Ashes and Sparks

From

The Transitional Fire

These poems are for my children. Even though we’ve been together for over thirty-five years, you still do not know me well.  This book may help.

Now that I am old I would like to have a picture of the inside of my father’s mind.  That’s what this is.  You can know your dad by seeing the images that continually roll through his mind. I hope you enjoy it.

I love each of you dearly. No accomplishment is greater than you. Together, your mother and I brought you into this world. It is a grand place, but its true greatness is yet to be. I encourage you to rise to your greatest heights.  Never let anyone tell you what those heights are.  Only you and Heavenly Father can make that decision.

Be original. Each of you is a unique being in the universe. No duplicate, no clone. That is part of the Joy. Live it to its greatest extent.

In each poem I describe a basic gospel principle.  These principles are a guide to take us back home to God. We stand at the edge of the great Millennium, awaiting the crowning event in the history of the worldthe advent of Jesus Christ.  I fully believe each of you will witness that event.  Perhaps, even I will see it.

If you live these principles, you will be caught up in the great Rapture.  But there is a period of terrible trial before that time comes.  It may not be long, but it will try each of us.

Please care for your mother. She is heart of all. There is nothing without her.

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