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    Graveyard Love
    Graveyard Love
    Graveyard Love
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    Graveyard Love

    By Lisa Marie Roby

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    The book is dealing with abuse, murder, neglect, and so on. The book is really based on forgiveness. In this book we are trying to reach an audience of all gender, and nationality, to show that forgiveness is important, not only in our walk with GOD but with our walk with each other. We as a people have to learn how to forgive in order to be forgiven.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJan 17, 2012
    ISBN9781468539271
    Graveyard Love
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    Lisa Marie Roby

    I have always known that I wanted to tell my life story and sought out the best time to do it and found it to be now in 2007. I am married with two children. My husband and I also have three godchildren that we love very much. I have worked as a CNA for many years now and have encountered so many opportunities to help people understand God’s love for them. I am a Christian saved by grace and live everyday with a focus on loving others. Although I keep journals regularly jotting down experiences and thoughts as I live each day, this is my first published book. I have always found writing as a way to release bottled emotions that need somewhere positive to go. I love the art of expressing myself in a way that helps others understand their own lives better. It is important to help others whether it is with clothing, food, wealth or camaraderie; I was taught this way. I have been known to give to others when I required at the same time but I want to live a selfless life. Charitable behavior has put me in a position to make many acquaintances.

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      Graveyard Love - Lisa Marie Roby

      Contents

      A Taste of My Life (Bittersweet)

      Darkest Before Day

      Face to Face

      Who’s to Blame?

      Do I Live or Do I Die? (That’s the Question)

      Unending Pain or Longsuffering

      The Pains of Facing Fear

      A New Day

      Unraveling

      Bits and Pieces

      Weeping May Endure for a Night . . . But Joy’s Coming In the Morning

      Unbelievable

      Healing My Way

      Victim or Criminal

      From The Skillet to the Frying Pan

      Can’t Win For Losing

      Help Is On the Way

      Joy Comes From Within

      The Prayer Line

      Taking My Life Back

      Letting Go and Letting God

      Harvesting New Life

      Saying Good-Bye to Daddy

      My Latter Will Be Greater

      Letter to Mother

      Letter to Father

      About the Editor

      About the Author

      GraveYard Love

      Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; jealously is cruel as the grave: The coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

      Song of Solomon 8:6

      Non-Fiction written by

      Lisa M. Roby

      Dedication

      I would like to dedicate this book to God, my Father, Jesus, my Savior, and the Holy Ghost, my keeper. I thank God, the Creator of all, for being present throughout every encounter in my life. You have kept me sane through the most difficult times in my life. Nobody but you could have kept my mind in total peace!! I would also like to give special thanks to my Savior, Jesus Christ, for loving me enough to come to earth to be the living example, the living Word of God and most of all for being my intercessor then and now. Thank you for teaching me through life experiences to love and forgive others as well as myself. I thank God for giving me an opportunity to write this book in order to share with others my experiences have made me what I am today. I realize that it was important to write this book with elegance, style, grace, patience and love under your direction.

      Acknowledgements

      I gratefully acknowledge:

      My wonderful, patient, caring and loving husband, Minister Terrance D. Roby. I would also like to acknowledge my two lovely, sweet and dear children, LaShundra M. Williams and Karl F. Foster, Jr. You guys have been my biggest supporters by encouraging me to do what I believe God has ordained me to do. I’ll never forget all of the hugs and kisses that writing this book brought to our lives. I love you both unconditionally. I am very grateful for my beautiful grandmothers—Clytee Allen and Vera Love—thanks for your presence in my life! I love you. I would like to acknowledge an angel sent into my life by God as my friend, prayer partner, spiritual sister and editor of this book—Mrs. Tanya Mitchell.

      Further Acknowledgements

      I gratefully recognize my late pastor, Elder Robert Clay and his wife, First Lady Emeritus Juanita Clay for being a wonderful inspiration to my husband and me. To my anointed pastor and my shepherd—Elder Tommy L. Scruggs II and to his beautiful wife, Evangelist Missionary Virgie Scruggs for accepting the late night calls, taking time to pray with me and for me, and for your never ending support of me throughout all of my endeavors, to Pastor O. Lester Johnson and his wife, Bishop Bethany and his wife, Minister Willie Cole and his wife, Superintendent/Pastor Rufus Dodson and his lovely wife, Louise Dodson, of the Faith Deliverance Church Of God In Christ in Chicago, Ill., (I will never forget the Women’s Retreat in 1997), to each member of my home church in Memphis, TN at Emmanuel Temple Church Of God In Christ for prayer, support and encouragement.

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      In Loving Memory of my Mom and Dad

      Preface

      As an editor I worked with the author to gather information that formulated this book I considered how important it was for me to feel the emotions and understand the roles discussed within this book as much as possible. I physically traveled to places that I had never been before. Well, putting someone else’s thoughts into words entail more unspoken details that must find there way onto the paper in rare form which is one reason I decided not to tamper with the vernacular of the characters within this book. Details became my best friend as I listened to the past speak out its story to me. I visited old living quarters, cemeteries, abandoned houses almost a century old and every site had a different story to tell that I never knew existed. The literature you are about to experience was written not only by the author but also by her past that is very much alive in her. In all my experiences with reading varieties of books this is the first time I could hear the author’s past scream from the core of the earth for me to hear her right now and write her story.

      This piece of literature was mind blowing as I felt obligated to actually apply its lessons within my own life—Forgiveness. Editing the material within this book took on a life of its own. Writing about forgiveness gave me the opportunity to walk through the author’s life page by page feeling the hurts and disappointments, joys, and successes I always enjoy in works of other authors. I have been enlightened by the truths and the horrific details of the experiences within this piece of literature; as I indeed believe and hope each reader will experience as well. I only ask that you open your hearts and minds to receive every opportunity to grow from another person’s life experiences so that the author’s pain will not be in vain. Each individual person within this universe was made to endure something, which is why we share the joys and pains of each other’s lives so that growth can take place in an individual’s life in every possible way. Just as babies grow physically, adults continue to develop internally by inviting another person’s experience that can elevate us within our very own world without having to repeat history.

      It has been a pleasure working with the author of this book, Mrs. Lisa Roby as we worked together to complete this piece of literature. We were friends before ever working together on this project and I must say working together has given me a new respect for our friendship. I appreciate the opportunity she has given me to expand my horizons within the editing world during this project. I am very thankful for Mrs. Roby’s trust that she has in me to put her life into words for others to use as a guide to live by. You are to be commended greatly, Lisa, for thinking of God’s people in such a mighty way by sharing your own story. It has been my lifelong dream to write and edit a book of this nature and now I know this is just the beginning of many books to come for me, too. Thank you, Lisa for believing in me and trusting me to get done the job you assigned me to do! I love you, Sis.

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      A Taste of My Life (Bittersweet)

      I was born in 1968, I lived on a Plantation in Arkansas. That’s right on a plantation. It was a plantation not so different from what you may have heard about or seen on television or maybe even read about in textbooks. My family had most of what we needed to get by on the plantation for the most part—food and work. Unlike most Black folks during the 1960’s that had large families, I grew up an only child with my momma and daddy. I was a fortunate child true enough to have both momma and daddy living together under one roof but during those

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