I am NO WHERE near a huge movie fan, I would rather listen to music than watch movies or TV but I just saw Fireproof last Tuesday and all I can say is WOW....it's a great movie that will make you laugh, cry and be on the edge of your seat. I believe every married couple, with or without problems should see it....every single person, people who want to get married....OK OK I believe EVERYONE should see it! LOL!!!   I just had to let ya'll know what my take is on the movie...if anyone has seen this movie you know what I'm talking about!!

Anywho - have a blessed day!!! 

~Rita~

**I was praying last night for the ability to cultivate my creativity in writing poetry...it's a passion of mine and a known gift...not to be boasting but I discovered the ability to write in 9th grade (aloooong time ago - LOL) and I was able to be creative in seasons of depression & anger...not until Nov '07 was I able to write something I was proud of and that was written right after I was saved, My Testimony....I prayed and this is what God woke me up with this morning.....I hope those who read it enjoy**

How can we listen to a 'good word'

and five minutes later forget what we heard?

Go back to our simple lives pretending to be

the perfect husband or perfect wife,

even just playing house, cuz 'TRUE' committment

would be too much, how can we live as such?

How can we let his word go in one ear & out the other?

In today's society, fathers and mothers up and leave

sisters and brothers, for the life of the parties and clubs

Then we sit back and wonder why kids are getting tardies

and missing school....that's not cool.....

They dont feel the love so in turn they just don't care.....

They live a life of hate and dispair...wondering what they did wrong

It's sad that all along...they only needed ONE father, God....

Can we stand up, society as a whole....love these children He has

given us and entrusted us to.....

or sit back leave and let an alterd lifestyle take control....

Many are sadly unaware of the ONE love that could turn all

that around....his unconditional love is so profound

in the hearts that follow him....

If for one second, when all hell seems to break loose,

we fall to our knees with hands held high....

to the one who's held on to us thru it all....

trust me!

This world wouldnt seem so small.....

~Rita G.~

This is a poem I wrote in Nov. '07, titled My Testimony

I'm about to be 30 years old, just to give this poem a date,

and its my soul I almost lost, had it not been for fate.

I'm a cancer survivor, a recovering coke addict, a victim of rape.

And a whole lot of other pain I couldn't escape.

I've been used & abused, beaten & left alone, to all lifes challenges, I was prone.

And I wasnt raised in a Christian home.

but one night when I was busted & disgusted I cried out for help, not to my surprise but no one came.

Once again I was left alone to continue to play the enemy's game.

For years I drifted and even out of my own selfishness brought 2 children into my hell,

many times I attended a church, looking for an answer but to no avail.

I'd be good for a while , even put on a fake smile.

I looked for love in all the wrong places, and when I couldnt find it I'd mope and cry until the next 'forever guy', but when th cycle repeated I'd cry about being cheated.

I finally decided love wasnt ment for me, and Jesus, who was he?

I went back to the drinking & drugs and hanging 'round thugs.

After all, that was my love, I left my kids to be raised by family, not knowing if they even really cared to see me.

I'd cry at night praying that there was a God who really cared and asking where was he, could he really see me, did he know all that I was going thru?

And if the answer was a yes, why was he sitting around up where ever he was just letting all this happen to me??

WHY, WHY, WHY, I'd cry out loud to the sky.

Finally he sent someone to speak His word into my life, from an unexpected person, my son's grandmother,

she said there is a God who loves me and I never needed another Father, but him, and in him I would find everything I longed for - that he is my completer and there would never be another competer.

I decided to give it another try, so there in my lonely room, I cried and prayed, and it was there I stayed, until he spoke, he told me he loved me and that I am his daughter, without falter, he'd give me everything I desired.

I gave my life to him and asked forgiveness of my sins, I'm not where I need to be, but THANK GOD I'm not where I used to be.

I'm a walking construction site but I'm holding on with all my might so I dont loose sight of his light. This is my testimony and maybe you can't relate, but dont let it be a life of hell that you create.

~Rita G~