I love this poem Graham as I have read your poem book for few years now and I memorized page 75 that will always stays in my heart forever. My response to this poem is straightforward from my past failed medical. I blame myself for not advocating my own self. I learned to let go of my past, and pursued new goals of my life. I took a big leap and join you here on Substack over a year ago. Now I share all my past struggles and medical with everyone. I did not believe that I could make it through, anxiety and depression hit me very hard after all these events that had happened in my life. I did extensive and made efforts to seek mental help.I am a true example of a survivor that has a completely new life! I self- discovered myself and found happiness,fulfillment,and self love again. I’m slowly healing but never forget the pain I have endured this past eight years. I promise you there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.It’s only a matter of time until “the red lights “ will turn into “ green lights “.Cheers!
Graham, great poem. I do remember reading it as I have your first book. There is a lot of truth in what you are saying. Recently, I’ve been a little off the grid so to speak. Have not liked the way I felt. I wanted things a certain way and felt maybe a change coming of some sort. I’m not fearful of change, but it’s the wait and not having a lot of patience as I want to know “now.” I’m feeling a lot better about things as I’m reminded again by my faith in Jesus Christ that will always win out in the end, that God will never fail me and will always guide me though the challenge or change. I need to pray, meditate on His word(Bible) and ask others as well to pray my way through it. I cannot walk around change but I must walk through it. I also as you say need to “be still” as you say to listen and seek that guidance. Even if I have temporarily walked away from God, I know and trust he loves me, forgives me, and he will never leave or forsake me. I will always let God be the guiding light for me and rest in His truth no matter what. I hope this makes sense, but this is my take or what I feel God laid on my heart to share in the comments as I read the poem and heard your explanation. Thank you Graham and may God bless you!
Anne -- I threw my arms up and yelled "Thank you, God" on my walk today. It was exactly 4:30 pm when I sent you positive vibes and asked God to bless you. They could take a couple hours to get there. Ha! Just kidding! I hope you find a renewed spirit soon. HUGS
Thank you Jan! I shut down work about 4:30 today. It was actually the best day I’ve had in a couple of weeks. I appreciate the positive vibes. Things will work out as they should. Personally, I’m not afraid of change. I felt this morning through prayer and meditation that something soon (and that soon will be God’s timing and not mine) will be shown. Just need to trust the process is His will and not my impatience. I’ll share more about it soon when I get my voice back. Bit of laryngitis right now!
Graham, listening to you read your poem and sharing about what it means to you, deeply touched my heart this evening. I have read the poem before, but hearing you share it brought new meaning for me..The lines "it holds you while you wander, guides you while you're away" holds so true for me, There was a time in my life when my heart was broken, the guide inside was walking my journey with me..even though I didn't know it at the time. I had to move through the heartache, I was angry, asking why, finally surrendering and accepting the plan I had for my life was not God's plan for me. On my walk this evening I was reflecting on my current path, what is next for me, and searching for answers..will be spending time in stillness to let the guide show me the way.
This is one of my favorite quotes: "There is a guide inside me who is wise and will always be there to help me on my journey."
Graham thanks for sharing this poem today, the timing was perfect. May you find guidance, truth and peace on your current journey. Like you said listening to the guide will be worth it in the long run. Continued blessings to you.
I remember this poem and you talking about it and the retreat you went on, Graham. Very powerful. It can be so hard at times when you feel guided towards a different path when you fear the change you are about to make. But the pull is strong and you know in your heart that you need to allow it to take you on this new journey in life.
Thank you Graham for that poem. It brings me back to my second year in college. I just needed to be alone with God. The sisters of the Holy Eucharist was holding a retreat. There’s a lot of silence and prayer. It was wonderful. I had a break so I went outside and sat under a tree and that’s when the Lord visited me. I can’t describe at that
moment the love I felt. I just cried and cried. When I went back to the dorm..I just cried and cried when my friends asked why was I crying, I said I just love the Lord so much. That’s when I decided I wanted to serve God. I quit college and entered the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady
I was in my second year and was to take my vows.
At the same time I heard my ex-boyfriend was getting married. That kinda upset me. So I talked to Mother Superior and told her I wasn’t ready to take my vows. She was upset but said I could always come back.
When I got back home I saw this nice tall man from Alabama who played football for the University of Alabama with Bear Bryant. I followed him a lot
Long story short I got him and married him. He became a pastor, started a Christian Academy High School , had three children and I’m still serving the Lord today. When you follow that voice guiding you, He never guides you wrong.
Hi Graham. I've been AWOL for awhile basically following your advice of living a full life with family and friends and doing things for myself. I've been following stuff on THC, but just haven't commented much. I really appreciate you sharing this poem and your personal story about how hard it is sometimes to act on a truth that has been revealed to you, especially when it's not the truth you think you want to hear. It does take so much courage to act, but you are so right about the rewards and freedom that comes with acknowledging the truth and following through with what you know in your heart is right. Thanks for all of your insight in this and many other areas. I appreciate you and the others in this community so much!
I love this poem. I thought as I was reading it, it sounded familiar, and then, when you said it was from your first book, I remembered it, because I always went back to it many times, and reread it.!And I know what you are saying, to be true, because in 2019–2020, I was going through a time that all I did was meditating in prayer The answer I heard that time was very difficult to hear, but I knew it was a must! And it was a healing!! It took me a while to get where I am today, but whenever I am going through something, I go to my quiet place and I meditate, and I pray, and I am delivered through these Beautiful Lessons. Thank you Graham. You Always seem to know what we need to do to honor ourselves, and to rise above the difficulties of life. Blessings to you ………💜🙏
I haven't posted here on Substack in recent months but I do pop in to read the comments . I'm not sure what you're currently going through, Graham, but I do know that you understand that life hands us joyful things and hard things and sometimes both at the same time. Remember to dig for the joy even while you struggle with the hard things. As you always say, there are things to be learned in every circumstance. God doesn't always spare us from tough things, but he walks with us through them if we let him. I have always loved this poem because it reminds me to not allow myself to stay in the mind swirl of doubt and discouragement, but to get into my heart and embrace that place where God is, where I can accept truth in that safe space that's always there deep down. Thanks for always sharing your heart so openly and honestly.
I love this poem, what's behind the words shows how much of a genuine and upright person you are! I needed those words. You wrote them years ago, but they are always fresh when read at a time like the one I'm going through. Thanks! ❤️
Thank you for your this poem of beautiful wisdom and truth. I so appreciate your integrity and realness with your audience. I look forward to every podcast as they always resonate with my intention of peace and serenity. You remind me of how important it is to feel our pain in silence, to surrender our lives to each precious moment of a challenging life experience when it offers us more truth to heal.
Love and peace to you for lighting up the world. You are a blessing and inspiration for me.
This a reminder to me to pray believing the words of the comforter He has me and my heart. I will be reflecting and meditating for several days. Thanks for reminding me.
Thank you for sharing, Graham :) And Blessings to all of you. Truth. It's always about the Truth, and how we don't feel quite right when we aren't listening to our Truth. Sitting still, and listening to your own heart (for me it's listening to God's heart inside us all) for what is released or revealed to you next. Then, Yes.
I confess that it hurt my heart very deeply... So I didn't want to read it again.
Now re-reading it I realized that hou literally turned it around...
" I am lost to purpose, sick, with no hope.
Friends I'll never have, the o ones I won't
miss.
I will not be forgotten
I will not pass, lose step or fall...
I will prove you wrong,
I will defeat you all. You hurt me once,
I tripped and fell... But you can wait,
Only time will tell."
This is a small excerpt from your book, which shows that you alread knew that you would rise from the ashes stronger and wiser.
Thank you for posting this excerpt from your book, it made me go back and re-read it, which showed me a lot of things I didn't understand when I first read it.
I'm looking forward to your second book... Have you thought if it will be published in Portuguese? I hope so. Thanks for another Tuesday Reflections. I send you a thousand stars of light.💥
Thank you, Graham, for sharing this poem. I first started following you on Heartland and came to know Ty Borden pretty well. Now, when I hear you read your poems and talk about them and listening to your podcasts and such, I feel like I’m actually getting to know Graham Wardle, who is a fascinating young man with many very good insights to life and making changes. As always I can’t wait to hear what comes next on your journey of life. 🤗
I love this poem Graham as I have read your poem book for few years now and I memorized page 75 that will always stays in my heart forever. My response to this poem is straightforward from my past failed medical. I blame myself for not advocating my own self. I learned to let go of my past, and pursued new goals of my life. I took a big leap and join you here on Substack over a year ago. Now I share all my past struggles and medical with everyone. I did not believe that I could make it through, anxiety and depression hit me very hard after all these events that had happened in my life. I did extensive and made efforts to seek mental help.I am a true example of a survivor that has a completely new life! I self- discovered myself and found happiness,fulfillment,and self love again. I’m slowly healing but never forget the pain I have endured this past eight years. I promise you there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.It’s only a matter of time until “the red lights “ will turn into “ green lights “.Cheers!
That’s awesome 👏 God is with you Lucy!
Thank you Kathryn 🙏❤️
Graham, great poem. I do remember reading it as I have your first book. There is a lot of truth in what you are saying. Recently, I’ve been a little off the grid so to speak. Have not liked the way I felt. I wanted things a certain way and felt maybe a change coming of some sort. I’m not fearful of change, but it’s the wait and not having a lot of patience as I want to know “now.” I’m feeling a lot better about things as I’m reminded again by my faith in Jesus Christ that will always win out in the end, that God will never fail me and will always guide me though the challenge or change. I need to pray, meditate on His word(Bible) and ask others as well to pray my way through it. I cannot walk around change but I must walk through it. I also as you say need to “be still” as you say to listen and seek that guidance. Even if I have temporarily walked away from God, I know and trust he loves me, forgives me, and he will never leave or forsake me. I will always let God be the guiding light for me and rest in His truth no matter what. I hope this makes sense, but this is my take or what I feel God laid on my heart to share in the comments as I read the poem and heard your explanation. Thank you Graham and may God bless you!
Anne -- I threw my arms up and yelled "Thank you, God" on my walk today. It was exactly 4:30 pm when I sent you positive vibes and asked God to bless you. They could take a couple hours to get there. Ha! Just kidding! I hope you find a renewed spirit soon. HUGS
Thank you Jan! I shut down work about 4:30 today. It was actually the best day I’ve had in a couple of weeks. I appreciate the positive vibes. Things will work out as they should. Personally, I’m not afraid of change. I felt this morning through prayer and meditation that something soon (and that soon will be God’s timing and not mine) will be shown. Just need to trust the process is His will and not my impatience. I’ll share more about it soon when I get my voice back. Bit of laryngitis right now!
Graham, listening to you read your poem and sharing about what it means to you, deeply touched my heart this evening. I have read the poem before, but hearing you share it brought new meaning for me..The lines "it holds you while you wander, guides you while you're away" holds so true for me, There was a time in my life when my heart was broken, the guide inside was walking my journey with me..even though I didn't know it at the time. I had to move through the heartache, I was angry, asking why, finally surrendering and accepting the plan I had for my life was not God's plan for me. On my walk this evening I was reflecting on my current path, what is next for me, and searching for answers..will be spending time in stillness to let the guide show me the way.
This is one of my favorite quotes: "There is a guide inside me who is wise and will always be there to help me on my journey."
Graham thanks for sharing this poem today, the timing was perfect. May you find guidance, truth and peace on your current journey. Like you said listening to the guide will be worth it in the long run. Continued blessings to you.
I remember this poem and you talking about it and the retreat you went on, Graham. Very powerful. It can be so hard at times when you feel guided towards a different path when you fear the change you are about to make. But the pull is strong and you know in your heart that you need to allow it to take you on this new journey in life.
Thank you Graham for that poem. It brings me back to my second year in college. I just needed to be alone with God. The sisters of the Holy Eucharist was holding a retreat. There’s a lot of silence and prayer. It was wonderful. I had a break so I went outside and sat under a tree and that’s when the Lord visited me. I can’t describe at that
moment the love I felt. I just cried and cried. When I went back to the dorm..I just cried and cried when my friends asked why was I crying, I said I just love the Lord so much. That’s when I decided I wanted to serve God. I quit college and entered the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady
I was in my second year and was to take my vows.
At the same time I heard my ex-boyfriend was getting married. That kinda upset me. So I talked to Mother Superior and told her I wasn’t ready to take my vows. She was upset but said I could always come back.
When I got back home I saw this nice tall man from Alabama who played football for the University of Alabama with Bear Bryant. I followed him a lot
Long story short I got him and married him. He became a pastor, started a Christian Academy High School , had three children and I’m still serving the Lord today. When you follow that voice guiding you, He never guides you wrong.
Amazing!
Thanks Graham for this poem this is one of my favorites from your book.
The one thing that goes through me in my every day life is courage. I often sit back and close my eyes in deep thought to give me that courage.
Faith is always on my side.
Thanks Graham for being you 🙏🏻❤️
Hi Graham. I've been AWOL for awhile basically following your advice of living a full life with family and friends and doing things for myself. I've been following stuff on THC, but just haven't commented much. I really appreciate you sharing this poem and your personal story about how hard it is sometimes to act on a truth that has been revealed to you, especially when it's not the truth you think you want to hear. It does take so much courage to act, but you are so right about the rewards and freedom that comes with acknowledging the truth and following through with what you know in your heart is right. Thanks for all of your insight in this and many other areas. I appreciate you and the others in this community so much!
I love this poem. I thought as I was reading it, it sounded familiar, and then, when you said it was from your first book, I remembered it, because I always went back to it many times, and reread it.!And I know what you are saying, to be true, because in 2019–2020, I was going through a time that all I did was meditating in prayer The answer I heard that time was very difficult to hear, but I knew it was a must! And it was a healing!! It took me a while to get where I am today, but whenever I am going through something, I go to my quiet place and I meditate, and I pray, and I am delivered through these Beautiful Lessons. Thank you Graham. You Always seem to know what we need to do to honor ourselves, and to rise above the difficulties of life. Blessings to you ………💜🙏
I haven't posted here on Substack in recent months but I do pop in to read the comments . I'm not sure what you're currently going through, Graham, but I do know that you understand that life hands us joyful things and hard things and sometimes both at the same time. Remember to dig for the joy even while you struggle with the hard things. As you always say, there are things to be learned in every circumstance. God doesn't always spare us from tough things, but he walks with us through them if we let him. I have always loved this poem because it reminds me to not allow myself to stay in the mind swirl of doubt and discouragement, but to get into my heart and embrace that place where God is, where I can accept truth in that safe space that's always there deep down. Thanks for always sharing your heart so openly and honestly.
Graham, thank you for sharing this poem. Your heart is so true and honest. You are a great young man❤️
I love this poem, what's behind the words shows how much of a genuine and upright person you are! I needed those words. You wrote them years ago, but they are always fresh when read at a time like the one I'm going through. Thanks! ❤️
Graham,
Thank you for your this poem of beautiful wisdom and truth. I so appreciate your integrity and realness with your audience. I look forward to every podcast as they always resonate with my intention of peace and serenity. You remind me of how important it is to feel our pain in silence, to surrender our lives to each precious moment of a challenging life experience when it offers us more truth to heal.
Love and peace to you for lighting up the world. You are a blessing and inspiration for me.
This a reminder to me to pray believing the words of the comforter He has me and my heart. I will be reflecting and meditating for several days. Thanks for reminding me.
Thank you for sharing, Graham :) And Blessings to all of you. Truth. It's always about the Truth, and how we don't feel quite right when we aren't listening to our Truth. Sitting still, and listening to your own heart (for me it's listening to God's heart inside us all) for what is released or revealed to you next. Then, Yes.
Graham Hello my friend
From my heart to your heart
When I read your book "Find Your Truth",
I confess that it hurt my heart very deeply... So I didn't want to read it again.
Now re-reading it I realized that hou literally turned it around...
" I am lost to purpose, sick, with no hope.
Friends I'll never have, the o ones I won't
miss.
I will not be forgotten
I will not pass, lose step or fall...
I will prove you wrong,
I will defeat you all. You hurt me once,
I tripped and fell... But you can wait,
Only time will tell."
This is a small excerpt from your book, which shows that you alread knew that you would rise from the ashes stronger and wiser.
Thank you for posting this excerpt from your book, it made me go back and re-read it, which showed me a lot of things I didn't understand when I first read it.
I'm looking forward to your second book... Have you thought if it will be published in Portuguese? I hope so. Thanks for another Tuesday Reflections. I send you a thousand stars of light.💥
Infinite blessings 🙏
IndiaFreitas 🇧🇷 💙 From Brazil 🫶
Thank you, Graham, for sharing this poem. I first started following you on Heartland and came to know Ty Borden pretty well. Now, when I hear you read your poems and talk about them and listening to your podcasts and such, I feel like I’m actually getting to know Graham Wardle, who is a fascinating young man with many very good insights to life and making changes. As always I can’t wait to hear what comes next on your journey of life. 🤗