The Beauty of Love

By Deborah Reeves

Can you imagine being free from worry, discontentment or unfulfillment? Do you want to enjoy the world around you and be grateful for what you have and where you are right now? You have the opportunity and the power to change where you are if you are ready. This book will gently guide you through inspirational poetry to the scriptures which have the power to give you life abundantly. You have to take the first step toward saving your own life. The first step is getting out of your own way. Dont look at what has been done to you as much as what you are doing or not doing to and for yourself. Let me encourage you to take that first step and continue to step toward a better life by changing your life from the inside out. When you know better, you can do better and it will show a better you. When you are able do better, bless others. Start today by incorporating this book in your life to encourage you on your path to a fulfilling and blessed life. The Beautify of Love can change your life starting today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 26, 2014
• ISBN: 9781491864371

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© 2014 Deborah Reeves. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

Published by AuthorHouse 02/22/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4918-6438-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4918-6437-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014902990

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

It Is Time

Let Me In

Open Up Your Heart

Ready

When Things Happen

Let It Go

Let Me

Thank You, God

You Know Best

The Lord Will Deliver

I Need Help

Instrument of Peace

I Can Do

Take Heart

Although

May the Lord

There Is A Time

Lord, Lift Me Up

I Know My God

Wake Up

Let Not

The Blessings

It Is Hard

As I

God Grant Me

Help Me To Take Time

Thank You For Today

Lord I Know You

The Way

Thank You

You Know Me

Let Me Love You

Let Not

Not To Know

Let It Be

All The Day Long

Study

Trust

We Can Do It Through Christ

God is So Good

God Is So Real

Blessings

Lord Help Me To Breathe

Each Day Is A New Opportunity

What Is Your Fuel

Opportunities For Good

Only Fear The Lord

Blessings Are Gifts

Follow

I Will Go On

Delivered

Priorities

In A Better Land

The Longer

Believe It

Let Me Walk

Love Is

I Need You Lord

I Will Praise Him

God Is So Good

Taking Care

I Want To Thank You

Lord What Do I Do

To Be With God

Lord Help Me To Make It

Lord You Know

Let’s Talk

Thank You

I Will Call

Do You Believe

Praise God

Lord Give Me Strength

God The Father

Follow Christ

Choices

Lord You Know

Lord Help Me

Lord Help Me To Go On

Believe

Your Way Lord

Dream

Life

Everlasting Life

The Lord

Let It Be

Lord Clean Me

Surrender

God Will Take Care of You

Bring

Be A Friend

To Be Afraid

Let Me Come

Strength To Go On

Believe

Wake Up!

Opportunity

Who Are You

Ask God

Hold On

See Myself

Let His Mind

Teach Me

Let Me Learn

I Thank You

The Creator

Bring Me Closer

Let Me Pray

Are You Living Your Best Life

A Better Life

Live With Joy

Bring Me Closer

The Roads

As I Go

Are You Growing

The Road of Peace

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Thanks to my dear Sisters and Friends

Katherine Stapleton, a sister in Christ, was a blessing to me in helping me title this book. I thank you, sister, for the love you share. May your life be filled with love daily. I also want to thank my faithful friend and sister in Christ, Donna Brown. She continues to be a blessing by editing the books for me. She has been blessed with a loving kind heart. I pray that she continues to allow God to use her for his glory.

Loving Thanks

I am so thankful to my daughter, Cecelia Reeves-Chavez, who was my primary editor. She also designed the cover of this book. She has been and continues to be a beacon of love with a positive disposition. I want to give a special thanks to my nephew, Timothy Short, who provided the three landscape illustrations. He is very talented and is a student at Georgia State University.

With Loving Gratitude

To my husband, Julian Reeves, a special man in so many ways, I thank God for you. Thank you for your support in everything I do.

FOREWORD

We have a unique need unlike all the other creatures created by a loving God. We are created in God’s image, infused with a deep desire within our souls to love and to be loved. Those who have this great desire to be Christ-like and be clothed in the same manner with the virtue of love strive to be recognized as loving and caring.

Deborah Reeves, a faithful servant of God, has made love her center of interest and draws our attention to The Beauty of Love, a book of inspirational poems to help us take meaningful steps toward a better life. We have the power to change our life by changing ourselves.

By reading these songlike expressions of love, one should develop a better appreciation for Jesus and His love for us. The biggest challenge in life is to learn to love, to understand love, and have compassion towards all men. Across the ages, men in different endeavors have expressed their thoughts on love. Shakespeare eloquently beatified love with his quill by penning, By heaven, I do love, and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy. Songwriters and poets have articulated their opinions with quaint expressions such as,marriage is more than the entanglement of two hearts; it is the entwining of two lives, forever. But Jesus has said it best in John 15:13, Greater love has no man than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. This is the foundation of her book of poetry. Reeves draws effectively from her Christian background, church involvement, and a keen awareness of sacrificial love.

Who should read this book? Everybody! Two young hearts experiencing new adventures of love, every moment they spend together, need godly guidance. The casual reader who wants a life of joy, his inner voice will be reminded of God’s law and how He gives life abundantly. Christians who want to be like Christ in all areas of their life and service will benefit from these poetic writings. Reeves has addressed topics such as