Saturday, October 22, 2022

10.22.2022 October (PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Saturday, October 22nd, 2022

Meditation Opportunities coming from Biblegateway.com The Daily Verse

Proverbs 15:23 ESV English Standard Version

To make an apt answer is a joy to a man,
    and a word in season, how good it is!

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Proverbs 15:23 in all English translations   Interesting to see all translations this way

KJ21

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth, and a word spoken in due season — how good it is!

ASV

A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth; And a word in due season, how good is it!

AMP

A man has joy in giving an appropriate answer, And how good and delightful is a word spoken at the right moment—how good it is!

AMPC

A man has joy in making an apt answer, and a word spoken at the right moment—how good it is!

BRG

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

CSB

A person takes joy in giving an answer; and a timely word—how good that is!

CEB

To give an appropriate answer is a joy; how good is a word at the right time!

CJB

People take pleasure in anything they say; but a word at the right time, how good it is!

CEV

Giving the right answer at the right time makes everyone happy.

DARBY

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth; and a word in its season, how good is it!

DRA

A man rejoiceth in the sentence of his mouth: and a word in due time is best.

ERV

People are happy when they give a good answer. And there is nothing better than the right word at the right time.

EHV

Giving an apt response with his own mouth makes a person happy, and a word at the right time—oh how good!

ESV

To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

ESVUK

To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

EXB

People enjoy giving ·good advice [La right reply]. Saying the right word at the right time is so pleasing.

GNV

A joy cometh to a man by the answer of his mouth: and how good is a word in due season?

GW

A person is delighted to hear an answer from his own mouth, and a timely word—oh, how good!

GNT

What a joy it is to find just the right word for the right occasion!

HCSB

A man takes joy in giving an answer; and a timely word—how good that is!

ICB

People enjoy giving good answers! Saying the right word at the right time is so pleasing!

ISV

An appropriate answer brings joy to a person, and a well-timed word is a good thing.

JUB

¶ A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, and a word spoken in due season, how good it is!

KJV

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

AKJV

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

LEB

Joy belongs to a man with answers in his mouth, and a word in its time, how good it is!

TLB

Everyone enjoys giving good advice, and how wonderful it is to be able to say the right thing at the right time!

MSG

Congenial conversation—what a pleasure! The right word at the right time—beautiful!

MEV

A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, and a word spoken in due season, how good it is!

NOG

A person is delighted to hear an answer from his own mouth, and a timely word—oh, how good!

NABRE

One has joy from an apt response; a word in season, how good it is!

NASB

A person has joy in an apt answer, And how delightful is a timely word!

NASB1995

A man has joy in an apt answer, And how delightful is a timely word!

NCB

A man is joyful when he utters apt answers, and even more satisfying is a word in season.

NCV

People enjoy giving good advice. Saying the right word at the right time is so pleasing.

NET

A person has joy in giving an appropriate answer, and a word at the right time—how good it is!

NIRV

Joy is found in giving the right answer. And how good is a word spoken at the right time!

NIV

A person finds joy in giving an apt reply— and how good is a timely word!

NIVUK

A person finds joy in giving an apt reply – and how good is a timely word!

NKJV

A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, And a word spoken in due season, how good it is!

NLV

To give a good answer is a joy to a man, and how pleasing is a word given at the right time!

NLT

Everyone enjoys a fitting reply; it is wonderful to say the right thing at the right time!

NRSVA

To make an apt answer is a joy to anyone, and a word in season, how good it is!

NRSVACE

To make an apt answer is a joy to anyone, and a word in season, how good it is!

NRSVCE

To make an apt answer is a joy to anyone, and a word in season, how good it is!

NRSVUE

To make an apt answer is a joy to anyone, and a word in season, how good it is!

OJB

An ish hath simchah in the apt reply of his peh (mouth), and a timely davar, mah tov (how good!)

RSV

To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

RSVCE

To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

TLV

A person has joy in an appropriate answer— how good is a timely word.

VOICE

There is great joy in having the right answer, and how sweet is the right word at the right time!

WEB

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

WYC

A man is glad in the sentence of his mouth; and a covenable word is best (but a suitable word is always best).

YLT

Joy [is] to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season -- how good!

 Proverbs 15:22

 

 

 


Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

There is something about the sun not rising until later in the day on a Saturday morning.   Where your house is full but you are able to just sit in the quietness, before all the distractions of day to day take over.   Reading through morning devotionals and giving thanks for another day you are able to get up and make it to that coffee maker or even just to let the dogs out or feed the talking cats.  Even the one you keep telling its too dark, you cannot go out until the daylight shows itself.    Reminding the old boy as he tries to open the door himself, about the last incident when cayotes tried to get him.

 

Even if he keeps getting louder with that meow pleading with me to let him out.

 

While taking advantage to read one of the books the kids are.  To see what their filling their heads with. For this author Colleen Hoover is pretty good and rightfully so I am not even in a position to judge.  Only that it flows, and it’s not filled with too much garbage.  Even if it were that kid who just turned 21 and is conquering the world.  Who left to take on a job for six months on a cruise ship.  Taking a break from college and be it right or not even though she is not mine, might as well be.    As they were talking about wandering around NYC and I had to remind them that no matter how badly they want it to get away from the heaviness their hearts had to grow  up in.    Thinking they could survive in the city when they were so sheltered.    I remind them no matter how well they have proved themselves.  The city and everyone in it will chew them up and spit them out in a heartbeat without even a thought.

 

The world sucks for the most part when we look at it for the selfish ambitions.    

 

They made it to their boat and all I can do is believe in Gods favor that he will protect and guide them even in the wander.

 

Then the call came through, that they will really know if they will stay and do the full contract.   Their first roommate on the working ship is someone transitioning into a female.  What that looks like I couldn’t tell you.   When it comes to judgement, people are people, and anyone wants to do something to themselves to be different.  Well who am I.  I can only pray for their hearts to know Jesus.    However, knowing a dude may still be a dude as they want to move to the feminine side bothers me when I have spent 21 years trying to keep sexuality in lessons of life away from the kids.   More so to keep themselves pure and in honesty some of us in this world find no issues wandering around but naked or exposing whatever they want to do in the light or the dark.   But to know someone will be in a small cabin leaves little room for a sound sleep that will be needed to work 14 hours a day.

 

Okay yes, the fact that I was awakened from a sound sleep at 10 years old with a fat, drunk pig raping me that scarred me for life makes my thoughts wander.   And yes you can have long term friends that are strictly platonic and never have issues.   But when you just meet someone in a classroom for 4 days then the company blindsides you with perfect strangers.  Well Mamma Bear comes out and I have to pray harder and really find that blind faith that carriers me around.

 

I gave up my life 21 years ago to give that tiny baby a chance in life, and really though it sounds harsh.   I really started living for something worthwhile.   Being I missed allot of the marks on any given days prior raising up my own.   Those days where I was still trying to find myself and that selfish me had not fully walked with Jesus even though I met him when asking what he wanted from me in 1995.

 

Always knew of him.    I was 10 when my life changed forever.  But I was 11 when some bible thumping church bus was driving through the neighborhood collecting whoever wanted to get on.  Me asking if I could go to, a skinny flat chested little kid that looked more like a boy then anything else.   They said yes and in some church in Jacksonville I sat in the back listening to some guy talking about this guy.

 

At 11 unsupervised already lost and turned on to what gets you high by the locals.    God chose me!    When the did the alter call, honestly, I have no idea what that meant.  I was not in a family where we had normal conversations.  In fact, raised up in a single parent no parent environment and no could not tell you where mom and the new boyfriend she moved out of NY with and traveled with anywhere his jobs took him.  Which we learned to always ask from or get grounded or worse.     So as the alter call came, I asked could  I go up and could I get baptized.

 

They said absolutely.   I went, I did, and I have belonged to Jesus ever since.    Though let me tell you, just because you meet Jesus, just because you choose to grow forward.  We are never perfect.   There was allot of time and allot of things that no one should have ever had to learn, experience, or do.  But God is always so forgiving when we purpose to let Jesus take the wheel.

 

Life as a kid, before, during and after.  I can only tell you God is faithful to those who openly remain in faith even when unseen with him.   So this quiet morning, and that call yesterday.   God is and always will be.  No matter what happens but I pray there will be no lifetime scars.     There will always be a period of time after waking that night and the gap of all the in-between.   Even those that came after.  

 

Are you a parent?

Do you really know your kids?  Those beautiful, pain in the butt, annoying rotten kids that were blessings of life given?

The kid doing drugs the neighbors party with while you are not around.

The kid at some house with some grown dude is having a party and taking a kid into the bedroom  after they get them high or drunk.   Knowing drugs don’t have to come from a medicine chest.  Believe that.    My generation they were having you trip with them by making Kool aide or tea by adding wild mushrooms.    Or the crazy one’s that huffed paint thinner.   Then later all the booze or pills or whatever they had to smoke.      Survival was not mine but Gods.   From the rude awakenings to the young adult going to check out what friends were talking about almost at legal age and seeing a child come out of a room with some now considered scumbags.  Even then me being made to leave because of raising so much hell as to what they were doing.  

 

Broken pieces all over this world with many of them scattered throughout life.  Yet, thankfully allowed to be here and just breathe.  Even when the weirdness and misconception of it being okay for all the choices humanity in this world given is making, or not.

 

Far from perfect and nope no regrets!   Truly I have been given so many lessons in all the messes.  I have been able to plant seeds and have had my entire garden of goodness in this heart and soul destroyed.  Yet Jesus has allowed me to reap the harvest, get back up and start again.

 

So, in this quietness as I exhale through the darkness as I wait for the sunrise to come.   Knowing the organized chaos of helping mom get up and about and pack up her stuff and help her get back home today, then come back and do a clean sweep and really try to make sense of some of this chaos and mess from so many being here.

 

All the while praying that God hears my heart, for those unable to realize Jesus is the glue to all the pieces they are allowing to cut themselves and not call for healing.

 

That story of that 10-year-old child will never go away.   For years I hated my mother for all the choices she made in her lost selfish ways, even when she did not know she was. 

 

I forgave what could have been prevented a long time ago.  And I don’t care if I ever see what really happened in that gap.

I am here and now and there has been allot of life from 10 to 60.   And still blessed to have some say I look like I am in my  30s some days and not because of how I dress. LOL!!!

 

I could live in grunge easily.   But absolutely love dressing as the woman I have been able to become.

 

No being alone was not a choice I planned.  Trust me on that before I became a bride of Christ, I was chasing love and getting everything in-between.

 

God gave me the ability to not burn up many brain cells, allowed my heart to be bigger than I would wish on anyone yet strong enough to keep  getting back up.   Yet there will be the day when it comes to those heart strings of those he has put in my path to help, to raise to just be.    While they must grow on their path; that sometimes will hurt me far more and longer by the outcome than I could have ever been.

 

My faith is and always will be for the purpose in the pain and that I will one day have that one help me back up when I can no longer carry the weight.

 

Anyway, that mind maze in the quietness cracked open and here I am today.   Fully loved, in love with a dream and loved by the creator himself.

 

Father God, Jesus!    Hear those hearts that cannot call out to you.   Hold those who are yours closer today more than ever.  As they are struggling to stay up from the pains and the new normal, they are given.

 

For those you who need you desperately but just do not know how to talk to you.   For all those who do but have not been able to see or hear your goodness yet.

 

Cleanse the impurities of all I am connected and hold them close Jesus.  

 

Thank you for allowing me life that I do not deserve.

 

Thank you for all of what I will never understand, and all that you allow me to have peace and understanding!   Knowing when to let go, when to hold on.

 

 Thought Movers, Motivations Touching to the Soul coming from YouTube.com

 

Jesus, Take The Wheel

 

Looin' for You by Zach Williams [Lyric Video]

 

TobyMac - Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

10.19.2022 October (PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Wednesday, October 19, 2022


Meditation Opportunities coming from Biblegateway.com The Daily Verse

Psalm 37:4 ESV English Standard Version

Delight yourself in the Lord,
    and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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Psalm 37:4 in all English translations

 

Thought Movers, Motivations Touching to the Soul coming from YouTube.com

 

  Evanescence-Bring Me To Life lyrics

 

Lookin' for You by Zach Williams [Lyric Video]

 

Blanca - Real Love (Lyrics) | I don't need no perfect, put together pretty words

 

 

Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

One of my theme songs growing up. Wake me up inside Lord!    As I read Toby’s Wake us up prayer post my mind gripped Evanescence taking me back to the energy I once carried.    Where now focused on a different direction raising up other children, caring for elderly, working 12-hour days coaching, organizing and wondering how Bible Gateway makes Psalms look so clear and easy as I am leading a 12-week study on all the Psalms and this author being one of the most confusing I have ever worked with.

 

Reading through so many Psalms then having to jump to other verses and come back and answer multiple questions about the context of what we just read.

Thank goodness my heart is all about you Jesus.

Wondering as I bought a home for others to live and even as much now as I sleep on a cot while giving up my room for those in need and yes tied to my heart strings.

I am who I am

Without a doubt if I have been blessed to get close to you and fall in love with your soul there is nothing even in my sometimes-grumbling weary walk I would not do.

Let’s not get it twisted though, in this world it is non-stop from my baby bird I raised just taking a job and being away for the first unreachable moments for the next 6months.  To the child that came before still struggling on their own because they won’t quit the world and grab on to Jesus.

Life is not fair, and it never was said it would be.

Anyone who ever said that it would, lied or is just as confused as the next.

This throws away kid that died over and over while trying to check out along this journey so many times.  Made it into the arms of Jesus.   Even still on these really hard days where humanity that you believed in gave so many lessons in the messes you did not see coming.  Or even the losses that will never be replaced.

I thank God, I did not bury myself as so many do.

I thank God, that I did not quit and become paralyzed but yet redirected the purpose for my pain to help others find a glimpse of light.

I thank God, he called my name and never quit me.

Falling in love with Jesus and allowing all that he fills my soul with may never be easy but always welcomed and beyond blessings that think we need.

So hard to know what is real in this world when we only see with our eyes and hear the surface tapping.

It is when we dive into the depths of our souls and look into the eyes of those in front of us.   Most times all we can do if we really care, is pray!

 

Real love! Only those who have Jesus in their depths know what that is.  Even if they still break from the world and all the choices we allow or wish for.

KEEP, Waking me up Lord!  

No matter what I think I am looking for.   Thank you for always showing up.   My deepest prayer is that every single heart connection will hear your call and see you in all they are walking, running, looking to or away from.  May they be filled with all the love you are.   Protect, guide, and fill them up with the unexplainable peace and passion that only you give.   Forgive me, and all I am and all I miss I could be.     Thank you for allowing all these broken pieces of me to be shook up and fall imperfectly where you alone are.

 

Hear all those unspoken cries Jesus as I know you do.    Thank you for allowing me up another day.  And on that moment when I no longer do.  May the world come to know I am forever in and with you.

Monday, October 17, 2022

10.17.2022 October (PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

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Monday October 17, 2022


Meditation Opportunities coming from Biblegateway.com The Daily Verse

Psalm 25:14-15 ESV English Standard Version

14 The friendship[a] of the Lord is for those who fear him,
    and he makes known to them his covenant.
15 My eyes are ever toward the Lord,

    for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 25:14 Or The secret counsel

 

Thought Movers, Motivations Touching to the Soul coming from YouTube.com

 

 

 

Fleurie - Breathe (Lyric Video)

 

Citizen Soldier - Sacred (Official Lyric Video)

 

TobyMac - Cornerstone (Lyric Video) ft. Zach Williams

 

God of the Promise by Elevation Worship (Lyric Video)

 

I Love Your Presence - Austin Johnson | Moment

 

Casting Crowns - City On The Hill (Lyric Video) (HQ)

 

Running To The Light - Brandon Lake | House of Miracles

 

Lost In Your Love - Brandon Lake, feat. Sarah Reeves | House of Miracles (Live)

 


Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

Wow

So many mixed emotions with no time to think.

Life

Storms coming right at us.

Baby birds flying out of the nest before you even realize they are so ready.

Aging parents needing constant care.

Work, life, and most days imbalance; trying to keep up with it all.

 

You wonder how you could have let strange nonsense rob you from those moments in time where the words of life and light were just seeping from your pours.  Looking back like yesterday when that dream woke you out of a sound sleep with the shudder of a reality days after to be across the world.

The beginning of the worldly heartbreak and so many changes.

Knowing God was not done with any of us yet.  Be it confirmed on the other side or just being allowed to get back up one more day.

Knowing you God are with us every moment, every second of every breath we are given.

I am blessed despite this roller coaster of life and yes, my hands are still held high.    Even if times I feel like I am falling out.

 

Blessed another day

Blessed with shelter

Blessed with family

Blessed with choices to participate in the drama or kick it to the curb

Blessed to be connected

Blessed to dream

Blessed to breathe

Blessed to choose selflessly or selfishly in so many situations

 

If only the world could know the blessings of the most simple things in this life are the most sacred!

What is it that we are chasing or running from?

What about those young adults that have been given life and reproduced so many lives and now out of the blue you learn by their request for money they are consumed by drugs and all you can do is pray the God they spoke about will show up big for them and end the darkness they fell into.  

Losing the present moments for ourselves, for our loved ones, for the gifts of life and babies we are allowed.

Living life on our own terms is a great thing.  As long as we remember to whom we belong!  To whom allows us to breathe deep.

You don’t have to listen to me or anyone else that walks past you day to day;  but what about that one small voice that stops you in your tracks when you know right from wrong, dark from light, good from bad.  What about that gut feeling you cannot get away from?

What about that knowledge that Jesus is real and up until recently you had always believed and lived in unseen faith.  But something got so heavy that you just turned all those silent voices off, masking, staying busy, working, or running into or away.

None of it will change the fact that we are created in the image of God and Jesus Christ died poured out his life for us to live and once we accept that nothing will change that He is within our very being.

We cannot force anyone to understand, believe or those who believe yet think they are okay doing what is wrong to change.

That is between them and God himself.   All we can do is run towards the light.

I am far from any theologian or authority.  I only have many moments of life that have been lived good, bad, and indifferent.   Getting back up, brushing off and driving towards the growth forward.

Spinning sometimes, you know stuck in the mud if you will or knocked off the road into the ruts until I could climb back up.

Not perfect in anyway but perfectly blessed to know this is just the beginning every day I am allowed back up.  And when I cannot get back up any longer, I will be flying high with all Gods angel army!

My being in love and living in the dream that may not align with anyone else or everyone else really does not matter.   Life is what it is until it’s not!  Nothing will change that so to live the best we can with our best self with all the best intentions for me is with Christ, in Christ and most importantly because of Christ.

Now if only all I am blessed could only find that blessing as well!   Shaking off the sadness, while the organized chaos will forever be.   Sometimes overwhelming us, is okay as long as we know who holds our existence in His hands for all that is pure, true, and reflective of growth and light.   May you find yourself all in even when it hurts, even when it heals and even when we do not have any answers.

Stop wasting time on what we do not understand

Stop hating because many will never fit into your lives Snowglobe even if it is continually shook up

Stop chasing what is temporal

Live, Love, Laugh and know God is, was and will always be through Jesus Christ

 

Sunday 5-11-2025_PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe (AlwaysMeKelly)

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