The Queen Lives

So originally this picture has nothing to do with Johnnie Edwards, the poem, or the conference, but nevertheless, it is hilarious!

The Queen Lives

My brain wonders through the photographs of time investigating those who have never been mine.

So close I have often been but yet so far away simultaneously.

I pressed on until my mind no longer without motivation could pursue.

I was down and out in the shadows of my inexperienced self-doubt

When a Floridian ladybug never flew to share the lily of my own picking.

An epiphany led me astray as I pursued her with a sign from heaven.

Given a slavery assignment, my joy was sucked into the everyday spiral of survival as it remains.

Smiles were far fewer than they were numerous –

A new lead was assigned to guide whose love spread over the poison of tumultuous times.

Mentally I was lost. Depressively I was down.

And then The Queen, my second mother came to town.

Thunder and Lightning struck with newfound strides of loud laughs echoing.

Slowly one step at a time I found my Savior sitting silently by my side.

In prayer I heard, “I sent your second mother to secure what you could not see in your own self-reflection.”

A reminder to ask, believe, and achieve the impossible challenged the reminder of my faith.

Stuck in the routine of wakeup survival, I loathe every step and every move,

But The Queen will not let me fall, fail, or even falter.

While she entered my life with a new kidney, her joy near death still glorified God.

Her illumination matched laugh for laugh full of life in the midst of recovery.

Down and out with punches to my spiritual gut, she encouraged me to pick myself back up.

She offered her garage as a second refuge, but we all know she would take me in without due payment.

I am after all just that awesome!

Emergencies arise as we both become saved in a crucifixion as payment to the punishment of sin.

When I am bored in the monotony of phone call after phone call marketing, she smiles and smiles without pause.

The contagious of good thoughts come from sincere smiles and loud laughs heard throughout the office.

While around The Queen, I believe that good will happen instead of bad.

I focus on the present in the moment of now with no future worries.

I seek Christ within me that she constantly reminds me to see.

The Queen divinely assigned to Cartee influences eternal elements unseen to the observant eye.

Viewing in front of my everyday sight, a reflection of Christ sits in a mirror

As a constant reminder of His Grace and Love where believers should have nothing to fear.

JLC iii, 2/4/12