I encourage all to write. It is a wonderful outlet for the spirit.
My husband Stephen and I have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. I love to paint, create, dance, sing, and spoil our grandkids.
I have written five books to date and I operate three websites where my art and books are featured.
ArtsPoetry.com
Books By Beverly J Raffaele
My Backyard Greeting Cards
Beverly J Raffaele at MySpace
My Favorite saying is in a song by Lee Ann Womack:
"If you have the chance to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance."
My favorite written prayer outside of the Lord’s Prayer is that of St. Francis
of Asisi
“Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace,
Where there is hatred, let me so love,
Where there is injury, pardon,
where there is doubt, faith,
Where there is despair, hope,
Where there is darkness, light,
where there is sadness, joy,
Oh Divine Master, grant,
that I may not so much seek to be consoled
as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that we receive,
But it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”