22 Wednesday Sep 2021
Posted in From the Heart: Poetry, FYA, Just Poems & Prayers
I was laughing through my tears,
From a distance I drew you near.
Though I hate and love you so;
Please just stay when you should go.
By, Steven R. Harrel
13 Monday Sep 2021
Posted in FYA, Just Poems & Prayers, Short Story
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Buddy and the Unicorn Part 4 is coming soon!
13 Monday Sep 2021
Posted in From the Heart: Poetry, FYA, Uncategorized, Without Love
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Chimes blown by the desert winds,
Ticking,
Voices in the crowd speaking something true – few take note.
Great words of wisdom to the proud, bruised ears set to itching,
Youthful eyes seeing – yet no hint of cheeks set glistening.
Know ye the number of the Troubadours’ trump before one soul is e’er redeemed?
How blows unholy winds: puffing hair, chimes too fair, tongues that wag, joy in the wayward?
Heralded times go unheeded.
Bugled sounds from the heights of neglected ramparts.
To trust those whose approval is found in others – but not from He who is On-High?
Seek not the Maker in song or truth?
Where have our Pillars gone?
We listen to Great-Grandfathers’ toll, his ticking, no soul.
By Steven R. Harrel
9/09/2021
03 Tuesday Aug 2021
Posted in Faith, FYA, Love, Music, SH Music Gallery
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You Are.mYou Are | Happy River on Patreon
Click the link for an early rendition of “You Are,” a worship based musical presentation.
Okay, that’s it, that’s my whole blog.
God bless and enjoy worshipping the King… for He Is! 🙂
10 Saturday Jul 2021
Posted in Faith, FYA, Music, SH Music Gallery
I’m sure YOU-KNOW —
It is not by our MIGHT,
Nor by our WILL
Or by our strength
That we will ever walk on the waters
Or raise ourselves up from our own graves!
ONLY by the BLOOD of CHRIST,
The power of the MIGHTY and RISEN – SAVIOR
Will we ascend to the Kingdom of Heaven when Jesus splits the skies!
Acts 4:12 Salvation comes by no other name.
Romans 10:9-11 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
Isaiah 40:26 He is great in power.
24 Monday May 2021
Posted in FYA, Hope, Just Poems & Prayers, Love, Uncategorized
I once knew a love – as fresh as a morning’s breeze
Such love – seemed not to wither – but float on billowing clouds of Spring
Sweet waves and passions – deep Summer – where cheeses and wines deceive
Alas – along comes winter – so profoundly – Love freezes most deep
Brave days, yes days most frigid – bereft of Summer’s – enthralling – sweet glee
Where once – to know Love’s sweet passions – most fresh – ever brisk – doth flee
Then along comes winds post-winter – Love freshens – frost recedes – ne’er to be
Spring advances again unbidden – to stir – hoe depths – bend knee
Oh eyes, sweet eyes of Summer – yearning – uninvited – doth bleat
As sure as the snows of winter – returns to yonder great seas
So again I knew love and passion – as fresh as a morning’s sweet breeze
Such love – seemed not to wither – but float on billowing clouds of Spring
Sweet waves and passions – deep Summer – where cheeses and wines deceive
Alas – along comes winter… Will love e’er return for me?
By Steven R. Harrel
May 24th 2021
18 Thursday Jun 2020
Posted in Fiction, FYA, Got Mine!, Short Story
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If it’s been a while… take a few moment to read “A Cheesy Religion” starting (of course) with Part 1.
https://thissideofthewhirlwind.wordpress.com/2019/06/25/the-cheesy-religion-part-1-short-story-tsww/
A Cheesy Religion has 9 parts if you include the epilogue.
It was fun reading it the first time. Look for elements you missed on your first time thru. Have a Blessed DAY!
21 Thursday May 2020
Posted in Fiction, FYA, Short Story, TSWW's The Night Watch
(An Ongoing Saga by Steven R. Harrel)
(Taken from concepts found in “This Side of the Whirlwind”)
※ World-News-Today: Over the past three weeks China’s Shaanxi Province has reported more than 130 deaths stemming from the unusual disease known as Jameson’s. The development of Jameson’s Disease in the isolated province of Shaanxi has prompted numerous theories as to how the disease could have crossed such remote Chinese borders without effecting nearby cities or villages. So far, not a single residence in surrounding communities has tested positive for the pathogen. Earlier this week the WHO responded to Chinese outcry by dispatching additional Health Squads to Shaanxi Province and neighboring communities.
※ Today March 16th 2020 New York City’s CDC and Prevention Center offers a Critical presentation on Jameson’s Disease as presented by Dr. Buzz Richards, an official with California’s West-Coast CDC office, Los Angeles: Chief Researcher, Dr. Buzz Richards:
Reluctantly, Dr. Richards allowed himself to be led into the New York City’s CDC’s central conference room. Continue reading
11 Saturday Apr 2020
Posted in Faith, From the Heart: Poetry, FYA, Hope, Love, Without Love
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You know how – at times – we’re looking for ways to show our Christian love and charity to our fellow man/woman/kiddo…?
Just like you wouldn’t want to kiss a cat with sticky lips…
(You know I mean – your lips being sticky – not the cat’s lips. That would be gross) 😦
You wouldn’t want to kiss this opportunity to show your Christian love and charity goodbye. This is the perfect opportunity for us to live the talk of our faith. Demonstrate the love God He has sewn in us to all those people who know you’re a living breathing Christian, right?
After all, if we (the Christians) get sick and die the worse thing that happens to us is that we join the Lord in paradise. Where’s the down side?
04 Wednesday Mar 2020
Posted in Fiction, FYA, Hearing God's Voice, Short Story, TSWW's The Night Watch
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Fiction, Hearing God's Voice, Miracle, Short Story, Steven R. Harrel for This Side of the Whirlwind, TSWW's The Night Watch
(An Ongoing Saga by Steven R. Harrel)
(Taken from concepts found in “This Side of the Whirlwind”)
TS, Carl, Brian and Mike were perched near the top of the Breakdown-Room for nearly half an hour cracking jokes and making light of the perilous sloop they’d just ascended.
Brian groaned as he stood, “Hey guys, let’s get going.”
Everyone was excited to press on in their netherworld adventures.
As they climbed away from the Breakdown Room they stepped through a smooth oval portal which opened into a large columned chamber. In numerous places stalagmites and stalactites filled the room from ceiling to floor with dozens of smaller columns standing like Sentinels in the darkness of this underworld kingdom.
“Hey man, there are a lot of stalactites dangling from that ceiling above.” Brian pointed to a singular spiraling stalactite which he said looked like the end of an old scroll.
Carl responded, “Yeah, and that cadre of stalagmites there, indicating a crowded group which followed the contour of the room, looks like a platoon of Sentinels standing guard over that passageway.” Continue reading
