From the Pen of a Ready Writer

By Rebecca Grace Stone

Job is one of the most brave and memorable characters of the Bible. He goes from rags to riches—and is tested and suffers much. He loses property, children, and health and is misunderstood by friends. Despite all this, his life was built on God, so he endured and received God’s reward for his pain and suffering. Poet Rebecca Grace Stone relates to Job’s plight, and perhaps you do too.

From the Pen of a Ready Writer is a collection of poems from a woman still recovering from the storms of life but who continues to receive God’s love and grace. God inspires her words, and she uses biblical verses to support her poems and remind readers that He sees our joy but also our pain.

Rebecca’s poetry is an inspiration to a hurting world. She hopes to encourage those traveling through the journey of life, experiencing both the good and the bad. Rebecca is a blessed survivor of domestic violence, and poetry is her response. To those hurting, to those seeking purpose, her poems extend a divinely inspired hand and provide strength when all we feel is weak.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Nov 21, 2018
• ISBN: 9781532057298

Rebecca Grace Stone

Rebecca Grace Stone was born and raised on a farm in Alabama. She received her BS in nursing from Tuskegee University. She served in the US Army Nurse Corp and reached the rank of captain. She started writing poetry at the age of nine, when she used to hide her work under her mattress.

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CONTENTS

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Give Me a Pen

A Day to Live—Victory

PART I

A Choice to Be Made

The Coming of a Savior

A Friend

A Thankful Day

Abiding in the Shadow of the Almighty

All Is Well Done

An Awesome God

Anoint My Soul

Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Storm

Blessed I Am

To Be Born Again

Born Again

Can You Relate?

Can You See Him?

Changes Occur

Counted Blessings

Cover Me in Your Blood

Each Day

Endurance

Eyes

Faith

Father, in Your Time

First Love

Forgive My Sins

True Forgiveness

Free

From My Sleep

God Is Above All

God Is Over All Things

God Wants to Be Loved: A Revelation

He Is Perfect

He Sent Forth Rain

He’s Blessing Right Now

His Only Son

I Am Blessed because I Live

I Am Just a Stay

I Am Protected

I Am That I Am

I Attend Church

I Boast Myself in Nothing

I Cried

I Praise the King

I Shall

I’ll Fly

In Reverence of His Name

In the Army

In the House of God

It’s Never Too Late

Jesus

John Paul

Joy

Just Ask and More

Just Asleep

Kick against the Pricks

Life

Like No Other

LORD, I Believe

Love

More Blessings Than We Deserve

My Eternal Light

My Father, This Song

My Soul Rejoices

Silent Comfort

Night and Day

No Greater Love

Not a Choice but a Must

Nothing

O Flesh, Move Out of the Way

Once Again

One Day

One Nation under God

Path to Survival

Perils

Last Night

Praise Him

Praising God

Praying and Preying

Praying

Purposed by God

Reach Out and Touch

Redeemed

Riches

Seasonal Changes

See the Cause of the LORD

Shout!

Stamped! Permission Granted!

Sweet Fragrance of Air

Sweet Jesus

Thank You, O LORD, for Your Best

Thanking God

A Cloven Night

The Armor of God

The Blossom of the Flowers

The Breath of Life

The Call

The Calling of a Soldier

The Christmas Tree

The Coming of a Savior

The Fruit

The Great Promoter and Judge

The Harvest

The Holy Ghost

The Humble Child

The Light

The Lost Sheep

The Perfecter

The Power of God’s Word

The Power of the Tongue

The Resurrection of Christ

The Secret Place

The Good Shepherd and the Hireling

The Shepherd’s Call

The Storm

The Two Great Lights

The Voice of Thunder

The Window of the Heart

There Is Nothing Impossible

This Temple

Thoughts

Times

To Be Alive

Today

Trusting

Truth and the Lie

Two Destinies

Undefeated

Vain Repetitions

Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant

What My LORD Can Do

What Profit Have I?

Who Could Have Borne the Cross?

Wisdom

With One Accord

Without Utterance

Your Day

Bought for a Price

Jesus

My Song

Marching On

Joy of the LORD

The Door

His Presence

The Adoration of the Glory of God

A Purpose

My Step

My Source

The Way

Repentance

Nothing without God

Seeking God

The Perfecto

Focusing

Rid Me of My Fleshly Lusts

He Answers on Time

Understanding

Do Not Conform to the World’s Ways

God Restores You

The Head of My Life

The Ability to Think Positive

There Are Blessings in Giving

Due Time and Season

I Believe

Return unto the LORD

And I Kept Talking: Perseverance

PART II

A Biblical Rape

Abraham

David and Goliath

Jonah

Run, Jonah

Pilgrim Psalms (Excerpts)

The King on a Cross: Mockery Is Sin

The Man from Galilee

The New Life

The Prodigal Son

The Seven Sayings of Jesus on the Cross

The True Christmas

The Tower of Babel

The Creation of the World

Job Laments

Signs

PART III

A Complete Change

A Flawless Art

A Gift from God

A Mother Never Forgotten

A Mother’s Love

A Sister, a Friend

A Tribute to Mom

A Woman Well Defined

Age Eighteen

Burnt Skin

Cause the Children to See

Children

Days to Remember

Disaster Hit Our Town

Do You Know What’s in Your Medical File?

Gambling

Goals

Grandma’s Chair Doesn’t Rock Anymore

Hanging Pants

Happy Father’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day, Mom

Headed toward Town

How I Feel Inside Is What You See Outside

I Love You Because

I Pray

I’m Sorry

In Celebration of Black History

Let’s Remember

Marvin

Miss Shellie

Mother, Dear

Mother

Mr. Mom

My Child, My Child

My Father

My Gift, My Mother

My Hugging Mother

My Mr. Arthur (Arthritis)

No More, No More

Obey Your Parents

One Sip

Our House

Praying Women, Praying Mothers

Preachers Are Also Flesh

Someone at Nine Years Old

Something Holy at the Altar

The Beach

The Buffalo Soldier

The Dream

The Heart That Cries

The Man Who Knocked on My Door

The Mourners’ Bench

The Surgeon’s Hands: God Opens Me

The Tator Family

The Tree I Planted

These Feeble Hands

Think on the Good Things

Weather the Storm

When Taught

Who Threw the Ball?

Wife

You Are My Sunshine, You Are My Guiding Light

Always in My Heart

Mothers Are Special

Laughing at Myself

Peace Be unto You

The Road

Mother. O How Sweet the Word!

Some Time Ago

The Joy of Love

A Treasured Gift

PART IV

A Victim of Abuse

Awakened

Didn’t I?

Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence: The Beginning

Fear

I Looked Him in the Face

I Survived

I Would Have Never Thought

If It Were Not for God

In the Third Person

It

Just a Call Away

Left for Dead

No Joke!

Not Left Alone

Profanity

Wounds

Silent Screams

Strange but True Events

Street Gangs

Take Heed: Remembering Domestic Violence

The Answer

The Egg That Did Not Crack

The Stranger

The Touch

The Web of Deceit

Through It All

Unimaginable

Where Is Annie Mae?

An Overcomer

So Many

An Old Cliché

A Soldier

Despite All

You Left Us All Alone

The Tongue

The Key to Myself

Weather the Storm, My Child: The Fight for the Aged

Why Hate Me?

Preface

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I was born and raised on a farm. My father was a farmer, and my mother was a housewife. I had eight siblings. I chopped and picked cotton during free time after school. We had a good time singing church songs in the cotton fields, and most of my friends were around.

I began writing poetry at nine years of age and hid each sheet under my mattress. My pen was ready to write on any subject that sparked my interest or that spoke to me from deep within. Poetry became my voice of response. Later, my poetry became an inspiration to a hurting world. Also at nine years old, I received the Holy Ghost—my born-again experience with God, which I will never forget. During my younger years, I would sit on the porch and ask Him to do things, and He would do them. My closeness to God was awesome. It changed my life.

I was an A student, finishing high school second in my class. I graduated from college and became a registered nurse. I worked for a while in nursing and joined the army later.

At thirty-two years old, I was shot three times with a .357 Magnum by my then husband after only three weeks of marriage, enduring thirty-two facial reconstructive surgeries. After I was shot, I was given a 15 percent chance to live, but God sustained me. Expert doctors work with me to this day.

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