On this page, I am sharing some of my writings, prose, poems that I written over the years. I am also including other materials and articles that have liked over the years.
“Sow a thought – reap an act”
“Sow an act – reap a habit”
“Sow a habit – reap a character”
“Sow a character – a reap a Christ-like image”
by President David O. McKay
Food for Thought
As the world has seasons, so does our faith. In the spring we plant the seed of faith, we give it much prayer and hope to see it burst forth into life. As we see the seed take root in the solid ground and take hold, so does our faith take hold. We continue to cultivate the ground, giving it the right ingredients and nourishments in order for the seed to spring into life.
With much prayer, the seed of faith grows from a small seedling into a stem that grows into a larger more stronger plant. As we see the plant grow, so does our faith grow also. It grows to a point that our faith and belief become larger than anything we face. Then we can say to that mountain, “Be gone” and it is gone, for our faith was greater and larger than the mountain. As the mountain is moved so is our faith moved into a stronger, deeper relationship with our Father in Heaven.
Written by me on May 7, 1989
A couple years after our Wedding Day, on Sweetest Day in October of 1983, I wrote this following poem.
“My Darling Wife”
by C. Stephen Rogers
I sit and ponder my life was before,
And the joy I feel is like a rare wine that is flowing over its’ goblet.
My job is being in love with a beautiful wife,
A wife that has given me life and reason to rejoice.
Before you came into my life, it was a world of darkness,
A world of corruption, anxiety and fear.
But now I have meaning and for being alive.
I was like stagnated water, and through your love, I was purified and refreshen.
When I have my arms around you, the feelings are hard to describe.
It is like I have the world wrapped in my arms.
When I look at you, my heart jumps several beats
When my lips are pressed to yours, my darling wife,
The passion I feel are like bombs bursting in mid-air.
Yes, my dear Deanna, I am in love with you.
When I think I have reached the bottom of that well of love
I find it goes deeper and deeper.
The love I feel is complete and ever rejoicing and over flowing.
I love thee dear wife and I have counted the ways.
And the ways spell love for you and only for you.
July 16, 2011
My dearest child,
I came from heaven above so that you can have a home above. I was born in a stable to know your poverty. I walked this earth to feel all your cares, concerns, and problems. I did all this to know you ever more then I did when I formed you in your mother’s womb. I walked the last three years of my life to teach you the love of my Father has for you. I taught you how to pray and to deal with Satan’s wiles, and to be victorious in all areas of your life.
I took your sins, aliments, curses and your diseases so that you can have life with me and my Father in heaven. I nailed it to the cross and gave my life up so you have life abundantly. I shed my blood so you can be born again and be part of my kingdom.
I shed my blood so you can have my righteous. For whatever you confess your sins, I am faithful to forgive. I shed my blood to set you aside and be part of my family. For you are mine and you have been redeemed and bought by my precious blood, for you are now a child of the Living God. I became your peace so I can turn the wrath of God away from you. I came to bring peace through all the trials and tribulations and calm your stormy seas. My peace brings you wholeness and soundness. I promise to be with you all days of your life. Drawing you even closer each day unto myself.
I am your healer and the great physician that came to heal your body. I took all diseases and aliments and nailed them to the cross so you can be healed. I take all fragments of your troubled life and bring the soundness and wholeness. I care for you, my dear child and I will provide for every care you have. Ask and you shall receive because my love for you is sufficient to provide for all your needs.
I am your victory for I have overcome the world so that you can be more then conquerors. For my love is set upon you and against you to sustain you. For no weapon formed against you shall prosper. Most of all, I am dear shepherd that will walk you through valleys and mountains with you. I am your guide and my word is lamp unto your path. Even when you make mistakes and fail at times, remember surely goodness and mercy shall follow you all your days. For I turn all things out for the good to those who love me.
Why did this all happen? Because the dear Father in heaven and I love you very much. For I am gift from the Father in heaven and all you have to do is believe, so you can live.
I love you my dear child and have a blessed day. Take some time out and ponder these words and rest in this one fact that if you were the only one on earth, I would come to die for you so you can live with my Father and I in heaven. You are precious in my eyes and you are the apple of my eye.
Love,
Your Lord and Savior,
“Phoenix – Me”
What can I offer the world, to my family and to myself?
At times, I feel that question complexes my mind and feelings.
It seems that at times, I live in a world that doesn’t exist.
My mind lives in one, and my physical body in another.
I am so blue, melancholy, and very reserved at this moment.
What I have offered already is garbage and that doesn’t amount to nothing.
Well when you live in a fantasy world, empty words and empty promises.
What I see is a jerk feeling sorry for himself for the past episodes of empty words and promises.
Yeah, I accomplish a few things to crow about.
I am drawing within and I am going deeper and deeper.
I am trying to find that person who I was when I was born.
Before that time period, before all that garbage that I allow to happen.
The ray of hope that shines upon this darken world of mine.
Is that God had made me, and He doesn’t make junk or jerks.
In that inner reservoir, I know that I am the master of my own destiny.
I have the power to climb and build up from the ashes.
A power of strength to face the up coming winds.
To build upon my foundation, because of the inner reservoir of faith is solid.
A faith, a belief in myself, in God, my wife and my family.
I will be like the phoenix, rising from the ashes and soaring in the air in flight.
Because I can be myself, the master of my own destiny.
“Lord, Help Me to be Me!”
Dear Lord, help me to be me,
So I can be I am with you,
As you are with me.
Help me to love me as You
Did two thousand years ago
On Mt. Calvary.
I want to be free to love me
As You do now – with
All my talents and faults
Let me feel the warmth of Your
Love, so I in return can
Love You too.
I know that through this love,
I can be me as You
Are with me.
I am not your alter-ago and
You are not mine.
I am the gift you have given
Me and what I do with it,
Is in my own hands.
I can not be another Peter, Linus,
Paul, Francis and John Paul.
And in same token, I can not
Be my father, mother, grandpoarents,
Brother or Sister.
You made one of them as
You made one of me.
So in order to be free and at
Peace – is to be me with You.
It is by this love You had given
Me so freely, that I can
Embrace you so that I
Won’t be afraid to be me.
Years have gone by, and I felt
Your love, but I in return
Did not return it.
I only return what others have
Already given You, but that
Never suffice the longing
To be one with You.
You said for us to be one with You,
But I never could be one,
Because I was never one with me.
Now with this newness of strength
Of love I feel, I can embrace
Your love and be one with You,
Because I am me to You,
And now we can be one in
Love, faith and hope.
It is a beginning and it will
Go on – so that I can become
Me as You are I am
With me.
“A Child Within”
I came to this place,
Where life is born,
And where life begins.
Other places that I’ve
Been to before
Waiting and hoping with
Anxiety and anticipation.
That the child will be
Born
To become a new creation.
But as times before, one,
Two, Three, and four they
Died in
The twilight of the birth.
This time with a new hope,
A child will be born within.
As before I was ushered
In a room with a midwife
To attend the new creation.
Hours pass, into long
Agonizing periods
Waiting and hoping for
The new child to be born.
As hours pass, a friendship
Grew and blossomed in full
Bloom.
Finally at last, a child
Came forth
And a new creation was born.
As each moment came, love grew
And the child grew too.
Grew with beauty, with health,
With love.
But as life goes on, one
Receives
Love, also receives sadness
Time has come to say good-
Bye
To the midwife friend.
We both look pleased at the
New
Person and rejoice in the
Goodness of it.
So as time passes, each
Will
Cherish the moment that is,
Was, and shall be
Miles shall separate the two,
But the memories and love
Will
Bring it all together.
For both had seen the child
Born within, to become the
Person it was created for.
This poem was published in “The Aguila” magazine in Spring of 1977. When I was student at Niagara University. This poem came in fourth place that year.
