The Colors of Life

By Albert J. Corey

The Colors of Life is a collection of poems and short stories, which pair up our everyday experiences with the God-given colors around us. Reading this book will give you a new appreciation of the rainbow colors we get to see every day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504919104

Albert J. Corey

Albert Corey was born in Mahopac, New York, and graduated from Carmel High School in 1966. He later received a master’s degree in theology from Christian Life School of Theology in Columbus, Georgia. He has served in the navy for four years and for the last forty-plus years has been a designer for Pawling Engineered Products in Pawling, New York. His many interests include art, music, crafts, collecting, writing, and most of all, Jesus. His life has been an ongoing challenge to find out what God has in store for him every step of the way.

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Published by AuthorHouse   07/21/2015

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Contents

Foreword

Green

Job 33

Worlds

As One

’Til the Tide

A

In the Silence of Darkness

The Next Hill

That’s Not Home

Yellow

Let Me Wear my Worship

Color Your Day

Fill Me

Lifting Up My Hands

Place

Air and Sand

Ecclesiastes

Parameters

As I Begin to Study

Away, Away, If I Could Fly Away

Orange

The Page

Life in a Pot

That’s When I Knew (about the wall)

Pursuit of Happiness

Lost Jewels

If Only I

The Die Has Been Cast

Ancient

Road to Heaven

Red

Between the River and the Rose

I Asked

If I Gave You a Ribbon

Music Box

Love is Simple

I

You Have Amazing Eyes

Running Away From Home

Purple

The Dew of the Morning

Before I Say Goodbye

Cut Off

What’s Left?

There Upon The Wall

Precarious

When Still a Child

Strings

Maybe

Two Shadows

Blue

Hazel to Blue (for Maddy)

The Easy Chair

I Know It’s There

The Quest

Rust Is Rust

Pride

Can’t Connect With Truth

Beginnings

Judas Held the Money

Life in a Pot

Gathering

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Songs to Poems to Songs

The Last Song

This book is dedicated to all the special people that God puts in your life … people that may not realize it but who help mold and shape the lives we live. What we do with those relationships is the thing matters. I pray God’s richest blessing on every one of them.

Al

Special thanks to Beth Ferris for all her input with the stories

Foreword

I have been interested in art since I was five years old. My passion for making colors work together and getting lines to do what I wanted them to do has consumed a great deal of the time I’ve been here. To me each color and every line has its purpose and its own distinct characteristic and getting them all to play nice in the sand box is still an ongoing challenge. Once in a while it works, and when it does, I have created something that not only I enjoy but others as well. Other times I try to learn from what went awry, regroup, and start again. I learn more from my mistakes than from the things that went well.

When I was deciding how to set up this book, the concept of using rainbow colors seemed like a natural thing for an artist who also writes, to do. I decided to give each chapter a main rainbow color and arrange the writings accordingly. As with rainbow colors no one color, or in this case chapter, is more dominant than the other. When each rainbow color is allowed to be involved there is beauty and purpose, balance and direction. Yet everywhere you look in our world one color is always pitted against another with each color thinking the other as less than. Instead of attempting to blend together, they choose instead to fight it out until there is no one left standing. It was not God’s original purpose for the rainbow or for this world.

The purpose of this book is not to solve all the world’s problems or stop all the killing and heartache (Although that would be something). I set out to show the positives of each color as I see them with many of the strengths they have to offer and then allow you to blend them together. We all NEED each other, now more than ever before, and if we don’t figure out a way to unite under Jesus, I don’t see a way that we will survive. We keep forgetting that He created ALL the colors and He has distinct reasons and purposes for each one. All we have to do is pray for guidance, listen to what He has to say, do what we feel we’ve heard and figure that out.

Looking at rainbows almost always brings a smile to the viewer’s face … can you imagine the look on a face that sees our world united under God.

Green

To walk in green grass

One must leave his shoes behind

To celebrate spring

Before winter ends

Dreams of green flood through our nights

Moving us forward

Dancing in the grass

As a breeze swirls around you

A taste of heaven

Our tears here on Earth

In Heaven will be no more

The past forgotten

Our children at play

Living out their glory days

To ponder later

G od created green. The promise of spring after a long winter helps us get through all the cold, slush and snow. Watching seeds pushing through the ground to become fresh, green plants brings out something special in each of us. With the entire rebirth happening around us during the spring time we get caught up in it and feel rejuvenated ourselves. After being cooped up all winter, we