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PrefaceWilliam Blake saw a world in a grain of sand.These sculptures and poems go inside the stones to see what centuries have hidden.Sit with this stone art.Feel God's tender love and care. Receive the gift of Peace.The stone poems,go inside the stone sculptures to explain the riddle of life- Hidden through the ages. Some stones were plucked from river beds where rainbow trout came and whispered secrets.When picked up and sawed sparks fly from them, so maybethey contain light of stars.Light to reveal the Mystery of wisdom written on walls of caves.Etched in stone commandments. Sun shining bright.Star of Bethlehem!Bible stone art teaches the significance of life- Jesus is Life.Gentle Galilean Glories Healing words of love.The Glory of God The Word made flesh Heaven's Son ShineAs you meditate upon this art, may you come from scars of stones cast, to comfort of stone art, bowing in wonder. Let this be your prayer:It is by the Goodness of God that I was born into this world in the first place. It is by the Grace of God that I am held every step that I take in life. And it is by the Love of God revealed in the gentle life and tender teachings of Jesus that I am becoming a child of God. Ame

Rainbows of Hope, will hang a rainbow in the window of your soul to shine on the stormiest of days. Its photos and poems will hold you in security and give you radiant hope. This is God's promise to you in the first book of the Bible, Genesis 9:13, a promise wrapped in a covenant of kindness.The rainbow poems will sing your soul awake. Poetry matches experience with reality, seeing the relationships between the invisible and visible. Nature poems, using rainbow images that bridge heaven and earth, teach us that all things, are inter-related and inter-connected as one. Rainbows weave Beauty and Wonder into the ever widening circles of our lives making us healthier, happier, and more creative-moving us toward more hope filled lives._____________Dwayne Cole and his wife, Beth met while they were both in seminary studying for the Master of Divinity degree. Dwayne has also earned a Master of Theology and a Ph.D. in New Testament with a major in Greek. They have an adult son and daughter and four grandchildren.They came to Alaska in 2011 to be with family. Their daughter and son-in- law came to start their medical practice and needed help with their two children. This book is number 29 since coming to Alaska. Dwayne's passion is poetry that is inspired by his daily walks in the beauty and wonder of Alaska. You can reach Dwayne- tadpolejr@aol.comRainbows of Promise, Security, and Hope- Wrapped in kindness.

As I walked in the Beauty and Wonder of Alaska in the last decade, flowers spoke to me, saying, "Take my picture. Write a poem about me." Flowers are never isolated, but are connected with everything that is before them, beside them, under them, and over them. Flowers both clothe and reveal the spirit of nature. A flower poem is nature magically revealing itself. I often capitalize Beauty, Wonder, Tenderness, and Kindness as names for God. At a time when the name, God, is abused and associated with a conservative judgmental spirit, these poems allow me to speak a daisy fresh freeing message. Most of the flower poems were written in the depth of Alaska winters, a time of almost total darkness. This adventurous activity, created in me an invincible spring and summer. Photos and poems bring their own sunshine that warms our soul. Flowers speak Tenderness and the magic of Wonder.

This book, Heart Sijo, takes the broken pieces of our lives and reshapes them into songs that sing our heart awake. Poetry matches experience with reality, seeing the relationships between the invisible and visible. Nature poetry, using Korean culture images, teaches us that all societies, all things, are inter-related and inter-connected as one. Heart Sijo, weaves Beauty and Wonder into the ever-widening circles of our lives by capturing this adventurous enlightenment, making us healthier, happier, and more creative-moving us toward more meaningful lives.Dwayne Cole and his wife, Beth met while they were both in seminary studying for the Master of Divinity degree. Dwayne has also earned a Master of Theology and a Ph.D. in New Testament with a major in Greek. They have an adult son and daughter and four grandchildren. They came to Alaska in 2011 to be with family. Their daughter and son-in- law came to start their medical practice and needed help with their two children. This book is number 27 since coming to Alaska. Dwayne's passion is poetry that is inspired by his daily walks in the beauty and wonder of Alaska. You can reach Dwayne- tadpolejr@aol.com

Clouds can stir the imagination. These puffs of air laced with water crystals take on mysterious colors and shapes. it''s no wonder clouds have been given mythological and folkloric qualities by many cultures.In the Bible clouds are symbols of God''s presence and guidance. The people were inspired to lift their eyes to heaven and walk in faith.In ancient Greek myth, clouds were seen as a group of young nymphs called Nephelai. These cloud spirits, depicted as beautiful and transparent, spent their days collecting water from the rivers in cloudy pitchers, then floating up to the heavens to pour water down from the sky, nourishing the earth and feeding the streams. Nephelai sailed through the sky in billowing white robes, looking like swans. Hindu tradition reflects the belief that elephants brought the rain, and that clouds themselves were the celestial relatives of the white elephants that roamed the earth. An elephant''s body was thought to be representative of a cloud, and they would use their trunks to shower the earth with rain.Native Americans also created myths and folklore around clouds. Some saw clouds as the clothing of the gods of heaven. A god spreading arms would cause the clouds to move across the sky.Even today, cloud myths endure, often associated with honoring the dead. The Pueblo, an agricultural people, believe that the dead become the Cloud People and send them rain, thereby nourishing their land.There''s no doubt about it- There''s just something about clouds that is utterly magical. And it''s not just you and I that have that feeling. It''s a universal phenomenon throughout history. 

Faith Poetry is more about how to live in this world than it is about how to live in an afterlife.All we have is this moment The here and now. The present gift The world is the poem.Nature poetry is the spiritual expression of who we are. Nature sings the song of our faith, our being The language of our soul.Dwayne Cole and his wife, Beth met while they were both in seminary studying for the Master of Divinity degree. Dwayne has also earned a Master of Theology and a Ph.D. in New Testament with a major in Greek. They have an adult son and daughter and two teenage grandchildren.They came to Alaska in 2011 to be with family. Their daughter and son in law came to start their medical practice and needed help with their two children.

In God and Evil, I have used poetic imagery as a way of uniting science, philosophy, theology, and the arts. During fifty years of Christian ministry, I struggled with the deep mystery of God and evil. I not only had to deal with my personal struggles with suffering and death, but also the needs of thousands of church members who looked to me for help. This book, God and Evil: An Ode to Kindness, is a summation of my pastoral advice on how to cope with evil without being broken in the process. The faith premise is that God is in the world and for the world, in us and for us, luring us toward goodness and kindness so that we may become our very best self.

The vision inspired by this book can change our world into one community knitted together by kind words and gentle actions. This hope filled vision taps into the healing energy of kindness found in most religions and makes it the prism through which we understand God, the world, and all things. Following this path of relational kindness, leads me to be at home in any religion teaching and practicing kindness-Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, and all religious groups teaching kindness. Kindness is the language known around the world. Wrapped in God's kindness, we are all one-The One in many and the many in One.

Jesus' gentle life and tender teachings actualize God's aims and purposes for all creation. Jesus learned to incorporate each moment of his life in an experience of God's life and his growing consciousness of God's presence linked the past action of God in the prophets like Isaiah and Hosea to his ministry that created a vision for the future. That union was a fusion of human and divine love that enables us to look back to beginning times and glance forward to end times. Thus in Jesus' tender words and gentle actions we see and feel God acting. Past, present, and future become a unity bound up in loving kindness. Love is a uniting force. Staying power resides in these tender teachings. Simple acts of loving kindness to our self, our family, and to all living things are the most hopeful and powerful transformers in the world and may very well be our greatest hope of survival when relationships between countries have reached dangerous levels of disharmony and environmental changes threaten the future of our planet.

This book is a poetic memoir of the Robert Lewis and Jessie Pearl Cole family. Saint Augustine said that God loves each one of us as though each is the only one to love. My parents never read Augustine's Confessions, but they lived the truth of this faith statement. They daily loved each of their thirteen children as though each was the only one to love. This book is dedicated to them.