Turning Your Frown Upside Down

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is a moving collection of personal poems reflecting the author's life and faith journey. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I could feel the warmth of a tender childhood of loving and wise parents; I could feel the depth of her faith in Jesus because she knew God's love firsthand; I could feel the pride of a mother and of a daughter. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>These verses convey one person's view of life but they also manage to draw on universal themes which invite the readers to see themselves in the poetic imagery and recollections. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- Rev. Dr. Felipe N. Martinez</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>First Presbyterian Church</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Columbus Indiana. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sharon's spirit comes through in the poems that you'll find here. From the most ancient of days up to the present poetry helps us to find expression for our deepest feeling and hopes and engaging others' poems can help us to see (and hear!) the world in new ways. Sharon's work does that for us. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- Kurt Messik</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Words Without End: Collected Poems</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Professor Ivy Tech Community College</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Chaplain Bell Trace</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bloomington Indiana</span></p><p><br></p>