restoration comes after the sack cloth is removed.

Kem G. Lowery (1): "I believe it is time to take off the sack cloth and put on the silk. I have lived the past few year with sack cloth on because of things that I did not choose, I do not believe my FATHER wants me to live in a spirit of morning and sack cloth when through HIM I am part of a royal family and deserve silk. David the king when his child died removed the cloth and ate. I must accept the death of the past and live today"

There was an old man that lived alone because one day he had lost his song.

There was an old man that lived alone because one day he had lost his song.

He had had his song so vary long and thought, never would it ever roam but

to his dismay the song left one day.

He looked around to find the song but it had moved and was gone.

He had loved this song for so vary long that to lose it, he wondered what had gone wrong.

He missed his song and had said that he would never sing another song for this song alone had sat upon his heart’s throne.

He mourned and cried and thought he would die. With every tear in his eye beside his bed he sighed.

He had noticed other songs but they just did not have the right tone.

There was one that was a young song that had tipped toed across his throne but it too was not his tone. He missed the young song but knew she would find a better song for her throne.

He had learned to miss his song and to live his life alone, even though the joy of his life was gone because of the loss of his song, the little song that they wrote together would always make him feel much better.

This little song had such a sweet tone that it made everyone want to sing alone. The little song lived not at home but long long long which made the man moan.

The man had hope that his little song would one day be home and both could sing along with a new song where neither would ever have to roam and be alone.

pain

Facebook (4): "The hardest thing to stop doing is reliving the pain that we have experienced from someone whom we love but only through Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit can we experience peace and even joy after pain of heart and emotions."

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---"