So what do you do when you come to fully realize you have been given a very special gift . . . and the gift itself has given you an additional, more specific gift? Well . . . if you have a propensity toward writing . . . perhaps you write about the discovered and expanding gifts. Moreover . . . if you really, really have a propensity toward writing . . . perhaps you write a book about the whole thing. Yehh, that's what you do . . . or at least, that's what the author does. The contents of ten poetic endeavors are included in this book as the intimate guides to the book itself: 1. Forgiveness Opens Up The Heart: Song, including enhancing spoken narrative. 2. Behold The Silence: Song, including enhancing spoken narrative. 3. Such An Opportunity: Song, including enhancing spoken narrative. 4. [I Have Crossed the River to the] Promised Land: Song, including enhancing spoken narrative. 5. Good Morning, This Is God: Song, including enhancing spoken narrative. 6. Set Your Music Free: Song, including enhancing spoken narrative. 7. Prodigal Son and Jesus The Way Prelude: music backed, spoken narrative 8. Prodigal Son: music backed spoken poetic narrative 9. Jesus The Way: music backed spoken poetic narrative 10. At The End of the Day: spoken poetic narrative introduction, followed by song. The titles will serve as the chapter titles for the ten chapters of this book. All words included in the titles will then be presented. But then comes an even more special feature: The author attempts to fully describe what each verse, chorus, and/or line of each title wishes to convey, and tries to fully describe what it all means to him-as brought forth, in the author's intent, from the fullness of his heart. For the author, this book is a very special continuation of a very special journey which began as a meditative reaching-out for new spiritual beginnings more than two decades ago. Those "beginnings" immediately exceeded expectations-and the resulting, continuing spiritual journey has soared without limitations to almost unbelievable places. Compassion, Forgiveness and Universal Love have been the author's combined singular quest for the more than two decades to which reference has been made-with Forgiveness being foremost among these The contents of this book gives wonderful sharings regarding the fruits of that quest. Indeed, FORGIVENESS OPENS UP THE HEART.