After The Rain The Sun Shines Brighter

After the Rain, the Sun Shines Brighter. But you have to be able to pry open your eyes and look to the skies. The revised edition of this short, practical self-help manual offers 10 steps for recovery from life's setbacks and progress toward greater life success. Filled with sound counsel and helpful exercises that can be completed inside the books own pages, this is the perfect gift to yourself or anyone else who right now is wet all over from the downpours of life.

A GuideWays to Succeed is a book of poems written to inspire, motivate, and encourage anyone who wishes to change direction and succeed in life. The poems can be the instruments by which students, parents, teachers, professors, or community leaders can discuss the poems as they apply the principles of everyday living. The guide instructs and explains in poetic form how to respond to different life situations and describes ways to make the right choices. Suggestions for use of the guide are included, as is A Prospectus for a School and a Potential Curriculum Designed to Rescue and Keep Youth from Crime. A list of possible vocations or careers is included that might help ones thinking and exploring career advantages. The poems make effective supplementary material for homes, religious institutions, middle and senior high school classrooms, or college instruction.

When you find yourself you will find your destination. Stop trying to copy anyone else. You have a purpose in this world. You are just what you were meant to be. The original, branded with the mark of the Father. Staying positive in a world that is full of negativity is sometimes hard to do. In this book I try to capture goodness. Glimpses of light reflect through the pages. Singing notes of cheer and hope. Playing music, jumping from the pages, that soothes the soul. I found myself and long to share with others the gift of encouragement, motivation, and inspiration. Being able to express yourself is a feat of itself. Taking hold of words that express and embody life is my passion. My Pen is Singing gives a look at my view of pressing forward. Be uplifted.

“All About Love” is Pat Morrell-Donnelly’s ninth book to publish. It contains two hundred twenty poems on different subjects. Each poem contains the word “love.” Many are motivational and inspirational type poems. Some tell about life and about life’s struggles and challenges that Pat has experienced. They tell about the love of God, Agape love, love of parents, love of nature, love of country, and different kinds of love. Most have a positive ending. Reading the poems will take one away a bit from the vicissitudes of life. Pat believes she has been given a gift from God that puts these poems in her mind. Perhaps some of the thoughts also come from being on this earth ninety four years. Many of the poems were written in the nineteen eighties and nineteen nineties and all through the years that followed. They portray some of the difficulties Pat experienced through out her life. The poems tell about different hardships, problems, losses and heartbreaks Pat suffered. Many times she is awakened in the night with thoughts going round in her head. She jots down or scribbles the thoughts on a pad next to her bed and deciphers the scribbling the following morning. She has also written many poems while under the hair dryer. The book also contains a short story “The Faded Photograph.” It is a great love story Pat wrote about a special couple she knew. The lady was originally from England. A second short story called “Unfinished” is about her mother who was killed by a drunk driver when her mother was forty five years of age. A beautiful life snuffed out prematurely. Pat worked all her life since age fourteen. She “made it” as the saying goes, and then “lost it all.” She was very successful at one point, but from wrong choices and decisions she lost all the material possessions she had attained over her lifetime. Pat realizes her poems are not everyone’s “cup of tea.” She appreciates that many have purchased her books and say they love her poems. They speak to just what that person needs at the time. Their spirit is lifted. She shares her life’s experiences through her poetry. If Pat’s poems can offer a bit of pleasure to any individual then the effort to put this book together and get it published will have been worth it all.