let it go

Kem G. Lowery (1): "Write a non-mailed angry letter, pour out your heart in it. Then sit with an empty chair in front, put the name of person on it and read it out loud...let it out and let it go. It helps."

disappointment

Kem G. Lowery: "A right response to disappointment begins with resisting the natural tendency toward bitterness. If someone else was involved in the situation, don't be quick to judge his or her conduct. We can't fully understand what is going on in others' lives. Our second step should be to ask the Lord, 'How am I to respond?' God can guide us to a wise and righteous reaction because He has all the facts."

recovering

Kem G. Lowery: "anytime you do not feel anger, blame, self-pity, bitterness, or resentment, then you are experiencing recovery. If you think of your former relationship less often than you used to, this is a sign of recovery. If you are living in the present more than you are dwelling in the past, you are recovering. I'm recovering!!!!!"

restoration in layers

Kem G. Lowery: "Restoration happens in layers. The 1st thing is you wake up some day and you feel a little better, not as depressed. You're able to get via day w/o crying. Then the next day, you might feel bad again. After a while you better more days than bad."

good night

Kem G. Lowery: "now I lay me down to sleep with tired, sore and ache feet,
oh, my strength is almost gone if I wake before it's dawn,
just shoot me in the head and call me gone. -----Good night!!!!"

you're no good

Facebook: "you're as good as you'll ever be. You're as good as you've ever been, and you won't ever be any better than you are. 'God never intended for you to get better, because you can't improve flesh, But the Holy Spirit, who is living inside you, will enable and live through you.' Flesh is insufficient. Only the Holy Spirit living inside us has the strength and wisdom to live out the Christian life victoriously."

I have had a few...

I have had a few...

9 roadblocks to forgiveness

9 roadblocks to forgiveness

1. Selfishness
2. Pride
3. Insecurity
4. Resentment
5. Unresolved anger
6. Inability to recognize your weakness and mistakes
7. Misunderstanding forgiveness
8. fear of condoning the offense
9. The passage of time.

night poem

Facebook: "Now that night is here
I must get off of here.
Tomorrow will be another day
to go to work and roam and play
I ate some Fruitloops with a spoon
while sitting on pouch looking at the moon.
I thought of you as I set there in the night
and wished I could just hold you tight.
Well, to bed I go all alone to dream of you here at home.
-------- another poem by KEM---"

Facebook

Facebook: "Too often we claim His name without representing His heart"

When troubles come

When troubles come

every Man

In life every man needs a few things:

1. A reason to get up: "The Cause"
2. A reason to get started: "The Adventure"
3. A reason to keep doing: "The Completion"
4. A reward for the effort: "The treat"

We lose momentum when these are missing and become still. Anything still for a while will spoil and begin to stink.

1. A call to answer
2. An adventure to live
3. A beauty to rescue
4. A dream to live

I'm at stage two and in time will see stage 3 to begin.