Kathy L. Goings

Dunbar, WV, USA

Kathy has been writing poetry for about 25 years. She is a Registered Nurse who works for United Health Care and is beginning a Parish Nurse ministry at Highland Avenue Baptist Church. Her hobbies include reading, writing, and camping. She is married and has one son. Her poetry has been published in anthologies by The National Library of Poetry, The Poetry Guild, Sparrowgrass Publishing, The Famous Poet's Society, and Malthouse of Llangolen, Wales. She is a member of The International Society of Poets. She wishes to use her poetry to glorify God, and especially thanks her husband, and "Mom" for their love and encouragement.

WOMEN OF COURAGE

Women of courage, women of strength ,
Women of faith and devotion.
Mothers of children with spirits so strong
Who may have unbridled imaginations.

REFRAIN: They are women, women of courage
                    They are Christians, towers of strength.
                    They are women who put Jesus first in life
                    Show’ ring His love on all those they greet.

Women with losses, women who love,
Whose strength and whose courage comes from above,
Whether they're mothers; or loving Aunties,
It's plain to see Jesus’ love shines through them.

Women I work with, women I know,
Whether at church, or other places I go.
Women whose spirits are battered by pain,
But Christ lifts them up, and they go on again.

IMAGINE

Can you imagine....
going into a city as a hero, knowing you will doe within a week as a criminal?
washing the feet of the very man who will betray you, knowing he will betray you?
Sitting down to a holiday meal knowing that your closest friends will deny ever knowing you
before the night is over?

Can you imagine....
taking a physical beating and humiliation of carrying your own means of death down city streets?
being mocked as a "king" with "crown of thorns" placed on your head hard enough that it drew
blood?

Can you imagine....
the weight of the whole world's sins past, present, and future being on your shoulders?
Dying to save the very people who hated and persecuted you?
Feeling forsaken as the sky turned black, as if even God has deserted you?

Can you imagine....
the incredible love this mans showed as he asked God to, "Forgive them..."?
the miracle of His being raised up on the third day?
Being the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah?

Imagine those things, but KNOW this:
JESUS IS, WAS, AND WILL ALWAYS BE, ALL these and MORE for you and me.