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Date: Friday, January 29, 2021
(Biblegateway.com) Bible Verse of the Day
Mark 9:35 (NIV)
35 Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the
servant of all.”
Meditation Opportunities
(@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with
Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)
Psalm 8:5
You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with
glory and honor.
Genesis 1:26-27
Then God said, “ Let
us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of
the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over the all the earth,
and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So, God created man in his own image of God
he created him; male and female he created them.
2 Corinthians 10:5
We demolish arguments
and ever pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take
captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Isaiah 26:3 AMP
You will guard him
and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind [both its inclination and
its character] is stayed on You, because he commits himself to you, leans on
you, and hopes confidently in You.
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Worship
Peace @Bethel
Worship feat We The Kingdom
Peace Be Still
@Hope Darst
Battle Belongs
@Phil Whickham
Every Step Of
The Way @Cade Thompson
Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):
WOW
Starting
the day
Knowing
I am blessed another day as I get up.
Yet feeling a little rushed. Or stressed,
I guess.
Trying to
do my daily devotionals but immediately issues with my not so acting smart phone. That new update fighting me to be installed.
Logging
on to work and update that must be done before I can start and yes that dreaded
must change password across multiple systems and oh guess what the synchronization
for the security updates did not work.
Not only did I get locked out of multiple desktops, but the work phone
and even logging into the network for a period in general.
Busy
finally after an hour on the phone with the helpdesk was able to get into the
local sites but then now that my headquarters is totally different, we cannot
get into the main page where applications I need to run are out of reach.
Finally
working through it with the help of some very patient help desk techs and
willing to work through the issue without one grumble so early in the
morning.
Everything
is good. At least until the next system
update or security requirement needs to be met.
I wish
I could have said my focus was purposed and directly on you. Although I am blessed to not have let
something out of my control take over my entire day and make it something bad
or something that just really turns out to be irrelevant in the grand scheme of
things.
Even if
I could not get in until I could. What
would it do for me by getting all freaked out?
Yes, in
the past you could here me starting my day when things were not as my mind
thought they should be getting loud with something like “Are you freaking
kidding me?” Then generally the layers
of what was not working at the moment would just start layering up and then if
someone was in ear range and felt the need to chime in and give their feedback;
well, anything was possible to happen.
Oh yes,
I can assure you that my “oh Fudge” “Freaking”, or even when I come out with “Oh
Snapple” were all replacement words I deferred to; or worked hard over the
years after having kids to replace those absolute not so nice things.
Nope
never do I say I am perfect. I do my
best to be a better human and break bad habits. Starting life and forced to grow up fast and
long before even being an adult. I used
to swear like a sailor, snap with anger like a winter branch quick and useless.
Not to mention I am guessing if I think long enough,
I could find out some other bad habits that age, and the grace of God has
taught me how to manage better. Even
when those unexpected things jump into a routine are totally distracted or derailed.
Panic,
oh yeah most times I was in reactive mode was because I was panicking that I lost
control or never had it over something going on in my life.
And yes,
I do still panic at times. Sometimes more
that not actually even when I know in the end who has this and where it all
ends up on the other side of this here and now.
Usually,
I am reeling back things like what just naturally flows out of my mouth when
asking someone who reached out to me for help to fix something; because someone
else makes changes on a computer system that should absolutely have extremely
limited user access; except for those that manage the programs each week.
But
nope new programs, new people come in make their updates, make changes to the systems,
and never once write down or communicate to the main team and now something is
broken. Fortunately, it was fixable; however,
me and my thinking outload as I do was who gave them permission and I will certainly
speak to so and so making sure they need to be aware a process is needed. Otherwise, we end up right back where we
were a year ago.
Why should
I care; when I walk in a building and go to run technology and the house is got
100-400 people sitting in anticipation and technology does not work. All those heads spin around and who do you
think they point at to have created an issue.
Yes,
crazy I know talking in technology.
God has
blessed me over the years as in the past when that would happen because you are
looking at a program the first time and running it, yet someone made changes
that you are unaware of and disruptions take place. That overwhelming rush of anxiety with the
perfectionist in me coming out. How do I
fix this fast without any knowledge of what was done to break it?
Or this
morning; how do I get this issue resolved and get into all my systems without
losing any downtime or messing up any meetings I need to host?
I can
assure you this morning I was not panicking, although I had to start planning
what if’s in my head. Very thankful for
the tech support knowing what they were doing.
Then
remembering when it was all done; God is still in control!
Before
computers ever came to be and long after they are just something in some kind
of historical museum and the future of 3030 tells stories about how life once
was on a place called earth.
How the
craziness of what we did not understand or think we could deal with would send
so many over the edge the world went mad.
Where
some figured it out that no matter what the situation it does not and will not
help in any positive manner by flipping out and reacting to it.
Adding
fuel to a fire be it simple tech or even what others are tied to. Feeding the demons, freaking, stressing any
of that does no good to anyone. It only
robs us from peace and harmony.
Robs us
from health and wellbeing, robs us from seeing the best no matter what isn’t
working right at that time. It ruins
relationships, opportunities and I am sure the list could go on and on.
I am thankful
I could see past what I had no control over, and the resolution did come and
things are working as they should be.
More importantly I am thankful that even if things are going so far
south there is no recovery. I am able to
call upon the Lord and seek guidance from Him or anyone that he allows in my
path. Be it for helpdesk calls, or life
in general.
Working
through hurdles, roadblocks, messes be it they are ours or we find ourselves in
them. It is all the same. Where or what are we focused in or on?
Be it our
day to day, our relationships, our goals, dreams, aspirations.
Are we
putting too much confidence and agendas on people? Only to be let down when
they too are human and in most cases are more selfish than selfless.
Are
we putting too much expectation into places
and things only to be let down?
Even in
relationships with those unexpected twists and turns where that forever turns
out to be someone violating a promise and commitment or that someone was never
who you believed in them to be to start.
We are
all human and speaking for myself no matter how hard I try, no matter how close
I grow to learning who Jesus really is.
Although I am fully aware of my blessings and serve where and when I can
without expectations.
I still
mess up.
I still
say things without thinking.
I still
get into things I maybe should not.
I still
hold others with a certain amount of expectation even when I know it’s not my
place.
It does
not make me any less of a person unless I choose to beat myself down. It makes me human and if I were to just walk
around boldly and not care. That would
be one thing. But choosing to be my better
self and cling even tighter to God and know I belong to Jesus and my worth far outweighs
anything this world gives or takes.
Makes
me beyond deserving and unable to ever give enough thanks for each new day I am
allowed up.
Thankful
that no matter what is distracting me on my focus to tap into my morning
devotionals and feed my positive spirit.
No matter what keeps trying to get me to do or be something I will not,
cannot. No matter what the chaos. There is great freedom knowing everything in
this world is temporary. No matter what
the pain point, confusion is its all temporary and if we fix our eyes on the
truth that has been with us since the beginning of time and really know we are
made for more, we are made in the image of the God who created all things.
Knowing
we were and are made for more. Allowing
Jesus to live within and fill us with an indescribable peace that is beyond
every lasting or what we know as forever in this world. I do not know how far eternity is; but I am
working at getting there and while I am here, doing my best to give it all back
to the one who give me breath, hope in His promises and life here and now.
Knowing
we were and are made for more. Allowing
Jesus to live within and fill us with an indescribable peace that is beyond
every lasting or what we know as forever in this world. I do not know how far eternity is; but I am
working at getting there and while I am here, doing my best to give it all back
to the one who give me breath, hope in His promises and life here and now.
Lord as
we learn to find ourselves, as we learn to validate ourselves for who we are
and not what others make us or can make us.
As we learn to check our ego at the door and know; it’s okay to not be
okay!
Lead us
Lord for who you purposed to be and not what we become for what others give
us.
Thank
you, Jesus, for this new day. You know every
single thing, every single need, every single tear. Hear us Lord, Heal us Lord. Show me and all I am connected your truth.
