Saved by Grace: Spiritual Poems, Poetry & Short Stories

By Rosetta Johnson

This manuscript is dedicated to my mother, the late minister Rose Marie Johnson.

This book does not bear any reflection on any given person or place. The contents are my own personal perspectives with regard to the Bible—expressions, accounts, expectations, inspirations, and anticipated positive outcomes. The poems are short and long stories. They are simple and relatable. In addition, they’re based solely on my personal experiences, beliefs, events, and hypotheticals.

So when you read this manuscript, remember that these poems and stories reflect years of events related to hardships, heartbreaks, and triumphs. However, with the help of God, prayers, doctors, caring people, and grace, I was able to recover and fight my way back. The road ahead is still long, but my Lord and Savior will be with me every step of the way.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 20, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796066548

Rosetta Johnson

Rosetta Johnson is a fifty-nine-year-old single parent, born and raised in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where she currently resides with her twenty-year-old daughter, Shadasia Rose. In addition, she is inspired by her two sisters, Minister Darlene Marie Johnson and Missionary Daphene Ann Johnson, both bona fide Christian women of faith. Rosetta is the daughter of the late minister Rose Marie Johnson. She attended the Asbury Park public school system and then later obtained two associate’s degrees from Brookdale Community College in 1999 on criminal justice and social science. She also has a general law enforcement diploma from the NCS correspondents’ school and a master’s degree in criminal justice from Monmouth University in 2004. For ten years, she worked for the City of Asbury Park, New Jersey, as a program monitor and neighborhood preservation program director. As a program monitor and director of these programs, she wrote grants and worked with the State of New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (DHUD). Because of a bad motor vehicle accident, she retired in 2008. Rosetta also worked for Shadow Lawn Bank as a property manager for years, and in addition to everything that was mentioned, after acting as a school latch key teaching instructor for the YMCA, Rosetta also created the city’s energy maintenance network, which assisted people who couldn’t pay their utility bills in 2001–2008. Rosetta has been president of the United for the Community nonprofit organization since 1991. The organization’s primary role and function is to address secondary Issues in the southwest of the city with regard to improving the residents’ quality of life. Rosetta was very active in politics and was selected as an intern with Sen. Barack Obama’s administration. She was stationed in Virginia in early 2008. Afterward, she decided to return home to run for city council in her hometown of Asbury Park, New Jersey.

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Copyright © 2019 by Rosetta Johnson.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2019916663

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-7960-6656-2

                Softcover        978-1-7960-6655-5

                eBook              978-1-7960-6654-8

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Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version). First published in 1611. Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation.

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Rev. date: 10/21/2019

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Introduction

I’m not a gifted writer like most, but I still enjoy talking about my creator and about my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I can’t say enough or thank him enough for all he has done for me. I praise him in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night. I have Jesus on speed dial in my prayer closet. If that’s any indication of how much I love and need him, you guessed right.

I’m also grateful to God for sacrificing his only begotten son to save the world from sin. Finally, I’m more than thankful for all Jesus has done for me, proving that he loves me unconditionally, and I love him wholeheartedly.

Contents

Introduction

Supernatural Supreme Being

Loving You, Lord, Is Easy

My King of Kings

I Marvel over Christ

I Saw a Star Climbing the Sky

Forgiven Already

Don’t Try to Figure It Out

Life with Christ

Divine Grace, Speak

Do You See What I See?

Heaven’s Gate

Lord, How Did You Know?

Pray, Rely, and Lean

Smile at Your Storm

Jesus Picked Up All the Pieces

Clear Up My Spiritual Highway

When I Throw My Hands Up

A Love Letter to Jesus

Where Spirits Meet

God’s Faithfulness

Peace After All

Jesus Is Excellent

Five Wounds of Christ

Don’t Cry for Me When I’m Gone

The Awakening

Heaven Is Just One Breath Away

Still Your Children

Heartbroken Soul Intact

When Life Makes You Blow, Call Jesus

Jesus Is Ready and Willing

Before I Sleep

Red Velvet Sunset

Where Angels Fly

Ceremony Drums

One Billion Likes on Earth

Lord, Fix Me

Have You Ever?

Morning Cancel Dreams

Thanksgiving Without You

Thanksgiving and Pizza

I Remember When I Was Introduced to the Lord

Revenge and Vengeance

Jesus Wept

Purgatory

You Still Give Me Butterflies

A Sinner’s Request

Don’t Be in No Rush to Be Like Me

Satan Unapologetic — The Adversary

Jesus with the Petrified Soul

Escaping to Heaven

God Has Been So Good

An Urban Tale

The Evolution of Sin

I Don’t Believe in Much

Metaphorical Bloodstained Banner

The Atheist and Well-Wisher

A Simple Thanksgiving Prayer

I Would Trade a Lifetime

As I Begin My Day, I Say

The Master of My Soul

Judgment Day —Resolution

Just Like That

Conscience of God

The Man from Shiloh

Biography

So the

Journey

Begins

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Supernatural Supreme Being

He who walks amongst

the unseen is a unique

spirit. He is a supernatural

supreme being, and his

name is

God. He is who he is

unequivocally, the divine

master of the universe.

God is divinely majestic,

almighty, seraphic, holy,

all-seeing, and all-knowing, also

powerful and eternal. He

has no beginning and no

end, just an everlasting God.

He’s the cosmological engineer

of the gravitationally bound

planets in the solar system

and the landscaper

of the universe.

God is the inferno that

blazes the sun with each sunrise

and the energizer that lights up

the moon and stars at night.

He shows divine love and

favoritism toward heaven,

his faithful, the earth, and

mankind.

God is the designer

and architect of all things.

He’s righteous, a healer,

a way maker, a father to

the fatherless, a mother to the

motherless, a friend to the

lonely, and a great comforter for those who just need him near. God combats the evil and darkness that want to consume and harm what he loves to break his spirit.

God is holy and upright,

capable of love and sharing

his love. He wants us to repent for our sins so we can be saved because he loves us and wants to be with us through all of eternity in the new heaven and wants to be just remembered, for God so loved the world, he created and

mankind in spite of the

devil’s manipulation and mankind’s weaknesses.

God saved man by sacrificing his only begotten son because the devil is always gonna lose.

God wants us to know his

purpose for our lives. We all

have been given a purpose

for being here according to

his plan. God’s primary calling for all of us is to know him and be known by him.

O Lord, you have searched me, and you know me. I will present my body as a living sacrifice to carry out your will with the gift you have given to me until

you return.

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Loving You, Lord, Is Easy

Each and every day,

I pray that

the Lord, in all his magnificence,

never turns me away. You see, my life has been a trilogy of so many worldly ideologies, such as lust, money, and sinful ways.

My master had another plan. It started with him holding my hand. God sent me a kind and loving gentleman. That’s why