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Back-to-Back Momentous Occasions

05 Wednesday Jun 2019

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Poetry, Praises and Thanks

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But he answered me, “My grace is always more than enough for you, and my power finds its full expression through your weakness.” So I will celebrate my weaknesses, for when I’m weak I sense more deeply the mighty power of Christ living in me.  So I’m not defeated by my weakness, but delighted! For when I feel my weakness and endure mistreatment—when I’m surrounded with troubles on every side and face persecution because of my love for Christ—I am made yet stronger. For my weakness becomes a portal to God’s power.  – 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, TPT

This month, it will be 50 years since I graduated from high school. To celebrate this auspicious event, my high school classmates are planning to hold our 50th class reunion in August.  

That was a fast 50 years! For sure, it is hard for me to believe that 50 years ago this month I graduated from the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial High School, which is still located on the same street corners in Wilkes-Barre, PA.

Next month, I also will experience another momentous occasion – one that is even harder for me to wrap my head around.  Nevertheless, on July 16, I will be acknowledging that my marriage legally ended 21 years ago. However, what will be even harder for some of my family and friends to believe is that I am still single – never married nor wanted to marry another man. Now, while at times, thinking about my single status often has made me feel lonely and unloved, whenever that happened Christ via His Holy Spirit was right there to remind me that I am married to the most loving Man who ever lived – Jesus Christ.

Without a doubt, Christ loves me.  Most definitely, I love Him, too. That is why, for me, staying strong and loyal to my Lord is my only option. No matter whatever weaknesses I may have or whatever troubles, persecutions, mistreatments, or sorrows that may come my way, I can rest assured that Christ, my spiritual Husband, won’t ever betray me or forsake me. 

I was reminded this morning about how I can always count on this above-mentioned Divine Truth, and then I was led to compose the following poem:

  Got to Stay Strong
 
 
Though one of four living children
Mom had, I was always on my own,
Forced to walk tall and stand strong
Years before I was legally grown.
 
Neither college nor military changed
A thing for me, though one of many
People traveling on these same roads
I recall who had my back – not any.
 
Marriage started out on right track
But over time never made two one;
I was left alone in loneliness often
Divorce undid what love had done.
 
Only time my life ever made sense
Was when Christ showed me Love
Minute by minute, hour by hour
And day by day via a Holy Dove.
 
Christ’s Love for me grew stronger
And bathed me in such Tenderness
Even through my wilderness journey
I knew His  measureless.
 
Though one of untold living saints
Christ has, I’m not left on my own,
He loves, inspires, honors, covers,
Protects me like no one I’ve known.
 
He truly has my back – gives ample
Support like the true Husband He is,
For these reasons I got to stay strong
And loyal to Him who made me His.
 
- composed June 5, 2019 by Nadine Drayton-Keen

To God be the Glory. Amen!

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Happy Birthday to . . . Me!

05 Monday Mar 2018

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It's My Birthday!

 

 

1O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. 2 You know when I sit or stand. When far away you know my every thought. 3 You chart the path ahead of me and tell me where to stop and rest. Every moment you know where I am. 4 You know what I am going to say before I even say it. 5 You both precede and follow me and place your hand of blessing on my head.

6 This is too glorious, too wonderful to believe! 7 I can never be lost to your Spirit! I can never get away from my God! 8 If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the place of the dead, you are there. 9 If I ride the morning winds to the farthest oceans, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your strength will support me. 11 If I try to hide in the darkness, the night becomes light around me. 12 For even darkness cannot hide from God; to you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are both alike to you.

13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit them together in my mother’s womb. 14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! It is amazing to think about. Your workmanship is marvelous—and how well I know it. 15 You were there while I was being formed in utter seclusion! 16 You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your book!

17-18 How precious it is, Lord, to realize that you are thinking about me constantly! I can’t even count how many times a day your thoughts turn toward me. And when I waken in the morning, you are still thinking of me!

                                                                  . . .

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test my thoughts. 24 Point out anything you find in me that makes you sad, and lead me along the path of everlasting life. ~ Psalm 139:1-18, 23-24, TLB

 

 

Today, I just want to praise and thank God for adding another year to my life. I also want to say happy birthday to me.

I might not be the richest person in the world or one of this world’s leaders, but I have happiness, peace of mind, and the gift of life. Thank you, God, for blessing me with such priceless gifts. On my birthday, I praise You for giving me so many priceless things to celebrate. Once again, I say happy birthday to me.

 

 

Happy 67th Birthday, Nadine

 

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From My House to Yours

24 Saturday Dec 2016

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From my house to yours:

 

 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

 

and a

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR

 

May your New Year be filled with peace, joy, happiness, love, good health, success, and every additional blessing that God has in store for you.

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The Birth of Jesus


(Isaiah 7:10-16; Micah 5:1-6; Matthew 1:18-25)

Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. This was the first census to take place while Quirinius was governor of Syria. And everyone went to his own town to register.

So Joseph also went up from Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the City of David called Bethlehem, since he was from the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to him in marriage and was expecting a child.

While they were there, the time came for her Child to be born. And she gave birth to her firstborn, a Son. She wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. ~ Luke 2:1-7, Berean Study Bible

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On December 22, 2016, I composed the haiku poem that is in the above-illustrated haiku that I call Divine Reversal Haiku.

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Grateful to Be 65: Loving What God Is Doing with Me

06 Sunday Mar 2016

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Nadine's 65th Birthday Celebration; March 6, 2016

But those who wait for the LORD [who expect, look for, and hope in Him]
Will gain new strength and renew their power;
They will lift up their wings [and rise up close to God] like eagles [rising toward the sun];
They will run and not become weary,
They will walk and not grow tired. ~ Isaiah 40:31, AMP

Even to your old age I am He,
And even to your advanced old age I will carry you!
I have made you, and I will carry you;
Be assured I will carry you and I will save you. ~ Isaiah 46:4, AMP

Celebrating my 65th birthday . . . March 6, 2016 . . . .

Grateful to Be 65

It is great to be alive
And grateful to be sixty-five,
Valuing attitude of gratitude,
A spirit full of certitude:
Peace, joy, laughter and love,
Everything amazing to speak of;
Though retired from paid career
Never emeritus in infinite sphere;
Senior with no rainbows to chase,
Compliments of God’s Grace.

Note to Self:

I have learned that the beauty in growing old not only is being able to look forward to each birthday but also is being able to accept each new year of my life’s journey with all of its opportunities, challenges, failures and successes. I must never forget it is God’s Grace that makes it okay for me to expect more in life to celebrate, as long as I remain forever grateful to God for my life and am forever faithful to celebrate the life He has given to me.

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May God Richly Bless You in 2016!

31 Thursday Dec 2015

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Happy New Year 2016

 

 

‘Y’varekh’kha Adonai v’yishmerekha.
[May Adonai bless you and keep you.]
Ya’er Adonai panav eleikha vichunekka.
[May Adonai make his face shine on you and show you his favor.]
Yissa Adonai panav eleikha v’yasem l’kha shalom.
[May Adonai lift up his face toward you and give you peace.]’ ~ Numbers 6:24-26, CJB

 

I pray that our 2016 will be filled with new dreams, new hopes, new joys—all the new experiences life, love, and liberty may bring to our doors. In this New Year, with the Holy Spirit’s help, may we also learn how to be truly understanding of our differences, learn how to be truly thankful for our own existence, and learn how to be truly loving and kind to all human beings, especially our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. In other words, with the help of the Holy Spirit, let each one of us no longer practice hatred, greed, envy, jealousy, or partiality. Lastly, with our Holy Spirit given renewed strength and power let us endeavor to let go of our past and hold fast to Father God’s Promises and Divine Truths so that we might outlast the inevitable hard times that are ahead, by trusting (having faith that is) solely in the Godhead.

Shalom . . . . .

  

Trust in Adonai with all your heart;
do not rely on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him;
then he will level your paths. ~ Proverbs 3:5-6, CJB

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!  

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Thank You God!

18 Tuesday Aug 2015

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Praises and Thanks

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My First Royalty Check

…And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. ~ Colossians 3:15b-17, ESV

 

Yesterday I received my first royalty check, and it is for Perfect Peace—my book of haiku poetry. What a true blessing it is to know that more than a couple of people has purchased my first published book.  Without doubt, it is God’s wonderful blessing and favor that have made it possible for me to sell a poetry book—at a time when there does not seem to be a deep love for poetry or a big demand for poetry books.

Of course there are the thousands of books by American high-profile poets that are selling rather well, BUT that is quite a rare exception in the poetry world—an exception reserved for only a few elite poets who have built a reputation for themselves over MANY years (for example, poets like Maya Angelou, Allen Ginsberg and Nikki Giovanni, as well as U.S. Poet Laureates like Rita Dove, Donald Hall, Billy Collins and Natasha Trethewey).

As a poet, I am more of an idealist and dreamer—just like so many American poets were who published books in the 1950s, 60s and early 70s (when I was a budding poet). That my poems also tend to be principled and pensive are why I am very honored that some people purchased Perfect Peace, at a time when most readers are more interested in horror, mystery, herbal remedies, pointless fantasies, and/or self-help books.

The above facts are why I say, God certainly has been good to me! Thank You God!!!!!!!!

My sincerest ‘thank you’ also goes to everyone who bought my first published book—Perfect Peace. In case you might want to know about my next book, it looks like my second book to be published—Keeping It Real: Daily Renewing the Mind, which is my first one-year devotional—might be published in time for holiday shopping!

 

To God be the Glory . . . . .

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My Sincerest ‘Thank You’

07 Saturday Mar 2015

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My Personal Thank You Graphic

He gives you something you can then give away, which grows into full-formed lives, robust in God, wealthy in every way, so that you can be generous in every way, producing with us great praise to God. Carrying out this social relief work involves far more than helping meet the bare needs of poor Christians. It also produces abundant and bountiful thanksgivings to God. This relief offering is a prod to live at your very best, showing your gratitude to God by being openly obedient to the plain meaning of the Message of Christ. You show your gratitude through your generous offerings to your needy brothers and sisters, and really toward everyone. Meanwhile, moved by the extravagance of God in your lives, they’ll respond by praying for you in passionate intercession for whatever you need. Thank God for this gift, his gift. No language can praise it enough! ~ 2 Corinthians 9:11-15, MSG

 

thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live. ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:18, MSG

 

First and foremost, I thank God for all of my WordPress friends who thought enough of me to take the time to post their Happy Birthday wishes on March 6. I am truly blessed!


Secondly, I personally thank everyone who stopped by my blog on March 6, and I especially thank those individuals who left me their Happy Birthday wishes yesterday on my “Google Does It Again!” blog posting. Much love . . . . .
 

 

Shalom . . . . .

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Google Does It Again!

06 Friday Mar 2015

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Google Doodle Happy Birthday Nadine 3-6-2015

 

 

You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit them together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! It is amazing to think about. Your workmanship is marvelous—and how well I know it. You were there while I was being formed in utter seclusion! You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your book! ~ Psalm 139:13-16, TLB

I, Wisdom, will make the hours of your day more profitable and the years of your life more fruitful. ~ Proverbs 9:11, TLB

 

Just like last year and the year before that, I woke up on March 6 (thank You God) to find that Google once again had displayed on my web browser’s homepage a Happy Birthday doodle made just for me. Even though it is the very same doodle Google first displayed in 2013, every year it still is exciting to see this absolutely cute drawing in honor of my born day. Thank you so much, Google!

Well, it is now official. In this natural world, today I can begin celebrating my 64th born day. However, on Sunday March 1, I also began celebrating my spiritual birth’s 50th born day. What a fabulous month March has been so far!

Just yesterday I tenderly mentioned to a family member that I vividly can remember when my parents (God rest their souls) were in their sixties. Now I am the parent and grandparent who is the sexagenarian!

Time seems to have flown by at warp speed. Even so, I am grateful to God I can say that through all the days of my life HE has remained incredibly good to me. Thank You God!

Please join me in singing the following lyrics from The Beatles 1968 “Birthday” song:

They say it’s your birthday
It’s my birthday too, yeah
They say it’s your birthday
We’re gonna have a good time
I’m glad it’s your birthday
Happy birthday to you.

It’s my birthday! Happy Birthday to me!

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March 2015 . . . The First Eight Days

02 Monday Mar 2015

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Birthday Haiku 2015

He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son.  It is through his Son that we have redemption — that is, our sins have been forgiven. He is the visible image of the invisible God. He is supreme over all creation, because in connection with him were created all things — in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, lordships, rulers or authorities — they have all been created through him and for him. ~ Colossians 1:13-16, CJB

But to as many as did receive him, to those who put their trust in his person and power, he gave the right to become children of God, not because of bloodline, physical impulse or human intention, but because of God. ~ John 1:12-13, CJB

You crown the year with your goodness,
your tracks overflow with richness. ~ Psalm 65:11, CJB

 

I mentioned in my last blog posting that during the first eight days of March I experienced some additional milestones in my life. That is why beginning yesterday (March 1st) and continuing through March 8th, I will be celebrating these milestones, which began with my spiritual rebirth and the Spirit washing me clean with God’s Word. This milestone probably actually happened on February 28th of 1965, as it was on this day that I was led by the Holy Spirit to give my life to Jesus Christ. However, the magnitude of my decision to confess I needed a Savior did not fully register with me until the very next day, which was March 1, 1965. This is the day my spiritual new birth became a reality—felt genuine to me. Additionally, this week I will be celebrating my physical birth on Friday. I was physically born on March 6, 1951. Lastly, on Sunday I will be celebrating my water baptism or public outward expression of the Holy Spirit’s inward work. My water baptism took place on March 8, 1965.

These milestones are addressed in my above illustrated Birthday Haiku graphic. They also are noted in the same graphic by the numbers 50 (my spiritual birth years) and 64 (my natural birth years).

It is such a wonderful blessing that in the month of March God planned for the most important days of my life to happen. It is amazing how He planned for me to become spiritually alive (spiritually reborn into God’s family), saved and justified, as well as planned for me to become physically alive (physically born into my parents’ family). These born days are why, for me, the words the prophet Jeremiah speaks are all that more applicable to my life. Jeremiah writes:

For I know what plans I have in mind for you,’ says Adonai, ‘plans for well-being, not for bad things; so that you can have hope and a future. ~ Jeremiah 29:11, CJB

There can be no doubt that being able to commemorate these two most important days of my life (spiritual and physical born days) is part of God’s plan for my well-being. He not only allowed both days to happen in the same month but also He allowed them to happen within a matter of days. That is why it is clear to me that God put my two born days in March to help me better understand both the simplicity and complexity of my “old man” and “new man” natures, primarily by their juxtaposition.

I am so grateful to God to have clustered so many of my milestones in close proximity of one another. Without doubt, the milestones on the 1st, 6th, and 8th of March are the cream of the crop! Thank You so much, Father God, for these rich and abundant blessings!

Shalom . . . . .

 

HAPPY BORN DAYS to me (March 1 and March 6)! HAPPY WATER BAPTISM DAY (March 8)!

 

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Another Noteworthy Milestone

02 Monday Mar 2015

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Nadine AKA Soror 2-25-1984 to Present

Be generous with the different things God gave you, passing them around so all get in on it: if words, let it be God’s words; if help, let it be God’s hearty help. That way, God’s bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, and he’ll get all the credit as the One mighty in everything—encores to the end of time. Oh, yes! ~ 1 Peter 4:10-11, MSG

Do you want to stand out? Then step down. Be a servant. If you puff yourself up, you’ll get the wind knocked out of you. But if you’re content to simply be yourself, your life will count for plenty. ~ Matthew 23:11-12, MSG.

 

Last week I blogged about a very important milestone in my life—becoming a published book author. Well, in the same week that my book Perfect Peace went live, I also celebrated the beginning of my 31st year as a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Back on February 25, 1984 I became a member of Kappa Delta Omega Chapter (a graduate chapter) of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA). Here is a scan of my official AKA membership certificate:

Nadine's 2-25-1984 AKA Sorority Inc., Membership Certificate

February 2015, thus, was a very memorable month for me. I couldn’t have planned any of these milestones to have happened in February, if I had tried.

I should note here that only a few of my family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances know that I am an AKA soror (sister). That is because I no longer wear AKA apparel, nor do I wear AKA jewelry, or carry anything at all that has the AKA Greek letters on it. Nevertheless, I am indeed an AKA soror—a soror who has spent a good deal of her sisterhood trying to live up to the AKA credo: “To be supreme in service to all mankind.”

There is no doubt in my mind that it was because of my upcoming 31st year anniversary with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority that had me thinking on February 17th about today’s institutions, organizations, companies, centers, foundations, ministries, churches, groups, families—and so forth—whose guiding motto/mantra/slogan/credo is:  “Service to Others.” In my musings, I had found it interesting that I am, and/or was, a member of several institutions, organizations, and so forth, that have adopted the “Service to Others” motto and/or credo.

Now for me, the “Service to Others” motto/credo is so much more than JUST a short statement or phrase that succinctly condenses the beliefs, truths and principles that guide me.  For sure, the “Service to Others” motto and/or credo actually defines my perpetual attitude, which has echoes that ricochet off my Christian lifestyle and reverberate in every institution, organization, and etc., that I currently belong to—or used to be a member of, at one time or another.

Thinking about the meaning of the “Service to Others” motto/mantra/slogan/credo certainly is what led me to compose a Service Haiku. Please enjoy my following illustrated 2015 Service Haiku:

Service Haiku

Also, I hope my blog readers have enjoyed my illustrated AKA Haiku, which is in this posting’s initial graphic.

God indeed has been very good to me in February 2015. He also is being good to me in March 2015. In fact, the first eight days of this month have witnessed additional milestones, which I will be celebrating. Those milestones will be addressed in my next blog posting.

Shalom . . . . .

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