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Firstly - sorry I don't have the links to each piece like usual. Having troubles with my puter and can't access the list with the links.

EDITOR'S CHOICE WINNERS http://www.faithwriters.com/wc-archives ... php?id=396

1st Place: Pisgah Promises by Terry R A Eissfeldt
2nd Place: The Closers by Vince Martella
3rd Place: “Sheep” Thrills, can Kill! by Linda Goergen
4th Place: Homecoming by Arlene Showalter
5th Place: The Pahu by Tracy Nunes
6th Place: The Staff of Life by Virgil Youngblood
7th Place: His Words, His Power by Linda Gage
8th Place: Keep My Mouth Shut by Leola Ogle
9th Place: Memorandum by Christina Banks
10th Place: Psalm 23 revisited by Dave Walker

LEVEL WINNERS
Level Champion Challenge WINNERS for Level 1 – Beginner http://www.faithwriters.com/wc-archives ... 96&level=1
1st Place: Staff Of Time by Debbie Rutter
2nd Place: Thy Rod and Thy Staff by Ron Barnes
3rd Place: Anna's Crossing by Lynn Moses
Highly Commended: I am no Bible theologian but... by Garry Stopa
Highly Commended: Song of Life by Lisa Hudson

Level Champion Challenge WINNERS for Level 2 – Intermediate http://www.faithwriters.com/wc-archives ... 96&level=2

1st Place: The Closers by Vince Martella
2nd Place: His Words, His Power by Linda Gage
3rd Place: Psalm 23 revisited by Dave Walker
Highly Commended: Grandpa's Insight On Elvis, Tigers, Ford Pickup Trucks, And The Love of Jesus by Justin Atkin
Highly Commended: My Father's Staff by Tamira Raheb

Level Champion Challenge WINNERS for Level 3 – Advanced http://www.faithwriters.com/wc-archives ... 96&level=3

1st Place: Homecoming by Arlene Showalter
2nd Place: With This He Watches Over Us by Michelle Knoll
3rd Place: Throw it down by Doug Spurling
Highly Commended: They All Laugh by lynn gipson
Highly Commended: Before It's Too Late by Lois Farrow

Level Champion Challenge WINNERS for Level 4 – Masters http://www.faithwriters.com/wc-archives ... 96&level=4
1st Place: Pisgah Promises by Terry R A Eissfeldt
2nd Place: “Sheep” Thrills, can Kill! by Linda Goergen
3rd Place: The Pahu by Tracy Nunes
Highly Commended: The Staff of Life by Virgil Youngblood
Highly Commended: Keep My Mouth Shut by Leola Ogle

I can't wait to settle in with a hot cup of coffee and read all these. Congrats and Happy Valentines Day!

Congratulations to all you fine winners and thank all you fine judges!

I am just pleased as punch! (We say that down South)

Congratulations to all those who placed this week. Great job!

What magnificent choices this week! I enjoyed all of the entries I had time to read. I think we are all champions, just for being able to write and emote. Let's keep writing and going for that gold ring!

Weighty Watching . . .


Please dear kind someone, please read my poems -
not just to critique, but enjoy, sit and think.
I know I write often, and some are like tomes,
but I cannot stop them - my mind seeks to link

with someone who's been there, done that and so
can offer me feedback that's beyond mere praise.
My thoughts are just flying, my fingers too slow
to just tap on the keys for the rest of my days.

Outside the sun beckons, my dog wants to play.
My lazy form wants to just sit here and enter
what's sometimes just drivel - ofttimes I pray
that other activities would help me to center

on just washing dishes, or sweeping a floor -
chores that I willingly shirked way back then...
But I found this website, which cries to me more.
I no longer can focus 'cept with paper and pen.

I'll sit here for hours, inert and expecting
to find you before me - critiquing and reading
my heart baring entries. And find that instead
it's not only just me that must needs be fed.

This constant pulling- think a robin with worm!
And so, being patient, I slink off to dust
my books and my tables - then slowly I turn...
my computer needs dusting! And again I must

look once more through my listing and so hope to find
that you've had enough time to critique my grand works?
And much later I rise to finish dusting - my mind
pressing me upward and onward, ignoring what lurks

on the fringes - the calling - the desperate need
to return to my keyboard and search once again
to see if a kind soul my warped ego did feed.
But no one has read me and I sigh once again.

Eureka! A light dawns above this dim brain!
Why haven't you read all my wonderful poems?
If I critiqued yours, would we possibly gain
some free time to look into each other's domes?

I need to take this moment to once again thank Faithwriters for your impact on my life. Everyone, from the people who take the time to comment, to volunteers, to staff, to owners. Repeatedly, the Lord has used FW to do something in me and through me that DID NOT come from my own strength. I haven't written in a year because of health problems and caring for my elderly in-laws. I'd started to think that the time for writing in my life was past.

FW also gives me a chance to witness to family and friends in a way that is not always easy to do out right. What you do in my life and in the countless lives of people around the world is priceless and I thank God for you with my whole heart. I pray that you are blessed abundantly for it.

Aloha in Iesu (Jesus),
Tracy

Congratulations, everyone!!

Great work, everyone! Congrats to all!

Congrats to all!

Congrats to you all- well done!

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Super job, folks!!