God Inspired the Best in Me: Yes God Spoke I Wrote

© 2016 Marlene Wheeler Scott. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 01/30/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5049-6788-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5049-6789-1 (e)

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Contents

My Introduction

About The Author

Dedication

Mr. Rooster

The Boy Who Never Laughed

Reading Of The Bible

Today…I Just Wanted

Yassee

The Ooz-Formula For Life

Mr. Rooster Vs Mr. Fox

Tiffany’s Song

The Fancy Donkey

Dragon Hunt

Trigger

The Alphabet…A To Z

A Week In The Life Of Abbi

The Mountain Versus The Squirrel

All Alone And By Myself

An Anguished Prayer

An Open Line

Beautiful Lady

Because I Let God In

Beware Of Unwanted Love

Bonita/Crystle

Brianna

Brothers-Bonded Forever

Choosing Our Words Carefully

Crossing God’s Border

Crystle

Donnie Ray Kennedy

Earl

Faults?

Finding Myself

Finding Time For Jesus

My First Day Of My Summer Vacation

Frances Elizabeth Williamson

Friend To Friend

Friends Forever

Friends

From Love To Friend

From The Mountain To The Valley To The Mountain

From This Day Forward

Getting Older

God Is Testing Our Faith

Raven ‘God’s Gift’

God…Hear My Cry

God…I Cried Out To You Today

God..I Heard You Speak To Me

God/Through The Eyes Of A Child

Happy Birthday

T.j.

Hello Bubba

Hello Mother

Hello To All My Family

I Always Have Time

I Cried Out To My Jesus

I’m Sorry

It’s Time We Have Our Say

Keri/Raven/Corey

Kyla

Lest We Forget

Letting God In

Looking For The Door

Love Cannot Be One Way

Love Is

Misunderstood

My Child

My Classmates Of 55

My Friend..Polly Mcleod

My Mother

Patti

Polly Mcleod

Rainy Day Friends

Raising Our Flag And Our Voices

Rev. Leo Tidwell

Robert

Robert

My Time With God

The Day In The Life Of A Mother

To All My Brothers And Sisters

To All My Family

Uncle Joseph

Who Is She?

A Witch’s World

You

A Childs’ Prayer

A Cry For Help

A Day At The Beach

A Day In The Life Of A Quarter

A Joyous Celebration

A Mother Makes The Family

A Star Is Born

A Thankful Heart

A Very Special Gathering Remembered

All I Want

America Welcomes You

Angela

Ann Ziegler

Annette

Aunt Joyce

Because Of You

Before The Storm

Bonita Griffin

Bonita

Camden….Class Reunions

Camden..My Home Town

Cousin Bonita Griffin

Cousin’s Day

Cremation

Crying Out

Dangerous Woman

Don’t Take Away….My U.s.a

Fall

Follow Your Heart

Friends Found—Friends Forgotten

Garry Lee

God Did Not Change

God Knows When We Need Someone

God Will Say ‘When’

!!!!Happy Birthday!!!!-Alonica & Keri

I Asked God, Why Am I Here?

I Overcame/You Can Too

Illegals—

To What Country Are You Now Loyal?

Irene

James Cline

Jay Hodge

Jennifer

Jerry

Jessica

Johnny

Joseph & Bubba

Juanita Elizabeth Hall

Keeping A Smile On Your Face

Krystle & Charlton

Leona

Little Girl Lost

Lives Matter

Memories Of Joseph

Mother

Mother

Movin’ On Up

My Bedtime Story

My Daughter

My Last Wish

My Open Prayer To God

My Remembrance Of Ms. Jane

My Son Steven

My Stairway To Heaven

Newsmen & Reporters

Nikki

No Big Deal

Our Family Reunion {Scott}

Ovieda Rose

Pam & Paula

Phyllis….Forever Remembered

Praying-No Set Time

Ranting And Raving

Remembering Sammy Bryant

Reunion

Right Foot Or Wrong Foot

Rodney/Mellisa

Sharing And Remembering

Should I Worry??

Speaking From The Heart

Spreading God’s Word

Spring

Suicide-No Way To Die

Summer

T.j

Taking The Time

Teresa

The Day I Left

The Revolving Door

T-H-E

To All My Grandchildren

To My Family

Tripp

Voices

We Were Meant To Be

Welcome Home My Child

What Is A Friend???

Winter

Your Wedding Day

Zachary

My Introduction

My name is Marlene Wheeler Scott and I live in Santee, S.C. I was born in Kentucky, but I grew up and graduated in a little farming town called Camden, Ohio… After graduation joined the Navy where I met and married My husband, also in the U.S.N., living mostly in Charleston, S.C…. We had four children, three sons and a daughter, nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren and we have been married for fifty six years My second son, Mark, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly leaving a deep void in so many of our lives, especially in mine as I thought my life too had ended… I started writing to him after he passed, talking to him, asking him questions, all in poem that came from my heart of how I felt, how I thought he had felt, and even to things I felt he would have said to me and his loved ones.. Writing seemed to bring me closer to him and gave me more of an understanding about how precious life is and I became more aware that the time God gives us with our loved ones is indeed God’s gift to us and we should give thanks to God every day for that Blessing A few months after his passing, we moved to a small town, Santee, S.C. where I met a friend, Shirley Mcleod who took me to this small church on the lake, Lakeside Outreach Ministries where I found love, peace and understanding and God… I soon met others with pain and suffering from the loss of loved ones, who also was looking for answers… It was then I truly began writing I began writing poems for others who had experienced the loss of a loved one, or was having spiritual, emotional, or health problems… my poems seemed to connect with them, giving them peace and understanding, sometimes, it was as if their loved ones were giving me words to write and give to their loved ones here and my writing for them also brought me closer to my son…. God showed me that death does not separate us, it brings us closer together…. I know without God, my family and my church, my poems would never have been, for it was God who gave me these words….. God showed me the impact words written can have and because of the power of words however they are used, words of comfort, compassion, support and understanding to one another, they must be used with wisdom.. God kept His Word… let us now keep ours

About the Author

My name is Marlene Wheeler Scott and I live in Santee, S.C. I was born in Kentucky, but I grew up and graduated in a little farming town called Camden, Ohio… After graduation joined the Navy where I met and married My husband, also in the U.S.N., living mostly in Charleston, S.C…. We had four children, three sons and a daughter, nine grandchildren and six great grandchildren and we have been married for fifty six years My second son, Mark, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly leaving a deep void in so many of our lives, especially in mine as I thought my life too had ended… I started writing to him after he passed, talking to him, asking him questions, all in poem that came from my heart of how I felt, how I thought he had felt, and even to things I felt he would have said to me and his loved ones.. Writing seemed to bring me closer to him and gave me more of an understanding about how precious life is and I became more aware that the time God gives us with our loved ones is indeed God’s gift to us and we should give thanks to God every day for that Blessing A few months after his passing, we moved to a small town, Santee, S.C. where I met a friend, Shirley Mcleod who took me to this small church on the lake, Lakeside Outreach Ministries where I found love, peace and understanding and God… I soon met others with pain and suffering from the loss of loved ones, who also was looking for answers… It was then I truly began writing I began writing poems for others who had experienced the loss of a loved one, or was having spiritual, emotional, or health problems… my poems seemed to connect with them, giving them peace and understanding, sometimes, it was as if their loved ones were giving me words to write and give to their loved ones here and my writing for them also brought me closer to my son…. God showed me that death does not separate us, it brings us closer together…. I know without God, my family and my church, my poems would never have been, for it was God who gave me these words….. God showed me the impact words written can have and because of the power of words however they are used, words of comfort, compassion, support to and for one another, they must be used with wisdom and understanding…. God kept His promise and His word to us, let us now keep our love and our word to our fellow man

Dedication

Thank You God

I am dedicating the writings of my book to my beloved brother, Garry Lee Wheeler Garry Lee was the 9th of 10 children in our family….He was the youngest of five brothers, and he was the 3rd brother to pass away… He now will be with his two other brothers, Ray Earl, 3 days old and Avery Jordon, age 15 years.

My brother Garry Lee was born about two years before I graduated from High School, and then, I joined the Navy, moved away from home, married a man in the Navy and moved around with him and began my own family, so, I did not get to see him in his early childhood, or see him graduate and I truly feel that I missed out on so much of his life…. He was what we five older children called, the second half of the family…so, I missed out on the childhood of the second half.

Garry Lee graduated, went into the Army, following in the footsteps of his two older brothers, Roy and Jerry…. He served his time, got out and returned home where he began work for a company called Staff Market where he worked for 29 years and I must say that no amount of words can say enough about this wonderful company and what they did for him when he became so ill…. From all his family, we say, ‘thank you’..he loved you and the thought of you as family… He was not married, no children, so he dedicated his life to his work, his beloved Mother and all his brothers and sisters and their families.

Garry Lee loved his Mother and loved being with her and doing things with her… he would take her out to eat, go over and play her favorite games with her, and go with her to church on Sunday… they were very close, and he was devastated when she passed away three years ago… Shortly there after, he was told that he had Cancer.. The Cancer became his biggest challenge in life…. It became a fight that would eventually be the death of him, but, he never lost his Faith and he never gave up…. He lost this battle of Cancer on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015…. He would have been 64 on Sept. 29… Garry Lee is now in God’s Hands and in the arms of his beloved Mother.

Garry Lee was a strong, caring young man, hard working and he loved his family, I thank God l was able to be a part of his adult life to be able to do many things with him… He had many family gatherings, cookouts, and reunions at his home, I referred to it as the Family Retreat, we all loved to go there… We were and we still are a very close knit family

I am so proud to call him my brother, and so proud to be called his ‘big sister’… My heart aches that I was not able to have spent more time with him and to store up more memories of his younger years

I was able to make two trips to Ohio to be by his side while he was in the hospital before his passing… although he was in so much pain, could not talk, he communicated with all of us, making us really learn lip reading and be still kept his humor and even his concern about his brothers and sisters…. told him in the hospital that I was going to dedicate my book I was writing to him, he smiled and mouthed the words, now you want to make me famous, squeezed my hand and smiled again.

Yes, Garry Lee, responding to your comment, you will always be ‘famous’ in my eyes, all our eyes, for you will live forever in our hearts and because of you, our lives were and will be forever blessed…. You are the STAR and will always be a STAR, and now when we go outside at night and look up into the Sky, we will see this Star, shining so brightly and twinkling as if to say to us, Here I am, high in the Sky…. I never said good bye

Garry Lee, my youngest brother, my wonderful brother, I love you/we love you… you were the bright spot in all our lives…. God hold you, keep you until we can all be together again.

Garry Lee Wheeler

Sept. 29, 1951-Sept. 20Th, 20151951-Sept. 20Th, 2015

Mr. Rooster

I keep remembering the strangest thing that I had ever seen, that happened when I was a little boy

I grew up on a farm where we had a large hen house, and it was my job to go there every day and collect the eggs from the hen’s nests, but, I had missed one day, and when I went into the hen house the next day, in one corner of the hen house was a gathering of many eggs, but, not with the hen sitting on them, but a Rooster…He was sitting on those eggs

and no matter how hard I tried, he would not come off that nest and give up those eggs

Now, how was I going to explain to my Uncle Mark and Aunt Patti that there would be no fresh eggs today for Grandma to fix breakfast, and then have to tell them the reason why….Well, I did try to explain and after they had their good laugh, they followed me outside to the hen house to see for themselves…Sure enough, there was Mr. Rooster sitting on the pile of eggs and he acted like it was completely natural for him to be there

They both burst out laughing again, then, my Uncle Mark said, now that looks like a match, made straight out of Heaven…I did not completely understand what he meant, but, I guess he meant that if that if God intended