Bøger af Doris J. Wellington

Nothing reveals the secrets of the heart like a letter to a lover, a friend, or a significant other. The heart stores the emotional investment of its relationships as if those emotions are heirlooms to be treasured, passed along or recycled for the next relationship. Dear John, is a compilation of letters written to individuals at various levels of relationships. These letters express a range of emotions from affectionate love to disappointment, grief and loss from heartbreak, and downright disgust over the audacity of certain suitors whose expectations exceed reality. It is the journey of disengaging the heart from the emotional pain and regret of love; lost, found or attempted.>For those who have already gone there in your thinking, The Dear John Reader is not a diary of physical relationships. It is not an odyssey of forbidden love and fantasy desires. It is neither the first nor last installment of love gone wrong. However, these letters are based on real-life situations that span a range of issues as far back as Junior high school and are included by permission to help understand intimate, interpersonal relationships whether romantic, physical, emotional, plutonic or otherwise. It is the value of these relationships that the Dear John Reader measures, taking into consideration the depth of the emotional investment involved to determine what lesson each engendered. These letters are mere guides and not intended for instructions as to whether to enter or how to exit a particular relationship. Therefore, if needed, seek wise counsel or therapy to help navigate your safe exit out of an abusive or unfulfilling relationship.

Drawing inspiration from the metaphoric and real-life experiences of women, particularly African American women, Dead Woman Dancing on Her Grave, interweaves poetic narratives to salute, and inspire warrior women from every walk of life-who despite sometimes insurmountable odds, still rise to the call of champions to live out their greatness alongside of those who think themselves less formidable. And to snatch from the mire of mediocrity and lift to new heights of self-awareness and victory, women who have not yet resolved the importance of their place and presence in society, and women who triumph despite barriers designed to bar them from being or becoming their authentic selves-Bravo!

Rhapsody for September: Love Letters was composed under various influences of love or what I believed so. They do not, however, represent any particular doctrine or construct held on the subject of love or how one must engage the emotions regarding it. Some of these letters are connected to specific relationships, others are not. The diverse nature of these writings show how the heart can be fashioned, caressed, and even shattered by words composed in the name of love. I only hope to show through these letters that God's love for me has multiplied my ability to love and has given me the strength and endurance needed when I have felt betrayed by love, or have myself betrayed love given from the heart and that the unconditional love that flows from the heart of God has forever affected how I see, engage, and give love.It you are reading this book, it is my hope that you will find the love that shapes the heart into pure unadulterated joy-that you will not allow anything to sabotage your right and will to give love, whether it is the intimate love between husband and wife or the love of God that reaches across nations, peoples and tongues and illuminates all that the world lacks when love does not exist. It doesn't matter how many times the heart has been wounded and left bereft of song; it has been bestowed the greatest and profoundest of all life's mission-to love. Where there is love there is the will to forgive and love again. No one can teach the heart how to love a husband or wife, or anyone for that matter-only the heart that surrenders to the highest of all love can ever hope to know the power, purpose and joy of true unconditional Love.