02.28.2023 February PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

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Tuesday, February 28th, 2023

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2 Timothy 1:7 Gods Word Translation Biblegateway.com

7 God didn’t give us a cowardly spirit but a spirit of power, love, and good judgment.

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Beautiful Relaxing Music Stress Relief 🌼Soothing Music With Nature Sound & Calm The Mind, Deep Sleep

 

Tasha Layton- Safe Here (Lyric Video)

 

Ryan Stevenson - Back To The Altar (Official Lyric Video)

 

Ryan Stevenson - Best Is Yet To Come (Official Lyric Video)

 

Jon Reddick - The Power of Your Name (feat. Matt Redman) [Official Lyric Video]

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

Watching time fly so quickly sometimes having those conversations oh if only I knew then what I know now.  It would be the only way I would want a do over.

Blessed in a mess of life’s goo!    Not sure what is up ahead but never will I forget where I have been and each day, I will get back up God willing to fight forward in faith of all that is unseen.

The best is yet out there and will come just hold on and fight forward.  Love you for you and love others for who they are not what they look like, what they do, what they may have or what they may chase.  

Blessed to have experienced so many connections to the music that allows our souls to dance, cry, smile even that which triggers where we once were back when.  Like that faint smell that wafts past you suddenly taking you places that you had long forgotten. Good or bad what is done is done and your tomorrow promised is this day you have been given to get back up.      Only you can direct the steps you take and only you can build that relationship in and with Jesus deep in your soul.  No one else.

The pillars all fell in the name of Jesus and though so many will have been caught in the crossfire I am stalling calling on Jesus.  Through it all I believe your will to be done.

Love like no other, peace in all that makes no sense and protection and strength in all the wars within or around us, perhaps even on us.

You are healing and crushing all that is dark all that is evil you did it before and you will do it again.

For all the broken hearted and misdirected Lord you are and always will be the healer of all things for all I am connected.  No matter what that looks like.

I am because you allowed me to be AlwaysMe!   Freedom of choices and will to get up and go.

You see something I will never understand through it all and anything more to come.     May I never let go of my faith in you Jesus.  Be it holding the hem of your robe or wrapping so tight may I always feel your presence. 

For my heart strings, for my own.  For all those I may never come to know and all those that have forever left a mark on this soul.

Thank you for then, thank you for now.     

I cannot believe looking back how quick this month disappeared to much less it has been a year and a half already since I took the position I work now and that it sucks my days away in just one inhale on any given day.

Good, bad, indifferent as there is so much, I would like to do, so much I have done and all that in-between that I just do not know but am humbled often to look here or there when the world around us is being sucked through some vortex of unknowns with abundant confusion and so much retaliation for what we may never know.

We want but lose motivation.

We talk, preview and drive yet look the other way missing the arrow to truth and harmony that way.

Yet walking away with or in so many opinions and so very little positivity to keep getting back up and growing forward!

The first broken piece or heart hurts no less than the last.   Although in the journey the scarring may subside until the next cut of our own or that at the hands of others.   Then the pain gestures beyond ability to just breathe.

So we choose to believe in something and we wait or go full force steamrolling over anything or anyone that may risk we deal with reality

Life is what it is until its not and so very short.

I pray Gods peace and abundant love through his son Christ Jesus fill you up and carry until the end of any hoped for tomorrow.    Carry you in wellness, peace and all things that are beautiful.   Letting go of all that can suffocate and rob us from life for the moments we are given.

Good by February, Thank you for your kindness and beauty in all the storms.

02.20.2023 February PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Monday, February 20th , 2023

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

 

Jordan St. Cyr - Fires (Lyrics)

 

 Authority :: Stars Go Dim

 

David Crowder - Come As You Are

 

Crowder - Crushing Snakes: Showdown ft. TAYA

 

Micah Tyler - I See Grace

 

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

Proverbs 17:9 GOD’S WORD Translation
9 Whoever forgives an offense seeks love,
but whoever keeps bringing up the issue separates the closest of friends.

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Doing my daily devotionals this morning kick starting my day and my week. I find it interesting todays BibleGateway.com daily verse reminds us about our need to be in judgement.

We often love to a fault and continually think we do the right thing that we either enable so many, so much until they become disabled, or we walk around and call out judgement and never not only forgive others but forgive ourselves. living in that vicious cycle surrounded by expectations or demands or being the ones that are giving them.

Life was never written, promised anywhere with truth that it will be free or easy. However, I believe we are often confused of what we chase to give that so called life. People, places, and things are all temporal in this universe. In the blink of an eye the ground can disappear below us, the earth split apart, and entire countries be shattered and shook with good, and evil being gone in a split second.

In the blink of an eye those you put all you are into are revealed to who they truly are or can be. All the while you allow the chisel sometimes in your own hand to chip away breaking you in billions of shattered pieces because you forget the same creator of the moon, the stars, and everything in between also created you uniquely, beautifully for so much more eternally.

You cannot force anyone to believe the good in so many dark situations and we absolutely need to fight face down daily for the strength and courage to get back up and stand firm even when alone for morality, courage and anything that is God breathed good!

If you want to talk about things ~ talk about all the best parts of any given day.

Be that person that lifts someone else up in truth and stop calling out the faults and missing pieces unless you are giving them a way to help, find new ones that bring growth and life.

We are all good at feeding the demons of our souls. Good at putting masks on or even numbing the pains that we do not understand and so many of those demons have whispered so long that all we have is self-denial, doubt and worse yet the I can't that leads us to strive and anxieties and constant battles raging in our minds, in our spirits with ourselves and so many others.

Stop being that person that quickly has a solution to help so many others and offering a Band-Aid on it just so later you have some sort of control to use for your own personal gains.

I am no expert and man do I get it wrong allot. Work, Life and so much unbalance requires me to stand firm on what I believe, and we all believe in something. I believe in Jesus Christ, all that is written, all that has led me through life all that fills my soul.  I have been fighting my own demons most of my life.     I thank God each and every day he has allowed me back up.   And I have no problem knowing and speaking the truth of the hardships I have overcome and all the times I shut Jesus out because I thought I could do it on my own out of ignorance or pride.           

Like, it; Hate it. You are you I am me. Makes no difference.   When it comes down to it only God really knows and if you are not talking and walking with him you will never understand the truth and power in prayer or the life he wants you to have. 

 

Watching those you love and fade away or sudden tragedy taking them unexpectedly.    Life is what it is until it’s not.

 

Stop treating peoples kindness as weakness and stop thinking you are a God and have the right to continually call out the faults and not have the same amount of strength to fight forward with a positive resolution even if it turns out wrong allowing you to get back up and taking that next step.

 

You are not alone, and you are not although society says we all have the right to do so.  Become judge and executioner to all those who come within your journey to call out all they do not add up to in your mind’s eye.

 

Standing up, standing with to help all we care about to grow forward takes effort and a village of the hands and feet of all those who truly want to see you prosper and grow into the beautiful soul you are created in the image of God to be.

 

Stop doing the whispering of negativity or judgement towards those that don’t fit your mold.    Start holding those arms out when the breaks are slammed on to keep the buffer and redirect to all that is good and all that helps everyone you are blessed with each day to keep growing into the beauty they are meant to be.    And for all the storms that try to drown out the growth.   Seek Jesus to remove it from your life.

 

We cannot do it on our own and the only way you truly will build that relationship with God is through his son Jesus Christ.   It starts with John 3:16 but is all throughout the Bible.  Read it, go to a good bible-based church and hear it, question it and live it!

 

As a parent, sister, aunt, grandmother the hardest thing in life is to watch the broken unable to reach that hand and really grasp on to the help of the Lord or really get to know who Jesus is, was and all that humanity was created for.    And all are left slowly dying over and over without hope, without peace.

 

Isaiah 59:13

We have rebelled and denied the Lord. We have turned away from our God. We have spoken about oppression and revolt. We have conceived and uttered lies in our hearts.

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You want change or good to last.   Dive in to who Jesus really is.

 

02.14.2023 February PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Tuesday, February 14th , 2023

John 13:34-35 GW (Gods Word Translation) biblegateway.com)

³⁴ “I’m giving you a new commandment: Love each other in the same way that I have loved you. ³⁵ Everyone will know that you are my disciples because of your love for each other.”

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

 

You Are Loved -Stars Go Dim

 

Blessing Offor - Believe (Lyric Video)

 

Anne Wilson - God Thing (Official Lyric Video)

 

Crowder - Crushing Snakes: Showdown ft. TAYA

 

Colton Dixon - Build a Boat [Official Lyric Video]

 

TobyMac, Tauren Wells - Deeper (Audio)

 

TobyMac - Love Broke Thru

 

Whisper (Official Lyric Video) // A Table Full Of Strangers // Jason Upton

 

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

They say hindsight can be everything.

Looking back knowing how true that is for my own life, I am beyond blessed that you kept calling me Jesus and your love finally broke through!

 

Beyond the desert through the storms all tangled up in all the wrong things trying to find that love just to be held and you took me deeper than I will ever be able to fully appreciate or explain.

 

Thank you!   Though I may not see all that I pray for at times I know it is you crushing the snakes and vipers in darkness trying to consume me and all you allow in this journey.  Deeper hit the mark watching those you care for come to know you.   Nope it will never be me or my choices but one thing is for sure we all get there in our own time and if it is meant that time runs out before it is you that matters most.   

 

Love near or far will always be a God thing.   All those human pleasures and collectible treasures that are gone in a blink to the depths of only your light shining deep within our souls when things all around us in this world look hopeless and dim.

 

So many including myself at times choosing based on assumptions as to how we will speak, or even treat others.   Or even that chatter amongst our so-called friends thinking we have the right to openly talk smack and judge others.    Forgetting we are just another broken shard of glass that at some  point will cut our own wrist with the selfish ambition and self-righteous how art though personalities that come out when we think no one is looking.

 

News flash there is always someone looking, talking, watching and just waiting for their chance.

 

I personally have no regrets…

Maybe a little that I never really got to know Jesus early in life but then when I think about it.  I wonder who I would be if I was not where I was, when I was and where I am today.

 

Forgiveness, yeah!    That one I learned a long time ago to forgive but I never forget.   And in my youth it would take me a minute or two to not be that gullible hope filled fool and set my self up for a few more broken pieces to be crushed all over the merciless universe I lived.

 

Not saying that I still am not gullible at times.   But I have forever been scorned enough to know that no one will ever love me and bring me life as Jesus does.   And maybe that leaves me on the outskirts and lacking some self-serving moments; maybe it just allows me to know just what love is and be okay when things are not okay.

 

Looking back knowing this day way back when I lay in the hospital with my water broke and in labor for a beautiful baby daughter that took almost 19 hours before she would arrive.    Telling the doctors to let me up and walk so I could relax and they disagreed and from the moment the moved me from one bed to another she was out.

 

I did everything the hard way back then.   Needing purpose, needing to find purpose for what my life was supposed to be meant for.   God allowed me my son at 18  and my daughter at 22.  Never did I ever know what love was though until I met Jesus.    I gave myself away and bowed down and fought the good fight in relationship that no one should have ever been in much less tried to hold on to just because you want something forever.

 

All those broken pieces just became my stairway to heaven.    Fighting harder, proving all the whispers and condescending parallel chatter of those who were supposed to be true and care.   While all they could do is chastise and call out all the wrong things.

 

Broken beyond recognition yet never like you Christ Jesus. 

 

I owned my choices, I did the worldly thing and put myself through college multiple times, worked hard non-stop.  Remained the accountable parent and even broke hard when before understanding we all get to choose and my own kids would sway in the wrong directions and I was desperate to catch them before they fell.

 

It was only the grace of God I am able to continue to grow forward in his light and love.   And get back up every time I face plant in that merciless dirt that hurts real bad when He is not there to catch me when I fall.

 

None of us really know what will happen next in this crazy world we were given to live.   So much controversy in the news with people, places and things and even more hate destroying innocence and humanity.    A cancel culture beyond all recognition of what will happen in the end of their foolish games and choices.     Or maybe they are just so blinded by the evil and darkness of greed and selfishness they are numb to know that when the war starts they too will be stacked up as collateral damage in the power struggles the worlds governments exploit.

 

No amount of money or treasure will matter because that U Haul will never be in the grave.

 

And truthfully you will and I will be lucky if we are allowed that privilege to have one.

 

My heart breaks for humanity near or far.    Yet, what can I do besides hold tight to my faith and know God’s in control.

 

Love even those who mean to destroy anything that I or anyone I have been blessed to know might be.

 

I will always be far from perfect. Perfection takes time and only Jesus has all the space and time to be called such.   Remembering while trying to forget.   Never losing hope or the want and need to love no matter what.

Wiping away every tear no matter the reason the fall.   Getting back up because He alone allows me.

 

Love from the outside in!  What does that really look like in this world.   As we believe in the dictators, leaders, biblical scholars, or just that average person next store.   We all believe in something and no unless you mean to do me or what I have been given to know, care and love do I really care what your choice is.

 

However, there is only one way to the Father and that is through His sone Jesus Christ.    So no matter what door you are standing outside of, no matter what door you are walking through.  Know that and know only you can choose what peace your soul will be granted.

 

For every demon you allow to flow out and harm what was meant for good.  Will consume you tenfold.   That is a fact.  All the rotten fruit will be removed and cast into the depths of eternal pains and suffering.  You just do not see it yet.   You think hell is here and now; you think hell is all that happened to you as a child.     What was in the past does not define your future~   Only your choices to make it so do!

 

You are loved and meant for more than any song, any words, any feel good movie can ever play out in your head trying to convince you.    Just talk to Jesus, seek him and all that he has for you. 

 

 

Sure I could rock out and write of a hot and wild love story that the body can crave any given moment we are allowed back up.  Yet I pray I never stop hearing the whispers of hope, mercy, grace and a way through the darkness that can consume us so quickly.

 

Thankful to have lived life and learned the difference of what love can be; and so blessed to have loved and learned what life really can be.

 

May the God of the universe son of many and Christ above all kings fill all you are and change all that is broken, all that is dark all that robs us to just breathe.   We deserve nothing, yet we chase everything.   Jesus thank you for allowing me to call you friend, lover of my soul and owner of all that I can ever be.   Peace Maker, Healer, Strength in the darkest times to get back up.   You know all things unspoken or being shouted.   Heal all I am connected, protect and change the ways of men, women and children.    Accept the redemption and requests of forgiveness and light the paths of all who call upon you.

 

Brighter than any diamond shine for the world to see!   Wake us up, protect us, guide us and allow your will to pour out through the same lands that are crumbling and splitting apart.    Fill us up with all you are Jesus.

 

Thank you for then, thank you for now. In your might precious name love us from the outside in and inside out through and through.  Allow us to know your love and blessings, your will be done.   Amen

 

 

 

02.07.2023 February PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Tuesday, February 7th , 2023

Psalm 97:10 GW (Gods Word Translation) biblegateway.com)

¹⁰ Let those who love the Lord hate evil.
The one who guards the lives of his godly ones
will rescue them from the power of wicked people.

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

 

TobyMac - Cornerstone (Lyric Video) ft. Zach Williams

 

Spirit Lead Me (Official Video) - Influence Music & Michael Ketterer

 

See A Victory - Elevation Worship Cover - Shanae Harriott

 

You Keep Hope Alive – Jon Reddick

 

Piece by Piece - Kelly Clarkson (Lyrics) HD

 

Crowder ~ Red Letters (Lyrics)

 

Overflow (TobyMac) lyrics

 

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

Well  we are not in Kansas anymore Toto and I am not as young and energetic as I was last year or the year before.    Laughing out loud knowing how blessed I am I made it to the 2023 The @TobyMac Hits Deep concert last night in Tampa Florida and did not get home until around 1 am this morning.    WELL WORTH IT, I might add.   But running on 4 hours of sleep is not something I do too often anymore.   Phenomenal performances and hearts full of Jesus in the house.   

 

Prayers for all those that were unable to be part of it as they had planned no matter what the reasons; God’s got you.  Prayers for those who came but just lost a family member.    There is no greater blessing then to walk through one more time with them in spirit.

 

Not everyone will agree to disagree and there will be those naysayers that draw close to the misery loves company and they are always trying to pull something negative to consume the vibe.  This here is the pieces of me and my mind maze dump at any given time.    Much love even to those who choose to want to do harm and misfortune for their own personal gain to me and others.   Prayers for reconciliation and redemption for your souls. And if it cannot happen for whatever the reason.  May God’s justice be swift and merciful to you when the time comes.

 

Nope I have not been writing near is much as I once did. I get that writers block because I don’t want to just write out every little thing that crosses this mind maze.   I don’t want to write about the dreams, and visions on that board when looking up or dream wide away for others to steal.   Would of, Should of, Could of!     Yup: Been there and wrote the book and wear the T-shirt any given day.

 

I so prefer to try to be even the slightest flicker of light.    So, as I do my thing and you do yours.   As I continually try to stop the progression of intrusion into my life, my children’s life and even the children’s children.  I know to whom I belong and every single speck of even dust that is tied to my journey belongs to Christ Jesus as well.   He is my mercy and grace, my shield and strength and always will be.   Nope that does not mean if I need to arm myself with the worlds weapons, well who says I have not already done so.

 

I know I cannot do this life on my own.   I didn’t pick some of the steps in this journey at times but He lights my path.     If I love, I love hard and deep and if you are that close you too belong to Jesus and you may just not know it yet.  However, even if you think you got this; whatever you are this may be.   Know that God’s got you and if you are truly doing things in the dark thinking no one can see you.   You are misunderstanding how you even managed to get up one more day or where that air in your lungs really comes from.  Do yourself a favor… Dive into the Basic Instruction Before you Leave Earth.

 

You need not worry about what I have or what I am doing or who I am doing it with.  Just as I need not worry about you.  However, dare I say if you are forgetting its not about you or maybe you never learned.   The sun will rise tomorrow.   We just may not be part of that plan for what tomorrow brings as it is never promised and no where was it ever promised to be easy.

 

You want do to something hard and accomplish what matters.   Love people for who they really are and not what they have, not what they do and absolutely not any status that changes in the wind.   Love yourself enough to learn and dive into the truth and what eternal life and grace means.

 

Sometimes our circumstance puts us in places we have to be.   But your soul is a gift, and the destination is the blessing of freedom of will and choice.   Choose wisely.

 

Forgive often, not for them but for your own inner peace.   Don’t let the negative in this world get free rent in your head, damage your heart or contribute to endless vicious cycles that need not be.

I have to believe knowing the peace of unexplainable presence any day given during storms or beautiful opportune days.  Knowing what you know now back then really will never make a difference without the Holy Spirit leading every skip, step, or jog along the way.

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We all believe in something and we all need to find what keeps our hope alive to keep getting back up and fighting forward.  No matter how sad it moves me at times it cannot be people that you put all you are into with hopes they give you life.   They are the blessing that extra special sauce or icing on the cake.    We are all those little cookie crumbles that are left behind where something will come fast and furious to sweep us away or gobble us up and depending on their own mind maze and all that has transpired maybe even vomit us back out for the vultures to pick apart whatever is left.

 

We are not an entitled nation even though we believe and fight hard to think we are.   We are not deserving of anything, and we absolutely forget to be grateful even for a new day given.  I pray that all the things you overflow with in this worldly journey.   You meet Jesus right where you are and put him first of every day forward.  That you start building people up and stop ripping them apart piece by piece.

 

May we all be blessed to never stop looking up and know something is better and even if we cannot see it directly in front of our minds eye right here, right now.  Through and with Jesus all things are and will be possible.

 

 

 

For all those out there thinking they really know me.   You don’t even know yourself so stop trying to understand what is only up to God to visualize.  Stop trying to take what others just don’t have.   You want something, get up off that coach and dive in to the truth and walk with clean hands, pure hearts and do something for others and stop thinking your life is what you take.

 

May your cup overflow in Christ, with Christ, for Christ any days you are allowed back up!   Dare to be different, unique in the image of God he created you to be.