Keeping It Simple

I must confess that 2011 has truly been a challenging year for me as a writer and I'm certain many more would agree with me. The goal to remain focus and stay the course to write until the project is complete has been tough, but I managed to finally pull through and complete my novel titled "Guilty Feet".

It's quite difficult at times trying to find balance and making time to market your products as well. One mistake that I have learned in my marketing approach is that a "book will not sell itself". You have to network by making connections and keeping them informed about your projects and future projects as well. It helps to join a local writer's support group as well.

It's easy to get discouraged at times in life, but just remember that success doesn't come easily. Just remember to put a great deal of time, effort and determination to achieve your life goals and you will be successful. 

Angela M. Thomas CPC
www.AngelaMThomas.com  

LOOSE ME

So I could free myself from all that’s holding me behind. I sometimes carry around a lot of weight and it’s so over whelming at times it causes my heart to ache. Don’t judge me by these words that I speak, only judge me by the person that you meet. I want to fly high in the sky and explore all before I die. Is it wrong for me to want to put all my cares aside and not have to hide this injured woman inside? I just want to let all of me open up wide. I don’t want to have to live my life as is anymore. I want to live and do things at my own free will. I want to give to those that are in need and continue with sowing my seeds. I want to help feed those that are hungry and spend time with the forgotten ones that are lonely. We are all striving to reach the top, but when will enough be enough and will we ever stop and figure out what is life really all about? Have you ever had a strong desire to learn how to truly love someone other than yourself? Not focus on you as much or your wealth? To truly love someone, we have to put all our fears aside and allow them to gain entrance deep down inside. Is anything meant to last forever, or is it all just stories made up of happily ever after? I am finding out what this world is truly all about since my renewed mind and heart has been opened. All I see is a lot of brokenness. The unkind things that we do today, would affect others in some type of way. The friendship that we fail to win today, maybe forever lost in a day.

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Yearning For Your Heart

Teach me to love someone as if I have never been hurt before. Let me love them deep down beneath the apple’s core. Teach me to reach out and stroke your mind, where it may be sore. Give me strength and endurance to love someone just once more. Teach me to trust again, as if I have never been deceived. Cure my mind and help open it to believe, that love would re-appear and my heart would allow me to receive. Relax my body, so touching me won’t cause me to be so tense. Help me to shake this and eventually it would all make some sense. Teach me to not hold back and release all of me. If this is not for me Lord, please allow me not to be blind so that I am able to see. Teach me to stay even through the stormy weather. If I put my trust and faith in God, I know that things would only get better. Bring me someone with a pure and cleaned heart, so I can have a new beginning from the very start. I could learn how to Love, but would Love wait for me to learn?

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