Faith
Courage
Wisdom
Strength
And Hope
Inspirational Poetry That
Comes from the Heart
Stacey Chillemi
©2007 Author Stacey Chillemi
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Special Edition, February 2007
Faith, Courage, Wisdom Strength and Hope
Dedicated to my husband Michael,
my three children Michael, Alexis and Anthony
Forward
We must view life as each day is the first day of the rest of our lives. We should keep an outlook in our minds about life, as each day is the opportunity for a new start. We must learn to live each day to the fullest, and we can do that only if we learn to accept that we cannot change the past. We cannot stop a tragedy from entering our lives. If you were struck by an illness, disorder, disability or disease, you cannot tell it to go away. We have to accept what has happened, accept the new person we have become by the tragedy that has entered our life and love ourselves no matter what. No one is perfect. We all have flaws. The present is now and we hold the key to the future. It is time to create the new you.
Happiness and success comes with persistence and hard work. We must have a goal and work hard. Follow your hearts to true happiness. You must have a destination, a goal and a plan. You are special. You can be anything you want too. Your family loves you, your friends, spouse and the world loves you.
Now it is your turn to love yourself. These poems in this book will give you the faith, hope, courage, strength to be happy, and love life. If you cannot find happiness in the present, you will never find it in the future. Those who find true happiness pursue the goal of achieving as much success, and finding as much happiness, as possible every day of their lives.
Many people think that happiness lies in how much material wealth you accumulated. Nevertheless, we must find happiness within ourselves—not in the external world. Happiness comes from within and from making others happy. Each day we have a new opportunity to find happiness; and unless we are able to learn to be happy on a day-to-day basis, we will probably never find true happiness.
There are situations, such as getting an illness, disorder, disease, disability or some type of sickness, when we find ourselves trapped, full of anger not knowing where to turn or what to do. The anger of losing control of our lives.
You may feel like life is meaningless and happiness is no longer an option. My poems will show you otherwise. I will show you through my poetry that there is no reason to be anger. Love yourself as your love ones love you. Life is meaningless unless you can love, be happy and bring your happiness to others. As you read my poetry, you will see a completely new meaning of live.
In addition, Faith will once again be apart of your life.
Introduction
“Faith, Courage, Wisdom, Strength and Hope,” is a collection of poems that Inspire your mind, body and soul. This book will give you the inspiration to want to live life to the fullest and be the best you can be. The poems in this book have been written to inspire and comfort readers, as well as to give you a completely
different view of life.
The poems make you realize that you are special and you have the potential to love yourself and love life. Each of us has a responsibility to try to make us feel good about ourselves. We need to love ourselves, be proud of ourselves, accept ourselves and make ourselves happy.