Healing A Broken Family Tree

I am so ecstatic right now as I heard this morning that my 2nd poem has been published on http://www.familyfriendpoems.com the 1st was “A Broken Family Tree”, and this is the 2nd, sequel really to it called “Healing A Broken Family Tree” I would love to hear feedback. Thanks friends. 🙂
http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/healing-a-broken-family-tree

A Broken Family Tree

Love and The Broken Family Tree
Lori A. McBride
When anger and unforgiveness
Invade the very crevices of your heart
It burns fierce like sulfur
As it forces love to depart.

Causing only the mention of a name
To consume you with hate
As its poison reeks havoc
on the next generations fate

This grudge festers on
Keeping you imprisoned in pain
Causing every life force around you
To bare the affects of your strain

For hate and love
Cannot reside in one heart
Just as hate takes a family
And tears it all apart

The heart dies a slow death
As it mourns the loss of love
Never understanding it’s very being
Is created in the heavens above

How can it be reconciled
To LOVE, the creator of life
If the heart still remains
In unforgiveness and strife?

The Great lesson in life’s purpose
What we are sent here…

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Video Poem to A Broken Family Tree”

Click link to see the poem I wrote called “A Broken Family Tree” that “Wildfire Media” posted. It was made into a video poem.

Hi, I am Lori McBride also known by my previous married name Lori A. Cain. This is a poem I wrote called “A Broken Family Tree” in 2001 while I was living in Lake Tahoe, California. I found this on YouTube while searching different links where this poem was used. This is my favorite find. Its a video poem with a young man who recites my poem called “A Broken Family Tree”. Its much more than just reciting though. I was amazed at this rendition put together by a class in which country I am uncertain of.
The end is my favorite part. When it says in the poem “alone I will go, and plant the new seeds where a beautiful tree will grow” and a tiny stem comes forth through the ground. I look at that stem, that little baby tree and know its my granddaughter Trinity. She is 9 months old now and has a sibling on the way. Its this generation in my family that with destroy the axe that has caused suffering from the beginning. I will be forever grateful that “wildfire media” posted this on YouTube. My decendants will all be able to see it hopefully one day. Hope you enjoy the video and I hope you watch it to the end to see the new tree! 🙂 thanks.

What if? Just what if?

Excellent!!! Well done!!! Well done!!!! This message sums it all up perfectly! Why we are here! If we can’t love even the very least (in the worlds eyes least meaning, poor, in prison, mentally ill and so on) then we are not fit for the Kingdom! What if, just what if God being our Father did what our earthly father does to his child when he needs to correct his behavior and says “you go to your room until you learn how to be nice”, in other words “you go to earth until you learn how to LOVE”!! What if you never learn? He says it very clearly in His Word…”how can you Love me who you can’t see if you can’t even love your neighbor who you do see”!
Just a thought.

This is a must read, it’s fantastic.
The man in this picture is a Pastor, he dressed like this for his very 1st day at a new congregation of 6,000 to 10,000 people where he was to be introduced as head Pastor. Only after trying to mingle with the crowd and after much rejection.
Click on the link below to read about this amazing story!
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Healing A Broken Family Tree

Love and The Broken Family Tree
Lori A. McBride
When anger and unforgiveness
Invade the very crevices of your heart
It burns fierce like sulfur
As it forces love to depart.

Causing only the mention of a name
To consume you with hate
As its poison reeks havoc
on the next generations fate

This grudge festers on
Keeping you imprisoned in pain
Causing every life force around you
To bare the affects of your strain

For hate and love
Cannot reside in one heart
Just as hate takes a family
And tears it all apart

The heart dies a slow death
As it mourns the loss of love
Never understanding it’s very being
Is created in the heavens above

How can it be reconciled
To LOVE, the creator of life
If the heart still remains
In unforgiveness and strife?

The Great lesson in life’s purpose
What we are sent here to learn
Is how to love God and our neighbor
Before we return

So what’s more valuable to you
Is it LOVE or is it pride?
because a heart without LOVE
Has already died!

And understand that if pride
Is the one you will choose
There are many generations to follow
Who have everything to lose!

Ask LOVE to return once again
And invade every crevice of your heart
Seek the courage to make amends
Let LOVE give you a new start!

A Broken Family Tree (Poet’s story)

We all have a story, all of value and great worth. My story involves a family riddled with generational pain, tragedy and war. Each new generation is born into “A Broken Family Tree”. Thus inspiring the poem I wrote back in 2001 called
“A Broken Family Tree”
Lori A. McBride (Cain)
A Broken Family Tree
I am one of many
Small branches of a broken tree
Always looking to the ones above
For guidance, strength and security.
One little branch trying
To keep the others from breaking away
Who will fall?
And who will stay?
Now I stand alone
Looking at the earth through the rain
And I see the broken branches I knew
Scattered about me in pain.
There are those who have taken an axe
To the root of our very foundation
And who have passed this destruction
Down to every new generation.
If I could take that axe
I would toss it deep into the sea
Never to return again
To harm the generations that follow me.
I am one of many
But alone I will go
And plant the new seeds
Where a beautiful tree will grow.

As I have suddenly stumbled upon many links where my poem has been shared I am finding more and more that I am not alone in this story. It seems we all share a place in the “Broken Family Tree”. We all are significant, vital branches. Each one making up their own unique story in The Masters Book. The great Author of time and His broken branches being grafted in.

I have come to realize that this is no small problem. The suffering is world wide and the breaking down of the family unit, with its values, morals and truth has become a catastrophic anomaly which is a deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule. Leading society away from the divine purpose of family intended. For me personally, I have opinions and thoughts. Even my own experience in the destruction, but in the end its my FAITH that supersedes It all. even my own experiences are just my perception alone. I don’t know what will surface here or where I plan to go with this blog. What I do know is that it will be truthful and real. I am an open book, but that doesn’t mean the rest of my family, friends and people of my past are. Therefore I will be as open as I can without bringing someone else’s personal life into it.

And so, another story unfolds.
With much love,
Lori