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Date: 09/30/2020
Wednesday
Soul Vibes and
Starters (YouTube.Com)
https://youtu.be/BzQtnKNAk88 “Perfectly Loved”
@Courtney Ramirez
https://youtu.be/dyCv_qdFUxM
“Be One” @Natalie Grant
https://youtu.be/VZXRIw5uBuY
“There Was Jesus” @Zack Williams | Dolly
Parton
https://youtu.be/AI3VcChbPBY
“See
A Victory” @Elevation Worship
https://youtu.be/QurQEiOAQjA
“Everything” @TobyMac
Bible Verse of the Day (Biblegateway.com) Meditation Opportunities (Biblegateway.com): (NIV
-New International Version, NKJV-New King James Version, AMP
-Amplified Version, TBT-The Passion Translation)
Prayer from Paul
Philippians 1:9-10 (TLB) The Living Bible
9 My prayer for you is that you will overflow
more and more with love for others, and at the same time keep on growing in
spiritual knowledge and insight, 10 for I want you
always to see clearly the difference between right and wrong, and to be
inwardly clean, no one being able to criticize you from now until our Lord
returns.
Philippians 1:9-10(MSG) The Message 9-11 So this is my prayer: that your love will flourish and
that you will not only love much but well. Learn to love appropriately. You
need to use your head and test your feelings so that your love is sincere and
intelligent, not sentimental gush. Live a lover’s life, circumspect and
exemplary, a life Jesus will be proud of: bountiful in fruits from the soul,
making Jesus Christ attractive to all, getting everyone involved in the glory
and praise of God.
Philippians 1:9-10 (ICB) International Children’s Bible 9 This is my prayer for you: that your love will grow
more and more; that you will have knowledge and understanding with your love; 10 that
you will see the difference between good and bad and choose the good; that you
will be pure and without wrong for the coming of Christ;
Inspirational
Thoughts:
“LOVE IS NOT WHAT YOU SAY, LOVE IS WHAT YOU DO”
@TobyMac#SPEAKLIFE
Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives
and/or feelings):
What a beautiful
morning outside Lord, thank you for this time of year when for even a brief
moment of the early morning we are allowed to exhale into the coolness absorbing
the relief of fresh air.
No heat, no humidity,
no layers that make you feel so heavy you just want to light a fire and sit
with a good cup of cocoa or coffee and enjoy the moments.
Though the heat in
the South East gets intense at times with that humidity and makes you feel as
though it is so thick you can truly cut it with a knife. There is so much beauty and opportunities for
those who genuinely enjoy the beautiful skies and beaches and opportunities to
not be locked in a building for months on end.
Not my forever place
but You have been so good to me throughout my time here and now Jesus. All the blessings and lessons that many do
not have.
Not sure where or
when; but I go Lord where you send me.
Someday the layers and all that goes with will be changed.
Until then, thank
you for allowing me up with movement in this body, air in these lungs, and all that
many will never get to experience again.
Even if I walked out
to see that end of summer AC problem flooded all over the floor. As I stood there shaking my head knowing it
is time to add one more thing to this already tilted falling over pile of the
day to day.
I am still beyond
blessed just knowing where I have been in this journey and the opportunity
awaiting of where I can still go.
Each moment you allow
us up. Is a moment to keep growing and
moving forward. Seeking the good, in all
things.
Just weeks before
not one, not two but three beautiful souls left this planet that I was
connected closely to. A 3week old
newborn, first son to family; a 30-year-old youngest son of family who was a father,
uncle, brother etc. and a friend for
many years.
None of us are
promised tomorrow.
So, the fact that we
so often get caught up in the spin of those things’ others cannot figure out or
even try to figure out for themselves.
Or those that play on us and rob of us our
peace all the while they could care less what really happened with you as long as
they get what they want until they are finished and they move onto someone
else.
Or what about the
fact our own choices yes choices to allow anxiety and unrest spin us out of
control. Forgetting that our God is far
bigger than anything that will happen in the here and now.
That same God that
Paul prayed for all the descendants that come to this earth; to flourish and
grow in love, with love and be love.
Me, you and so many
others that will pass through. To love
and do what serves the light and avoid all that is dark, evil, plain wrong.
So often I forget
and do that same spin or allow others to become more important than the care of
my own being.
We can only care for
everyone else for so long before our own gift the temple that we are given starts
breaking down from the weight of all we take from it; never putting or having
anyone else put back into it.
The blessing of life
here and now is just that. None of us
know when it will be over, and all were made to be our best selves and know our
worth in Christ who died for us.
Many of us can
barely get our heads off a pillow in the morning as we allow the world to chip
away taking piece by piece until we feel there is nothing left.
Chasing empty
promises of others; yet never willing to dive in and seek and live for the
promise of God.
What are the promises
of God? Well if you do research easily
you can find just by going and asking on Google. “It took a year and a
half for Storms to compile his lists, including promises by God to man (7,487),
one man to another (991), God the Father to God the Son (two), man to
God (290) and several other combinations, including nine made by Satan. In
all, Storms tallied 8,810 promises”.Jul 8, 2017
You can keep going to
places like https://www.gotquestions.org/promises-of-God.html
however, the best way to find out for yourself is diving in.
And no,
you will not get there from here; or overnight. It will take daily affirmations, diving in
and lots of prayers and being surrounded up by no agenda friends and loved one’s
with the same purpose to grow and learn to start getting what it means to
really know God through Jesus and know what Love really is.
I am not scholar
when it comes to this in fact although I am stubborn enough when I am learning or
doing. Even that does not make me an
expert to own it.
Sure, I have been to
school, and college and even done many different bible study programs to keep
learning for growth of my own being and not just put everything I know into a
man or women.
Because just like
me, despite any best intentions, despite all the willingness to chase and want
that agape love. We all get it wrong
at times.
We have to live and learn
for ourselves.
Every single thing
that we experience is a lesson and a blessing.
Even the bad
stuff. Does not matter if you are
physically being broken, or mentally.
We all get to choose what we will take away from it and help our own being
heal and grow.
Now being I have
been struggling with some allergy induced ENT stuff since the day I started
painting my house. And so, caught up did
not catch the problems landed in my ear.
I have been on meds to clear it up for
a bit now.
But just consuming
what someone prescribes does not always make it right or heal what needs to be
fixed.
I have been on three
prescriptions for this ear of mine since it raised its ugly problem.
The first I should
have never ever had. The second started
the healing process but could not finish and the third I am still taking all
the while I wait to make it into my specialist.
Am I concerned Yes? Because I could potentially end up losing my
hearing once the finally get in and truly dive in and see what is causing the
problems.
When that happens,
what a huge impact. But it does not
define me or any abilities I may still have.
Only the world can do that.
So often we just
take what anyone gives us, because of their sweet exterior and soft-spoken
ways. We take those pills for this or
that and it still does not make us feel any better, perhaps it just keeps
things numb or from spreading any further.
But never does it clear it up and give us that crystal-clear feel good
got this under control healing.
What we consume,
with who we consume it matters. Everything
thing we feed our mind, body, and spirit.
Matters.
So, on those moments
when we are running on empty because we forget to take time and listen to the
will of God for our own selves and we are out there trying to be or do for
everyone, everything else.
Or even those
moments when you walk into a room and find the floods of life, broken Air
Conditioners, water pipes or just storms that have come unexpectedly.
Those moments when
sudden unexplained, unfair, tragic loss comes.
All those layers
that you can keep peeling back like an onion skin, but it seems we just cannot
find the end in sight.
Those are all the
moments when we need to just be held by Christ Jesus and know we live daily no
matter how good or bad; we live daily seeking God’s purpose in life.
That we do our best
even when our best just may not be good enough for those who tap into us because
they have not stood truly on Gods word to stand for themselves.
Or perhaps we, think
we need to stand on and with them because we have not accepted and did the work
daily but allowing Christ to live within us.
I really do not know
what tomorrow will bring. I know where
I have always been, as I know all the choices I have made or had to make just
in 2020 alone.
Living with the
circumstances of the choices and remaining accountibility and not giving in or
giving up. With greater hope and feeling
of unexplained peace deep within.
Even when I do not
know how to fix things. Even when I do
not understand what was ever wrong with me to have so many layers. Even why those bad things happen to innocent
and good souls; or what seems that good things happen to those who would just
assume take and leave you for dead.
Extreme visuals I
know. Life is what it is until it is
not. Whatever is holding you back from testing
your feelings, letting God in by inviting Jesus in your life every moment of
every day. Keeping you from digging into
whatever resources you can and question the bible and find those who will help
you learn and grow.
Seeking forgiveness
and forgiving even if it means you have to Let It Go, Let It Hurt, and Let It
Heal.
Yesterday I was reminded
of some of the things we just cannot get back once we lose them.
Words Spoken
Opportunities Missed
Time Gone
Trust Lost
Things change day to
day; SpeakLife always doing your best and if you have nothing to say nice or
you are overwhelmed by whatever is going on.
Just do not say anything at all until you can calmly breathe and respond.
Do not wait for what
others can do for you; but get up and give all you have to purpose forward in and
for your life opportunities.
Do not waste any
time you are given on things that rob you from peace and harmony and I know
that firsthand is hard. Sometimes
we hold on because it hurts to let go as we want some people, places and things
so desperately to fill those dreams, desires or think we are even doing them
justice for whatever we think we are doing for them.
Just be sure you are
doing, or being for all the right reasons, and always seeking God in everything
before engaging. Most importantly if
it is taking your peace, let it go.
Trust lost is a hard
one the longer you live in this world.
There will always be things, people that let us down.
But when someone
purposely acts out or says and does things that break your trust. We have to decide what and how to move forward.
Things will never be
the same for that soul and if you have been walked on enough, sometimes it
holds you back from believing and being for anyone else.
Just know the
behaviors that allowed you to get in that position of yourself and of those
that broke trust.
Avoid repeating at
all cost the actions, people, places, and things that caused you to not trust.
If you learn to live
to not have expectations from others that is great, however you still will need
to proceed in life with caution. Because
you can still get tangled up with those that will tell you or show you just
what you want to see or hear to get whatever they are after.
Says the mind that
has a wall so high sometimes it cannot even get around it.
Knowing no matter
what; In Christ, all things are possible.
Building any day given through
the hopes, and visions of love everlasting.
Through the promises that God will never forsake us or leave us.
Even if those in the world will and do.
Seeking our best
selves even when we do not know how or what.
Just knowing all that we are is God breathed. Even when that freedom of choice and
freedom of will given to every soul in this planet. Which makes and breaks any given day.
So, as I fall short
every given day. I seek you and all that you want me to be Jesus.
Seeking forgiveness
for what I make a mess of or miss causing my own self infliction hardships. Or forgiveness of anything anyone has done to
me, against me or just allowed to be.
Show me your will
and purpose and not driven by feelings we so often get caught up in. Wash me clean Father God, purge all that
holds me back and all that may plant the seeds of negativity for anyone who I
am leading.
Give all I am
connected the tools within their own being to grow in you. Heal this brokenness and absurd negativity
we tend to spawn out thinking it makes us anything more than a fool who burns
every plank of the bridges we someday will need to cross back over.
For in you we are
perfectly made and loved. May we know how
to live our best selves for and with you.
Give me strength and
direction how to proceed in you each step I have to take, or I choose to take Father
God.
Be it for day to day
or how to get through all the layers piled up.
Your will not my own.
Lord everywhere I turn,
I see you, I see opportunity to keep growing and not give up. Even if I take or make new lessons that
should or should not be.
Be with all I am
connected. In Love, In Mercy, In Your
Will. Heal and guide us.
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Date: 09/29/2020
Tuesday
Soul Vibes and
Starters (YouTube.Com)
https://youtu.be/Eo-3-q5dQHU
“Never Been A Moment” @Micah Tyler
https://youtu.be/xUT4trsrBCw
“Different” @Michah Tyler
https://youtu.be/v9XyAMnSh6g
“City On Our Knees” @TobyMac
https://youtu.be/iiiMn4aCiQA
“Starts With Me” @TobyMac ft Aaron
Cole
https://youtu.be/kAJzQuu1-TA
“Amazed” @Phillips Craig & Dean
https://youtu.be/KqaA8XBI15o
“Your Words” @Third Day ft. Harvest
https://youtu.be/givCI1M9Rh0
“Shine” @The Newsboys
Bible Verse of the Day (Biblegateway.com) Meditation Opportunities
(Biblegateway.com): (NIV -New International Version, NKJV-New
King James Version, AMP -Amplified Version, TBT-The Passion
Translation)
Light and Dark
There is no in-between; We own our choices no
matter where or how we decide to use the days given
John 3:20-21(TLB) The Living Bible The Living Bible 20 They hated the heavenly Light because they wanted to sin in the
darkness. They stayed away from that Light for fear their sins would be exposed
and they would be punished. 21 But those
doing right come gladly to the Light to let everyone see that they are doing
what God wants them to.”
John 3:20-21(MSG) The Message 19-21 “This is the crisis
we’re in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran
for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really
interested in pleasing God. Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted
to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won’t come near it, fearing a
painful exposure. But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes
God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is.”
John 3:20-21 (ICB) International Children’s Bible 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light. He will not come to the light
because it will show all the evil things he has done. 21 But he who
follows the true way comes to the light. Then the light will show that the
things he has done were done through God.”
Inspirational
Thoughts:
“IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT”
@TobyMac#SPEAKLIFE
Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives
and/or feelings):
Lord thank you for
all I am!
I don’t want to just
go through the motions, we are not given the fight within us to just settle, to
just go through whatever comes our way.
Lead me in your
strength, courage, and absolute guidance.
Lord you know every
soul and all the hurts, habits, hang-ups, healing needs or undeserving forgiveness.
Mine, my blood, my
friends, family, connections, and every soul in this world.
Jesus you also know every
one of our hearts.
Please hear the
crying children, save them from the darkness and pain letting them be the
change this world needs. Not suffer at
the hands of the generations before that never turned to the light.
Please show us as a
nation, a people in unity, in prayer reflect what the world could be full of
love. Seeking the best for our brothers,
sisters, neighbors all around. Not just
for our own self-serving needs, desires or wants.
Lord it is amazing
how so many things fall into place and we can just shake our head in awe; as I
know I am blown away and amazed by all you are, all you show me, all you allow
me every single day.
I am amazed when you
pull me back in and show me what was, what is and all that can be in you, and eternally
with you.
We know it is
impossible to force your will and choices to just work towards love, mercy, and
grace or to even walk in the light every moment of every day given.
But we also know
each time we stumble or make it something it should not be, or even what it is
not. You with open arms forgive us
holding us closer than ever before.
Our Lord and Savior,
Abba; our heavenly father and for some the only father ever known.
The only one true
love beyond all space and time; that fills our needs, our hopes and our very
essence with love and abundant peace.
Even in the storms.
In the blink of an
eye the world changes at the hands of others, at the hands of storms that sweep
through the night, at the hands of souls that have been hurt and left unloved
for so long; the only thing they feel is to be part of what they think is a
bigger statement.
When in the end the only statement is for the
world to see and know again, we missed the mark of showing kindness, and
reflecting a light even if just that of one match in the room of darkness.
Loving every soul
for who they are not what they do and praying for all that is good and all that
needs change according to you Lord not what we feel and think.
We all take wrong
turns and we all get there in our time and what that looks like for each and
every soul. Sometimes it just hurts and
there is nothing we can do about it; sometimes it takes us so high the altitude
makes us forget we are what you allow us to be and we purpose to be with you.
Lord your love offers
so much more than anything this world gives us temporary. Let us hear your words, giving us the ability
to walk into eternity doing our absolute best to shine on and be there when no
one else can.
May this world
become the Woodstock of the 60s chasing you Father and high on the love and
promises of only that you give.
Doing our best,
being our best to live in harmony and change what was to all that you have
promised could be.
This mind maze has
me smiling at just the thoughts today.
Knowing how beautiful that could be with all the sickness that needs healing,
mind, body, and spirits. With all the
hope and the what ifs that could be if they really came to be.
But we know this
world is hurting Lord. So, caught up in
all that is temporary. Being broken and
consumed and passing it on to anyone and everyone.
Those moments we
forget, those moments I forget and react letting things of the world to bring
me down.
I pray Lord my imperfect
being does all that it can learning more day by day to reflect you and the
promise of hope and harmony. That when I fall short, I learn from the
messes and share the lessons as you would see fit.
That I never stop
loving all that can be, all I am connected.
Even when I know most days all of us fall short to even love our own beings
the way you intended.
Father may all I am
connected be healed and see the difference the true difference of what the
light and dark choices are.
May our eyes see
what you see
May our hearts break
for what break yours
May we be the change
that starts right here, right now acknowledging it starts right with me, and
each and every individual where they are.
Heal us from the
inside out and crush all that is evil as we light up the world in efforts of
just trying alone acknowledging our worth from you.
We deserve nothing
Jesus, Yet; you gave it all.
May we acknowledge
every single thing we do is leading by example and someone is always looking
and watching and learning and being.
Thank you for this
day full of opportunities. May we
shine all the way through until we can no longer.
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Date: 09/28/2020
Monday
Soul Vibes and
Starters (YouTube.Com)
https://youtu.be/WJCsyLUCSXI “Pieces Of Me” @Ashlee
Simpson
https://youtu.be/lxO9zPI_Uzw “I Can See Clearly Now” @Jimmy Cliff
https://youtu.be/gRYbRsJUXxY “You’re The Wine” @RICHLIN
https://youtu.be/iZvZWUZFevI “Born For This (ESTHER)” @Mandisa
https://youtu.be/1Ko4yroBP0A “Spirit Lead Me” @Michael
Ketterer & Influence Music
https://youtu.be/tcXdIgEUsHg “I Am” @Crowder
Bible Verse of the Day (Biblegateway.com) Meditation Opportunities
(Biblegateway.com): (NIV -New International Version, NKJV-New
King James Version, AMP -Amplified Version, TBT-The Passion
Translation)
Believe and Receive
1 Corinthians 2:14 The Living Bible
14 But the man who isn’t a Christian can’t understand and can’t
accept these thoughts from God, which the Holy Spirit teaches us. They sound
foolish to him because only those who have the Holy Spirit within them can
understand what the Holy Spirit means. Others just can’t take it in.
1 Corinthians 2:14(MSG) The Message 14-16 The unspiritual self, just as it is by nature, can’t receive
the gifts of God’s Spirit. There’s no capacity for them. They seem like so much
silliness. Spirit can be known only by spirit—God’s Spirit and our spirits in
open communion. Spiritually alive, we have access to everything God’s Spirit is
doing, and can’t be judged by unspiritual critics. Isaiah’s question, “Is there
anyone around who knows God’s Spirit, anyone who knows what he is doing?” has
been answered: Christ knows, and we have Christ’s Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2:14 (ICB) International Children’s Bible 14 A person who is not spiritual does not accept the gifts that
come from the Spirit of God. That person thinks they are foolish. He cannot
understand the Spirit’s gifts, because they can only be judged spiritually.
Inspirational
Thoughts:
“NEVER RUN BACK TO WHAT BROKE YOU” @TobyMac#SPEAKLIFE
The story of Chuck Feeney and his believe that
he held onto ‘I believe in giving while still living. I See little reason to delay giving when so
much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today. Besides, it’s a lot more fun to give while
you live than to give while you are dead.’
“He went from multibillionaire to relatively broke and living in a small
apartment – just like he planned @BARRON’S ON MW”
@Chuck Feeney on Giving While Living “I had one idea that never changed in my mind- that you should use your
wealth to help people – Chuck Feeney”
Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives
and/or feelings):
Some great motivational
shares!
Thank you, Lord, for
your clarity and the wisdom and motivation each day you allow us up. Each day you allow me up I am blown away and
so grateful even if the world cannot see it at times.
Pouring out of
others into souls in need even as they do not see it. Pouring into me Jesus keeping this heart alive, pouring into me as wine running
freely drunk in your love and dizzy with your compassion as I spin out of
countrol trying to find the understanding why me as I deserve nothing.
I lift my hands and
all that I am to you Christ. Seeking guidance
of whatever is next.
Loved beyond
forever, even when this flesh reaches out wanting here and now. Jesus as I walk that tight rope knowing this
world will never understand.
Not until it allows
you in and freely allows you to pump through the veins and heart for all time.
Sometimes we just
got to try Lord. We will never know
until we try and not take it personal when we do our best and it was never the
intention for those, we are doing it for to be anything more but them just
trying to take as much as they can without putting anything into for themselves
or whatever the cause they say they are working for.
We are all born for
more. We cannot take anything of this
world with us. Not even the treasures we
reflect back on to spawn memories.
The world may never
get it, but we are never standing alone, when we allow you Christ Jesus deep
into our souls.
To be more like you
Jesus and all you created me for. All
you created me to be shared with, in works or deeds. In words or creed, we take with the world.
Being our best self,
doing our best while we are alive with all your intentions Jesus; knowing every
single thing we say is ours is only on loan.
The sooner we realize
we need to survive with much or little and treat all that comes within our journey
with great respect, love, and care.
The better we will understand how to do our best in serving you Lord.
Spirit please
never stop leading me; I cannot do this life on my own. I cannot just go through the motions and live
on my feelings. Anytime I do I make a
mess of things.
To have that joy deep down in my heart and not just a
passing happiness or moments of laughter.
Although they do feed the soul, bringing longer life and oxygen into a
world that is so heavily burdened and smoke-filled keeping visibility and
direction so confusing at times.
Seeing more clear today than ever before. Taking inventory of those dark corners that
I avoided for so long. Looking around
none of it matters here and now. Even
if just like that, anything that was really was just that smoke clouding the
path and then there were none.
It is okay to know things will always be, even if they
are not.
Perspectives in every twist and turn.
Keep smiling and make em all wonder as I laugh out loud.
Those who really do not walk with you Jesus, really have
no clue. They will be, say and do
several things because of that. May I
learn to never respond and take it personal, yet always demand the respect and
treat my own being worth more as you have created it to be. And stop settling for what the world says it
should be.
There is no amount of money, doctrines or degrees that
will ever equate to what you created humanity and all in it to reflect the
worth that is unfathomable.
May we dive in to all your resources and utilize our
talents and gifts for all that is good, all that is pure and all that is kind.
May we forgive ourselves when we stumble or get twisted
up along the way, even when we learn the choices we made fell into the wrong
streams being washed away, hands being taken advantage of, or response that reflects
pieces of the world and not all that you are.
Teach me Lord to wait and seek you and nothing less in
all I connect, do, or say.
Thank you for this new day. Come what may.
I am Father God, holding on to you.
Lord, no matter what the climb, no matter what the challenge, no matter what the battle. May we never give up and give in without seeking all you are first. May we keep pushing forward for the greater things yet to come. No matter who stops climbing with us; no matter who else quits or never starts. May you first always lead me, and all I am connected.
Thank you for the air in these lungs, blood flowing in
these veins and ability to love with a heart that was born broken. Amen
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Date: 09/27/2020
Sunday
Soul Vibes and
Starters (YouTube.Com)
https://youtu.be/kZeSRPbhQHs
“Memories” @Maroon 5
https://youtu.be/hTbeVXuWyaU
“Thinking Out Loud” @Ed Sheeran
https://youtu.be/YpjteORODyA
“Better Than I Am” @Keith Urban
https://youtu.be/BhasSpSBdEE
“Ever Be” @Kalley | We Will Not Be
Shaken
Weekend Services @New Life Christian Church – Spring Hill
(09/27/2020)
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=679476476260561&extid=b1s8kGxlgGoMfAQA
Service on the lawn 9/27/2020
Bible Verse of the Day (Biblegateway.com) Meditation Opportunities
(Biblegateway.com): (NIV -New International Version, NKJV-New
King James Version, AMP -Amplified Version, TBT-The Passion
Translation)
Believe and Receive
Matthew 6:33 The Living Bible. 33 and he will give them to you if you give him first place in your life and
live as he wants you to.
Matthew 6:33(MSG) The Message 30-33 “If God gives such
attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even
seen—don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for
you? What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so
preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving. People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over
these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in
God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out.
You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.
Matthew 6:33 (ICB) International Children’s Bible33 The thing you
should want most is God’s kingdom and doing what God wants. Then all these
other things you need will be given to you.
Inspirational
Thoughts:
@TobyMac@SPEAKLIFE “YOU ARE WHAT YOU
DO. NOT WHAT YOU SAY YOU’LL DO.
Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives
and/or feelings):
Thank you, Lord, for this new week promised and this new
day.
Thank you for calling upon me to help with sorting and
inventorying all that is left from a beautiful soul I once worked with and
though I was not in their life daily, she made a lasting impression everywhere
she went.
Thank you for the awareness of her love of sailing and
thank you for this early morning movie I watched “Adrift” just kicking back and
not jumping up to go nowhere.
So often even in perfect weather we are just drifting
hoping in the things we chase that something or someone will come rescue us even
in the unsaid words or actions.
However, it is not until after the storms the real of reality
is perfectly clear.
Jesus, may you always be my first love and eternity even
when I hope for a forever.
Our time here and now is so short.
All the things we keep as treasures and memories or even
what we give away hoping to have that one true lasting romance.
No matter if we are pouring ourselves into other people, places,
things, pets. We still hold those treasured
moments of receiving accolades, medals and awards, pictures, and dreams.
Sometimes putting all we are just in what we can hold in
our hands, other times putting all we have into what is forever unseen.
Having to remove all feelings from yesterday’s efforts;
just knowing how I too have things stored up that at some point will just be
dumped or given away for those that are not willing to see the worth in the
treasures I collected.
This mornings movie reminded me of how you God allow the
heart to smile in what we think is love and how sometimes it is gone before it
even has a chance to bloom.
Daily events remind me of just how temporary this world
is; or the day I drove home from work pulling up in my driveway and the
contents of the house that stood empty for 2 years next me was just dumped into
the drive way.
A gentleman who I never met once lived there and had
gotten sick and those hired to care for the property and the bills. Did not; and the bank came in and just
dumped it all into the driveway.
Like cock roaches when the light turns on in those dirty
dwellings. People you never see came
out of everywhere just to pick through and take whatever they could.
Just like that a life that had meaning was gone and
everything counted as worthy something meant nothing but opportunity for others.
Just like that sweet K, ended up sick and all the hours,
all the hard work all the collectibles and memories boxed up; are left to be
sorted through and at some point go to the hands of someone with the highest
bid and become opportunities just like that of what once a beautiful soul,
filled with laughter.
Where is the love, where is the sense as the days blessed
to be a member of humanity once gone just are meaningless?
Is there not more than what we do storing up things for
others to want so badly they do whatever it takes to steal them away?
How can it possibly be even for those who walk and
believe in you for things to just be that speck of dust blowing in the wind I
always refer myself to?
Thinking out loud for all the love and joy, love, and
heartache. For all the memories, all
the laughter all the tears.
Knowing eternity with you Lord is where I wish to
be. Yet adrift in the here and now
wondering, working hard running our own beings into bad health or maybe just
luck of the draw when things happen.
Even those with bad intentions for their own personal
gain work overtime doing what they do for all that will never last and most
likely burn them in the end.
The storms of life, creating those waves of emotions;
feelings that cause us harm, or just take our breath away.
Where are you Lord, or all who are our accountibility and
moral compass.
There is no perfect stairway to heaven for sure. We get so twisted in all the hills and
valleys; yet prayerfully our hearts never stop seeking you.
Our hearts never harden, and our eyes see as you seen,
and we break for the things that break your heart.
Not for sadness, but to grow us into being better humans
and holding on to doing our best in paying it forward in love, kindness and
absolute mercy and grace as you give each one of us.
Lord even the birds and wildflowers exist beautifully
without all the worry, strife and chaos.
May humanities reflect the beauty you created and stop trying to be so
much more. Where we have to rob, and
hurt, if not come to hate and kill life just to get by.
Show us Lord what we are missing. Show us what we missed during this time out
in 2020.
Show us how to live, love and laugh with you, for you and
stop chasing and collecting all those things that we can never take with
us. All those things that will never be
worth the value we see.
Thank you, Jesus, for this new day. Thank you for the ability to know your love,
and how love and all that we do with and for it; needs no understanding.
Hear all the prayers, cries, and screams of the broken
hearts, of those needing you for all things in lives Lord that only you are
aware.
As we are out here adrift in this vast ocean of waves of
unknown, memories, and even sharks picking us off one by one. Lord with you I am forever better than I
will ever be without you.
Falling at the foot of the cross Jesus where this all
holds the story of life together. May I
never forget the broken, crushed and bled out choices you did for humanity, for
me just to have life that will and can eternally be.
Show me Jesus, all that I have already given away is
meaningless, I cannot take anything with me; show me what you really want from
me. No matter what here and now today
or tomorrow can be seen!
