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Friday, November 24, 2023

Motivational Reads / Daily Devotions from Biblegateway.com - Daily Verse

Colossians 2:6-7 MSG

From the Shadows to the Substance

^6-7My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with what you’ve been given. You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him. You’re deeply rooted in him. You’re well constructed upon him. You know your way around the faith. Now do what you’ve been taught. School’s out; quit studying the subject and start living it! And let your living spill over into thanksgiving.

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Colossians 2:6-7 ICB

Continue to Live in Christ

⁶As you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so continue to live in him. ⁷Keep your roots deep in him and have your lives built on him. Be strong in the faith, just as you were taught. And always be thankful.

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

Weary Traveler in this universe spinning around us, within us. As we hold tight yet free fall so often into the abyss of what is, what was and oh the so many what ifs. You were given a new day. If he has allowed you back up and you are even just opening your eyes no matter where, or when. You are not alone.

So many of us this ride and sometimes forgetting to keep our hands, feet and hearts inside the vehicle. Due to our own choices and sometimes collateral damage for loving too many distractions or even just believing and others being who they are.

Jesus loved too much; if you look around this world, I am absolutely sure He did not die so we could live to die. He did not teach hate, hurt or deception. He did everything He could including going to that cross knowing how broken and imperfect our intentions will be in a fallen world.

He died to allow his strength, courage, wisdom and beyond all truth of the Father could live in us and through us if we choose.

Boundaries is a must. Take it from the girl who graduated with honors from the school of hard knocks. Trust, funny I am doing a study on this new release right now by Dr. Henry Cloud with my current CA team. Me, well I trust too fast, too much until I am proven I forgot my boundaries. And that is even without expectations. Hmmm, thinking of this now maybe its not a trust issue, but forgetting boundaries.

What can say is yes, we are all creatures of our and the circumstances we are surrounded by. Trust, well it makes life or takes life. In either case life is what we make it. And with this the trigger for so many when they lean in forward or withdraw. Or even just spin their own game on how they will get what they think what they want or need until the next thought crosses their mind.

Sometimes we need release the personal me! In all the situations we get entangled with so that we can release the hurts we feel, or even cause and dig deep. Speak up, speak out. Calling on the name of all Jesus was, is and forever will be. Sometimes we need a mediator to help us through. All the time we need the love and blessing of God to be the light and reason of change. Finding those boundaries will never be easy and never just come it is something we have to purpose for every breath of every day given.

Love people for who they are and not what they do. Gosh, you may hate what they do but pray for them in a way you would want the best for yourself.

Yesterday was another gift of the Thanksgiving Holiday when we should be thankful every day we are allowed back up. This year is so different. As noted, we have our mother back local with us again, but gone are some valuable pieces that had to leave before we were ready.

It hurts yet it has taught me how thankful I am for all who have come and gone with me, through me, for me or against me on this journey I am given. Alongside me or hiding in the shadows. Not everyone is meant to stay till our end. Each one of us have our own ticket for the ride we are on in life with destinations unknown or meant only for us.

I am thankful for every connection I have ever been given. The good, the bad, the almost ending me, or the hope in such beautiful beginnings I am allowed.

So very blessed for all the parts we share along this ride.

Trust, Boundaries may be a part of we need to really hold on or survive. But I have been beyond blessed with the laughter, the tears and everything in-between along this ride of small and grand opportunities each new day Jesus has given me, that I am allowed back up to do it again.

Blessed with laughter, tears and everything along the way and beyond, grateful for the big and small opportunities I am allowed back up to do it again.

We may not have any happiness on any given day we are allowed back up, but we do have the choice to be grateful for anything we are given to grow, learn and plan forward. Planting seeds of hope, light and using the journey we are given to share the messes that turned into messages on how to get to the other side. Or share the beauty in the ashes with the truth and reminder we are made from the very same dust that Jesus blood poured down that cross and fed the earth into life we were born. Born for so much more then what the me’ism do in us, to us or against us.

I joke at times trying to make work, life, and unbalance work for me. And thankfully I can laugh at myself. When I do it makes it so much more than we will ever truly grasp even in the piles of rubble we see crashing all around.

I can assure you that even though we all may be invisible or feel such at times and some more than others. Or the choices we make because we are so caught up, we forget who we were created by or what it truly means. (it’s not about me) when we finally get that. Like an epiphany and the lights shine bright. And although it is very hard not to take things personal or get caught up in this crazy world. Knowing when to hold on or when to let go. Never an easy task. Even the best of the best never get it right. Although they will seldom publicly admit it. As they would rather try to hide the demons that eventually consume them.

You may never see how beautiful you really are from the depths of the soul that will live eternally somewhere based on your choices. I pray you do see how brilliantly and brightly you shine for all who you connect with. Be it fifty years or fifty seconds. May you truly know how blessed each day is given for our own, or that which we share with others we really are.

Through the tears when I am overwhelmed in deep pain, gratitude, or spirit. I can see clearly still the one who fights for me to just breathe. Knowing scars run deep but the pain is where courage is born when we give it time to seep into the pours of our very being; in and for recognizing the truth in everything.

Broken pieces of me are scattered throughout this planet that I have been allowed to travel. Though my time to date may have covered and been filled with more or less than any other soul. It all matters no matter if me or you.

Everything happens for a reason, but it is not our task, job or purpose designated by any higher authority to chase the why of a reason.

If it feels too good to be true. Pray hard, pray long. Because in most cases it is. And if you pray and things still do not result in what vision your mind’s eye had. Look for the lesson or blessing it was meant to be.

I will never be a theologian; I will never be a scholar. Although I have been given much knowledge of many things and each new day, I learn something I either forgot during a lesson or never knew.

Nothing is a waste! I am and always will be His and use what I am allowed to help others plant seeds to turn all the ashes into a garden where we will one date meet.

Happiness is always fleeting no matter what is happening, no matter what we have. Some of the world’s best pretenders sit alone in desolation and sadness. Yet, when they walk into the public eye they laugh, carry on and pretend their choices of career or to get to the top of what they think is. Despite all they have material that will never be taken to the other side when they leave. They sit broken and so very alone. Chasing all that eventually destroys all they are or can be when the voids overflow with the world and not what grace and mercy bless us with. No matter what I believe in, this is my life and you need to live your beliefs out and own the results of the choices you were freely given to make.

Do I believe life is what you make of it. Yes, and it takes hard work. Hard work in every relationship we are allowed, and it will never be fully balanced without daily choices to hold all of it as a blessing, or in contempt for what you thought someone, or something has taken from you.

The cool thing is we get to choose! Even if someone is holding a gun to our head. We get to choose what we will do next. Faith over Fear. We all have it, just sometimes our faith is in the wrong things and the things we don’t fear we should.

In love, for love with love may you always find your way home to the maker, creator, and blessed redeemer whose blood also breathed life into you from the dust we are created. To which we return in ashes and spirit.

Thank you, Jesus, even if, even when I am not enough, I am invisible, I am in all the pain before or after. Thank you for carrying me in love, mercy and the abundant grace given to get me back up.

Healing all what we do not see or understand. Please have mercy on this world and lead us back to you. Please release the suffering from the demons and bring the innocent back to you.

Thank you for then, thank you for now!