Your Perspective or God’s Perspective?: A Collection of Poems for Encouraging God’s Perspective

By Desreen Clarke-Miller

Do you recognize that your ‘overwhelming’ problems are miniscule when you view them from God’s perspective? The author knows that her perspective means sleepless nights due to worry and anxiety, but God’s perspective means that she can rest knowing that He can turn any and every situation around for good.
These insightful poems address common and often challenging life experiences that you may be able to identify with. Here is your reminder that God can come through for you regardless of your demographic. You can trust Him.
This book consists of fifty heartfelt poems, each with an appropriate scripture verse: experiential and uncomplicated, yet profound. Read, re-read, recite, meditate, enjoy, and share.
Be encouraged to embrace God’s truth and choose His perspective – the one where the impossible becomes possible.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Sep 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781664277960

Desreen Clarke-Miller

Desreen Clarke-Miller is a woman of faith with a career ranging from teaching to administration from her homeland of Jamaica to Ontario, Canada where she currently resides. Life’s challenges over the years have not been wasted. They have helped her to change her thought process and to realize that God’s perspective, not hers, is the right choice. God has gifted her with the ability to share in poetry, the benefits of His perspective. Desreen enjoys an amazing twenty-five-year marriage to Michael and gave birth to two children. Mikaelia, to whom she dedicated ‘Destined for Greatness’ is currently in graduate school endeavoring to make an impact for Christ in her generation. Kevaughn, her first born succumbed to a brain aneurism while in college, a most traumatic experience which led to the poem, ‘The Day I Died,’ one which she hopes will encourage someone who has suffered such devastating loss. It is her desire that God will use this collection of poems to encourage others to choose His perspective.

Book preview

Part 1

HE GETS IT RIGHT EVERY TIME

Meet the New Me

My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live,

but Christ lives in me.

Galatians 2:20a¹

You may have known me by my past behaviour,

Or the ‘me’ before I met the Saviour,

But I am no longer what I used to be,

So please allow me to introduce you to the new me.

Here’s a woman now walking in her purpose

Even though surrounded by so much chaos,

Loved by someone of whom I was oblivious.

Finally, someone whom I can really trust!

To please Him is now my entire focus;

A life of gratitude for me is a must.

Meet a woman who has changed her direction,

One who has even changed her conversation,

Having undergone major transformation

Beginning with radical salvation,

Now no longer walking in condemnation.

Tell me, isn’t that reason for celebration?

Yes, I’m no longer what I used to be

Since I encountered someone willing to die for me—

Such a great price to pay to set me free!

Then He, being a King, made me a part of royalty.

What a difference He made for the whole world to see

As He changed my entire trajectory.

You may have known me before this change came to be,

So it is with great pleasure I present to you the new ‘me’.

Just as I Am

But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die

for us while we were still sinners.

Romans 5:8

Can God really love me knowing my past

And my commitment to change that did not last?

Does He really know all the things that I’ve done

And how I have rejected His own dear son?

I know myself, and I am not that lovable;

There’s not much about me that is admirable.

So how can He love me as I am?

So many times I have let Him down;

My attitude has caused many to frown.

The disrespect that I’ve shown to His name—

How can He love me just the same?

It’s not as if He doesn’t know me,

Because He is God, and He can see

Beyond any façade who I really am.

This for me is so overwhelming,

Really surpassing my understanding.

Love of the sacrificial kind

Is totally beyond the human mind.

Impossible to fathom why He is so relentless

In pursuit of someone who could not care less!

Honestly, that’s who I am.

This is love that is unconditional,

Mercy that is non-prejudicial.

It is the perfect example of grace,

God giving me life and dying in my place.

For all that I can never repay,

But Lord, I hold out no longer: I surrender today

Just as I am.

Liberty Street

So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law.

Galatians 5:1

Living under all kinds of pressures, bound for so long—

Enough is enough, this is not where I belong!

I have made the decision to move on.

Pressures, when you come back here, you won’t find me—I’m gone.

Over the years, I was convinced that this was how life was supposed to be,

Hanging with the neighbours - worry, panic, and anxiety,

Until someone came from another community and shared with me

About Jesus, who paid the price so I could move to a new street called Liberty.

So in my new neighbourhood, my perspective is changing

As God I am pursuing.

His love is transforming;

My very lifestyle is adjusting.

In my new place, I am progressing;

His presence I am enjoying.

Do not try: there is no stopping,

Because I am just bursting,

Filled with rejoicing,

Giving praises to my King,

And right now I am committing

That to that old place there is no returning.

I am on a different trajectory,

Doing life with Jesus, the one with authority

To give me the