Emotions: A Course Through Life

By Jean Bedward

Emotions, is based on a journey throughout my life which is expressed through poems and spoken-words.
It highlights the challenges faced due to the choices made and the consequent setbacks, stagnancy or growth.
This book seeks to paint a picture for the reader of the emotional turmoil encounter from an early age that has the ability to trap you in a particular state of existence for years to follow. The impact on my Christian walk and the resulting cycle of unrest and indecisiveness inspired this poetry.
The cycle of emotional instability is broken upon my return to the presence of God with the elevation to a place of peace and growth in all areas of my life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483628004

Jean Bedward

Jean was born in London England in 1965 and is the younger of two children. On 1st July 1989 Jean married the father of her two children, Craig and Ayesia. Jean went on to have an additional two children Taleeba and Shekinah with her husband; however the marriage broke down and ended 12th June 2001. In July 2005 Jean immigrated to Brampton in Canada with her four children, where she now attends New Birth Tabernacle church and has a leadership role in mentoring. Her passion is to teach about being a good steward and setting people free from financial bondage by going “Back to Basic” the Bible way.

Book preview

Emotions

Emotions are like a sea

Which can take you by surprise

Its roots are embedded deeply

Taking control of our lives

It traps your mind, and controls your thoughts

And will change the environment you are in

It takes away clarity, it brings you no sight

No vision, no hope, no strategy to cope

No peace, no joy because it tries to destroy

The real you that you were and now to be no more

You’re controlled by the state of the emotion you spin

You’re a poppet in your body, you feel you just cannot win

You are a prisoner of your feelings and a servant to your moods

You are a product of your thinking going nowhere too soon

You are heavy burdened, Just wanting to escape

But the doors won’t open, to allow you that break

So you sit and you think and you wonder all day

Will I ever see freedom, coming my way

But today if you will hear, and open up your ears

You will realize this cycle is to torment and to scare

So do not sit in pity, or be a victim of your past

For you will only receive when you can begin to believe

That this sea of emotion will not set you free

Unless you

Change your way of thinking, change your view of life

Instead of become a victim become a victor in the fight (9th April 2013)

James 1:7-8

New King James Version (NKJV)

⁷ For let not that man suppose that he will