Author: Shaunelius Sterns

I have been married to my wonderful husband for 21 years now. I am a Christian, poet, singer, songwriter, and artist. I have five beautiful children. I enjoy writing and reading my Bible. I also love to pray for others. I love nature and being outside on sunny days. I love spending time with my family and watching shows that makes me laugh.

Remembering Monday 10/12/2020

Monday was my 46th birthday, and I have to first thank God for letting me live to see another birthday. I had an awesome time, it is a day that I will not soon come to forget. I have been delivered from depression, praise God! It feels good to wake up happy. It feels good just to know that I have a bright outlook on my life. I see thepositivity in things that would usually upset me. Now I will be able to write more than usual. I hope and pray that God will bless me to always be thankful for everything; such as the things that I have gone through, because it only made me stronger than I was before. I sleep better; sometimes I feel myself smiling in my sleep, or laughing. It is so amazing! I am just so glad that I was delivered from depression before my birthday arrived, because if I were not I would not have been able to enjoy my special day. Everyday is a day that I get to enjoy my life again, everything looks so new as to where it was gloomy and sad. Now my days are bright and beautiful. I look forward to getting up and seeing the sunshine, going outside to feel the warmth on my face. It is as if the birds sing louder to me, the air is crisper to me, and the smell of Fall to me is invigorating.

I have missed out on so much for a very long time. I missed so many sunny days. I missed the sounds of nature around me; I had nothing to look forward to at that time in my life, now I have everything to look forward to. I thank God for everyday He has given me to be on this earth whether happy or sad.

I know that there may be times when the enemy will try to make me fall back in the place where was, but I have grown out of that. I just ignore the things that He tries to manipulate to upset me. I deal with things one day at a time, and I pick my battles that I want to tackle and I give the rest to God for Him to handle. What I mean by picking my battles is the things that I have no control of; the things that just happen for no reason or another.

I am not bogged down with chains that were weighing me down, and I do not have to put on a false face and pretend to be happy anymore. I am happy everyday. When I feel sadness trying to creep in I just take deep breaths in and out until it passes. That is one of my coping strategies. I also read and do the things that I enjoy again. He has healed my vocal chord that was giving me problems, now I can sing like I did before it started giving me problems.

I am just sharing what God has did in my life so that you will have confidence in knowing that what He does for one, He will do for the other. Well, I am going to rest now.Everyone have a blessed day today in the Lord our God, and Jesus Christ our Savior.

I selected these pictures because I saw the beauty in them that I would not have seen before.

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Why I Wrote No Longer Mine

I wrote No Longer Mine because of what I read in my Bible in Luke 20:34-36,where Jesus replied, “The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. But those who are considered worthy of taking part in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage, and they can no longer die; for they are like angels, They are Gods children, since they are children of the resurrection.”

Whenever I read that passage of Scripture, I broke down in tears. I had never seen that passage before, and I have read the New Testament more times than I can count on my hands and feet. I had always thought that when you get married, you were also going to be married in heaven. I didn’t understand it at first, but after reading it again I understood. I know that we are all God’s children and He loves us very much, but what about how we feel about how things are; that is a very hurting feeling knowing that we will no longer be married to the one we were married to down here.

Life is precious and we should not take it for granted. Everyday is a gift from God that we get to worship Him, praise Him, and spend time with the ones that we love. Tomorrow isn’t promised to us. God in His great mercy grants us another day, another chance to make things right with the ones we love if there is division in families. He gives us time to get our lives right before He calls us home. He gives us time to get to know Him more through His Word.

He teaches us how to love one another, forgive one another, comfort one another in times of sorrow, to have faith when we are at our lowest point, how to be encouraged in Him, how to keep going when we want to give up, about everything we need to know about our entire lives. We should want to strive to be more like Jesus Christ our Savior. We are joint heirs with Him, we are family.

We will get to see Him face to face one day, but for now we must seek Him while He may be found. He doesn’t want any of us to be left behind. We need to seek Him with all of our hearts. We seek Him by praying, by seeking Him in the Word. When we need wisdom, knowledge and understanding, we can go to Him; He will always give it to us we just have to ask.

With the way things are in the world today, we should be praying and seeking His face everyday. This country need God to step in and fix all of this craziness. Make things right how it should be. I wish that sin never entered the world back in the Garden of Eden. Everything would be as it ought to be. There would be peace, love, jou, happiness, and everyone would get along. There would be no wars, destruction,devastation, unnecessary killing, hate, envy, jealousy, and all of the things that are an abomination in the sight of God.

Well, this is just how I feel. May God bless you all, and keep you all. If you have not asked Jesus to come into your heart to be your Lord and Savior, do it today because tomorrow is not promised.

To Him that is able to do more than we can ask or think, and to Him that was and is and is to come , our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. ©2020

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No Longer Mine

I remember the very day that I met the man that I was going to spend the rest of my life with. I fell in love very hard…haead over heels… I never knew love could be so very real. We have gone through so many things since we became husband and wife. Our relationship has been tested and tried, but we have come through it all. Yes, there have been more teardrops shed from the both of us, but it would take me a lifetime to count them all; and even if I could I would probably never finish.

There has been happy times just as well that out weigh some of the bad times. There have been joyous occasions that will be always remembered by the both of us. Years has come and gone and life has happened in more ways than one; traumatic events that has taken us all by surprise. Some more than others but life goes on. We have to learn to let things go that hurt us and forgive those that hurt us as well.

I know that we promised one another that we would never leave one or the other, but that was just temporal minds speaking an untruth. We are going to part ways in time, but in God’s own time. It really pains me to know that we may not even get to say good-bye to each other.

It pains me to know that he will no longer be mine, and I will no longer be his; we will not even remember being married to one another. Will our children remember us? Will they know who we are when they come to join us? Will God help us to remember one another? Why is marriage so important here on earth if we can’t be together as husband and wife in heaven? This is something I don’t think I will ever understand.

Will our children still be our children, will we still be a family? It brings tears to my eyes because I feel that we won’t be a family anymore. I cannot help but cry. I love us, and I want us all to be together. Lord knows how I feel. I cannot hide my feelings from the One that created me. Maybe one day it will all make since to me, but right now I just don’t understand.

When we got married, I thought that it would be forever…for all eternity…but I was wrong. It’s only for the time that God let us live together down here. No longer mine for always…for keeps; simply because we all belong to someone else, and that someone else is God our Creator. No longer mine, no longer his. We are all temporary.

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