Eve’s Daughter

This poem was written after we’d had a night out at, you guessed it, Circus Latino!

It was a great night, and overall, apart from a rather large hiccup with Xav at the start, we had a great night and really enjoyed ourselves at the circus. The acts were fantastic and the boys raved for weeks about Circus Latino and they would love to go again (so would I) and who knows, perhaps we shall.

To read more about our night out at Circus Latino, check out the post Circus Latino on www.thegreatadventure.info

You can also find Circus Latino on My Space and Face Book - of course you can only find them there if you’re already a MySpacer or FaceBooker yourself.  Or you can find them on the web at www.circuslatino.com.

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I wrote the first draft of this poem on 29th September, 2007 and wrote the final copy on 8th October, 2007. Through the book ‘Captivating’ by Stasi & John Eldredge I have been discovering how much beauty means to God and I wanted to write a poem that captured beauty and also captured the beauty of woman and how special a woman is to God. “My Daughter” started out life entitled ‘Woman’.

However, God had other plans; He opened up a wound; a wound I discovered after a day at my parents’ house with the boys and without Tim. I used the  ‘Captivating Guided Journal’ to help me work through this wound. The path of restoration led to a place where you ask Jesus to come and heal you. You listen for his voice and hear what he is saying to you. And then you ask God to father you. Part of the prayer says ‘…Reveal your love for me. Tell me what I mean to you…’

The poem “My Daughter” was his answer to me. Every time I read this poem, and I read it every few days, I am in awe, I am amazed; not by my talent, but by the love God has poured out for me. And I believe this poem is not just God’s words for me, but for every woman alive.

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This poem was first written on 17th September, 2007 after a visit to the Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden in the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.

We met up with the boys Grandparents for a picnic - it was a beautiful day and I was inspired. The poem was written while I was at Brydon’s taekwondo grading which we went to after having our picnic. I found it kinda interesting, I was just scribbling a few notes so I could remember what we did and what it was like and it came out as a poem!

I’ve also written a post about the day that you’ll find on our “Adventure” site (www.thegreatadventure.into) so click on A Day At The Children’s Garden to read this post in a new window.

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“There’s got to be more to life than this!!!”

I am so tired of this life that I live. And I’ve been tired and frustrated with my life for a long time now. Well, I consider a few years to be a long time, maybe that’s not long for some. Oh, and don’t worry, when I say “I am tired of this life that I live” I’m NOT feeling or being suicidal, rather, what I am saying is, I am tired of not living the life I’ve been created to live and I’m tired of settling for less.

Recently one morning, I had been pouring out my heart to Tim about it, as I did I began crying, so overwhelming was the despair engulfing me if the best life had to offer me was this - my life as it is right now. I sat down and penned this poem in about fifteen minutes. My despair and frustration just poured itself onto the page rather eloquently, so much so that there has not been major reworkings, just some tweaks here and there. For a greater understanding of what I’m saying check out the More To Life post.

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This is a brief paragraph about the poem ‘My God’ first written on May 25th 2007 - if you want the full story, read the post ‘The Story Behind The Poem “My God”

The day did not begin well and it went down hill from there - ‘…I’m a sobbing mess on the bed…feeling incredibly sorry for myself, am sobbing hysterically and almost hyperventilating…’ the negative thoughts I was ‘hearing’ and ’seeing’ in my head were not my own, those thoughts are whispers, lies from the devil, the great deceiver. ‘But David found strength in the Lord his God.’ (1 Samuel 30:6) and so did I. So I began saying out loud, “God you are my rock; You are my strength; You are my shield, my protection…” and I came out of the whole experience Victorious!

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This is a brief paragraph about the poem “Victorious” first written on June 18th, 2007 - if you want the full story, read The Story Behind The Poem “Victorious”.

More spiritual warfare - I knew I needed to stand firm and fight, but I didn’t, well not at first anyway. I let the attack wash over me and I fell apart. In the midst of the turmoil I saw the words, “Write it down” and I knew that this fight could be won by writing it down. So I did, and ‘Victorious’ was born.

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The poem ‘God Believes In Me’ was written sometime in August 2005 (before I realised it would be useful to save the date in the filename so I know exactly when it was written). It came about as my pastor called me up one Thursday asking if I could write a poem for the Sunday service. He told me what he wanted and I set to. In two days I wrote and rewrote, and rewrote a few more times the poem ‘God Believes In Me’. I actually ended up writing two poems and I let my pastor choose which one suited the theme the best.

I read the poem on that Sunday morning and haven’t looked at it since. It’s been two years! I decided to read it again and see if it was as good as I remembered it being, or if I was just delusional. It’s still good, in fact, I am astounded at how good it is! As I read the words I started crying and ended up praying. I know this poem was not just me using my gift with words, it was God-inspired and God-breathed; I really feel the words of this poem have been touched by God.

Suddenly I am ‘afraid’, God has given me a gift, a talent, an ability to craft words, to ‘wordsmith’ and it is an awesome and frightening responsibility that I now realise God has entrusted me with. I don’t think I am a great writer, I know there are writers more talented than I. Yet He has placed in my heart an almost overwhelming desire to write and when He touches the words I write, they become more than just words, they come alive, filled with the essence of God, they become powerful. I am in awe of the responsibility God has given me with words and I am humbled by it.

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