Terra Cotta
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ONE SMALL BOY
There was a time when I questioned
The reality of my Lord
There was a time of uncertainty
When life was filled with discord
Foolishly, I had turned away
And forsaken the God of my youth
And in search for self-satisfaction
I had lost all desire for the truth
It is written that even a simple fool
Is right in his own eyes
How can he trust and believe the word
Of a God whom he denies
For you see if we acknowledge
That His every word is true
Then we must live accordingly
And that, I refused to do
Then in absolute desperation
I cried out to Him in my pain
I had nothing at all to loose but pride
And one small boy’s life to gain
But the God of my childhood heard my cries
And filled my soul with such joy
As He touched and healed the precious life
Of one small baby boy
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About the Book
This collection of poems was written to minister faith and the love of God to all who need inspiration and assurance that God loves us completely.
About the Author
Bet Howard Amante is a 1957 graduate of Bay City High School and attended John Robert Powers Modeling School in Dallas, Texas, where she also worked as a flight attendant for Texas International Airlines. She is a native Texan whose background includes an early participation in beauty pageantry.
At the age of sixteen, she was trained and coached by fashion model Addy Miller and won her first big pageant as Miss Galveston Splash Day. As a result, Bet became a successful model and enjoyed a career in fashion, photography, and television. Bet has also enjoyed a later career in marketing and interior design.
She is married to Gene Amante, retired executive of a major chemical company and jazz musician, with whom she shares a delightfully diversified family of eight children, ten grandchildren, and one white standard poodle,“Diva,” Le Divinité Dulce Bella.
Bet has been a serious student of the scriptures for forty-two years. Her love of writing stems from her love of God and people and the encouragement of her dear friend and mentor, actress Jeanette Clift George, founder of the AD Players at Grace Theatre in Houston, Texas.
Personal experience as a Bible teacher and speaker to both adults and children initiated a desire to articulately express the power of love, the rewards of virtue, and the benefits of believing.
An ordained minister, author of inspirational poetry, originator and coordinator of the Glory Chain Prayer Ministry, past leader of the Servants’ Heart Women’s Ministry of Faith West Church, Bet served four years as vice president and program chairman of Weston Lakes Christian Women’s Outreach, Inc., as well as elder and deacon of restoration under Pastor Carolyn Sissom at the historical Little White Church (Eastgate Ministries) on LH7 Ranch in Barker, Texas, for ten years.
Bet is a collector of antiques, loves art, is an avid gardener, and loves to cook and entertain friends and visitors in her home in West Houston. At seventy-five, she remains actively involved in her family life and her community, and continues to serve the body of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, and as elder and deacon in Eastgate Ministries.
Blessed be the name of the Lord my God
Who has brought me out of darkness into light
Blessed be the name of the Lord my God
who has taught my hands to war and my fingers to fight
I love You my wonderful Lord