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JOSIE'S POEMS
Poems for Reflection
and Discussion and
Spiritual Poems
By Josie Whitehead
Prayer
Lord, you have forgiven us many times. Help us extend that same forgiveness to those who have hurt us and those we care about. Replace our anger with peace; our bitterness with compassion. Remind us that forgiveness is not weakness, not freedom. Teach us to love as you love us – with patience , compassion and understanding so we may create your kingdom on earth. Amen. Written by Malcolm Attkinson
​​​God, help us to be a community of loving people. We pray you'll be the centre of and inspiration for all of our relationships, inside and outside the Church. Help us to live in the reality of your love and forgiveness today by forgiving others who have hurt us. Help us to forgive ourselves, too, as we know in our hearts the power of your forgiveness over us. Amen.
ALSO:
"Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?" is a poignant question asked by Jesus to Mary Magdalene in John 20:15 on Easter morning. Mistaking him for the gardener, Mary expresses her grief over the missing body of Jesus. This moment symbolizes the shift from sorrowful, earthly, or mortal viewpoints to the joy and spiritual understanding of the resurrection.
This is a special poem I wrote in 2009 and it was one of 400 poems chosen by teachers and children in schools right across West Yorkshire for publishing in my book 'REFLECTIONS' published by AMS Educational Publishers - 2010. This book was one of five books published. Now it is also available for you freely on my very large website containing 1,500 plus poems which go out to 188 countries of the world.
Advent - A Season of Waiting
All It Needs
And When Autumn Returns
Anger - A Simile Poem
Become a Voice for Nature
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
Body Image
Brand New Year (The)
British Values
By Heart
Called to be Disciples
Can't Spell, Won't Spell
Carpe Diem
Carve Your Name in Kindness
Change
Change Starts With Me
Choice is Always Yours (The)
Clock Hands Move Forward (The)
Clock of Life (The)
Clocking Up Another Year
Colour Me Happy
Consider Earth's Fate
Consider the Lilies
Cultural Diversity Deserves Recognition
Dare to be Different
Death Sentence (The)
Don't Dwell on the Negatives
Don't Give Up
Don't Let Our World Die
Don't Pick, Don't Pick
Don't Shed a Tear
Endangered Species
Environmentally Friendly
Eternal Optimist (The)
Eye Speak
Faith, Hope and Love
Far From Our Coral Home
Flour and Flowers - (Harvest)
Flower of the Eternal Sleep
Flutter of Time (A)
Flying into Each New Horizon of Life
Forgiveness Matters
Fred's Funeral
Freedom
Friend is for Life (A)
Friends Never Part
From Nursery Rhymes to Psalms
Giant Patchwork of This World (The)
Gift of Love (The)
Give Out Love
Global Warming Isn't Cool
God, Do I Miss You in my Busy Life?
God of Love
God, We Offer You Our Praise
God's Angels
Happiness Door (The)
Happiness Formula (The)
Harvest Thanksgiving
Have You Ever Met Trouble?
Hearts, Hands and Voices Raised
Heroes and Heroines
Hold My Hand, God
Homelessness
Hope
Hope - An Acrostic Poem
I Am . . .
I Am the Window on Your World
I Have a Dream
I Like
I'm Happy I'm Human
I'm Not a Puppet on Your Strings
I'm Not Much Good at Cheating
I Stood Beside You
If We Children Ruled the World
If You Could Only Change One Thing​
Importance of Stones (The)
In a Land Far Away
In the Beginning
Infinite Wisdom
International Dot Day
Is It Part of Old Age?
It's Hope that Puts Wind in
Your Sails
It's SO Cool to Say 'No'
It's YOUR Choice!!
Lamentation on Life's
Shortness (A)
Learning Our Social Skills
Lessons From the Past
Let Magic Happen
Let There Be Light
Let's Celebrate Diversity
Let's Make a Noise About Bullying
Let Us Out - We're Children!
Light in Our World (The)
Likes and Dislikes
Little Devils' Convention (The)
Lives Lost by War
Loneliness
Look Outwards in Life
Man's Inhumanity to Man
Make That Change
Man Within the Boy (The)
Merman Grieves (A)
Mindset
Mirror's Clear and Truthful (The)
Mister B
Motivation Matters
Move on From the Past
Mr Seven 53
My Dream
Nightfall - (death)
One Kind Little Word
On Doing Your Best
On the Road Alone
On the Sea of Life​
On Wings of Hope​
Open Your Heart​​​​​
Optimist and the Pessimist (The)
Our Earth - Our Planet Home
Paint Me a Picture
Paint Me a Picture (2)
Parent Power
Pastures Green
Peace on Earth
Perhaps We'll See That Christmas Star
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater
Poems That You'll Enjoy
Poet's Lament (The)
Poetry is Powerful
Reach Out
Refuge
Remember
Remember It's God's World
Remember, Remember
Save Our Jungle Please
Sail Your Psychic Seas
Sandcastles at Hope Bay
Searching for the . . .
Searching for Happiness
​Seeds of Doubt
Send Me a Dream
Sharing Our Todays
Sharing Your Tomorrows
​
She
Show Nature That You Care
Slavery
Slow Train to Mediocrity (The)
Small Voices
So Sad to See You Go
So What Was the Best Part?
Someone, Somewhere
Someone Smiled at Me
Something and Nothing
Son of Man
Sonnet for Sons and Daughters
Sorry, I'm Busy
Special Ones (The)
Standing on Shoulders of Giants
Stillness
Stones
Stop and Think - Words can Hurt
Stream of Life (The)
Switch it Off
Thank God for Grandparents
Thank You For This Moment in Time
Thank You God
That's Where I'd Like to Be
This Mother and That Mother
This Type, That Type
Those Distant Hills
Those Greedy Gulls
Through Storms of Life
Through the Eyes of a Child
Through the Narrow Gate
Tidiness is Next to Godliness
Time
Time to Go
To Know God
Tomorrow's Success
Tomorrow's World
Tread Carefully
Treasure Troves
True Beauty
True Blessedness
Truth
Two Worlds
Veil (The)
Vision
Visitors to Our Garden
Waiting
Walk Through My Lifetime
Wear a Tie, Young Man
We'll Not Come on Your Tiger Hunt
We're British and We Know It
What Do You Like to Eat?
What Are You Listening To?
What Life is This?
What Makes Me What I Am?
What is a Poem?
What You Give Out to Others
When the Going Gets Tough
Where Freedom Reigns
Where's Your Smile?
Who's Visited My Home?
Why Are Parents Difficult?
Will They Choose You As a Friend?
With Mission in Mind
Words in a Poem
Words That Dance
Woman, Why Weepest Thou?
Work
Writer's Prayer (A)
You Adults of Tomorrow
Your Postcode Reveals the Truth
You're Somebody Special
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