Daily

By Mary Wyatt Byers

Our lives can change so often during the course of a day! Its easy to feel as though youre spinning out of control. What if we did not have a loving God who faithfully watches over us daily? He never judges us according to our mistakes, but he is always there to guide us in making wiser choices the next time and to lift us during times of despair.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543452679

Mary Wyatt Byers

Award winning poet, Mary Wyatt Byers, is a resident of Charlottesville, Virginia. She is married and has a son and daughter. Among her poetic accolades, she has received numerous certificates of appreciation for her participation in the World of Poetry contests (Sacramento, California/ 1987-91), and three Editor Choice Awards for outstanding achievement in poetry presented by the National Library of Poetry (1993, 1995, 1996). Three of her poems have been published by the National Library of Poetry Organization in its poetry anthologies entitled Whispers in the Wind (1993), Best Poems of 1995, and Best Poems of 1996. Mary has had one play and four volumes of poems copyrighted since 1991. She has published two inspirational poetry books: Seasons of Life: Perspective (2009 ) and Reflections (2014).

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Miracles All Around Us

Get Out of the Valley

CALM (An Acrostic Poem)

Silence! Love!! Trust!

Sing

Be Thankful

Stress

A Game of Scrabble

Oh, Give Thanks!

Less Motion…More Waiting

In His Presence

Be Still

The Divine’s Help

Self

Love

Just A Touch

Relationship

Praise: Perspective

The Open Hand

Natural Beauty

Like Ripples

Simplicity

Precious Cargo

Learning to Cling

An Afterthought:

To Know

Persistence

That Thing Called Prayer

No Position…Just a Servant

Smiles

Peculiar

Perfection

In Passing

In the Mirror

No Dark Days

Let the Past Pass

Meekness

Kill Self

Be Merciful

Pure Love

At His Feet

How Great is Our God!?!

Before Understanding Came

All Is Well

Never Judge

First

Never Cease

Did I….

Stay in the Ship

Claim It

Forget

Trees That Please

He Holds….

Relinquish Control

How Do…

Renew

God Everlasting

Own or a Loan???

Rams

Testimonies

Immanuel

All He Asks

Be Still

He Loves Me Forever!

What Do You Do…

Thank You!

Three Trees in My Life

Conditional Faith

I Fall

Mighty Oak and Scrawny Pine

Glory Came Down

Our Indescribable God

Jesus, My Peace

If…

In the Midst of It All

The Skin That I’m In

Daily

Epilogue

Bibliography

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to you, the reader. I believe that it is God’s gift to you. Just as He has awakened my senses to the world around me in the light of His unique glory, I believe that yours, too, will be heightened to His ever-loving presence in our lives. The difficulties we face on a daily basis are all orchestrated by a loving and merciful God Who alone matures us for the destiny He’s created each of us for. And, if we but only trust Him, our end will always be better than our beginning.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank our triune God for the privilege of completing a third poetry book! Some may think that that is not much of an accomplishment; but, for me, it is more than an accomplishment because I had thought that the first book was to be my only one. God, however, is not interested in us telling Him what our plans are when He knows and understands why He’s created us. That in itself explains why this book had to be written, too.

If we are to follow the plans He has for our lives, then we must learn to be submissive to His will for us. Of my own, I would keep every poem His Holy Spirit entrusts me with to myself, but it has been revealed clearly to me that the poems He’s given are not to be secretly guarded in my personal treasure chest. I, therefore, thank God for His encouragement through friends and family members who commented so positively about my last book, Reflections, and asked, When will you write the next book?

I most certainly must thank Him for allowing Holy Spirit to inspire and guide the writing of each individual poem in this book. At times, I had to reluctantly pick up pen and paper when a thought came, or I knew that what God wanted to say to someone at a particular moment in time would be forever lost.

As in my other two poetry books, I desire that each person who reads the poems will feel the presence of the Lord in each verse. These poems are for you as much as they are for me! May God bless your reading!

INTRODUCTION

Much has happened since the publication of my last book in 2014, to say the least. Of course, there are ups and downs in all of our lives, but the best thing of all is knowing that the Lord will remain a constant presence throughout all situations and circumstances. Even as I write, I am reminded of the losses of family, church members, community leaders, political leaders, actors, singers, and the list goes on!

To everything, there is a season (Ecclesiastes 3:1) is so true. I am now retired totally from the teaching profession, as of June 2015 (31years as teacher, 1 as substitute, 8 as instructional assistant). My first year was spent believing that I needed to go back and earn extra money since I no longer had the financial support of the Charlottesville City School system for health insurance….What a cost-shocker!!! This was to be in conjunction with continued financial support of my son. The miracle of it all has not been what I’ve done to continue all this, but what God alone has done to maintain my financial status without additional finances each month since retiring! Truly He alone deserves the credit!!!

God has been teaching (and continuing to teach me) over this past year (2016) to place my complete trust in him. Right now, I am learning how not to set the alarm clock, but to allow the Lord to awaken me daily. It’s funny how we already realize this truth as Christians, but will still set those clocks although God is saying