Reason Being

Hello  all. Coffee time once again. I told you yesterday that I would give you the occasion of my writing the poem that I penned on yesterday. So here goes. I received a royalty check for one of my books and I was ecstatic! I was tickled pink. I was filled with an almost hysterical glee. Why? No, no no! Before you start thinking that I am a money hungering person, that is far from the truth. Now you are saying, "Then why did you get so happy over a royalty check? Sounds to me like you are money hungry. I mean it is what it is. 'If the shoe fits..."  Those sayings that you just quoted are all true; however, you have to apply them to various situations correctly. Right? Well, it turns out that the royalty check that I received was for all of two dollars! Yep! You heard me, $2.00. Now you are thinking, " Then why did you get so happy, 'almost hysterically happy?"  Well, I got hysterically happy for several reasons.

• Reason 1, someone actually paid me for something that I sat in my house and thought and wrote down. That is a blessing!
• Reason 2, it was an actual check, printed on paper and sent through the mail with all of the trimmings, as if it were a huge advancement on my next book. Yes, the possibility of an advancement had me giddy, but more than that, the check itself was like confirmation to me. It was like confirmation in that it made me remember a dream from my childhood that told me that I was like Joseph, that everything that I touched would be blessed. I remembered that dream from so long ago and I knew that better days were coming and that this was just the tip of the iceberg, the trickle before the deluge. 
• Reason 3, with my deluge, I can further carry on the work that has been given my hands to do. Furthermore, anytime I receive what I like to call a "care package" from heaven, I get all stirred up inside and I get giddy with joy.

Make no mistake about it, when I am blessed, my charity is going to be blessed very well indeed, for I love Jesus, children and education!

I figure that, that one check opened the door or cleared the pipeline for all of the others. Yes, I choose to think very positively for I have been reminded of a dream that a little girl had as she lay asleep upon her bed, with not an errant thought in her little head.
That, to me, is God stuff and while I don't understand it, I believe it. And I am walking on toward whatever and wherever He leads me and I will be giddy, giggling and praising all of the way! Woo!
You know I feel a song coming on right about now, don't you? This time, it is my song that I wrote and one day, hopefully soon, I will sing it for you. While I may not be a songbird that can sing with the greatest trill, the joy that I have goes down deep and is very real.

Ultimately

Ultimately, woo, oo, oo, ultimately

Ultimately, oh, oh, oh, ultimately

Ultimately, woo, oo, oo, ultimately

Ultimately, ow, ow, ow, ultimately 

God has a plan

A plan for me

And the name of that plan

I call, "Ultimately."

Ultimately, woo, oo, oo, ultimately

Ultimately, oh, oh, oh, ultimately

Ultimately ah, ah, ah ultimately

Ultimately, wuh, uh, uh, u-l-t-i-m-a-t-e-ly.
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Doing What I Can, While I Can

Alma Jones