It’s People Like You

For Sister Ruth

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It’s people like you Who have walked through the Fire and held on to Faith It’s people like you Who have prayed For others Even when you needed prayer. It’s people like you Who have loved Unconditionally. Who has lived What Christ told us to do Love as I have loved. It’s people like you That makes you thank God That there are those people we Can look up to. Copyright Michelle R Kidwell June.23.05 7:55 A.M PST

The Wishing Well

The challenge that I found on another site I belong to was to start the poem with She tossed the coin into wishing well for all to see.  The picture is of Calvary Temple in Modesto, one I use to attend and the story is true with some poetic licenses taken… She tossed the coin into wishing well for all to see. Three year old sticky hands carrying the faith of a child And Innocent dreams. She wore her Sunday best A little ruffled dress And a childhish smile As she laughed with glee Watching the coins gleam In the water. She tossed the coin into the wishing well for all to see And smiled at me as she said I am sending my wishes to Heaven For Jesus to see. I smiled at her as she threw More pennies in Said she had a lot of dreams To send. Copyright Michelle R Kidwell May.20.06

He Never Changes

Photography by Michelle R Kidwell 😀 For the one who never changes Christ my Savior… Scriptural ReferenceHebrews 13:8 Our directions may change The world may be turned upside down And back again But one thing we can count on Is that Christ will Always remain the same He will always be the Savior Whose blood washed away my sins When I gave my heart to him That April of 96 When I was a young girl Barely past eighteen On the verge of womanhood And yet still a teen It was my senior year And the Lord drew me to him I have changed and grown Even sinned a time or two But I can rest assured Christ is the same Yesterday, today And forever. Copyright Michelle R Kidwell June.23.06 11:46 P.M PST

You Never Know

To the greatest encourager…Jesus…

You never know
What a smile can do
To a hurting stranger
So smile more often
It’s what Jesus would do.

You never know
What a chatty letter
Or a poem would do for a friend
So write one
The Lord will bless you
And you know Jesus would do it too.

You never know
What a kind word of encouragement
Can do for someone down
So speak it
And you will see people slowly
Changing.

Copyright Michelle R Kidwell
June.03.06
10:40 P.M PST

Little Hugs From Above

I have the kind of wealth even a bad economy can’t take the riches of God’s Love

As I sit here listening to Amy Grant, singing of the wonderful works of the Lord, I find myself reflecting on the many blessings in my life, and remembering those unexpected hugs. The first time I got off the Greyhound bus to stand face to face with my sister in the heart Melissa who has since been called home to the Lord, and I saw her precious little boy, I felt the hug from the Lord, even as I spent those last moments with Nonna, reading to the twenty third psalm I felt the gentleness of his hug, the first time I held Mikey, Ethan and Amber in my arms I felt those moments, and more recently with Autumeve. I remember so many answered prayers, even when Melissa was called home to the Lord at the age of thirty six, leaving her Son we could find peace in knowing that she was a believer, I can not count the times she told me that she could get through whatever came her way with the Lord. The first time I stood face to face with her was only months after she had faced having her leg amputated, and instead of being bitter about it, she was strong, and she used it draw her to the Lord!

Several years ago I got an unexpected hug from the Lord, and was blessed to meet Amy Grant and Vince Gill when they came to Sonora for a taping of there NBC show Three Wishes, it was a wonderful show, that sadly is not on air anymore, but that day I received one of my wishes, and that was to meet the singer whose CD and Tapes I had been wearing out for years. The Singer who helped me grow in faith, whose music so often played on my CD player.

I was honored to meet such a kind loving person, who so obviously had a heart for helping. It touched my heart to have the opportunity to meet her, to appreciate the fact that she was doing the Lord’s work.

I find that often some of the greatest hugs I get from God, come from his little children. When I go to church and Leliani nearly plows me down, saying, you know I just love to give you hugs! Then grabs the camera, when Ethan asks if he can come over and play with the puppies, when Mikey goes into Details of how they found the art on Mount Arafat, in two pieces, and I wonder to myself what happened to the baby that I used to hold in my arms. When Amber looks at me and says you know Auntie, sometimes I wish you were my Mom, because you teach me about Jesus, I feel that I have got the greatest hugs from the Lord, and I find myself smiling.

I love those little hugs from God, the unexpected email, finding out my novel is going to be published, hearing from a frined I haven’t heard from in awhile. Turning on a Amy Grant CD, when I have the kids over, and doing dances of praises, it all makes the dark times a little brighter, and it shows some of the greatest gifts you can’t buy no matter the state of economy.

God Bless
Michelle~

Copyright Michelle R Kidwell

Jan.20.2009

When I Say You’re My Friend

When I say

I am your friend

I say it

With love and ease.

When I say

I am your friend

I try to think about

What I can do for you

Not what you can do for me.

When I say

I am your friend

You become like family.
Copyright Michelle R Kidwell

July.16.04

The Sinless Son Of Man

He came to this earth
Purity and innocence
And for the thirty three years
He remained free of sins.

He came to this earth
Born of the Virgin Mary
Who had been impregnated
By the Holy Spirit,
The Son of God.

Jesus’es ministry
Did not start
Until he was thirty years,
For those three years
He fed the mulitude
Turned water into wine,
Walked on Water,
Raised a dead man
Saved the woman
From the mob.

Jesus came to this
Earth,
To hang on Calvay’s cross,
Carrying the sins of all man kind
On us
And he descended
For three days
To Hell
Wrestling Satan
For the keys of life
And he would win.

Jesus came to earth
The sinless son of man.

Copyright Michelle R Kidwell
June.02.06
12:44 A.M PST

When All is Said and Done

When all is said and done

And the words come

And the memories are captured

With film and ink.

Memories to share

With generations yet to come.

When all is said and done

I cherish the little things.

Copyright Michelle R Kidwell

Sept.28.06

It Takes A Strong One

For my bestest friend, who must have the strength of ten men to survive through all she has been through…I love you Bestest friend, Sister of my heart, you are a blessing, and an inspiration… It takes a strong one To go through the pain And suffering You’ve been through And still be able To smile through the pain. It takes a strong one To survive through The things you have survived through And still you carry on Through pain that would take Anyone else down. It takes a strong one To live through What you have lived through. Copyright Michelle R Kidwell Sept.28.06

Not So Different

I am not so different than you

My legs may not work right

But that doesn’t mean

I don’t laugh, cry

Love, live.

I’m not so different than you

I may not talk the way you do

But that does not make me evil

Or full of hate

God teaches us to

Embrace our differences

Not hate them.

I am not so different than you

I may have a disability,

But it sure doesn’t have me.
Copyright Michelle R Kidwell

November.28.2004