Sackcloth and Ashes

By Marie Pitts

Sackcloth and ashes were used in Old Testament
Times as a symbol of mourning or repentance.
When someone wanted to show a repentant heart
He would often wear sackcloth and sit in ashes
and put ashes on the top of his head.
My poems are about a number of things that go
along with this.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jan 31, 2021
• ISBN: 9781982262884

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Contents

Flesh of Mine

Used to Be

Silver Lace

Loneliness

Sing Me a Song

The Potter

Battling Satan

Heaven

Where is God

A Broken Life

Walk With Me

Poems

Life Goes On

Chains of Time

Calvary

Slave to the Needle

Truth

The Keeper

Rust

This Mountain

Remind Me

We Need Church

Falling In Love

Little Things

Bedtime Prayer

Time With God

Our Altar

A Mother’s Little Boy

Lead Me

Thankful

Tangled Threads

Bless My Home

Think on These Things

Age

Roses and Thorns

Roots

Hateful Heartstrings

Great Warriors

Memories

Consecrated

My Mother

Dreamer

Captured

From the Manger to The Cross

Salvation

Who is He

Wings

The Aged

Where Love Dwells

Thoughts

Way of Life

Give Me a Moment

The New Me

His Will

Hear the Cries

I Am So Thankful

Ways to Pray

Jesus

Sacrifice

The Angels Who Cry

He’s Coming Back

Shake Them Awake

Depression

The Legacy

Circle Of Life

Deliverance

Watch Out

God Is Watching Me

When I am Gone

His Blood

Falling Away

The Name of Jesus

Something Good

Lying

The Blood of the Lamb

Seeing God

From Where I Stand

The Worthy Lamb

Whispers in the Wind.

Mother

Body Members

Winning

Wondering

Loving God

Think About It

On My Mind

Slaves To Sin

Vietnam Veteran

Bone of My Bone

His Love

Tomorrow

Washed Away

Grateful

Sugar and Spice

Closed Heart

The Demise Of an Eagle

Usable

Reasons

I Believe

God Knows

A Refuge

The Picture

Pray Again

My Mother

The Sheltering Tree

Tribulation

Not My Will

Sometimes

Hooked

Saved by Grace

For Me

Mama’s Roses

One Way

The End

Seek

Silent Seasons

My Babies

Measure of Life

Battered Child

Thanksgiving

Snow

Tested

Wait

Building a Cross

Waiting

Getting to Heaven

The Bible

Trials

Refreshed

Wind

The Line

Winos

How long

Mistakes

Signs

Reunion

Sacrifice

Your Commission

Proverbs 6:16

He Stands By Me

Hope

Trust

Are You Ready

Our Part

Power of God

Shadow of The Throne

Crimson Blood

Clean Heart

Morning Devotion

The Journey Home

Crossing Over

Mountain Climbing

Prepare

At Christmas

More

Never Late

Beneath the Trees

Prisons

I Cried

Witness

My God

Pavilion

Grateful

Mary’s Baby

A Sinner’s Prayer

His Footsteps

The Blood-Stained Cross

Daily Prayer

Redeemed

Nursing Home Resident

Cross and Crown

God’s Love

Papa Prayed

All Is Well

Deceived

The Kiss

Tears

Living

Bring It To God

Straddling The Fence

The Finish Line

Prayer Room

Worship

Strong Wind and Deep Water

Wisdom

Judas

How to Worship

God’s Word

Power

Wait on God

The Old Hymns

When Tomorrow Comes

Words

Choice

Envy

Borrowed Burdens

Sackcloth and ashes were used in Old Testament

times as a symbol of mourning or repentance.

When someone wanted to show a repentant heart

he would often wear sackcloth and sit in ashes

and put ashes on the top of his head.

My poems are about a number of things that go

along with this

Flesh of Mine

Oh, flesh of mine, what a traitor you are,

it seems we can never agree.

The more I try to sooth your lusts,

the more it takes to satisfy thee.

When to the good my soul is yearning,

And in humbleness I would abide.

That’s when you rear your ugly head,

With all your pompous pride.

When temptation comes a knocking,

My soul resisting all the more.

It is you oh flesh that weakens,

As you open up the door.

Used to Be

Across the fields of yesterday,

Pigtails flying in the wind.

I catch a glimpse of a little girl,

Playing happily with her friends.

Un-incombered by the cares of life,

She usually visits with me.

Just long enough to let me know,

She is the girl I used to be.

Sometimes I see her knowing look,

Then a thought to me is sent.

Did I become the woman?

That she thought I might have been.

Silver Lace

A plain old cobweb can come alive,

It’s a