Drowning In God's Love: Finding Your Way to A Deeper Relationship With God Through Poetry and Spiritual Writing

By K.L. Bauman

The call of God is not just for a

select few but for everyone. Whether

I hear God’s call or not depends on the

condition of my ears, and exactly what

I hear depends on my spiritual attitude.

—Oswald Chambers

We are all children of God. How easy it is to forget this. God loves us all in the same way and in the same amount. It is a given, like the breath we draw each day, by each beat of our heart, by all that makes each of us holy.

Faith and love are important pieces of our lives. They may be all that keep us moving on in our journeys. Just as we begin life’s journey, beginning and continuing the journey is important in our spiritual lives. If we are looking for God, God is also looking for us. We have heard the saying, “Seek and you shall find.” This saying can never be truer than when we speak about searching for God and, more importantly, finding God.

The author had a transforming experience in the year 2000. God truly found him. This book, Drowning in God’s Love, is a record that chronicles the outcome of this experience. It provides the reader with a path to find this deeper relationship that we all seek. Hopefully, it will help the reader to find a way to a deeper relationship with God through the poetry and spiritual writing found here.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685265557

K.L. Bauman

Kristi was born and raised in the plains and badland areas of Eastern Montana. It was a perfect place for imagination and adventure! She still resides in a small, Eastern Montana town with her two daughters, two cats, and two dogs. She enjoys spending time with the Lord and her family, writing, reading, editing, drawing, and binge-watching anime and TV shows or watching movies. She's a bit of a super-hero nerd (Spidey has always been her favorite), but she's an even bigger fan of Christian fiction and fantasy stories. Her favorite authors include C.S. Lewis, Vicki V. Lucas, Kristen Heitzmann, and Morgan L. Busse, just to name a few.

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Table of Contents

Title

Copyright

Drowning in God's Love

Foreword

Introduction

God

God Is

Companion

All My Springs Are Found in You (Psalm 87)

Be Thou My Vision

Journey

Who I Am, I Am

Empty

Alone

Segal

Searching

Exile

Awake

Companion

The Voice of God

Conversations with God

Voices

God in My Life

Silence

Serving God

Listen for the Light

God Is in Control

All Ways—Always

Success

Dancing with God

Dancing with God

Love

A Prayer I Used in a Church Service

Two Hearts Meet

What's It All About

I Love You

Love

The Four-Letter Word

Beloved

The Sweatshirt

Life

Could I Go

The Center

Returned (A Dream)

Fleeting Day

Ending and Beginning

Life Lived

An Ordinary Day

Be Still

Searching

People

A Timeless Friendship

Under the Influence

Unidentified Woman

Stop Tugging

My Mother's Call

I Walked Like That

Two

Beautiful Dreamer

Reaching Out

The Photograph

A Child

Places

Secret Place

The Wilderness

A Summer Evening

Is There Room

Nature

Who Feeds the Birds

Bush Song

Maple Leaves

Shelter

Star Bright

Great Sun

Silver Moon

Wind

Seasons

Seeing

Snow Patches

Beauty

Black Flies

Black Caterpillar

Jellyfish

Death/Dying

In Fear of Dying

Death and Resurrection

Gone

The Death of the Dream

Behind Glass

Broken Flower

Suspended

Do Not Hold Me Here

England Graveyard

Creatures

God's Prayer

Conclusion

About the Author

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Drowning In God's Love

Finding Your Way to A Deeper Relationship With God Through Poetry and Spiritual Writing

K.L. Bauman

ISBN 978-1-68526-554-0 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-68526-555-7 (Digital)

Copyright © 2022 K.L. Bauman

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The resources in this book are provided for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the specialized training and professional judgment of a health care or mental health care professional.

Neither the author nor the publisher can be held responsible for the use of the information provided within this book. Please always consult a trained professional before making any decision regarding treatment of yourself or others.

Except where noted, scripture texts used in this work are taken from the New Oxford Annotated Bible, new revised standard version (New York, Oxford University Press).

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Photos by William Schmidt ([e-mail]).

To Elaine, my faithful wife of sixty-two years, who started me on this journey and stood by me as I stumbled my way in it. It has been a wonderful sixty-two years.

To Sister Linda Wieser OSF, my spiritual director, who walked this journey with me. The support and insight she provided were and are invaluable.

To LeAnn Bornhorst Bauman, who took these poems and writings and helped me make sense out of them. Her typing and organizing these pages went beyond merely putting down the words.

Drowning in God's Love

God's love flows in

and fills my heart.

I cannot be apart

from this great place

until I see God face-to-face.

God is in all places.

God sees me and looks

on all my faces.

They are many

they shift and change.

But God is steadfast, true, and fast.

The love God sends will last and last

and fill me until it cannot hold

all that comes for me to behold.

Until I find that I am drowning in God's love

and praise that day

when I return from where I came.

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