A Glimpse of His Glory: what we think, what we feel, what we see, what we hear and what we experience Volume 2

By Leila Hayes

This book of poems is about the ups and downs of life, the deep valleys that we find ourselves in sometimes. The high mountains that we must climb, the highs and lows of human experiences, and the ins and outs of bad situations. It is about what humanity goes through daily—the big, beautiful, and wondrous world of nature, all that is in it, and all that it has to offer. Nature’s God and how He uses nature to teach us some very valuable and important lessons. It talks about the sky, the constellations, the galaxies, the sun, the moon, the stars, Orion, and the Milky Way. From the cradle to the grave, we are bombarded with difficulties and trials.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: May 1, 2024
• ISBN: 9798385019137

Leila Hayes

Leila Hayes is originally from Antigua and currently lives in the Bronx, New York. She holds a BS in Business from Audrey Cohen College in New York, an MA in Education from New York University, and an MA in Instructional Technology from the New York Institute of Technology. A mother of five, she worked for the postal service for thirty years and has taught high school English language arts for seven years.

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ISBN: 979-8-3850-1911-3 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2024900476

WestBow Press rev. date: 4/30/2024

Contents

Praise

Daily Fight

He Had to Die

Fly Away

Evolution versus Creation

Calvary’s Tree

Reasons I Love You

To Be like Jesus

Holy Day

Beware Hell’s Fire

Coming Soon

The Belly of New York

Do Something Good

What Man Has Made of God

Heart like Thine

A Grip on Life

A Downer

God Permits It

Consecrate Us

The Warmth of God

Hide-and-Seek

The Wonders of Creation

Poets

English Teachers

I Owe All to You

Tell the Truth

Always on Time

Halloween Night

God’s Creative Power

Keeping Hope Alive

Joyful Celebration

A Smile

Your Presence

Watch Your Words

Change

The Great Fabric of Humanity

Earthly Things

Never Accept Defeat

A New Day

Meet the Master

Passing Judgment

The Tunnel of Life

Transformation

Above the Clouds

Mighty One

Live like Never Before

Thoughts

Thy Will Be Done

The Plane

What You See Is What You Get

Black Boys

Look Up

Books

Sovereign Divine

Family Loyalty

Stars

Is This Life All We Have?

When He comes!

The Po-Po

Ted McKenna

BA, MA, PhD

Wake Up

Frisking

A New Day

Friends

Captives

Trees

Pull up Your Pants

I’m Awake

To Be like Jesus

My Moment of Fame

A Race through Space

What Is Love?

This Moment in Time

Appreciation

What Is Time?

Fear

Spring

Moving

Water

Fire

Life—a Teacher

Tomorrow

The Look in Your Eyes

Becoming

Cares of Life

Oy!

Up There

Principle

My Invisible Friends

Hang My Head

He Is Always There

Remembrance

What He Permits

At Calvary

Metamorphosis

The Power of Words

The Silent Man

Who Are You?

Where Are You?

Lift Him Up

Stand by Me

Pity the Man

Never Alone

Take over My Life

Providence

Let My People Go

Here, There, Everywhere

Happy Birthday

The Sun

Habits

The Man Speaks

The Face of Love

Past

Nothingness

Cover Us

He Took the Time

Right Beside Me

Our Slogans

Around the Throne

Give Love

Sleep on Now

Abandoned

Forgive Me, Lord

Creation Speaks

Who Can You Trust

I Will Overcome

We Need Real Men

The Messenger

A Stranger

An Open Book

Genesis

Depend on You

Flowers of Your Heart

What You Are to Us

Manhattan

To Himself

Love Is Painful

What Poets Say

Fall in Love

That Grim Reaper

Blood Transfusion

The Caribbean

Roses

Looking into My Mind

Manhattan Lights at Night

At Myrtle Beach

God’s Love

Move Heaven and Earth

A Human Being

Taking Chances

He Never Fails

Why You Are Here

Creation Speaks

The Best of Life

Deny Self

Who Flies the Kite?

Text Messaging

Autumn Leaves

Daybreak

Understanding Ourselves

Opportunity

Marriage Supper of the Lamb

Share

Frozen Hearts

Accept and Follow

Gone Too Soon

Working on Me

Kevin

A Stress-Free Life

The Mask

Have Mercy

What God’s Like

Just to be in Heaven

Dysfunctional Families

Little Innuendos

He Is Faithful

Going Home

He Came, He Left

Burnout Physician

Emanuel

Strong Woman

Praise

All majesty, dominion, and praise

To Thee, Almighty King

In You, I live and move,

And have my earthly being.

All honor, praise, and glory

Be unto Your Holy Name.

We worship and adore You

And love You just the same.

A Name above all other names,

A Name that makes me clean,

A Name on which I can depend,

To save my soul from sin.

Daily Fight

Every single day, it’s a bitter fight.

He fights with all his might

To get me on the path to hell

So, I won’t have a story to tell.

But in hell, no pleasure I’ll find.

So, to myself, I must be kind.

He Had to Die

He had to die so that I might live

With Him in Heaven above.

It’s not me that lives but Him in me.

Just magnifying His love.

He took my shame that I

May share in His glory.

He took my cross that I

May tell a redemption story.

He carried my heavy cross,

So that I would not be lost.

I look forward to His coming,

In the clouds of glory at last.

Fly Away

One day I will fly away like an angel,

Far beyond the skies so blue.

There to meet the lovely Jesus,

I know He wants to meet me too.

As citizens of that Holy Land,

We will join the angel’s band.

We will sing songs of adoration and praise.

Our sweet voices we will raise.

We’ll sing with the heavenly chorus,

With the sweet angelic host.

Sing the song of Moses and the Lamb

And live with Christ forevermore.

Evolution versus Creation

There is a strong tendency toward evolution,

But this modern thought disputes God’s creation.

Man cannot think like an all-powerful God.

He says, "My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Neither are your ways My ways."

They cannot control themselves or their constituents,

Never mind the entire universe.

Many seem to think that they can evolve

Into anything outside of their natural kind.

But