Joe Helms Provides Thoughts For Your Weekend in The Drift, the Shift and the Gift...

The Drift,  the Shift and the Gift

As you grow up from childhood

You have hopes and dreams that are only good

But as you grow into your teens

In the years that are in between.

From being a child to a growing adult

There can be events that put those dreams on halt

As in my case my first major goal was dashed

Just out of high school my dreams became ash.

Because this was my first experience I gave up

My dream had died as if it was corrupt.

So as a young adult I started to drift

My dreams like sand in my hand began to sift

Job to job, position to position whatever life would throw

Then came a car, marriage, then a child, then a house, 

really in life what did I know?

This happens so subtly, it can loll you to sleep

The drift will happen and your dreams it will reap

You find yourself settling for second best or what is found

And you wake up one day and your dream is not around

I had succumbed in life, what was the use?

And resided the fact that my ways were obtuse

For many years, I reacted and took life as it came

But awareness came and I realized, 

that I was the one to blame,,,

What I am saying it is no myth

With all cost you have to avoid the drift

I understand life happens and sometimes it is bad

But I say hold onto your dreams and you’ll be glad

The ups and downs of life can wear you out

Especially if you don’t understand what life is about?

Like a ship without a sail, life happened to me

Tossed and thrown by circumstances, how could I get free?

Sometimes there are seasons of life that seem out of control

They can steal your dreams and you can wonder if you are whole

What is life about and why am I here?

Great questions to ask yourself, when life seems drear.

Pay check to pay check and day by day the years roll by

Become aware of the drift before you die

Aimlessly going through life, how can one get free?

I want to give you hope, because it happened to me.

It took forty-five years but I finally found out

This thing called life and what it is about.

But how did I escape and break away from the drift?

It was not easy but I made a mental shift.

It took awareness and that is where it can start

When you learn you become, 

the thoughts you constantly hold in your heart.

So choose wisely and guard all of your thought

Because in them your life is wrought

Understanding this you can avoid the drift

It takes practice to experience the shift

So keep your thoughts positive and always on the good

This is a truth that must be understood.

Your thoughts produce after their like kind

Negative to negative and positive to positive, 

keep that in mind

Your mind is likened to the soil and your thoughts are your seed

So think on purpose that which you desire and you’ll be freed

My life was transformed because of the shift

The ability to choose your own thoughts, which is the gift

Life is but the perspective you think upon

This truth is something, one must get a grip on.

No one can make you think thoughts but you

So use this gift wisely and choose this truth to review

It is your thinking that adds meaning to your life

So choose wisely to avoid the strife

Your life is what you think of it and that is true

Honestly my friend there is no one to blame but you.

So change your thoughts and all will become new

The Creator truly has given this gift to you.

By Joe Helms

Copyright 2014

Joe Helms Ponders Belief and Arrives at Poetic Message for All...

The Belief of Another 

By Joe Helms 

There is nothing like the belief of another 

And most of all that of your mother 

It really did not occur to me until she died 

But now I perceive the other side 

From childhood until adulthood, 

my mother believed in me as no one else would

And in her death I realized the truth that must be understood 

In this life one can suffer some pain 

However if you look for the good in things 

there is much to gain

I understand I’m not the only one who experiences pain and loss 

In this we are all the same we eventually pay that cost 

You may ask how there could be good in the death of one’s mother?

 Especially when you experience her love for it is like no other 

Before you can understand the great truth that I came to know 

There is another truth that I must sow 

What is belief? Anyway do you know?

 One’s belief is nothing more than repeated thought

Filled with feeling and that is how it is wrought 

Why is this so important you may ask?

 This is a process of life I will unmask 

A person becomes that which one repeatedly thinks 

Please don’t cast this truth off with a blink 

Thoughts become things as you will see 

Especially if you will continue to read and listen to me 

Not that I’m any more special than you 

These facts were given to me and that is true 

Ask and receive is what you must do 

And that my friend is how I learned these truths

 that I’m sharing with you 

If you ask you will receive and that is another truth

 Seek and you will find is not uncouth 

Knock and it shall be opened to you

 This all sounds so simple but believe it is true 

Now we have come to the place of how life flows 

Your repeated thoughts are how your belief grows 

Your beliefs in turn produce how you feel

 How you feel determines what you do and that’s for real 

What you do produces the results of your life 

And if you blame your circumstances this truth will cut like a knife

 Now back to the belief of another 

In my case it was my mother 

My Mom had always believed in me 

When she died I wondered what would happen to me 

It was through my grief for my mother

 That I began to understand the purpose of the belief of another

And that purpose is to build up the belief that is in you

 Until you arrive at the place where you believe in you too. 

It is liken to the crank that turns your gear of belief

 So that no one can steal your belief like a thief 

Once your belief gets going on its own

 You will find that your belief is now full grown

 Why are your beliefs so important you may ask? 

For you to know, another truth I must unmask 

It is written that, according to your faith, 

in other words your belief, it is done unto you,

 Do you hear what I said? For this is so very, true. 

For him whom has ears to hear, let him hear. 

With emphasis I remind you so this truth does not disappear

 You may ask, is this a law that truly works? 

Yes 100% it is true but an enemy lurks 

It is your negative thoughts/beliefs that are your problem 

Learn to control your thoughts,

 think only what you want and that would be awesome 

To fully understand you must know how you were made 

And that is the truth that now must be laid

In the beginning God truly said 

Let us make man in our image and likeness,

 and that’s how you were bred 

Meditate on that and discover if there is a truth to be seen. 

There is, but oh, what does it mean?

 We must look at how God made the things  He created 

It really is simple and it does not need translated 

God said the word and the things were so 

But what are words, that’s what you need to know.

 Words are language but really are nothing but spoken thoughts 

And now that you know we can connect some dots 

He applied faith to His spoken word 

Now faith is a substance of things hoped for, is not absurd

 It is the very evidence of things not seen 

He calls things that are not as though they are which is very keen 

For that which is seen is only temporary

 That which is unseen is eternal and extraordinary

Now faith is a knowing for the moment, for when you see the unseen 

When you see your desire with your mind’s eye as though it was a screen 

This is just the beginning but you have to know it is true 

Honestly there is still more you must do. 

Hold the image fast with your will and imagination, as clear as you can

 Build the image with strong emotion, now that is the plan

See the image as if the thing already existed

 For the thought is the beginning of the thing, if persisted 

Play the image as if it were a movie.

 Twice a day, when you arise and when you lay down, that would be groovy. 

Day by day repeat this process and set it in motion

 I can’t encourage you enough to build the image with the equaled emotion.

This is a process that can be used by your conscious mind

 To impress upon the subconscious mind, until the image is entwined.

 For once the subconscious mind has it, it is as good as done. 

For the thing will begin to take on visible form and you’ll know you’ve won! 

Keep your thoughts, words, emotions and actions aligned with your desire.

 Now that is the key.

 Persist in this and the truth you will see.

For we live in a world of belief, consciousness and thought. 

And by your belief, you have gotten what you have wrought. 

So if you don’t like what you have begotten

 Remember these truths before they’re forgotten. 

You already have the unlimited power within you 

To accomplish whatever you wish to do. 

For your desires, they come from Him. 

How cruel would it be, 

that He not also provide the means to accomplish them?

Just remember you are one with Him. 

And because of that how could you not win? 

You are part of Him and that is so. 

And the part is like the whole, is the truth to know. 

All that He is and all that He has, you already possess. 

And that my friend is why you are called blessed. 

So the belief of another is important to know. 

So parents believe in your children. This is the truth I now sow

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Copyright 2015 

Hi Everybody! Had a God Incident today when Joe came to the cabin to repair my computer, which died several days ago! Soon found out he's a poet and working on his first poetry book as well as another book on spirituality...

This is my first time responding to his poetic words...so I hope I provided complementary music linking to his work...Let us know what you think!

Glenda