Faith & Hope Poems

As each of us learns to walk talk and feed ourselves we also need to learn how to understand each other so that we can help ourselves and those around us. <i>Faith and Hope Poems</i> presents a new poetry collection based upon author Shirley Ann Wood's soul searching in response to this need. These poems offer personal reflections and simple statements of her own feelings on life. Because of a near death experience at the age of five she has a great desire to honor God in her life. With these verses Wood shares her deepest most spiritual thoughts.<center><i><b>Letter to Jesus</b>Dear Jesus your love is so sweetIt enfolds me and life is completeI came to the cross bewildered and lostAnd laid all I was at your feetYou looked with compassion and loveHeld me up to the Father aboveSaid-behold she is mineIn our nature divine she is cleansedAnd restored in our loveThen the spirit descended on meBroke the chains that I might be freeNow the Lord dwells withinI am filled to the brimAnd the glory of God now I see ...</i></center>