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Date: Saturday April 2nd
Meditation Opportunities
coming from Biblegateway.com The Daily Verse
1Matthew 20: 17-19 (The Living Bible)
17 As Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem, he took the
twelve disciples aside 18 and talked to them about
what would happen to him when they arrived.
“I[a] will be betrayed to the chief
priests and other Jewish leaders, and they will condemn me to die. 19 And they will hand me over to the Roman government, and
I will be mocked and crucified, and the third day I will rise to life again.”
Footnotes
- Matthew 20:18 I, literally, “The Son of Man.”
Matthew
20: 17-19 (The Message)
To Drink from the Cup
17-19 Jesus, now well on the way up to Jerusalem, took the Twelve off to
the side of the road and said, “Listen to me carefully. We are on our way up to
Jerusalem. When we get there, the Son of Man will be betrayed to the religious
leaders and scholars. They will sentence him to death. They will then hand him
over to the Romans for mockery and torture and crucifixion. On the third day he
will be raised up alive.”
Thought Movers, Motivations Touching to the Soul coming from YouTube.com
Keith
Urban - Nightfalls (Official Lyric Video)
Terrian
- Light It Up (Sub. español) + video
Brooke
Ligertwood - I Belong To Jesus (Dylan's Song) (Acoustic Version)
Nothing
Left To Prove (feat. Israel Houghton & Naomi Raine) | Maverick City Music
Lead
me back Morgan harper Nichols (lyrics)
I
just need U. TobyMac Lyrics Video HD
Thinking
Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow
Life is but a dream.
Sometimes the storms come crazing through the atmosphere leaving us trying
to find the pieces scattered in all directions knowing how blessed we really
are but mostly shell-shocked finding ourselves having a hard time sorting which
direction to feel or go.
Kudos to the new release Night Falls by the guitar hero
Keith Urban.
May we all be blessed to see it light up and find our way
for who we are meant to be and not what we do.
May we all understand the world does not define us before it is too
late. Nothing is promised in this life
only the truth spoken and lived is we so often make things much harder than
they have to be. That we never in the end
find ourselves where we thought we would be.
No one wants to die alone. Yet the heart wrenching truth lays where no
matter who surrounds us, we can never let go of the emptiness that slowly takes
our final breath. When our children,
friends and other family forget who we are to them and we do not even have them
walking us to heavens door. There is
not much to fight for when we are not ground in Jesus’ spirit and aware of
better days on the other side of this creation called life.
I have been really struggling since Wednesday this week
with just day to day. Ever since I
learned that kind beautiful soul once well visited friend of mine somewhere, somehow
took a turn for the worse and the cancer that she was in remission for spread
all throughout her body and into her brain.
It was a matter of days if that from then to Friday I received the news
she had passed.
My soul weeps for her, as the love of her life died a
decade ago, her daughter died suddenly just maybe a year ago one son cannot be
found her baby boy in jail and the other trying to keep his family the best he
knew how.
She made that lemonade as long as she could, but the
squeeze finally got to much. And I wish I
could say I knew everything she was going through sharing a meal and laughing doing
karaoke. But miles and life put that
gap and everyday we just do the best we can with what we get to work with. Doing my best to love those I have been
given and not get to hung up on the hurts, habits or hang-ups that come to life
at any given day.
The only saving grace I find is knowing I belong to you
Father God. Creator of all things and
lover of my soul’s future. No where near
perfect, no where near together on any given day. Working much harder than necessary on any
given day. Forgetting what should and
doing what shouldn’t all the while holding on to what I couldn’t. Jesus you are and always will be in the
arms of your safety then, now, and always.
Despite the overwhelming rush of emotion as I think of elderly
family and what will be, what is. When
I just can’t or even when the want is like starving from the depths of anything
we could ever know. All my strength,
need and courage to just keep going is because of Jesus.
No great explanation other than life and all the pieces he
put right where they made sense on any moment.
I got nothing left to prove to anyone. Yeah, they say perceptions matter. You want to make a good paycheck or sell
tickets to whatever you have ready to perform.
But truth is though that check keeps a roof over our head and blesses us
with more than many others. And that
stage allows a platform for people to make us into something we really are
not. Robbing the light and story to be
shining all about you Jesus.
Good, bad in different learning this century what the
terms of binary or non-binary mean outside of computer programming. Or totally blown away how some dudes are dressing
up as more beautiful women in this world.
While all those created with such depth and beauty throw
it all away for something different because what they have is never enough.
We can numb ourselves, climb that fence to the fake turf
that looks so much greener, we can work our lives away, we can do all kinds of
things because we are blessed to be given another new day.
But when do we make it really count and not for what we
can get, not for what we can take, not for what we can make or hustle others to
do or be?
If only
Yes, as the storms pour down this soul weary and trying to
stop the sadness reality of then now and always leads me back to you Jesus.
Without you there is nothing but pain.
I need you now; please lead me back! You Jesus are my only hope.
Be with all who are struggling to just hold on this day
Lord.
Be with all those in the freezing cold, war-torn unknown.
Be with all that have it so called together, including
me. And show us how to be unstuck in
the world’s reality and in the will and depths of all humanity was made to love
and reflect.
Forgiveness; show me the way. Show me how to take the walls down and
really stop that reflection on to promises of any new day.
But if you cannot for whatever the reasons will be
Jesus. May you just hold us, me,
myself, my family, my friends, my connections.
Those that are, those that were and all the in between. Please just hold us in your protection, mercy,
and grace for nothing more than to get back up and never stop fighting forward
and trying to shine that flicker for brighter days you promise in all the red
letters of your blood.
Thank you for the love.
Then, now and any tomorrows I may be given. Be it through dreams wide awake or those in
the depths of slumber. What life does
one have even if to have lost love is nothing compared to have never loved at
all.
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