Celeste Chandler
How often have people picked up stones to throw in the judgment of others? More often than most would admit, people look at other people’s problems and judge far too quickly. Most don’t take into account how a similar circumstance in their own life may cause them to see things in a different light.
This book is a group of poems dedicated to the stones that the mob didn’t throw. If you ever picked up a stone to murder the sinner, or stood as the accused, or perhaps you were the one to encourage forgiveness of sin, you will find yourself humming along to the tune of the poems found in the Symphony of Words.
Witness God’s redeeming love in the testimony and poetry of Celeste Chandler. Her story will cause you to examine yourself. Her words will bring you to worship God. Her humility will challenge every reader to seek their God.
Symphony of Words: My Life of Rhyme is Celeste’s road to triumph over tragedy and every reader’s encouragement to challenge the dark and painful places of our own hearts through the abiding love found in God’s presence, friendship, and Word.
We thank God for the opportunity to bring this timely collection of Christian devotional literature to you.
Carletta D. Jemison, Editor and Publisher of Water From the Well Publications
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You Throw First
Didn’t plead the fifth, my guts I spewed
Laid it all out, I got nothing to prove
I told my tale of how I fell
Man will never accept me, can’t stand the smell
Now you know stones you want to throw
Ask Jesus what should happen to me so
On the ground he writes and oh how nice
He says, "The perfect one can set it off right"
I wait in anticipation for the stones to fly
It won't be long now I may be about to die
My accusers confident and my guilt I did not deny
My sentence, death by stones, was this mob's outcry
The Perfect One, He could have, yet no stone flew
Waived my sentence, set back and withdrew
When all my accusers walked out the door
"Home girl," He said, "chill go and sin no more"
The One who knew and could have threw
Laid back, didn't judge and instead withdrew
Scripture:
John 8:7-8
So when they continued asking Him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her and again He stooped down, and wrote on the ground
Romans 2:22
Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
