Love Is The Only Way E-Book

James Robert Pendleton

• Herausgeber: Proisle Publishing Services
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 65

Beschreibung

Finding Orthodoxy took me Forty-Two years; it was a time of self-discovery, joining the Navy, trying my hand at Chinese Medicine, moving to Indianapolis from Daytona Beach; where I married and was blessed with a beautiful daughter. But wait, I am getting ahead of myself: I was born into the Mormon Church with my Grandfather being an elder of the local church in Fallon NV. Every time we set a date for me and my sister's baptism into the Church, I was never baptized Mormon. When I joined the Navy, my bunk mates provided ample reasons for me to join an interdenominational Church in Virginia Beach; I was also going to the local Calgary Assembly of God Church. I never really felt whole and stopped going to Church; It wasn't until I found Christ in the Greek and Antiochian Churches in Indianapolis that I truly felt I belonged; I am now going to a Greek Orthodox Church in Texas and I know that I am home.

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Love Is The Only Way

The Truest Form

By James Robert Pendleton

Copyright © 2023 by James Robert Pendleton

ISBN: 978-1-9602244-96-5 (Paperback)

978-1-961526-06-8 (E-book/Kindle)

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Dedicated to my friend and brother

TMC(SS) Larry Thompson USN

Foreword

What’s lost in our World today are collectively: Love, Hope, Faith and Charity: who are personified in the four daughters of Saint Sophia.

Being cynical is easy. However to believe in and see something without seeing: to hear without hearing; to love without being loved; to have the faith to move mountains1” and give everything of yourself, to accept the chaos that’s in life, all is nearly impossible without the aid of a Higher Power (God). Who gives us the paddles to Navigate and guide us through the waters on our Chosen Path. God provides our “Moral Compass” to know what is right and wrong. In His Word, we can find solace.

Without our Higher Power’s (my God’s) help, we jump from crisis to crisis and run experiments with People’s lives by not using or respecting the knowledge we gain through science; we end up hurting the very ones we profess to love.

Having sight to see is a privilege granted to me by my Loving God the Father Almighty; with Faith to move mountains, granted to me by my Loving God, the Son, Jesus Christ the only begotten; hearing the voices of the many as breathed into me by my loving God the Holy Spirit the Lord and Giver of Life.

Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy, Lord, Lord have mercy, Lord Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy on me a Sinner!

In His Word we find Solace; In His Word we find Hope; In His Word we find Love

The “Word was in the beginning and the Word was with God and the Word Is God”2

—James R Pendleton

Love, the ONLY Just and Holy War

Unknown Author

Love is the only just and holy war: Two friends pledging loyal opposition to one another. I vow that I will defend the integrity of my being, we will met only as equals; I will present myself to you in the fullness of my being and will expect the same of you. I will not cower, apologize or condescend. Our covenant will be to love one another justly and powerfully; to establish and cherish inviolable boundaries; to respect our separate sanctuaries. We will remain joined in the sweet agony of dialogue the contest of conversation, the dialect of love until we arrive at a synthesis.

For Love We Will Always Know

April 24, 1992

As I hold my friend so tight

I feel our energies flow

I never want to break our grip

I don’t ever want to let you go

As I look into your eyes

I see a beautiful soul

As I look into my own

A reflection never to go

The pain and anger that once I felt

Are slowly, slowly gone

This, the Fruits of Our Labor

The Seeds that Friendship Sow

Together as we walk and grow

Forever in our hearts

We shall never be alone

For Love We Will Always Know

The Love That Heals

October 2, 1992

Our love is the love which is built on trust

Never to chip, peel, breakaway or rust

Our love we feel with all our might

Is centered on the love of the love that is right

The love we knew at the edge of our pond

Is the love we knew which sealed our bond

Our love will be whatever it may

So strong our love that we won’t us betray

Our love is the knowing that we know we can

The Strongest Love, this Love of Man

Together Forever as we learn to feel

Our Love is the most Powerful Love that Heals

Together Forever

October 5, 1992

Together Forever we’ll always be

Two hearts joined for all to see

Open your heart and fully receive

The love we know our truth to be

Our love brings to each wonderful day

The bright and glowing sun to say

It’s all right to feel this feeling with hue

Because in each day we begin our beginning of new

Together forever as we walk in life

Our hearts can feel no feeling of strife

Together forever we grow never apart

For each day we build a stronger new start

Our love is based on the healing white light

Energy stronger, more powerful than the darkest of night

Together forever with patience to see

Our love will grow even stronger in you and me

The Spirit of Life

October 6, 1992

Our Spirit of Life we hold so dear

Is kept so quiet for none to hear

The pain we feel that is on display

Is the hurt that is, each and every day

How do we break free from this spell so mean?

By feeling the love that fills us green

For life herself is meant to be

Happy and joyous for all to see

The joy and laughter our children display

We too can have each wonderful day

Awareness and acceptance of who we are

Define our purpose in life so far

Attuned in harmony in everything we do

So we can enjoy the fullness of our lives too

Where Eagles Fly

October 16, 1992

The eagle circles high above the canyon caves

the dolphin leaps through the ocean waves

as we walk through the promised land

our heads held high giving not a helping hand

The eagle my brother using his gift of sight

flies higher than most into the night

below he sees a crying young man

with compassion he lands as only he can

the young man explains that he is lost

“I asked for help, but what was the cost?"

The eagle my brother with powerful wings

picked up the young man and started to sing

the love he heard was ever so clear

as he was held by my brother so near

so thick and armor plated was his heart that nothing could penetrate

the young man had to go and isolate

The dolphin my brother lives in the seven seas

with angry young men who can’t live in harmony

the pain of loneliness was their only bond

which helped them live on the world's largest pond

seaman's companion and savior be

the wisest of all on the highest high sea

The dolphin my brother with his sonar engaged

found the buried pain that has kept me caged

The dolphin my brother with love in His eyes

sends me back to Where Eagles Fly

the pain of loneliness and fears of mine

are canceled by my brothers' love combined

Within, as Without

October 16, 1992

Here again on the beach

I quiet my thoughts by looking within

The quietness touches my trembling soul

Deeper within I reach for those boundaries

Of walls so high and over due

By living love in its entirety

Those walls are bound to fall

Here again on the beach

Looking within with pure heartfelt love

Those walls came tumbling down

To show the beauty in all around