The Brooklyn Chronicles, Inc., is a lifestyle blog that promotes Peace & Love. Encouraging healthy lifestyle, from relationships to good nutrition. Barbara interviews and uplifts Brooklynites that have experienced some of life's most adverse circumstances. Connection with another person in any capacity that is positive is priceless! Barbara teaches through her own personal experiences in love, loss and adversity. She focuses on the importance of self-love, while emphasizing that deep connection with the Creator, God, Jesus, and the Spirit are key to liberation from all of the chains that bind us. The ultimate result is a happy and joyful life free of baggage.
Barbara A. Crooks graduated from St. John's University (Queens Campus) in 2005 with a B.A. in Sociology. She enjoys promoting and encouraging healthy positive relationships that are built on love. She understands that the key to loving another unconditionally is to 1st love, know, and accept oneself wholeheartedly. The journey to loving oneself isn't always easy and one may encounter many obstacles along the way. She offers advice through her own experiences, which she hopes will assist readers on their journey. She is a loving mother of three beautiful & bright children. Barbara was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She now resides in Queens, New York with her children.
Two years ago, I gave
you all my ugly
You gave me all your
ugly too
I wasted all my
pretty
I wanted to heal you
in the place where you stored past hurt
But I was too broken
to be of any help
Where do broken
hearts go?
To Heaven or Hell
If they walk around
wounded they go where I did
I burned in the
Flames
Then someone called
my name
I looked back because
I thought it was you
The light was so
bright that I couldn’t make out the face
He stepped out boldly
His robe was so white
that I had to turn away
That’s when he
grabbed me and wiped all the soot away
When he opened his
arms, doves flew out all sorts of ways
He gave me hug and
walked me to the table
He knew me by my name
He said, “All your
ugly has passed away”.
At the table he showed
me a mirror
At first I saw your
face
He told me that I was
looking for a Savior but that you were not the Way
I couldn’t be with
you because he hadn’t worked on me
And then I looked
again but this time I saw Me
I violated your trust
but it allowed me to regain His
He taught me a new obedience
and I instantly felt like a kid
His love for me
extends from His Kingdom to my world
As the soot began to
fade I saw my pretty face
As the King ate a
meal with me he explained that my brokenness was gone
And that the memories
we created were sort of like a Love Song
He said that because
neither of us was ready in his eyes we’re still together apart
In all our mess and
chaos, only He could offer us a new start
I told him that you’ve
moved on to a girl with style and grace
He said, “My child,
the only thing I want you to focus on is that your ugliness has been erased”.
I’m so blessed
That’s all that I
could manage to say
He saved me before
death entrapped me
Proverbs 31
White Candle
The pages opened and
he showed me
I heard the faint
sound of a guitar playing behind and a lovely melody in the wind
“Her Husband can
trust her, and she will greatly enrich his life.
She brings him good,
not harm, all the days of her life”.
With soot on my hands
and face
I finally understood
my Light & His Grace
He Saved Me at that
moment
Right there, with all
my soot from the flames, he showed me one page
He walked me back to
my world and said
“My Promises are true”
“Love will be a
Battle”
“I Love Your Husband
more than you do”
“Your union will
survive because it is my Will for both of you”
1 Corinthians 13
“Love never gives up,
never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance”
I’m not the one that
he believes in
I’m trying to let him
go, trying to turn the page
His Happiness means
the world to me even though he might not think so
Do broken hearts make
their way back?
Revelation 3
“I know all the
things you do, and I have opened a door for you that no one can close
You have little
strength, yet you obeyed my word and did not deny me”.
He gave me another
hug with his glorious white rob on
He never seemed
worried or concerned about all the soot that I had on
In His silence, I knew
that I would see Him again
When He calls me back
Home to Heaven
For now, I’ll return
to my world but this time without my ugly
Praise the Lord
Enjoyed the prose, I believe you did an outstanding job as I felt your words and sentiments and the significance of which resonated within my spirit.
ReplyDeleteHi Don:
ReplyDeleteWishing you and your family a very happy holiday filled with the Spirit of God. Thank you for taking the time to read this. I truly struggled with the poetry. I will challenge myself in the year ahead to do many of the things that I'm not necessarily comfortable with. We constantly underestimate the power of our own inner strength. I'm beginning to realize just how strong I actually am and I must say that I'm pleasantly surprised.
If someone would have asked me a year ago would I be where I am today, I would have had to say, "I doubt that". I have exceeded my own expectations this year and oddly enough I feel like I'm just getting warmed up. I'm looking very forward to the year ahead. If it's God's will, I'll have a spectacular year.
Thank you immensely for being such an avid reader here. You are appreciated.
Much Luv,
~BC~