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    The Cross That Hangs: Promises from the Cross
    The Cross That Hangs: Promises from the Cross
    The Cross That Hangs: Promises from the Cross
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    The Cross That Hangs: Promises from the Cross

    By Lillie Ann Scoggins Reynolds

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    The Hanging Cross collection of poems and stories spans a lifetime of experiences and lessons learned. For those having similar experiences, there is one who knows all of your hurts and feelings; He loves you, and He uses such unique measures to touch the hearts of those who are hurting, lonely, depressed, disappointed, and feeling unloved.

    Time grows short, and there are many hurting souls who are searching in all of the wrong places, using the wrong methods to find peace, contentment, joy, and love. What you are searching for can easily be found in the simple act of believing in Jesus and asking Him to forgive you of your sins and come into your heart. This is the most important decision you will ever make in your life.

    There is no more exciting life than the life with Jesus, our Savior. He gives you a high above all highs, joys beyond measure, and peace in your heart that will sustain you through anything you will ever have to go through in this life. He never leaves you, and He is faithful and keeps His promises.

    This collection of poems and stories tells of the many unique ways and experiences our Savior used in the authors life to bring about a change that has made her a much stronger person with a deeper knowledge of the love of our great Creator. Her prayer for you is that your heart will be touched with the knowledge that Jesus does love you and understands your every feeling. He is the one who will help you through it all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJul 19, 2012
    ISBN9781449755331
    The Cross That Hangs: Promises from the Cross
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    Lillie Ann Scoggins Reynolds

    Lillie Reynolds was born in Atlanta, Georgia, graduated from Toccoa Falls Institute, and took courses at Dekalb College in Georgia. She retired from Standard Telephone Company as quality control/billing coordinator after twenty-one years. She wrote manuals for work applications. She’s a published poet in five anthologies and lives in Cleveland, Georgia.

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      The Cross That Hangs - Lillie Ann Scoggins Reynolds

      Copyright © 2012 Lillie Ann Scoggins Reynolds

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      author photo courtesy of:

      Dan Reynolds Photography

      www.hawkreynoldsphotography.com

      WestBow Press books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4497-5534-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-5533-1 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012910196

      WestBow Press rev. date: 07/12/2012

      Contents

      To My Friend

      Preface

      The Cross That Hangs

      A Smile for Them to See

      My Basket of Promises

      Grow In Grace

      He Can Fix It

      The Heart-Shaped Stone

      Who Can This Man Be?

      The Looking Glass

      Memories of the Past … A Tribute

      What Does Your Freedom Mean To You?

      The Flag

      The Raging Sea inside of Me

      How Did You Do It

      I Forgive You

      My Granddaughter

      The Overwhelming Sadness

      Through the Glass You Can Clearly See

      Life So Perplexed

      The Mountain Top

      You Are My Angels

      The Clouds in the Sky

      I Love This Land

      From This Distant Land

      It’s the Fourth of July

      You Are My Reason

      About the Author

      To My Friend

      SKU-000559974.pdf

      Gerald W. Johnson

      Piano Player and Singer

      Inspiration comes from different places and has many faces. We never know who or through what circumstances we are going to touch someone else’s life. That is why we should always share our experiences, both good and bad, in the way we know how, or else the trials we have come through will have gone to waste.

      The Lord says in His word that He allows us to go through troubles so that we will call on Him, He can rescue us, and we will give Him praise (Psalm 50:15 LB). The praise we give is through the life we live.

      My inspiration to write again came to me one Saturday night in Remember When Theatre in Helen, Georgia. I had been in a deep depression for six years. I had taken care of my parents until their deaths while taking care of my mother-in-law. The deep hurt and sadness of taking care of an Alzheimer’s patient had taken its toll on me.

      Gerald wrote a song called Little Hands, which was inspired by his deep hurting over losing his wife and baby through a divorce he did not want. He did not know that his song and the tears he cried on stage that night would inspire me to write again. He did not know the depression I was in, that had I not been a Christian, I would gladly have ended my life. The Lord used him to turn my life around, to inspire me to use one of the gifts God had given me that was being wasted.

      It is with my deepest respect, thanksgiving, and love that I dedicate this, my first book, to you, Gerald.

      In your words, you are just a piano player and singer. In my words, you

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