Hallelujah Anyhow!: For Every Stage of Life

By Sabrina Nash

Hallelujah Anyhow!

Have you ever been in a situation when youve felt like there was no way out? Or that your world was crashing down around you? Or how did I get here, and how do I get out? I think that most of us would say that we have been there, done that and somehow managed to overcome the most challenging circumstances. Some people might say it was luck. Some of us, looking on a more spiritual note, will tell you that the Lord carried you through. There are times when my pastor, the Reverend Dr. William F. Baskerville of Mount Mariah Baptist Church, would say, You ought to shout Hallelujah Anyhow!

Life is full of changes and experiences. I guess thats what makes life such a beautiful enigma. We are shaped, molded, and cultivated by the apprehension of material things, thoughts, and emotions that we sense. We are human, and we live to experience and adapt through the accumulation of knowledge.

In Hallelujah Anyhow we share our tears, our losses, our fears, our truths, and our joys. Lifes trials become lessons and, ultimately, our testimonies. It is our hope that you can connect with what you read and find some joy out of it, and if not, hopefully you find it worthy of a ...
Hallelujah Anyhow!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Apr 9, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504902045

Sabrina Nash

About the Authors Margo Mayo Margo is a divorcee who currently lives in Paterson, New Jersey. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in sociology from William Paterson University in New Jersey. In her spare time, she likes to write poetry, read, work puzzles, and dream of the day that she will receive that check in the mail that will finally afford her the good life that she’s always fantasizing about while chillin’ in her “bistro.” Sabrina “Nina” Nash Sabrina, affectionately known as Nina, currently resides in the Baltimore Washington Metropolitan area. She currently works for the Honorable Congresswoman Donna F. Edwards in Maryland’s Fourth Congressional District. Nina has always had a deep-rooted passion for serving people, writing, and culinary arts. She holds a bachelor of arts in hospitality management from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and aspires to go to law school in the future. Her motto is to “be worth knowing versus well-known,” and this is very fitting for the life that she has designed for herself. She prides herself on being a mommy, wife, mentor, culinary enthusiast, baker, event coordinator, and author. She admires the beauty in life and only wishes to add to it. She considers herself a “free spirit with a revolutionary soul” and looks forward to the day that she can open and operate a nonprofit that enriches the lives of youth. Darcelle Mayo Battle Darcelle Battle resides in Glen Burnie, Maryland. She holds a degree in business administration from William Paterson University in New Jersey. She enjoys traveling, reading, writing poetry, and sipping her coffee while meditating on life. Her patience is her virtue as she tries to present a kinder, gentler expression of life. She may not be able to battle all of the prejudices in the world, but she can certainly write about them. One thing I can say about her is that “in her spirituality, the pen is mightier than a sword.” She is the loving mother to coauthor Sabrina Nash and Sierra Battle. She is the loving wife of the deceased Clinton Battle. Karen Mayo-Hogan Karen is married, with children, and also lives in Paterson, New Jersey. She currently holds a degree in sociology from William Paterson University in New Jersey. She enjoys traveling, reading, writing poetry, and helping others along their way. Her son thinks that she holds a second degree in the field of morbid reality because each of her poems deals with what most people consider as the morbid side of life, which is death. Make “no bones” about it, the woman has swag when it comes to expressing the “darker side.” Her son, Dexter Hogan, unknowingly, is a contributing writer as some of his poetry is featured in this book. Many thanks to his Aunt Merill who thought it was not robbery to laminate his early works of poetry. He wrote his first poems long before he started college, and his analogy of poetry was “hated it.” In reality, his poems are pretty good. Good enough, that is, to be featured in this book with the rest of us.

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Poems of Contents

 Themes 

PROGRESS MAKES PERFECT

Where Has All The Time Gone???

A Poem for Our Friendship

A poem for Mommy

A Beauty You Are… (A Poem for My sister)

Searching

You are God’s little One

To The Graduates

Birth

Family

We Love You,

LOVE & OTHER DRUGS

A Love Gone

Reflections

I Saw You Standing There

Loved…

Missing Link

Defeat.

The Illusion of Love

Love Lost

Missed Connection

High

Moral Dilemma

From This Window

Blissful Sins

SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW!

Boogie Man?

Whispers

Dreams

A Million Miles Away

Cold Weather

The Night

Just One

The Construction Site

Snow

Senses the Attention

Oh! Dark Winds

Be It Day? Or Be It Night? What It Be?

Claim It Personal Space; Peace be Mine

The Arch Street Bridge

The View

Haikus for You!

AS I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY…

GOD Will

Well Done

Pearl

Your Loving Ways

Reconstruction Time 2013 (Changes)

Rest in Peace Young Man

One Day

Stop!!! (My plea to my brothers)

Life Evolves Through God

Escape to the Surreal World

I Meditate

The Cost of Living

Are We Not All?

The Claims of Soul River (Water)

Why Did I? Come This Way?

Spirits Lay Broken

The Hardest Part of All

God’s Time

Silent Tears

Matriarch

Only God Knows

Along Life’s Way

Undying Love

Precious Feelings…

Life

A View From My Heart

Heavenly Sleep

God Called

A Soldiers Faith and Courage

A Talk With God

Warmth

Trust

The Master Plan

Death

Memories

Rest

No Farewell

Time

God’s Commands

Someone Special

And Away

Too Soon

God’s Child

The Hour

Feelings

Uncle Karl

My Homegoing

SPECIAL FEATURES

Blessed Dove By: Damon Black

About the Authors

Hallelujah Anyhow!

Have you ever been in a situation when you’ve felt like there was no way out? Or that your world was crashing down around you? Or How did I get here and how do I get out? I think that most of us would say that we have been there, done that and somehow managed to overcome the most challenging circumstances. Some people might say it was luck. Some of us looking on a more spiritual note will tell you that the Lord carried you through. There are times when my Pastor, the Reverend Dr. William F. Baskerville of Mount Mariah Baptist Church, would say You ought to shout Hallelujah Anyhow!

Life is full of changes and experiences. I guess that’s what makes life such a beautiful enigma. We are shaped, molded and cultivated by the apprehension of material things, thoughts and emotions that we sense. We are human, we live to experience and adapt through the accumulation of knowledge. Even if your situation didn’t quite turn out the way you intended, Hallelujah Anyhow! If you’re breathing, Hallelujah Anyhow! If you’re rich or poor Hallelujah Anyhow!

Hallelujah Anyhow! Is for our tears, our losses, our fears, our truths and our joys. Life’s trials become lessons and ultimately our testimonies. We thank GOD that we can share these with you. It is our hope that you can connect with what you read and find some joy out of it and if not, hopefully you find them worthy of a…

Hallelujah Anyhow!

In Loving Memory of Clinton Battle (3/19/54-5/17/2009)

"The Memories Of Loved Ones Gone,

Will Forever Linger Within Our Hearts."

-Karen Mayo-Hogan

Where Has All The Time Gone???

Wow! Where has all the time gone?

One minute I was a kid, the next I was grown!

Yet, somehow it couldn’t have went that fast.

I got