Pieces of My Heart (Volume 2)

Stories of great lessons found all around us in our normal everyday lives if we will dare to open our eyes and see. Excerpts from the book: I think of how quickly my kids are growing up; now two of them have babies. The older I get, the faster it seems the time goes by. I look back and see how much time has passed and scratch my head. I want to be there to see my grandbabies grow up and to see my children grow to be where I am now and to think about the things that I am now thinking...
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Stories of great lessons found all around us in our normal everyday lives if we will dare to open our eyes and see. Excerpts from the book: I think of how quickly my kids are growing up; now two of them have babies. The older I get, the faster it seems the time goes by. I look back and see how much time has passed and scratch my head. I want to be there to see my grandbabies grow up and to see my children grow to be where I am now and to think about the things that I am now thinking about. I want to hold my grandbabies, spoil them rotten, and then send them home for their parents to deal with. Ha. It is the ultimate payoff for a grandparent for raising kids. (From "Making the Most of It")I think we all just need to try to do the best that we can, ask God for help daily, hourly, or by the minute if necessary and keep moving forward. And when we inevitably mess up, we should try to help each other, not kick someone while they are down but rather come alongside to help each other in the way that we would want someone to help us. If we could do this, the world would be a much better place and we would look much more like the body of Christ to the world.(From "Love is the Answer...So What's the Question?)About the Cover The front cover is symbolic of my children, for whom this book was written. They are all loved and cherished in my heart and therefore, each one is represented by a piece of my heart. The missing piece of the heart and the butterfly flying overhead are symbolic of my son, Daniel, who died shortly before his first birthday. Losing Daniel was the hardest thing I have faced in this life and he took a piece of my heart with him to heaven when he left. The butterfly is flying toward the sun, which is a representation of God and our eternal life to come. On the back cover, there is a lighthouse. This lighthouse is Jesus, who leads us and guides us through this wild ride we call, "life." From the Publisher Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote, "A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.'" David L. Wood is a singer of soul-healing words, because, like many writers, poets, and other types of artists, he has walked through the fire - a literal house fire that took the life of his first-born son, not yet a year old. Since then, the Lord has healed his heart, and helped David transform his weeping into music for other troubled souls. - David B. Biebel, Fellow Pilgrim