Reach Out and Touch
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Are you Broken, Bruised, Sad or Sick?
These divinely inspired poems will minister, console and encourage you to Reach out and Touch other hurting hearts.
These poetic expressions are spiritually anointed to inspire, heal, and console. As you meditate over the divinely inspired words with repetitive last verse lines it will leave an imprinted message in your mind and spirit that continues to operate even after reading inspiring you to lift others heavy hearts. I sometimes perceive my poetry as a continued opportunity to counsel and (Reach and Touch) in written form of poetic expression.
My poems can be used in speaking engagements, small groups , and support groups. They have already been used in reaching out and touching others, therefore, they can be used to reach out to your friends, strangers, mental health institutions, hospitals, prisons, nursing homes, and wherever there are hurting people.
SOAR ABOVE BEING VICTIMIZED CONTROLLED AND ABUSED
God has lifted and brought you safely alive and out,
Give him your most loud, passionate and thankful shout.
Ahead of you, there is something spectacular and great!
Let not this past tragedy decide your present and your fate.
Though you were mistreated physically and emotionally misused,
Soar above being victimized controlled and abused.
You are more powerful now and internally strong.
Don’t allow the perpetrator to victimize and bound you in their wrong.
Overcome and let not your self be gripped by guilt and shame.
You are not the one to receive and carry the blame.
Be a conqueror of the talk and reject the path of the accused.
Soar above being victimized controlled and abused.
Don’t pick your wounds until they fester and bleed.
Allow God’s word in your heart to plant a soothing seed.
Leave the scab on it so that it can begin to heal.
Through his strength, you must yield, and you must kneel.
Read the bible daily and shout the good news.
Soar above being victimized controlled and abused.
You are wonderfully and beautifully made.
Even though you were violated and betrayed,
Resist disgust and let God clothe you with loving self-esteem
He can restore your eyes sparkling with a bright gleam.
Your vibrant light will now shine with a new charged fuse.
Soar high above being victimized controlled and abused.
A New Season is coming in Your Life
Changes come from time to time, during a time and in time.
God’s creation shows us many varieties of another kind.
Summer, Winter-Spring, and Fall,
Each in its time stands strong and tall,
Sometimes joy, happiness, pain or strife,
There’s a new season coming in your life.
At the end of summer, the leaves must fall.
But it brings an array of colors that’s a beauty for us all.
Even the temperature has it’s time to change,
Slowly changing to a more cooling range,
We quickly adapt as a man toward a lovely wife.
There’s a new season coming in your life.
Then comes the season that we sometimes dread,
With the cold, the sleet and the snow widespread,
Like our sickness, pain, despair, and distress.
We accommodate the temporary to avoid stress.
Fret not the cold and the ice but trust God with all your might.
There’s a new season coming in your life.
The physical is temporary, and it is not here to stay.
Gone is the past the future will bring a new day.
You know your change will come if you just hang on,
The bitter and the sweet only made you strong.
Even though your heart, may have been cut with a sharp knife.
There’s a new season coming in your life.
Comfort Will Come to Those Who Mourn
When the heart is broken, it's a funny thing.
Our voice can’t even find a song to sing.
Feeling only pieces of death, sorrow, emptiness, and grief,
Nothing found seems to bring a healing relief.
Fragments are pulled apart as if tattered and torn.
But comfort will come to those who mourn.
I’m seeking hard and looking for just a little light.
To turn my darkness into something vibrant and bright,
Your illuminated mind remembers I will never leave or forsake you.
God's revived refreshing is like the morning dew.
I will cast my care on him as a baby that's newborn.
Remembering comfort will come to those who mourn.
If I wait on the Lord my strength, he will renew,
Every step of the way will propel me through.
A sweeping of my Joy will come in the morning.
Like a new garment gorgeous, beautiful and adorning.
Appearing as a rainbow after a thunderous storm
Comfort will come to those who mourn.
I will now exalt his name with a prayer and praise!
The cheer in my heart has now been raised.
The broken parts of my heart are now back together.
In spite of all the tears of rain during my stormy weather,
With moments of peace and glory, I can loudly blow my horn!
My comfort has now come as one who has mourned.
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These poetic expressions are spiritually anointed to inspire, heal, and console. As you meditate over the divinely inspired words with repetitive last-verse lines, it will leave an imprinted message in your mind and spirit that will continue to operate even after reading, inspiring you to lift other people’s heavy hearts. I sometimes perceive my poetry as a continued opportunity to counsel and reach out and touch through the written form of poetic expression.
My poems can be used in speaking engagements, small groups, and support groups. They have already been used in reaching out and touching others. Therefore, they can be used to reach out to friends and strangers and in places like mental health institutions, hospitals, prisons, nursing homes, and wherever people who are hurting may be.
About the Author
Warren Jean Rouse has worked with children, youth and their families for over fifty years in academics, social skills, personal needs, and emotional trauma as an educator, school counselor, and volunteer. She has worked in the schools, church and community organizations. Mrs. Rouse is experienced in providing workshops and training locally and out of state for educators, counselors, and parents. She has served on community boards that are designed to help others and has written programs and grants in support of at-risk kids.
She was named Elementary Counselor of the Year for the Central Region and was nominated for the state and won the Arkansas School Counselor Association Elementary Counselor of the Year title for Arkansas.
After Mrs. Rouse retired, she went back to school to further her Christian education at GMOR Seminary Institute and received her doctorate in Christian Counseling just as she had received her Master’s Degree in counseling for secular education. She is presently working on her Ph.D. in Christian Education, an unfinished degree before the doctorate in Christian Education.
Mrs. Rouse believes that her greatest degree is her BA Degree (Born Again) and without it, none of this would have been possible. She sometimes perceives her poetry as a continued opportunity to counsel and (Reach and Touch) in the written form of poetic expression.
Finally, at seventy-four years of age and nine years after retirement, she has published her first book. She desires that the anointing and prayers that she has prayed over this book will be a blessing, encouragement and a lift to the hearts of those who are hurting and burdened by the storms of life and the troubles of the world. As they meditate over the Godly words that have inspired her, prayerfully and hopefully they will also share the light of hope with others who are in stressful situations. Mrs. Rouse has been married for over 55 years to James D. Rouse Sr. and to this unit was born six children, ten grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. Her motto is “To God Be the Glory for the Things He Has Done”! She presently lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.