Where I am from...

Where I am from…

By: Ila Adkins

I am from tall buildings, from mountains and streams.


I am from the loving home…old, charming, beautiful.

I am from the trees, standing tall and trying to reach the lord.

I am from Christmas gatherings and independent people, from my mom and Grandma and my younger sister Vurella.

I am from long conversations and struggling to make ends meet.
From ‘Somewhere over the rainbow’ and ‘Amazing Grace’.

I am from a family with faith, from God’s family, with Sundays spent in the pews soaking up the sermons and the summer’s spent learning about the Lord in vacation bible school.

I'm from Ohio, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, North America, meat loaf and spaghetti.

From the woman who worked two full-time jobs to support her little family, the one who strived to give my baby sister and I everything we needed, and from the Dad who raised us; even though he didn’t have to.

I am from the family scrapbooks, the family tree, and the family that always has a “Footprints in the sand” poem hung in the dining room. I am from fond recollections of my papa gardening and listening to my grandma sing. I am from family members that are now God’s angels, who watch over me, guide me, and protect me with their shielded wings. I am from the memories that cannot be replaced.



The poem above was inspired by Stacy's blog with a poem that she wrote about where she came from. She had a link for a template here to create a beautiful "Where I'm from" poem. It was definitely something that I enjoyed doing.

I'd like to add a note about this...

As Christians, it is certain that we shall have the answers to the questions, "Where are you from?" ,"Where are you going?", and "Who are you?"

All Christians should know without a doubt that they are a child in God's loving hands. We are from the King of all Kings. We are from the couple that were created in the begininning, Adam & Eve. We, as Christians, know that we will walk through Heaven's Gates on judgement day because our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ shed his blood for our sins. We will get to behold the Glory of God in our eyes, because Jesus died to save us. We shall have eternal life.

"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one." ----John 10:28-30