Maureen was born in Auckland, New Zealand but has lived most of her adult life in Australia. She lives in a beautiful part of the world, called Noosa, Australia. Maureen has written 1,200 Christian poems and around 30 songs. She also writes poems for greeting cards. She works as an office co-ordinator, but writing is her passion. Her other great passion is photography. She has had some of her secular poems published in the USA, and some placed on CD.
Birds teach us perseverance
And joy through trials.
For many of their efforts
Find failure or denials.
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God told me to take fifty dollars,
And buy a dozen red roses;
To give them to strangers,
Just as His Spirit impresses.
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