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Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com)
You Know Me Better @Stars Go Dim
Jesus Lover Of My Soul @Awakening Music (Lyrics)
Be a Light ( lyrics ) @Thomas Rhett ft. Keith Urban,
Chris Tomlin, Hillary Scott & Reba McEntire
Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my
perspectives or feelings)
Thank
you, Lord, for this new day….
How
hard it is to not hold onto that which sets us in motion?
How
hard is it to each day set everything at the foot of the cross where you
changed everything?
How hard it is to give all of that which makes
us hurt, makes us angry, makes us distrust, makes us be and do what we were not
intended and created to be?
To
just believe in all that you are when we have grown and learned to believe in
only what we can see.
We
were wired for more not that of what we know as self-pity and all the I can’t or
daily fill of excuses of why we do what we do.
We
are made for more than what we feel, what we touch, what we hear, what we see.
Yet
here we are! Here I am.
There
will always be someone that does to best to one up you. There will always be someone that sees you
for something other that pure intentions that help you grow forward. There will be those brief moments in time
when you think you have that balance and have been blessed with that one that
will walk, run, or lay beside you through and with all things.
There
will be those that you are that one for someone else. Be it intentional or it just happens. We all hurt and hurt others.
We
all purpose after life and that definition in our own minds eye reveals.
We
all believe in something; we all believe in others. We are all the same yet so vastly different as
to who we lean in on; or how much we can take or choose to do, try or have done
before we say enough.
There
will always be judgment in this world. We
can be our own worse critics, or we can think we have the authority to judge everything
about everyone and anyone we come in connection with.
Who
knows why we do what we do to those we say we love, or how we just turn off
compassion and heart felt love for life or humanity in general?
Not
everyone wants to see the world in rose-colored glasses. Some just have that natural ability to see
it like the middle of a warzone and go out playing GI. While those who really serve a country where
I am guessing there are more ungratefulness for the sacrifices of life given
for freedom than not. Well, I guess that
is an entirely different day to write about.
The
saying you become what you hang with. Is
pretty much the same as you are having control over the steps your destiny path
takes and it absolutely matters what you consume as nourishment for mind, body,
and spirit. What you allow to in
through your eyes, your ears, eventually starts pouring out of your heart, mouth,
and actions.
When
we go to a gym to work out for physical fitness we get in shape. Somethings change and can be seen immediately,
while others are slow progress. It can
take years to get to what each one declares to be our happy place.
Looking good, feeling good and all the numbers
add up and everyone notices. Yet,
it could take just brief moments in time when we stop our routine and in a
matter of a few short months everything we worked to, seems to be disappearing.
Same
thing I guess with what we work our minds out with. What we consume or allow in sticks. We can go to school, learn new trades be
the top of our class in whatever the field.
Years and thousands of dollars later we stop putting what we learned to
use and eventually we start forgetting.
Love
and life and relationships take work too.
Life and becoming more willing to dive in and die to our own selfish whims,
wants or even what we think are needs.
Yet we one day realize we have lived all these
years thinking we needed and looking back and seeing the reflection we did
not. The only thing we really needed
was that which sustains and grants peace deep down into the very fabric of every
DNA vessel, tendon and bone that holds us together. (Jesus)
If
we have been there done that, if we are putting all we are into what is
temporary, what does not last or what eventually really is not for or with
us. Something needs to change. Not by sitting in the dark, letting the
real depression, hurts and broken pieces drain our life. Not settling and just hoping someday that it
will change or those we really want to care about us show up to stay. Not those who stay with us only for what we
do for them.
If
we have numbed our pains yet they keep coming back what does that tell us. Prayerfully that we get over ourselves, we
get over what others think, and we dive into what has been in truth, and
written the same for more than 2000 years.
Prayerfully one day we realize the only thing that has ever sustained us
is the same being that created the earth and breathed life into existence.
Your
choice to believe in anything. Our
choice of colors, where we want to be in life, how we will get there even the drugs
of choice that we become addicted to. When
we give all, we are to what is temporal and destructive and wonder why things
will not change. What do we do when the
choices are our own?
When
we get tired of the colors on our walls, times we buy new paint and change the
color. When we want to get away but just
cannot because of pandemics, no money, circumstances that surround us. We pick up a good book and read finding ourselves
imagining lives vicariously through the storyline. Or get sucked into movies where everything
is an act.
We
get to think out loud or keep it to ourselves.
Making me wonder what really goes on in a soul’s mind that has been
acting all their lives and suddenly they believe they are greater or better
than anyone else they ever cross paths with.
They have been lost to the scripts of the world and that that drives
them to be whatever on screen because they like it when others watch. Losing themselves or is it the audience of
the world who was really lost thinking that a great romance scene is how love
is supposed to be.
Yes,
if you have not figured out my mind triggers so many different things from
music, from thoughts. Where here we get caught
up in our own self pity even when sometimes we cannot recognize it. And this is the moment where the phrase
Mike Tyson flashes through this mind maze and I hear in his Tyson voice “I Pity
The fool.”
But
why pity, why not lessons of growth forward fast and furious with more strength
and courage than ever before. But we do
even when we get it twisted. When we
put all, we are into that next great adventure, believe in that next great unseen
love where all our desires pour out and we have met our match. Or that next great rearrangement of any part
of lives that allow us to forget what hurts and hangs us up. Until it doesn’t.
Why
in the belief of many does humanity fight to prove there is no God and Jesus is
not real? If in fact that is true.
Because it is not. God the
Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit that glue the trinity together are
real today as they were the first day Jesus came up out of that grave on day three.
I
am no theologian. But I know many who
are. I have lived long enough to have
been there, done that and yes wrote the book even if it wasn’t anyone’s choice
to read life poetry.
I
have been there done that and tried to be love, find love all my life. Tried those magic potions of the moment and
scene I was living in at the time; waking up to still have my own hurts and
hang-ups strangling me. It was not
until I in my own time, in my own way called out to Jesus and fought with him,
laughed with him and today am able to grow forward with him.
The
same pains that rips our souls to pieces keep coming, yet the peace of God that
poured out on that cross washes through those who purpose to know him.
Life
is never easy; it was never said to be. However,
if we go back to the Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. The BIBLE and do
our best to learn and follow. I can tell you life changes for the better. We all believe in something, and no, just
because I believe does not mean I do not get pounded on. But it does mean I keep trying each day the God
of the universe allows me up. I am
thankful. And filled with a greater
peace and I cannot really tell you how or why.
It
just is what it is; and I am more than okay with that. The one being that has never let me down or
turned their back when I have messed things up.
He is, He was, and He will always be.
My sustainer and the air I breathe.
He
allows me life even when I am a hot mess that really gets twisted trying to be
my best self on any given day. I never
picked this, He picked me. And if you
have had God and Jesus and all that a lifetime or the Bible has to teach or any
part of it. He is already waiting for
you to acknowledge him.
Life
does not end walking with Christ in our souls; it just begins.
Do not think you cannot live life and have fun
walking and breathing knowing who your really are created to be. However, if you do know him and you are
playing in the sandbox.
Well,
stop! Do your best to do what is right
with pure hearts and clean hands. Without
love for self, without actions for good without pulling it all together not
thinking of our own being 24/7 when we invite Christ in life changes forever.
We cannot just be with what we say, we
cannot do and have it matter for what is supposed to without true passion, compassion,
and truth, not just true.
But
truth. Meaning what we say and saying
what we mean and acting on it. Not just
talking a good game or talk because we can.
Not just walking around thinking because it is working and filling us up
with what we want right here and right now is the right thing to do when we
know it is not. Not just avoiding our
responsibilities and being our best self.
While knowing yeah it may sting really bad if and when it comes to light
it did not work out or is not what we should be doing. But we do our best anyway to be our best
self.
Somewhere
along the line we figure out that if it wasn’t enough, if it wasn’t good
enough. It was never intended to be. Same goes for us when we pour into other
humans. If we are just not enough
without having to jump through hoops, putting our mind, bodies, and souls at
risk. It is never meant to be.
We
get to choose if we play in the chess game of life and strategically do our
best to live and move across the board.
Or just settle for that instant rush and take whatever is temporary whatever
we can get at the moment.
We
all have to live with the results of whatever the choices. Even if many will carry them and destroy
their lives trying to bury them or run from them.
Anyway,
I am thankful that no matter what the choices are our own. More so that God allows us to learn, let it
hurt, let it heal and let it go and gives us new horizons each day we get back
up.
Good,
bad, or indifferent. He knows me best
and He knows you and every single hair on your head, cell in your body. He is for you as he has created all of us for
abundant life.
God
knows us and loves us, and He just wants a lasting relationship with Him and to
do that it is through is son Jesus. In
John 14:21 (NIV) states the following: “Whoever has my commands and keeps them is
one who loves me. The one who loves me
will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” 26 A
person’s body without their spirit is dead. In the same way, faith without good
deeds is dead.
Be your best self, learn who you
are and know who you are in the creator through Jesus Christ. No matter if you choose to walk with Him that
is up to you. Just know He was the one
who breathed us to life and will be the one on Judgement day that has the final
say. Be a good human, and love
yourself enough to learn, grow and get back up in a world that constantly losses
ground and pulls the rug out from under us.
I could absolutely be writing that
great romance novel I have buried with desires deep down within. I could absolutely write out my life story; I
have, although I just have not allowed it to come to black and white yet. But I write whatever God allows to freely
flow and sometimes its pieces of me along the way; others it is putting them
back where they were once broken from.
In my youth I worshipped the sun
laying out getting the warmth and color that nature gives us. When I finally grew up, I learned there is
nothing that can replace the warmth and color of the Son of God, Christ Jesus. And for this I am blessed to have come to
know so many on the no agenda journey and life path to worship him and shine
even the slightest light that feeds and grows us within.
Prayerfully you will find that warmth
and nourishment no matter what that looks like.
It is between you and the maker.
Much love and peace in Christ
Jesus.
Meditation Opportunities
(@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)
Psalm 89:15 Blessed are those who have
learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, O Lord.
Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we have so
great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every
encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with
endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author
and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross,
despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
(Biblegateway.com) Bible
Verse of the Day
Proverbs 14:22 (NIRV)
22 Those
who plan evil go down the wrong path. But
those who plan good find love and truth.
James
2:14-26 (NIV) Faith and Deeds
14 What good is it, my brothers, and sisters, if someone
claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother
or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If
one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does
nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is
not accompanied by action, is dead.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”
Show me your faith without
deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that
there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.
20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith
without deeds is useless[a]? 21 Was not our
father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son
Isaac on the altar? 22 You
see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith
was made complete by what he did.
23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham
believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,”[b] and
he was called God’s friend. 24 You
see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith
alone.
25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute
considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and
sent them off in a different direction? 26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so
faith without deeds is dead.
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