Allow me to take you on a journey of love, empowerment, romance, enlightenment, heartache, release, and spiritual growth, all contained within each verse. Are you ready to rise above the limits you have placed upon yourself? Are you ready to open to the power within to the truest expression of you higher self? Be prepared for this journey is not for the faint of heart. Its a journey that takes courage, commitment and dedication right from the start. Be prepared to explore the vistas and dimensions of other times, And the limitless realms beyond the eyes we use to see. Are you ready to take the leaps of faith to see what truly can be? If you are I will guide you through what your soul wants you to see.

In The Meaning of Soul, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of this famously elusive concept. In the 1960s, Lordi argues, soul came to signify a cultural belief in black resilience, which was enacted through musical practices—inventive cover versions, falsetto vocals, ad-libs, and false endings. Through these soul techniques, artists such as Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, and Minnie Riperton performed virtuosic survivorship and thus helped to galvanize black communities in an era of peril and promise. Their soul legacies were later reanimated by such stars as Prince, Solange Knowles, and Flying Lotus. Breaking with prior understandings of soul as a vague masculinist political formation tethered to the Black Power movement, Lordi offers a vision of soul that foregrounds the intricacies of musical craft, the complex personal and social meanings of the music, the dynamic movement of soul across time, and the leading role played by black women in this musical-intellectual tradition.

This book EXPRESSIONS OF THE SOUL extends a glimpse to discover the unchanging love of God for all his creation regardless of the events in life. Its contents will shed light into the places were darkness is found, joy instead of sorrow, hope instead of despair, faith instead of doubt, pardon instead of injury, and love instead of hatred. This is what EXPRESSIONS OF THE SOUL is all about.

I love to write, so some times, I’ll write my thoughts and then turn them into a poem. Most of what is in my book was inspired by family and friends around me. I started writing some of my first poems during a time when one of husband’s family members was diagnosed with Cancer. Because life is not perfect for anyone; no one is exempt from heartache, or loss. But, on the other hand, Life can also bring joy, such as the birth of a new baby in the family, or a job promotion. Life is interesting and teaches us all lessons. What we learn in our lives can be useful to guide generations after us. We gain wisdom and share it.

Augustine, the man with upturned eye, with pen in the left hand, and a burning heart in the right (as he is usually represented), is a philosophical and theological genius of the first order, towering like a pyramid above his age, and looking down commandingly upon succeeding centuries. He had a mind uncommonly fertile and deep, bold and soaring; and with it, what is better, a heart full of Christian love and humility. He stands of right by the side of the greatest philosophers of antiquity and of modern times. We meet him alike on the broad highways and the narrow footpaths, on the giddy Alpine heights and in the awful depths of speculation, wherever philosophical thinkers before him or after him have trod. As a theologian he is facile princeps, at least surpassed by no church father, schoolman, or reformer. With royal munificence he scattered ideas in passing, which have set in mighty motion other lands and later times. He combined the creative power of Tertullian with the churchly spirit of Cyprian, the speculative intellect of the Greek church with the practical tact of the Latin. He was a Christian philosopher and a philosophical theologian to the full.

A revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Explorations of a Cosmic Soul. Align your soul and spirit with this beautiful collection of poetry straight from the author’s heart. Written by Allie Michelle, this edition includes her author notes that convey the energy she experienced when writing these poems. Inspiring and powerful, Allie's words will sweep you off your feet delivering the message that YOU are a cosmic being.