Wednesday, August 18, 2021

08.18.2021_August(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

Music pulled from https://www.youtube.com/ and are free for public consumption**** Bible Verses pulled from https://www.biblegateway.com/ unless noted otherwise and are free for public consumption****   (NIV -New International Version, NKJV-New King James Version, AMP -Amplified Version, TPT-The Passion Translation)


Date: Wednesday- August 18, 2021

  

Motivation Movers & Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)

Jeremy Loops - 'Til I Found You

Courtnie Ramirez - LIFE IS GOOD (feat. Apollo LTD)

TobyMac - See The Light

TobyMac - Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight) (Live from the Drive-in Theater Tour 2021)

Lifehouse ft. Natasha Bedingfield - Between The Raindrops

Less Like Me - Zach Williams

 

Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

Philippians 1:21  (NLV)  New Life Version

21 To me, living means having Christ. To die means that I would have more of Him.

 

Meditation Opportunities Daily Devotion

 @Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young

“Anticipate coming face to face with impossibilities: situations totally beyond your ability to handle.” “Allow ME to fight for you.”

Job 5:7  Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Revelation 19:1  After this I heard what sounded like a roar of great multitude in heaven shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to  our God.”

Psalm 91:1  He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

 

  

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

Till I found you I never knew how much life I was missing and had been held back stressing over things I cannot change or choices that didn’t turn out with people, places and things that here I am on the other side still blessed and up another day finding the good in every second I am given.   Well, I wish I thought about the good 24/7 but that is something I have to work hard daily in remembering you are in control Jesus and no amount of worry, doubt or that spiritual tug of war that I play with you will matter.

In the end I have either enjoyed and truly acknowledged the blessings of each day given or I have wasted moments that will never be replaced with things that become as irrelevant and forgot as that speck of dust blowing in the wind that only bothers us when it lands in one’s eye and irritates us until its rinsed, you know washed clean and we move on.

 

Thank you, Jesus, for allowing me the ability to get back up and either find fun and life in the beats and rhythms or just stay down and missing all you have waiting on the horizon for us, for me.

It does not matter where we come from.   It does not matter any brokenness that we call family or lack of.   We will see the light in God’s promise.    We just have to allow Jesus in and fight forward with and for his Promise of life eternal. 

Loving who you are and where you will be.

No that does not mean lay down and let the world beat the crap out of you or starve for anything.    God wants every one of us to experience his goodness and blessings that come from temporal things that come and go.

But that is just it.  Everything in this world including the pain we may be pushing through is all temporary and the fact remains nothing will experience as much pain that Jesus already took for us on that cross and the days and nights that led to it.

 

We will get through this.  Pray and pay it forward wherever you may be.   Do not be afraid to ask for help when help is truly needed only after you prayed to Christ first to know if it really something you should be chasing and holding onto.

Help is in Jesus’ name!

There is nothing anyone can do to deny that.   We may not see it.  We may be so caught up in the static to not hear His blessings.  But not to worry when we do, we realize it is here and not on the way.

Until you can calm the thunder of the beating heart and all that causes that stress and anxieties take time to pray face to face with the maker.   Call Jesus into your lives as we cannot get to the father but through Jesus Christ himself.  

Yes, serving and going to a church with fellow believers, brothers, and sister’s matter.  But it all starts right where you are in those one-on-one moments every day in the good and bad with Jesus himself.

Nope I am no authority, but I have lived life and have enough scars at my own doing or at the world that I put all my trust in until they tossed me out like I was nothing at all once they did what they did or was done and moved onto the next that can fill whatever accounts emotionally, financially, for their own growth and pleasure.

Being a kid in this world then was hard and I cannot imagine having to grow up in today’s world especially without God.

We all have to believe something and the hurt, and habits of those that go before us leave us spinning and making our own decisions of what we want, what we do or what we won’t do or be like.

Just know the world cannot define you unless you let it.   Choices matter but you are not alone and never have been.  Even if you came up in a broken home or a family that parents fight or do stupid things.  Or those you wanted and needed were /are never there for you.

I used to say I was going to create a license plate that said I am who I am because you made me this way. 

Until I realized growing up without the family unit made me independent and although it took me into my adult life to understand I owned my own choices.    Allowing myself to fall into to anything was my choice.  And if the end result was great, it was awesome but if it turned out badly or not as expected it hurt like hell and at times took bigger pieces of me than I ever thought I could replace.     Only later to learn I was not meant to replace anything.   In my growth, in your growth you become your authentic self with who you are in the creation of God the Father and once you understand your worth and sacrifice your meism’s from selfishness to selflessness you find an entirely different you.

 

We are not all the fun filled beautiful words that flatter me when someone is trying to get in my bank account or pants.  

Giving away oneself for 5 minutes or 5 hours or 5 days of pleasure only to live with a lifetime of regret knowing you can never get back anything once it is gone.      Matters in the choices we make.

If someone truly cares about your future, they help you together the best they can to grow forward.   Not stop and demand to allow consumption of any part of your being or time.

Grow forward to be something that makes a difference in this world.   Leave your legacy be it you are 10, 20 or 99.     Paying it forward can be just general acts of kindness or great choices that give others what they could never be, do or achieve without your help.

Paying it forward is as simple as saying thank you, holding a door, writing a thank you note, or checking in on someone that cannot get around.

Making a meal, sharing a sandwich, sharing a cookie as simple as it sounds makes a huge difference.

 

Today in our here and now we are on the verge of extinction.    Sounds funny right.  But humanity does not know how to remain human and deal with all of what is going on with us, through us, around us.    Wars are not new; innocence and death is not new.  Though in our instant gratification world we now have the real images of what happens when fires burn the world to the ground or cults, gangs, thieves, and armies of all that is evil takes over.

What it is like to live through a pandemic, plagues, hatred, loss at the hands of the inability to cope so our children are lost to drugs and all that consumes them when they cannot deal with how the world had its hold.

We need something good to believe in.  We need God the Father and his Son Jesus and that is one of the main reasons it is so important we allow the Holy Spirit to come live within us.

It is not going to make everything alright or make the pain go away.  But it will fill us up with strength, courage  and so much peace even through the pain.

 

Allowing Gods promise to live through you and you doing your best in moral obedience and want to grow forward in all that is good will not stop life from happening.    But it will take you places more beautiful and give you strength you never knew you had to get back up.   When you are face planted fallen over because of you or anyone else in this world.

Our talents, our bank accounts, our looks none of that matters to God.  He knows exactly our cost.  We are priceless.    

Yes, having it all and the fame and fortune where we sell out our souls and life to the images the world makes for us only takes life.

 

But what do I know?   Only that if I had a dime for every dollar, I gave away I could retire at this point.

 

Life is what it is until it is not.  We may live to be 80 or we may get 8 seconds.     None of us know when our time is up.      Dream big, allow Christ to lead and grasp on to all that is good and stop tolerating or settling to be second best, or anything less than what he has called priceless.

So, everyone has thoughts and perspectives and if you are reading anything on my page.  Well, you know it can go in any direction depending on the mind maze dump that falls out when the windows of opportunity and blessing allow me to tap out.  You do not have to believe, agree, or disagree.  In fact, if you are one of my readers or viewers.  Thank you.   This day-to-day journal really should be something no one sees.  But a long time ago I opened up and took the film off to be transparent to a point.   Sure, there is much I do not say.  There are many days I could call out every single moment or soul that has made me feel a certain way or even how I feel about them, what they do or had done.    But its all in the relevance we hold for what matters in the moment we need it.   And none of that is relevant to anyone else but me and those I have been blessed to connect.

If something is not working change it.   Say what you mean and mean what you say.  And by all means if you are going to talk the talk then show up walking it.    Stop riding on the coattails of all those you wish you could be, be like or have what they have without putting your time, effort, creativity and even blood sweat into.

Own your own choices and results.

 

God helps those who believe.

God helps those who help themselves.  

What does that mean.   Using today’s world events.    I believe if we use all this chaos and unknown about the pandemic, vaccines, and masks and all the unrest it is causing and separation it has entitled the world to live.

Well use common sense.    We can get a virus being we are vaccinated or not.   Read up on the facts and make your own honest choices for you and those you come in contact with.   No matter if you know them or not.  No matter if they are the love of your life or not.    You can make a difference in our future and humanity by what you do, what you say and how you contribute next.

Although the governments and law will instill and take freedoms away for what they think is the greater good, or just because they have the power.   You alone get to think for yourself, get to act for yourself and get to be yourself.   No one else will ever do that for you.   Even if you have convinced yourself otherwise.

You can poison many by one look, one touch, one sneeze, one attitude.     You see the pandemic is not just influenza or Covid19, 20, or 30.

Use common sense for you and those be it you know them or not around you. 

 

Your can heal with what you do and say next.    My perspective is the world has been broken long enough.   So even if I cannot make a difference for the world, maybe just one soul, one action, one word will plant the seeds to grow a light and the rains that come will cause the ripple effect of growth.    My light, my hope, my peace, my strength come from all I will never fully understand with great freedom to hope and try to be my best self and love with all I am even when it hurts.   For a glimpse of heaven on earth in waiting for eternity with all the power, glory, and beauty that no one will ever be able to clone, create or crush.

My prayers of healing and positive growth for all I am connected.   Blessings then, now, and always.  Just me Kelly

 

Lord even when I am doing my best but still talk the talk and miss the mark.  May I and all I am connected be more like you Jesus.   May if even just a figment of anyone’s imagination you spark life within.   Show them the peace and all you are in your abundant mercy and grace.

Thank you for this day and all that comes with it. Thank you for all of my yesterdays and every single thing that lives in the depths of who you allow me to be.     Be the love, the healing, the light for all that my path crosses with no matter where, no matter when.    Be all you are in the here and now.

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