Kiss of God--The Wisdom of a Silent Child
by Marshall Stewart Ball

It's a beautifully inspiring book.

Preface:

Kiss of God is an astonishing collection of inspiring
writings by a young boy who is developmentally challenged.
Born with a host of difficulties, including the inability to speak or walk, Marshall has persevered despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Marshall communicates by pointing to specific letters on an alphabet board, and famliy members or friends transcribe each letter as Marshall indicates.
When finished, he then titles and edits the selection, spelling each words correctly. From these letters and words come the inspiring selections collected in this book.

His graceful, remarkable words are filled with the purity of his spirit and the love in his heart.

Since 1992 (when Marshall was six years old), he has completed hundreds of pages of writings.
Marshall often writes about love and listening. His writing style is unique and at times quite unpredictable, but it will touch you deeply and open your eyes to the simple truths of life. he refers to himself as a teacher and encourages people to open their hearts to answers from God. What is thirteen-year-old Marshall Stewart Ball teaching the world? He teaches people to loe and respect life, knowledge, others and God. he asks quietly, "Will we free the world to think perfectly about the listening and marvelous children?"
Yes, he teaches the world to listen.

Author's Note


Questions nicely want good answers. With the
giving, happy help of my good family and magnificent friends, I dearly love to think about joyous balance excellently discovered in answers to old questions. Answers giving nice tought gain
their dear freedom in wonderful thoughtful poetry. That marvelous good task teaches us to listen.


I hope to gather thinkers
to give them my thoughts about Love.
Love to clean their ideas.
That cleaning might loosen the love
in their hearts.
Good thinkers take LOVE to heart
like gold in the evening, wild sun.

My Harmony Prevails to Free

Even though my individuality finds sweet
knowing perfection I listen for the
answers to wishes from above. I listen to
good thoughts like something cloudy over
mountain tops. Fine messages clearly
govern my thinking, Feelings grow
harmoniously making Love possible.
Harmony might justify every marvelous
idea given to Love. The seeing Marshall
hopes to free the hopeless. Dear harmony
needs progress governing fine thinking
that I feel. I see harmony as the final
known answer.


~ October 1, 1992
{Marshall was six years old!)

God thinks being selfishly sick
is not the bent of needy man.

~*~


I have a dream of careful definition
bearing good love,
definitely greatly balanced with harmony,
caring how real people feel.


~*~


Poetry is the magnificent kindness
of the heart.


~*~

(these were written in 1994 for a school
assignment)

~ Destruction is the need to find
being in matter.


~ Marshall has been here for
millions of lifetimes.

The Golden Hue Becomes Manifest


Golden moon gleenfully coming
to dearly love hands with golden happiness.
Between those giving lovely clouds,
letters have great ideas
longing to be found.
Did ideas come sweetly
like fine, real, golden, records
of migrating lovely thoughts?
Love grows clear,
like ballistically manifested targets
growing better.
Proud growth,
dearly gives clouds
the best golden hue.

My five favorite words are:


Love --- a feeling of God that needs no one.


Time --- the management of thought.


Teach --- giving.


Think --- how we listen.


Good --- the answer that gives real meaning to life.

Sunset


Quietly deer assemble
ageless beauty
winning freedom seen at sunset
deer passing in tandem cadence

sun delicately wialand indirectly
Yawah seen at candlelight
respectfully

Quietly, quietly wisdom comes
sunset juxtaposed with God.

Righteous Thoughts


Real thoughts are good to share. Softly I
write words to you because pleasant feelings
can change the righteous person's thoughts.
Listening, sometimes there is progress made
when thoughts find their home. Fine thinking
reveals marvelous freedom from the righteous
person's sorrows.

Realizer of Seasons


Can we see mearly somber colors?
Greatly each season comes
clearly having great beaches
irreverently, marvelously
nearing the brough of good God.
Be a realizer of great seasons,
fro you will realize my harmony
needs seasons,
and good good God
gaves seasons to free.

The Battery


There is the battery God gives to us,
to good creatures that love one another.
It gives us lovely, fine, thoughtful wisdom
that takes us to the good thinking,
finely magical.
Love finds the good, mighty dear thought.
The battery gives to us free wisdom that may
see magnificence,
like good there, titilating lovely thinking.

One of the mighty acts of God is
the battery that makes the
sun love to shine.

Answers come when
we are in our right place.

Thank you Lisa - his writing is remarkable, and his choice of words is as stated above unpredictable. I couldn't help but smile with delight. A reminder of the fresh joyful innocence of not knowing any better (of not knowing the past so not able to shorthand-edly repeat it).



Entirely different but another child prodigy who I admire with that unpredictable quality to his song writing style is:

Sugar Chile Robinson -

he wrote "Go, Boy, Go!" the song used for Dockers commercials 2006:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJry-uVjSgU

a film clip of him when he was 6:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcq93txBdtM

and newsreel at 7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtblsH1drkA

Wow.




I am truly in awe and rendered speechless to those Words.

Thank You for Sharing this Lisa.

That is why I Love this Place.




Chahlie

something about the tone of his words
touches something deep and dear
in the Soul.
A feeling of the way being so clearly,
so simply illuminated.

Glad you're here, reading, Chahlie.

imagines,
that little guy could rock, couldn't he?
Wow, what talent.
Thanks for sharing.
I went to post to you here a ways
back but got pulled away during, then forgot
to return.
Sorry about that. *blush*