Habitat director launches poetry book

By day, Carla Sainsbury is a hardworking member of the Habitat for Humanity team in Belize … helping local landowners build their dream house. But in her spare time, Sainsbury has been working on one of her own dreams: becoming a poet. Her first publication is called “From the Heart,” and this morning Sainsbury told us her pet project got started when a close friend lost her husband.

Carla Sainsbury, Poet
?I didn?t know what to say to her and one day I got up and I started writing, and that was the day I started writing poems. In fact, I wrote thirty poems that day. I do greeting cards; I do a lot of stuff with the poems. The poems talk about a lot of everyday things. I also have poems on Mother, and it?s an expression of somebody writing to their mom and telling them how good she is, and I have a mother that I really love. My mother has really been an inspiration to me. Even writing these poems were things that I thought about in my own family or things that had happened to me. How God had come through for me, so the most important thing for me is that I want people to be able to experience the fact that God can come through for you. He is able to do anything, everything exceedingly above all that we could even ask or think, because of His power that worketh in us. That?s the most important thing I want people to get out of this book.?

Copies of “From the Heart” cost twenty dollars each and are available at the Habitat for Humanity office.