A Life in Verse

By Ruth Young

Cloud forms
From the dust of childhood
Hanging low
Sometimes got in my eyes
And kept me from seeing
Where I wanted to go!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524552749

Ruth Young

Ruth Young is a missionary, disciple maker, Bible teacher, educator, and a pastor’s. She invites readers to journey with her to experience what God can do when we follow His leading. Her missionary journey to Ghana in West Africa has touched the lives of many people and her mission work with her husband Edward Young in Jackson Michigan bears fruit for God’s glory. The simplicity of the gospel of Jesus Christ is evident in the works of the author. She inspires hope in readers to know the grace of God can carry us beyond human limitations. Just like Moses and Gideon who felt they were not qualified to fulfill the call of God on their lives due to human limitations and family background the author wrestled with her limitations however the grace of God helped her to prevail. She inspires readers to walk by faith and see God perform miracles with ordinary people. She demonstrates how God does extraordinary things through ordinary people.The author’s life story is the manifestation of the Spirit life in Christ that causes us to triumph in all things.

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Copyright © 2016 by Ruth Young.

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ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5245-5276-3

                Softcover         978-1-5245-5275-6

                eBook              978-1-5245-5274-9

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Rev. date: 10/18/2016

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Contents

Foreword

Surprise

Just When

An Awakening

Foolish Children

For Aunt Irene on her 90th Birthday

Sadness

Moving in

Intuition

Introspection

For Don

He said/she said

And So It’s The Magic

Much to Learn

Grandmothering

Thoughts While Growing Old

It’s Over

Poor Stan

There’s No one To Dance with

One Summer Companion

To Allan after 25 Octobers

To Allan After 30 years

On Being Bernie’s Friend

To David After He Died

No Indictment

The Other Self

Scared

Locked In

Take a risk

Maybe

A Small Miracle

When grandma was a little girl

When Grandpa was a little boy

Figure It Out

Rhody and Jack

Love Story Part One

Love Story Part Two

On Accepting Change

The BabySitter

Thank You Aunt Irene

I Saw You This Morning

Memory Of My Mother

Memory Of My Father

Black Women

And You Phyllis

Waiting

On Being Apart

Communication

Just Us

Our Angels

Thank You

Don and Ruth

Divorce is Hereditary

Diamond In The Rough,

Our Shame

Foreword

These are my poems about some of the things and people

That happened in my life…

They are in no particular order...because life doesn’t happen in order

For me the firsts and bests were last!

Cover Artwork: original painting by Ruth Young

Surprise

To be in love at any age is amazing

Fourteen - thirty - or sixty three

But to be in love at the end of your life

Is most incredible!

It’s like first love for a second time…

Passion seasoned with wisdom -

Fantasy peppered with reality

A surprise in old age…

A gift with no strings attached!

Just When

Just when I thought life

Was about growing old gracefully