Revealed: a Personal Encounter with God

By Sandra Ruth Penro

Revealed is a collection of poems by Sandra Ruth Penro. These poems consist of scriptural acrostics, bible characters, childhood memories, and personal expressions of the emotions and trials of everyday living. This book of poems is the result of the authors personal conversation with God.

What is God's will for my life? Why am I on the outside looking in? Does the word of God really work? Do his blessings also apply to me? While peeking through a circle of her thumb and index finger, Sandra Penro declared, "There has got to be a loop hole, a niche, a happy medium for me."

"The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of his law. "
Deuteronomy 29:29


After God revealed this scripture to her, it changed her life. She realized that we do matter to God. He does want us to be happy. He does have a plan for our lives, and you should never give up on a dream: even if it's a childhood dream of writing poetry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 30, 2009
• ISBN: 9781469111643

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Revealed:

A Personal Encounter With God

Sandra Ruth Penro

Copyright © 2009 by Sandra Ruth Penro.

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This book was printed in the United States of America.

Scriptures quoted in this work are taken from the King James Version.

Cover art and illustrations

By Dr. Mary Perno Smith, Phd

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Contents

Revealed

Acrostics

Bus

Car

Detour

Merge

Plane

Sign

Slow

Stop

SUV

Train

Truck

Yield

Bible Characters

Cain

Boy David

Eutychus

I Think I’ll Tag Along

Jonah’s Dilemma

Joseph

New Jerusalem Twelve

One Called Legion

Search the Scripture

Simon, the Cyrenian

The Word

Mordecai and I

Memories, Memories

Am I Not the President?

The Antiquated Zero

Barrettes

Beat of a Different Drum

Biological Sisters and a Praying Mother

Cherries and Dates

Childhood Memories

Clown

Divine Diva

Down Candy Lane

Dream of Horror

Faith and Grace

A Friend, a Sister, a Mother

Homemade Ice Cream

I Am a Butterfly

I’ve Got to Clean the Church

The Inevitable Egg

It Wasn’t Easy, But It Was Worth It

Jell-O

Jeremiah

Kite

Laughter

A Miracle

Mystery Clothes

Name Brand

A Natural Resource

Pink

Sanctified

Son, You Just Need a New Coat

That’s Not My Name

The Twilight Zone of the White Room

Two for a Penny Cookie and a Winner Sucker

1263 Indian Trail

Uncle Thomas

Personal Expressions and

Trials of Everyday Living

Aging

Autumn Forest

Bottle Up My Tears

Chocolate

Consider the Ant

Crucified

Death

The Elements

The Eyes Have It!

Forgiveness

Four Seasons Speak of God

Get On with It!

Happy Birthday

The Happiest Person in the World

The Holy Ghost

Holy, Holy, Holy

I’m Still in the Race

Jealousy

Joy

Just San (Saying)

Let It Be

Let it Ride

Love

Man of the Cloth

Money Beckons

A Mortician?

Obama

One Chance

Pray

My Prayer

Show Me the Way

Sowing and Reaping

The Spirit of Variance

The Splendor of the Rainbow

Steps to the Kingdom

Summer, Winter, Fall, Spring

Symmetry

My Tambourine and I

The Temptation

Thank You, God

Tithes and Offering

Wooded Path

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

A Your Honor, the Celebrity, and the Royalty

Book Summary

Acknowledgments

Revealed

My belief has always been

To follow the golden rules.

Right or wrong, wrong or right;

Was mine alone to choose.

In the perfect law of liberty

Love your neighbor as yourself

A good prescription for everyone;

A healing balm, a healing salve.

Whatever the Bible said

Through the man of God

Believed it, trusted it, lived it.

I took it to heart.

But does it really work?

And will it work for me?

Does it also apply to me or

Should I give it up and let it be?

Paying tithes and offering,

Studying the Word of God;

Much fasting and praying,

My soul followed hard.

These things I kept

From my youth up

Nothing breaking my consecration;

I let nothing interrupt.

Where was prosperity?

And where was my niche?

A happy medium for me,

But not necessarily rich.

Where do I fit in?

In the grand scheme of things

Only you, God, knows and

Upon the Lord my hope hangs.

There has to be a loophole;

There has to be an escape.

Round circles don’t fit square pegs;

So began me my journey: my escapade.

Forming a circle with my thumb

And my