“OVERCOMING” Trials-TrIbulations-Tragedies
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#“OVERCOMING” Trials-Tribulations-Tragedies in rhyme, is Pat Morrell-Donnelly’s fourteenth book to publish. Pat’s life is revealed through her poetry. The poems speak about her struggles and losses and wrong choices over her ninety-seven on this earth. Her poems come from her life’s experiences, good, bad, happy and sad. Pat is still standing even after trials and challenges and many losses in her life. Tomorrow is a new day, and there is still hope for better days to come. She believes God has given her life for a purpose. He expects each individual to make the most of every day, and be of service along the way as one is able. We gain knowledge from our mistakes. We can “pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and continue on from there.” When we “fall on our face” we need to be determined to get up again. Life goes on. Perhaps one can receive help from books or motivational tapes, or better yet, the Bible. Learn every day. Life is a learning process. Pat had little formal education. She states she graduated high school “by the skin of her teeth.” (Perhaps an old southern saying.) She graduated with not the greatest grades. Life’s education taught her a lot. The “School of Hard Knocks” was a large part of it and where she spent most of her life. The poetry Pat writes just comes into her head all hours of the day and night. It is just a gift God has given her through the Holy Spirit. Pat started first grade at age five. There was no kindergarten back in those days. She had a terrible teacher that taught both first and second grades. Pat’s experience was not good, and she never liked school after that. For almost fourteen years of Pat’s life there was no electricity, no running water, no bathroom in the house. There was an “out house” out behind the house.” There was no telephone in the home. That was a hard life for most, at that time, during the 1930’s great depression. Pat’s family moved to California during World War II when she was fourteen years of age. She immediately found work at a Cake and Cookie Company boxing cakes. She worked four hours and attended school four hours a day. Also, working Saturdays and holidays and summers. One thing Pat had was determination. Perhaps it came from having been born into poverty. She wanted a better life, and spent many years working in that direction. Pat did office work, worked modeling in Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. She worked fifty-one years as a Realtor/Broker in the Bay Area of Northern California. This all totaled sixty-four years of her life. Pat, through the years, was able to purchase twenty-eight rental units. She also purchased a lot and had a beautiful home built. The home had a million-dollar view all the way across to San Francisco. Pat borrowed from one property to buy the next one until she accumulated all the rental units. In the nineteen-nineties there was a downturn in real estate. Homes, and properties were not selling. They sat on the market for months and months. Pat got “upside down” in her properties and lost everything. It was a devastating time in her life. But the most devastating loss was the loss of her beautiful mother, killed by a drunk driver. Her mother was forty-five years young. She would never see her children grow up, and never see and hold her precious grandchildren. Pat’s father and nine year old sister were almost killed in that accident. They would live with short limbs and scars for the rest of their lives. This loss you never get over. It lives with you all your days on this earth. With faith, a loving family and great friends, you get through one day to the next. Every morning-expressing your gratitude for all your blessings, great or small. There is always some little something for which to be thankful. As the saying goes, “Tough times don’t last, tough people do.” In Pat’s “waning years” she is thankful for any and every small blessing. In the fall, at evening time, the sun shines in on Pat’s dining room table. It just warms her soul. She is aware that soon winter will arrive with the cold and snow and there will be little sunshine. And before you know it, if you live long enough, the winter of your life will arrive. You will need strength and courage to get through your winter. There will be “trying times,” and sometimes “crying times.” With every day we are blessed to know we should thank God for His love and mercy, and many blessings. “One day at a time, thank you Dear Jesus.”
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#”Overcoming” Trials-Tribulations-Tragedies” in rhyme is Pat MorrellDonnelly’s fourteenth book to publish. The book reveals Pat’s life through her poetry. Pat published her first book in 2009 at the age of eighty. The poems in this book are among the over twenty-five-hundred poems Pat has written through the years. Most of the poems in this book Pat wrote in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Pat’s goal has been to get all her poems into books before she passes away. She feels God gave her the ability to write poetry for a reasonthat she would share her work. Pat’s poems are derived from her “trials, tribulations and tragedies” she suffered over her ninety-seven years on this earth. Most poems reveal difficulties and problems Pat was living through at the time. Some of Pat’s losses come through in her poetry. Her greatest loss was the death of her beautiful mother, at age forty-five, killed by a drunk driver. Her father and nine year old sister were critically injured, and for a time not sure if they would survive. Also, the loss of her sister, and only brother to cancer. There were financial losses that took their toll, from which she never recovered. The titles of some of the poems in this book are “About Life,” “Armor of Strength,” “Become A Light,” “Be Joyful,” “Consequences,” “Don’t Wait,” “Final Page,” “Glorious Peace,” “Keep Smiling,” “Life’s Journey,” “Perfect Garden,” “Stepping Stones,” “Time’s Side,” and “Vicissitudes.” No matter losses and troubles in life-one can always find much for which to be thankful. We should count our blessings every day and be grateful for each new day we are blessed to know. Keep dreaming your dreams as long as there is breath to breathe.
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#“Overcoming” Trials-Tribulations-Tragedies” in rhyme is Pat MorrellDonnelly’s fourteenth book to publish. The book reveals Pat’s life through her poetry. Pat published her first book in 2009 at the age of eighty. The poems in this book are among the over twenty-five-hundred poems Pat has written through the years. Most of the poems in this book Pat wrote in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Pat’s goal has been to get all her poems into books before she passes away. She feels God gave her the ability to write poetry for a reasonthat she would share her work. Pat’s poems are derived from her “trials, tribulations and tragedies” she suffered over her ninety-seven years on this earth. Most poems reveal difficulties and problems Pat was living through at the time. Some of Pat’s losses come through in her poetry. Her greatest loss was the death of her beautiful mother, at age forty-five, killed by a drunk driver. Her father and nine year old sister were critically injured, and for a time not sure if they would survive. Also, the loss of her sister, and only brother to cancer. There were financial losses that took their toll, from which she never recovered. The titles of some of the poems in this book are “About Life,” “Armor of Strength,” “Become A Light,” “Be Joyful,” “Consequences,” “Don’t Wait,” “Final Page,” “Glorious Peace,” “Keep Smiling,” “Life’s Journey,” “Perfect Garden,” “Stepping Stones,” “Time’s Side,” and “Vicissitudes.” No matter losses and troubles in life-one can always find much for which to be thankful. We should count our blessings every day and be grateful for each new day we are blessed to know. Keep dreaming your dreams as long as there is breath to breathe