{"product_id":"9781617922879","title":"Life and Eternity: a book of poetry composed inside of a storm","description":"As I wrote the poems inside this book, I found they were deep writings.\u003cbr\u003eI started to write \"Intro's\" for these poems, in an effort to bring them closer to the surface.\u003cbr\u003eIn the end, I found a deeper, yet simpler, meaning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt took me back to my first boxing match. \u003cbr\u003eI had trained 3 months straight and was confident I would win my fight.\u003cbr\u003eThe harder I trained, the shorter and shorter each 3 minute round seamed. \u003cbr\u003eOnce I entered the ring for the real bout, I was good! All my training was paying off.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen, 1 minute into this greatness, I got hit back! \u003cbr\u003eThe last 2 minutes of that first round seemed like……. an ETERNITY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs I remembered that moment in my life, it took me back to a fight from \"The Greatest\"…….boxer Muhammad Ali.\u003cbr\u003e It was in the fourth round, against Sonny Liston, when something got into the eyes of Ali, and he couldn’t see. \u003cbr\u003eAli was a professional boxer, fighting for the heavy weight title of the world; in the ring with a man they called \"A Killer\".\u003cbr\u003eIt was already said Liston would kill Ali, and now Ali, as much as he was ready for this fight, couldn’t see the very thing that wanted to kill him. He had nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. It seemed that all he could do (and he did want to) was to give up the fight, and hope that he would make it back some day, to try again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut like my situation (and like many of you that will read this book), that was simply not going to happen. Sometimes, our LIFE will begin to happen right there, in the worst situation, under the worst conditions, inside of an apparently impossible outcome.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAli went back to his corner; I went back to my cornerstone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAli said \"I can't see, you have to stop the fight!\" I said the same thing.\u003cbr\u003eIn Ali's corner, his trainer said \"You have to, and you are, going to stay in this fight! Today happens, TODAY, and you are going to win, right now!\"\u003cbr\u003eAli responded with “How? I can’t see!” You might want to say the same thing.\u003cbr\u003eHis trainer said \"You’re going to do what you CAN do, you’re going to DANCE! You are going to dance till you can see, and then, you’re going to knock this bum out!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGod gave me the gift to write the beautiful and expressive poems you will find inside.\u003cbr\u003eLife \u0026amp; Eternity is simply 2 minutes of my dance, inside a ring with a KILLER trying to kill my will to fight for my LIFE, in a fight that seemed to take an ETERNITY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy cornerstone is Jesus Christ.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow don't let this stop you from reading but, all I'm going to say is, I hope and pray your corner knows you better then you know yourself.\u003cbr\u003eA corner that knows today is going to happen today.\u003cbr\u003eThat you CAN dance until you can see again, and that you will WIN.\u003cbr\u003eYour dance is your gift, and that gift will inspire others to dance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMay the poems in this book inspire you to dance……… till you can see again.","brand":"All M Family Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139248079088,"sku":"9781617922879","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781617922879_p0.jpg?v=1763851969","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781617922879","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}