All About Gifts

By Shirley Ann, 27th Dec 2011 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/125do82n/
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A person's relationship with God is a give and take relationship, like any human relationship. He blesses us abundantly and we respond by giving him our talents, both of this world's goods and our abilities.

The Best Gifts

I found myself in Hawaii as a military wife one year \with no money at Christmas time. But the season was rich and full of gifts anyway

The best gifts come from God:
A glorious pink-flamingo sunrise over a Hawaiian sea,
a palefaced moon over the same South sea
that casts a silvery path to the starry sky.

Morning and night.
Waking and repose.
The best gifts come from God Almighty.
So be content already.

My Gift

Dear Lord,
I'm not one to be rich
in this world's goods.
I cannot give gobs of money to charity
or even do the volunteer work
I used to do
because of the price of gas.
Everything costs so much today.

So I give my poetry as a gift to you.
It is my best talent.

Do you accept gifts
from the hands of poor sinners?

You did accept a gift
from a woman of ill repute once.

She anointed you for burial.

Please accept my humble gift too.
I anoint for your return.

Meet the author

Shirley Ann
Shirley A. Mandel is a freelance writer who has published on associayed content.com and several newspapers in the great commonwealth of Virginia. She has also self published two books via lulu.com.
Her area of expertise is inspirational poetry and s...(more)

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Delicia Powers
28th Dec 2011 (#)

Beautiful poem and beautiful gift...long ago I too was a military wife in Okinawa, Little money but much love:0)

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Mikey.
28th Dec 2011 (#)

Well done Shirley,Good poem.

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Rathnashikamani
1st Jan 2012 (#)

Great poem.
Beautiful thoughts.

Happy new year1

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Rathnashikamani
1st Jan 2012 (#)

Happy new year 1012!

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Sivaramakrishnan A
1st Jan 2012 (#)

Hi there, Shirley. God brings those who are destined to find each other together, again and again! So nice to read your heart-felt poems on Wikinut. A belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year on the dot! siva

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Avik Chattopadhyay
1st Jan 2012 (#)