete

58. Every Day I Stumble

59. Set Me Free

60. A New Home

61. To Do List

62. Together As One

63. The Right Man for Me

64. Re-parenting My-Self

65. Planning Your Days

66. Our New Family

67. September in Ohio

68. Working at the Garage

69. Hauntingly

70. Turning Sixty

71. Aging

72. Grandma Passed Away Today

73. Father Peaching-Man

74. Journey Life

75. Memories

76. I Wish I Could Again

77. Days of the Week

78. Behind Bars

79. Separation

80. Living is Art

81. Command Your Starship

82. Fresh New Day

83. For My First Born Son

C.Songs of Love and Inspiration

84. I Need a New Heart—Mine Has Been Broken

85. It’s Been a Long, Costly War

86. Love Me Today

87. Thoughts of You

88. I Don’t Want to Be Alone

89. I’ll Be There For You

90. Friends

91. It’s Over

92. I Give You My Life

93. In the Sanctuary

94. He Is Your Praise

95. It Was All in His Plan

96. Keep on Praising Him

97. Sing a New Song

98. I Yearn For My God

99. Prayer

100. I’m Walking In Prayer

101. He Will

102. No Matter What I’m Facing

D.Poetic Messages of Praise

103. We Become Fishers of Men

104. Forgive and Forget—Free Yourself

105. Who Will Answer the Call

106. This Body is Still Real

107. From Water to Wine

108. Seek Him—He Is Waiting

109. Older

110. As Believers

111. Abundant Life

112. We Are Called to Measure Up

113. As We Quench For Him

114. Lent

115. Here I Am, I Want To See

116. Welcome To God’s Adventure

117. My Day

118. Yoga, God, and Me

119. Thank You For This Place

120. When Saul Becomes Paul

121. My Faith

122. Preach the Good Word

123. Transformation Is On You

124. Do You Love Me?

125. Let It Be

126. Love God

127. On the Mountaintop

128. How Do I Know I Love Him?

129. Now I See

130. Pentecost

131. The Bridegroom is Coming

132. Ascension

133. Say ‘Yes’ to the Will of God

134. His Humanity

135. Wisdom and Prudence

136. The Bible Says

137. Worship and Praise Works

138. Purity

139. By Way of the Cross

140. My Epiphany

141. Miracles of Jesus

142. Receive His Anointing

143. God Breathes Into Our Being

144. I Touched Him

145. Power of the Resurrection

146. Show Me My Purpose

147. Triumph and Tragedy

148. Whatever Is Pleasing to Him

149. My Body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit

150. I Have a Gift

151. Healing

152. Ash Wednesday

153. Stay With Me

154. This Week of Holies Brought Easter

155. I Want You Lord

156. Giftor

157. Conversations With Him

158. The Attitudes To Be

159. Is Anybody Listening To My Cry

160. O Sovereign Lord

161. Jesus

162. Holy Week

163. Communion

164. Thank You for Your Presence

165. The Catholic Church and Me

166. His Touch

167. Holiday with God

168. Worthy of Praise

169. Mystery of Love

170. The Journey Called Life

171. My Daughter’s Voice

172. Relationships

173. Fasting

174. Message of Pentecost

175. Moving My Cheese

E.Quatrains Describe Emotions

176. Aggression

177. Aggravated

178. Alienation

179. Anger

180. Anger to Joy

181. Annoyed

182. Anxiety

183. Anxious

184. Apathetically

185. Aware

186. Bashful

187. Bittersweet

188. Bored

189. Compulsive

190. Confident

191. Crazy

192. Curious

193. Depression

194. Determined

195. Disappointed

196. Discouraged

197. Disgusted

198. Enamored

199. Ecstatic

200. Enthusiastic

201. Entitled

202. Envious

203. Excited

204. Exhausted

205. Fairly Well

206. Fearful

207. Feeling Wheels

208. Frightened

209. Frustrated

210. Forlorn

211. Grieving

212. Guilty