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    There’S Gotta Be a Little Sunshine Sometimes: Poems, Prayers, Pensées
    There’S Gotta Be a Little Sunshine Sometimes: Poems, Prayers, Pensées
    There’S Gotta Be a Little Sunshine Sometimes: Poems, Prayers, Pensées
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    There’S Gotta Be a Little Sunshine Sometimes: Poems, Prayers, Pensées

    By crista b. griffin

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    The main point of my book is to express my ideas on God, politics, economics, and issues of the day. When I have an idea inspired by TV, conversations, Bible studies, or just thoughts I have, I like to sit down and write. Poetry makes issues more palatable.

    I want to inspire readers to act on my ideas and put them to use in their own lives. God calls Christians to be salt and light to the world, that is, a spice and preservative, as well as enlightenment. My hope is that those with capabilities I lack will take the ball and run with it. The nuts and bolts of how to run a business or how to do research on a computer, for example, I dont know.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateJan 17, 2012
    ISBN9781466905009
    There’S Gotta Be a Little Sunshine Sometimes: Poems, Prayers, Pensées
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    crista b. griffin

    Crista Griffin brings a unique perspective gained from travel within the United States and throughout the world. She was an exchange student (France and Japan) and a Peace Corps volunteer (Senegal, West Africa). Her studies were on political science and economics at Colorado College. Her mental breakdown made God strong where she is weak.

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      There’S Gotta Be a Little Sunshine Sometimes - crista b. griffin

      Contents

      BUGS

      Thoughts on

      POLITICS

      Inspiration

      ISSUES

      MORE PRAYERS

      BUGS

      Introduction

      Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits—coming to terms with mental illness.

      I hear voices. I call them bugs. You don’t want to hear them. Definition of bug: 1) creepy crawly thing or maybe a microbe. 2) a disease. 3) a defect or flaw in some system. 4) a listening device. 4) to listen in on. 6) someone who listens in on. 7) an irritation, aggravation, or annoyance. 8)to irritate, aggravate, or annoy.

      Bugs seem to have a speaking vocabulary of less than fifty words. They make one, two, or three word analytical or judgmental running commentaries on my life.

      I think some bugs are a form of organized crime.

      Ever hear about good bacteria that fight off bad bacteria in your body when you are sick? The good bacteria I call wanna-be angels. The only thing angels and bugs have in common is they both listen in on us. Angels, however, are sent from God and are mobilized via prayer. Therefore, they have a right to listen.

      Bugs may be demons or fallen angels.

      Bugs earn angel wings via putting God first and doing good deeds, e.g. fighting off or extinguishing bad bugs as God wills.

      I pray that all bugs be made into love.

      Should good names be found

      to call creepy-crawlers on the ground?

      to make them acceptable to God

      and those who turn the sod?

      What about bugs who are disease?

      Should I find names that are sure to please?

      Such as what? I now do ask.

      Am I really up to the task?

      Listening in on is what some bugs do

      Or else they’re a device so that we can too.

      They irritate, aggravate, and annoy

      (no matter what definition I could employ?)

      3-03

      When called: stupid, bad, *!*, or boy

      I feel emotionally paralyzed; unable to feel joy.

      Over and over I’ve heard these things said,

      and most people say it’s all in my head.

      These voices come from outside it seems to me,

      and I wonder when, oh when, will they just let me be?

      Why do the things they say bother me so much?

      It’s callousness or mal-intent from each such and such.

      The voices distract me from everyday life

      and I think I’d prefer complete absence of strife.

      It’s hard to make progress in just being me,

      when the bug between my eyes won’t let me properly see.

      8-20-04

      What is the proper role of a bug?

      Are they even created of God?

      Without Him nothing was made that was made?

      (until mankind had to turn the sod?)

      Tho it may be true bugs aerate the soil,

      Worms signify the soil is good.

      Worms aerate and fertilize

      better than bugs ever could.

      The early bird catches the worm,

      so even birds prefer worms as food.

      How do you make a bad thing good?

      How do you love your enemies who are rude?

      5-22-08

      Fat people are more observers

      than participants in the arena of life.

      Thus Oprah Winfrey stated one time,

      tho this opinion might not be rife.

      If the above statement is true,

      I should have been observing, not observed,

      for the past eighteen years.

      Is that absurd?

      Only fat people should be bugs;

      the skinny should express their selves—

      acting, doing, creating, serving,

      whether engineering or dusting shelves.

      Obesity is prevalent in our nation.

      I think the desire to just observe prevails.

      Doing and accomplishing are expected too much.

      Food and drink as a cop-out avails.

      6-5-10

      Father, God, thank you for loving me.

      I apologize for needing reassurance.

      Bugs hating me are a trial for sure,

      a test of my endurance.

      Please show me how you want me to be,

      what to say and what to do,

      so that I better love,

      and reflect well upon you.

      6-6-10

      God,

      Please forgive me for not being more penitent. Also, please forgive me for feeling superior to bugs tormenting me with analytical, judging, testing comments. Please forgive my anger, hate, and irritability towards bugs, and guide me always to do your will. Please make my anger be righteous, and me be justly tolerant. Please allow me to see any good in bugs.

      Where should I be, Lord

      Who should be with me?

      I cannot see clearly

      So just R.S.V.P.

      It seems when I ask of you,

      only bugs

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