Potter and Clay

By Joseva Speed

God made you more than enough to make your dreams come true.
You must not reach for anything beyond what’s inside of you.
Smart/hard work, perseverance and pursuit without or in in spite of fear,
will draw all things needed outside of you near.
Personal failure and victory are choices and in that you can trust.
To make your dreams come true God made you more than enough.
Achievements both great and small,
One step at a time accomplishes them all.
Maximize your effects to actualize your dreams.
You and God can do anything.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Sep 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781982263225

Joseva Speed

He is a man who said, “I’ve failed at least ten thousand times.” Victory has of yet, once to be mine. It still holds true, for both me and you Our past doesn’t have to dictate, today what we pursue. No one can stop the uprising of one’s mind and spirit. This simple assertion becomes fast, fun these who believe when they hear it. Most say I’m down for the count but God says I’m down to be mounted. My past and present circumstance speak eloquently of my demise. How best I will stand strong and tell the whole world if I must excuse me while I rise!!! If your life’s journey has brought you to a place that is hard or seems too hard to bear, It will almost certainly not be the battles you’ve fought but the things you thought that get you there.”

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ISBN: 978-1-9822-6348-5 (sc)

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Contents

Dedication

Personal Truth I (Loyal to a Fault)

Personal Truth II (I Know the Reason)

(Ownership) Apologies to the Kid I Use to Be

Paradigm of Failure (A See Saw Life)

(Honorable Lady)

All Glory is God’s (By His Design)

Introduction

I Found None

Babbling Defined

Babblings, Beliefs and Belivings

Babbling One (First Voice)

More Than Enough

Collective Mind

God’s Beautifully Wrapped Gift Box

Best Me

Good Steward

True Mind

Daughter and Son (Know Your True Wealth)

Autonomy of the Mind

Potter and Clay

Youth without Wisdom

When the Map Has No Lines

Babbling II My Wife My Love

Where I Found You

When I Think of Love

Smile from A Far

My Love, My Love is True

The Vision that is You

Just One

Only for You

If the Whole World Could See

Within Your Presence

Babbling III

Who Can Tell?

Chipper the Chipmunk

Simple Truths

There Comes a Time

Each Mind is One of a Kind

Return Love

From Mindset to Miracle

Babbling IV (One True Possession)

No Such Tomorrow

Breaking up with Yesterday and Tomorrow

Time before Shine

Happy New Now!

No Substitute for Time

Babbling V Purpose (Air, Water, Food, Purpose)

Purpose Honors the Day

Purpose (Seed of All Things)

Essentials to life and living (Air, Water, Food and Purpose)

P.I.E.S. for Breakfast

Ultimate Purpose (Love for All is the Primary thing)

Babbling VI (The Power of Kindness and Personal Beliefs)

Babbling VI (Our Personal Beliefs and the Power of Kindness)

Kindness defined

Kindness is a Superpower

Caped in Love with Kindness I Fight

All I Have to Share

Belief Defined

Save the One

No Longer (Life’s Collateral Damage)

Common Denominator

Amongst the Surest Signs

Theft of a Dream, Is a Theft from All

Closest of Kin (Core Beliefs and Actions)

When Love is the Goal (The Doors of Communication are always Open)

No Good Without God

Learn to love you

Babbling VII After Mistakes

Overcome Them

Heart of your Mind

From Shadows to Shade

What No One Else May Find

I am

Possible (Mt. 19, 26)

Forward Begins Here and Now

Set Not on Failure’s Throne

Let Me Not Say at My End

Babbling VIII After great failures

If His Mercy (Reason to Forgive Yourself and Start Anew)

I am, I was (A New Mind Deserves a New Start)

Prove Who and Whose You Are

Sowing and Reaping

Spring Has to Come

Tangled, Torn then Reborn

Champion of Dreams (Own Hero, God made it possible)

Not Your Fate (Watch and Wait)

Babbling XI When Tempted to Leave Us All

Our Thoughts Create

Suicide/Never III

Before You Decide to Leave Us All

Babbling X (Mindufacturing)

Babblings XI (Mindufacturing)

Mindufacturing Defined

Mindufactured Love

This Unanswered Prayer

True Love Only Thought Of

Babbling XI (Beliving)

Beliving Defined

Beliving (What is?)

Beliving One (Proof of a Failed Life)

Third Grade

What Kind of Man?

When I Met the Man in the Mirror

The Point and Blank of It All

Babbling II (No Permission Needed Other Than Your Own)

Beliving II Declaration (No Contrary Thing)

New Mind, New Spring, New Life!!!

From the Kid I Use to Be to the Man I Am Presently

The Life I Now Know

Note to Self

Thou exhausted and battered at the end of even the longest and most challenging day, you’re not subject to the would be potter’s in this world, God made you both potter and clay.

Dedication

To the wife, daughter and son who are not;

Long banished to a world of imagination, before they could be more.

They are casualties of my very own thoughts.

To those who only know a forever loneliness.

It has an end, and it’s not the end of you.

To those who don’t think they can or are afraid to start a new.

Have no doubt or fear, it is your God given right.

God made your mind your own.

Personal Truth I

Loyal to a Fault

For decades, I have clothed my closest and most powerful ally in the enemy’s uniform.

He didn’t know the difference and assumed the duties required of the uniform I provided.

No more or less could be expected.

He wasn’t me or the me I planned to be.

Nevertheless, he was a reflection of who I would become, if I continued empowering this imposter’s thoughts as my own.

Personal Truth II

I Know the Reason

I know the reason for my every wrong turn, and my every turn to what was right.

I know the reason for my every sorrow filled day, and my every sleepless night.

I know the things that would have caused my life to favorably unfold.

I know all of the things I wasn’t, but wish I had been told.

My daughter and son, who are not, use the part of you that will produce a certain and clear destiny, or cause it to fade.

Please become one with the spirit of what follows, and by God’s design, and your own choices, your destinies will be made.

(Ownership)

Apologies to the Kid I Use to Be

Apologies to the kid I use to be.

I’m sorry I allowed this life to get the best of me.

Apologies for the dreams I didn’t pursue.

I should’ve done more to make them come true.

I made you a prisoner of emotions and fear.

I made you feel alone, though others were near.

Sorry, but I know it’s true.

I let this life get the best of you.

I should’ve looked deeper for your dreams to know.

I should’ve worked harder to see them grow.

I allowed sadness and depression to make in you a home.

By seventeen your dreams were unfortunately all gone

I’m sorry there’s nothing I can do about the past.

Thank God, your true mind has surfaced at last.

I’m sorry for what all my weaknesses put you through.

I wish I could become you again, and start anew.

If this miracle could happen things would be different, and