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Date: Tuesday - June 29,
2021
Meditation
Opportunities - Biblegateway.com Daily Verse
Psalm 138:8 (ERV-EASY TO READ VERSION)
8 Lord, I know you will
do what you have promised. Lord, your faithful
love will last forever.
You are the one
who made us, so don’t leave us!
Psalm 138:8 (EXB - EXPANDED BIBLE)
8 Lord, you ·do everything [fulfill/accomplish
your plan] for me. Lord, your love [loyalty] continues
forever. Do not ·leave [abandon;
forsake] us, ·whom you made [L the work of
your hands].
Motivation Movers
(YouTube.Com)
You Never Really
Know | Steven Furtick
Capital Kings -
Don't Wanna Wake Up
Be Alright (LIVE)
- Evan Craft, Redimi2, Danny Gokey://youtu.be/9xXhybPk2q8
TobyMac, Aaron
Cole - Horizon (A New Day) ://youtu.be/IqsDM92oMkM
Meditation
Opportunities Daily Devotion @Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)
“You may not be thinking clearly yet, but I am. Your early morning thoughts tend to be
anxious ones until you get connected with Me.”
Psalm 5:3 In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in
the morning I lay my request before you and wait in expectation.
Psalm 63:1 NKJV O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsty or
You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.
Phillippians 4:13 I can do everything through him who gives me
strength.
Daily Journal/Thoughts/
Prayers (Thinking out
loud)
We never really know. I
know my ex-husband since I was a kid and we grew up together, got in trouble
together or did things kids should not be doing. We thought then we knew everything as
kids. We were never a couple as kids we
were best buds and we and all our friends hung out and trusted the circle not
giving it a second thought. Later in
life we crossed paths again and did become a couple and after years of being
together went ahead and got married and it was just a couple short years after
the marriage that we learned we never really knew each other at all.
It seems at times if we do not question moral value, judgement,
or even wrong directions we see up ahead.
Things can just keep going digging us deeper in. You know what you do not know won’t hurt
you. But as soon as you seek the truth
or ask why things change.
Now I can only say this.
We are so quick to jump in and say we commit until we have to work for
it. Yes, I have good reasons for
trust issues. No, I won’t go into
details about all the things I said during our team effort of trying to being a
couple that turned out to be everything we kept saying we did not want it to
be. And no, we did not focus so much on
what should not be to lose what was.
In fact, I have always been trusting and push others to be their real selves
until it costs too much. Even then
sometimes people just cannot be up front, truthful, or real.
We push ourselves through and for sometimes too long we just do
not want to wake up to see what has been right in front of us all along.
Be it our personal relationships, our family, our friends or
even our spiritual relationship and growth.
All relationships take effort.
All relationships be it partner, lover, sibling, parental, work and so
on. Every single relationship takes
effort and communication if you want it to be meaningful and lasting. Too often we take it for granted. Kind of like thinking if we show up for a
church service on a Sunday or major holiday we are covered when things get
really hairy and crazy in the world we live.
We want a job, but we do want to work for it. Or we even go as far as letting our own
children if we raise them grow up feeling entitled and expecting the world will
or should give them whatever they want on a whim.
We make all of what we collect more important than what life
itself has been.
Always ready to point the finger and blame it on everything and
everyone else but our own lack of judgement, actions or even the cause from our
actions.
None of us are guaranteed tomorrow, and none of us deserve
anything. What kind of legacy are you
planting go grow forward after you are gone?
Who will really know you and the real you and not just what you do or
did while you had the life and mobility to do so.
What have you given back to the earth that you came from to help
keep it growing or are you a taker?
No not talking about no tree hugging although if we thought more
about our environments more often and more sooner. Perhaps some things in life would not be so
far out of reach now.
I have to admit, I grew up and learned how to raise chickens how
to the were to be killed and cleaned for food.
I learned how to sew, how to plant and grow some stuff. But I too am guilty that I never did it
justice or made sure my children learned how to plant a garden and grow their
own fruits and vegetables or whatever we needed. And although I still eat allot of
chicken. If I have to kill it and clean
it; well, it’s not happening.
In fact, I am so thankful my son married a beautiful soul that
knows how to make, grow, create you name it and does so. As for my daughter she is still looking for
that instant gratification that I exposed her to in this microwave nation we
live.
Me working two jobs and going to college raising two kids after
a divorce didn’t leave me much one on one time.
Although we did allot; if I could change one thing I would absolutely go
back and teach them all how to survive and own it and no matter what they put
into it to not expect anything but to be
grateful for everything.
The good the bad, the full of life or loss of life, the growth
and the almost but not there yet moments.
Over time no matter what direction we go in or what we do or do
not do. It will be alright. The suffering or pains that we set ourselves
up in will go away in the end and the lasting question is not about what
happens next in the world but once we check out what happens with our eternal
souls that never die.
I personally maybe wrongly but put my faith in the maker of all
the universe and what is written in a book called the Bible and those who dive
in and pull all the good out and shine the light of hope and all that of no
more suffering, no more tears. That
which takes obedience that yes even I still lack today as hard as I try.
But for some reason, somehow inviting Christ Jesus to be with me
in everything. I just know that no
matter what is wrong; everything will be alright. No matter how bad it hurts, no matter how
broken and dysfunctional, no matter how scarred or lost. He will light the path and give me the rest
I need.
No other person although they can give me temporary pleasures
and allow me to feel good, bad or indifferent on the outside and sometimes
really get under my skin and make this heart skip some beats. It is Jesus and the hope of life ever after
and all the nations that is the beat of what I want my heart to always remember
to be.
We are not promised tomorrow, and yes, this world and the life
in it is so unfair and unkind. As babies
come in and are taken as soon as they make it.
To those that we are blessed to create yet terminate because we are not
ready to be a parent even though we do the deeds to procreate.
I cannot even begin the unfairness on all the human trafficking
or child suffering or even those who have done great things and are now elderly
and left in the hands of darkness, suffering and pain.
The world is so unkind and unfair.
But no where in the bible was it ever written that it would not
be. My goal is to stay on track and
just keep trying to be my best self and do my best in what I am given and if it
is not good enough know it was never intended to be. If I was not enough for that soul who
swore they wanted love and life forever.
It was not meant to be, if I were
not enough to direct the steps of my children it was not my place to manipulate
or control their minds to be exactly as I wanted it to be.
If I work hard and do great things but it is not enough for that
promotion or job. There is something
else that needs to be done and that is not meant for me. If, when where or how and even with
who. It is all yet to be seen and
although our steps lead us through still waters or the darkest valleys. We are more than what is going on in the
right here right now or almost.
We are children created in the image of the God who breathed us
to life from the dust of the earth to the dust where we will return.
So as the great TMac has been blessed with words and prophecy
through his journey and many songs. Rise
up and seek that new horizon. Each day
you are allowed to get back up; be grateful in all things and rise up beyond
what is and stop wasting time chasing what you think will be.
Be your best self where and when and if it is not good enough,
if it is not working out. Make the
change. And when you depend on
anything to get there. Depend on the
creator our Lord and Savior creator of all things and His son Jesus Christ
first and always each day given. Giving
thanks and praise or even whispers in the dark or screams of joy or pain.
Expect nothing and be thankful for the everything that comes
from it. We do have to die to
ourselves and selfish ambitions that Me’ism that controls us and prayerfully,
hope filled fully give even the smallest acts of kindness even in our darkest
moments. Even when it sucks and we
don’t deserve the bad remembering we do not deserve the good either but we are
blessed sometimes more than not.
Thank you, Lord, for wherever this mind maze dump is coming
from. Thank you for yesterdays and any
tomorrows. And forgive me for making it
about me more often than not.
It does not mean it has to be about anyone else. So, I thank you for allowing me to want to
get back up and keep trying even when I quit so long ago.
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