Isaac F. Mitchell II is the first-born son of four siblings that God gave Isaac F. Mitchell Sr. and Alma B. Mitchell. He was born in Bainbridge, Georgia on November 14, 1951. In June of 1969, he graduated from Seacrest High School and in September of that year matriculated into Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee, Florida. In December of 1973, Isaac F. Mitchell II was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science in Industrial Arts Education. In January of 1974, he was employed by the Palm Beach District Schools as a teacher where he continued for thirty-five years, retiring in December 2009. Isaac was joined in Holy Matrimony to Ethel Johnson on March 23, 1974 at Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church in Mulberry, Florida. God gave them two sons: Isaac Floyd Mitchell III and David Matthew Mitchell. In 1976 he matriculated into Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida and in August of 1977, he was awarded the degree of Master of Education in Administration and Supervision. In 1984, Isaac F. Mitchell II responded to the call of God to enter the Gospel Ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. In October of 1988, he received the Diaconate Order. In October of 1990 he was elected and ordained an Itinerant Elder in the South Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church by the Bishop Phillip Cousin and received his first pastoral appointment to serve at St. Andrews A. M. E. Church in Pelican Lake, Florida. In the summer of 1990, Pastor Isaac F. Mitchell matriculated into the Turner Seminary of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. In September of 2005, Mitchell matriculated into the Trinity Theological Seminary of South Florida. The favor of God prevailed and the administration of the Trinity Theological Seminary accepted all of the work that had been completed at the Turner Seminary allowing the completion of the Master of Divinity and Doctorate of Theology in Biblical Studies in May of 2007. Mitchell presently serves as Senior Pastor of New Allen Temple A.M.E. Church of Hobe Sound, Florida.
The unexamined live is not worth living." Socrates in The Apology by Plato. Reflections is a collection of short stories in which the characters engage in examining their lives.
Glen Oaks and Other Ruminations is a compilation of thoughts and images present themselves to me as I am in the car driving, or just sitting with nothing much to do.
The poems in this collection were written over the course of twenty-seven years. They represent the ramblings and obsessions of an otherwise unoccupied mind.
How will you be remembered, by the people you love, when you are gone? Did you do right by them? Did you provide them with the kind of life they deserved? How many lives did you touch, that you did not know about? This is what goes through the mind of a man who sits waiting, after a long life, as Death slowly approaches. "Icy Fingers" is a little taste of a collection of short stories that I have been working on, inspired by quote: "The examined life is not worth living." Hope you enjoy.
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What if you were charged with delivering the eulogy at the funeral of a parent with whom you had a strained relationship? What truth might you discover about yourself, and your relationship with your parent?
A second collection of meditations. This is a continuation of my previous collection, Serenity Meditations. Like its predecessor, Volume II presents ideas that flit through my mind as I sit during my daily meditation. Observed, but not examined, the ideas here presented reflect feelings rather than thoughts.
How to Read a Poem is a hodge podge of the ramblings of my mind. The pieces range from thoughts and images that come to me during my daily meditation, or when I take my morning walk with my wife. There are also my reflections on the events of a very stressful two years in American current events. And, of course, I could not resist a bit of whimsy.
A picture is worth a thousand words. But, words can evoke vivid pictures in the mind. As a painter uses his colors to create images that touch the soul, the poet uses his words to achieve the same effect. The poems in this volume, it is my hope, will create images that touch the readers heart and soul. They are the product of the poet's observations of the world around him. Several of these images reflect his perception of the world as he is out and about, some are the images he perceives when awakening in the morning--that point when dream and reality seem to merge. The poet hopes that these images will provoke thought, and will bring the read some measure of enjoyment.
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