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NKJV-New King James Version, AMP -Amplified Version, TPT-The Passion
Translation)
Date: 11/30/2020 Monday
Soul Vibes and Starters (YouTube.Com)
https://youtu.be/85cqudLoqlE
“ABBA” @John Mark Pantana
https://youtu.be/4Q9itF7tx0o
“You Keep Hope Alive” @Mandisa, Jon Reddick
Inspirational Thoughts
You can never cross the ocean until you have the
courage to lose sight of the shore. @Christopher Columbus
@Keepinspiring.me
Daily
Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):
Good morning another
day Father in all the heavens. As I wake
with the pouring rain coming down.
Thank you.
If anything, else or
nothing else! You keep hope alive,
through it all.
Every soul is going
through something. Finding those
breaking points where they just let go for even a second or forever here and
now.
Thank you, Lord, for
allowing me more opportunities to be had.
As the sound of rain
pours down wash over this land, through our leaders, through us through all
that are supposed to be representatives of your Good works Jesus.
Through all the
illness, brokenness. Through all the excitement
of what we think makes us happy.
Reflect in us Lord your will. Peace, Mercy and Grace leading by the
love we never seem to get right.
The storms may come
and go but you and all you are will never change; even when we do.
You give life, and
flight for all those broken wings any or all of us acknowledge. It is what it is until it is not. https://youtu.be/-VUApoAcpSI “Broken Wings” @Martina McBride
May we always look
up Father, no matter what game in this big chess board of life we are on. May we always keep getting back up and
looking up for all you are.
Leaving yesterday,
hoping for tomorrow and thankful for everything any of today allows. May we laugh so hard bring the only tears
washing through in great harmony waiting to be played out.
I myself am not
ashamed to know I need you more now than ever before. Need all that direction, all that stability
and balance. Standing near holding me
together through all the ripples when someone’s stone sends waves skimming
across the vast oceans of life. https://youtu.be/Gsj1htvlXzQ “Need You More” @Kim Walker Smith
Give me that hunger
Jesus. The days where we jump up and
go serve without thought, without care, without expectation. Wash us clean from the tainted stripes that
stuck from just not going according to our plans.
Never will you do
anything to hurt, or harm us Lord. You first
always want peace on earth for every soul alive. We just sometimes make the wrong choices
and rob ourselves from time and true joy that when we allow you in can change
us forever.
Even if things still
get hard, don’t work out as we hope for.
Even in the darkness or after the storms and the storms do pass. All things change https://youtu.be/k8ga4xPo1ok “Things Will Change” @Treetop Flyers
We can stay tied up
in knots or freeze paralyzed in what could, would or should have been. Or we can keep doing our best with whatever
we are given to keep growing forward even if we do not see the steps we are taking. https://youtu.be/-O8FHRhzXNQ “Paralyzed” @NF
With Father, and
your son Christ Jesus we find who we really are letting go of all the fear,
hurt or pains. All that is here shall
pass and with you, your Love Father named Jesus Christ. Son of God a love beyond all time and space.
Eternal, loud, and silent; hard yet so soft
and smooth. https://youtu.be/tkoQPMGQLsE “Eternity” @Disciple
Like the music that
plays the heartbeats to our soul. The wide
range of elements, symbolism or day to day can confuse someone has not met the
need to remain true and authentic to who you Lord created us to be. May we forever worship you first and
always and gather our strength from all the unknown messes and lessons that
your blood to just exhale. https://youtu.be/0hKH6YcHshM “Exhale” @Plumb
It is not what we
have done, but what we do after the wave passes. We are worth more than any yesterday’s,
broken today’s, or unknown tomorrows in the eyes of Jesus. If only we knew that? If only we believed and not just said it. May we never stop giving and doing our best.
How often do we give
God the leftovers or broken pieces of who we are? Why is it we do not go to the alter before
jumping up and running into the day to day?
How can we love and know we are loved beyond anything we will ever know,
yet we treat the one who gives us life itself second best?
How do we treat
ourselves with such careless grace or mercy?
We were and are created for so much more. Yet, we forget or just cannot see. Lord show us all, show this world just how
far you stretch East to West. https://youtu.be/V_J34QyY0Pk “East To West” @Casting Crowns Though I never plan or really know what will dump out of this
mind maze.
You Jesus know all things. There are no surprises; not everything
given is meant to stay and not everything moving through is meant to
leave. Never stop holding onto me
and all I am connected Jesus.
No matter what was,
what is or what will be. Hold whatever
I have left tighter than ever before.
Use who you want me to be shining for your purpose and being.
This imperfect,
fragmented foul mouth once skinny little girl still fighting what I will never
see. There is and never will be a
moment Lord that you have not rescued those who call upon your name. Show me the way in this clouded blinding
storm called life. https://youtu.be/Eo-3-q5dQHU “Never Been A Moment” @Micah Tyler
Thank you, Jesus,
through all the doubt, and unknown for reminding me to whom I belong. That not even the birds and creatures of
this world worry, why should I. Thank
you for reminding me I am loved; I am a child of God into a kingdom that may
never be fully understood. That all who
call upon your name and cling to you will forever be protected by the blood
that pours out on that cross.
May all I am forever
cling to you and all your greatness in love be held tightly together by you
alone Abba!
Bible Verse of the Day (Biblegateway.com) Meditation
Opportunities
NO TOMORROWS TO GET IT RIGHT
2 Peter 3:10-11 (NKJV) The Authorized
King James Version
The Day of the Lord
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in
the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the
elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in
it will be [a]burned up. 11 Therefore,
since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought
you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
2 Peter 3:10-11 (NIV) New
International Version
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a
thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be
destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid
bare.[a]
11 Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of
people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives
2 Peter 3:10-11 (ICB) International
Children’s Bible
10 But the day the
Lord comes again will be a surprise, like a thief. The skies will disappear
with a loud noise. Everything in the skies will be destroyed by fire. And the
earth and everything in it will be exposed.[a] 11 In that way everything will
be destroyed. So what kind of people should you be? You should live holy lives
and serve Go
2 Peter 3:10-11 (MSG) The Message
10 But when the Day
of God’s Judgment does come, it will be unannounced, like a thief. The sky will
collapse with a thunderous bang, everything disintegrating in a huge
conflagration, earth and all its works exposed to the scrutiny of Judgment.
11-13 Since everything
here today might well be gone tomorrow, do you see how essential it is to live
a holy life? Daily expect the Day of God, eager for its arrival. The galaxies
will burn up and the elements melt down that day—but we’ll hardly
notice. We’ll be looking the other way, ready for the promised new heavens and
the promised new earth, all landscaped with righteousness.
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Date: 11/29/2020 Sunday
Soul Vibes and Starters (YouTube.Com)
https://fb.watch/23pqAEPiDM/
“Advent Hope ” @New Life Christian Church
https://youtu.be/lunFIc-8r8o
“You Say” @Lauren Daigle
Inspirational Thoughts
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched- they must be felt with the heart. @Helen
Keller
Daily
Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):
This world has a way
of allowing us to get derailed and tangled in thinking what we do is who we
are. What we say is truth. Even if we want so badly to always remain pure with clean hands and pure hearts
and the best of intentions for all we are connected and not just our own
selfish ambitions. But you Say Jesus what
matters beyond all that is temporary in this vast world where so much, so many
and so often. https://youtu.be/lunFIc-8r8o “You Say”
@Lauren Daigle
May the light of
hope of each new day given shine somehow, someway everywhere for all given the
breath to exhale. https://youtu.be/nlzsbmen4bc “Hope Arise ” @Let Hope Arise & With
Everything @Hillsong UNITED
I can call out, cry
out, write out all the twists and turns my life has journeyed, I can call out every soul I have seen the
depths and felt the abundance wanting more for them, from them, for me with me.
I can call out all
the tears fallen for those who never realized how much their worth was beyond
priceless. Or even just that one
forever that eternity said not here, not now, not yet.
I can count the
dollars spent trying to help and the minutes laying awake just wondering how I
myself would ever make it for and with the blessings I was charged with.
You Lord know all
things before I ever arrived in this world and always until the day you take me
home. There can never be a lukewarm when it comes to believing
in truth.
There can never be
having it all the best of all worlds and remain in truth, in harmony doing what
you Father call us to do.
We all get to
choose!
Charity, duty, love,
and honor. You and Christ Jesus paid
the price of it all.
To want more than
what you allow is not wrong. But to not
have faith and good stewardship in even the little will always matter. The moments, the gifts, the monetary the
necessity. It all matters.
We cannot take and
take and never understand the gift of giving was the greatest gift of all. We cannot give and give and not take the
gift of life you have given seriously and work through all that we must to
continue on.
Beyond the holy
water, beyond the cross and back.
Without you Jesus there is nothing.
Death, darkness, and destruction is the risk we all will be given
courage and strength to purpose and grow forward. Even when we for all the right or wrong
reasons we do what we do, and you say don’t do it; or not yet. It is not the fact we have done any or all
things. It is what is the why. Why do we crave and seek love beyond you? Why do I?
Far from perfect but
perfectly placed in your hands Jesus.
Nothing happens without your knowledge. Nothing hurts without you feeling the pain,
nothing grows without your blessings.
Like that holy water that we wash clean in the crimson tides your
forgiveness, your love. Gives me
strength to keep trying once more. Keeps
this heart beating when I lose myself, thinking I got this; it has to be
real. It has to be…
https://youtu.be/AfY7CGU8sck
“Holy Water” @We The Kingdom Tasha
Cobbs Leonard
I will never
understand, question everything but never really fully understand. But one thing. We are all called to be the hands and feet in
service, in love shining hope even if we sometimes shine the imperfect anomalies
that travel these airways of mercy and grace.
Thank you for loving
me, thank you for loving all I am, and have been connected. In your will Lord lead and heal us through
this season; this 2020; this whatever we have been or will be.
Protect your
children Jesus. Guide us through all
that should be, and out of those hills and valleys or wrong turns.
Let love Lead Jesus! https://youtu.be/wFk-b5XfhwM “Let Love Lead” @Terrian It is well with
my soul, even when this mind chases the broken pieces of a heart that only you
can hold together. https://youtu.be/YNqo4Un2uZI
“It Is Well / You Make Me Brave” @Kristen DiMarco
Though my best may
fall short or never be good enough. Give
me the strength and confidence to not
grow weary and give up Lord. https://youtu.be/DuZPOVFcFJ4 “Confidence @Santus Real You
alone know the ending! Good bad or indifferent only hope now https://youtu.be/LwdXqDYfBYQ “Hope Now” @Addison Road allows
life to move forward.
All I am or ever
will be is the hope and dreams you alone Jesus allow me to transpire. Show me when the dreams end, and reality
reflects all that should be. While all
the in between, guard this heart, guide these feet, and always lead me and all
who want your abundant peace back to the cross where you bleed life into eternity! https://youtu.be/StW6ZKHRCFo “Lead Me To The Cross” @Hillsong UNITED
@Jesus Calling @Sarah
Young (Enjoying
Peace In HIS Presence
“LET ME INFUSE MY PEACE into your inner most being. As you sit quietly in
the Light of My Presence, you can sense Peace growing within you. This is not something that you accomplish
through self-discipline and willpower; it is opening yourself to receive My
blessing. In this age of independence
people find it hard to acknowledge their neediness. However, I have taken you along a path that
has highlighted your need for Me, placing you in situations where your
strengths were irrelevant, and your weaknesses were glaringly evident. Through the aridity of those desert marches,
I have drawn you ever closer and closer to Myself. You have discovered flowers of Peace
blossoming in the most desolate places.
You have learned to thank Me for hard times and difficult journeys, trusting
that through them I accomplish My best work.
You have realized needing Me is the key to knowing Me intimately, which
is the gift above all gifts.”
Isaiah 58:11 (NIV) New
International Version
11 The Lord will
guide you always;
he will satisfy
your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will
strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a
spring whose waters never fail.
Isaiah 40:11 (NIV) New
International Version
11 He tends his
flock like a shepherd:
He gathers the
lambs in his arms
and carries them close to his heart;
he gently
leads those that have young.
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Date: 11/28/2020 Saturday
Soul Vibes and Starters (YouTube.Com)
https://youtu.be/EDw_d2_HKcA
“Goodbye ” @NF
https://youtu.be/fP6fdkC4uwo
“Just As Sure” @Tori Kelly ft. Jonathan McReynolds
https://youtu.be/ei4L3KhGSyE “Wrecking Ball” @Building 429 ft. Blanca Callahan
https://youtu.be/fGF-MGGLpB0
“Multiplied ” @NeedToBreathe
https://youtu.be/9GccKeVry14 “Even If ” @MercyMe
https://youtu.be/VqHe2zrBAyw “Don’t Lose Hope ” @Cochren & Co
Inspirational Thoughts
Don’t let the stress blind you from the beauty around
you. @B. Haley @WeAre1 Movement
Daily
Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):
Thank You Father God
for the past couple days of just being in the moment. Enjoying the family, I am given and the
abilities to exist in a world that gives so many reasons to not.
Thankful for all I
have been given, thankful for all that has been taken and all the lessons and
what fills up the spaces where what I believed in was rearranged or removed.
All those things I feel,
all that which I thought were so good for me.
You Lord have led me through all those hills and valleys in this journey
called life.
Always Me, yet so
different than when I first started.
Seeking all that is
eternal and letting go of what really never was and all that is temporary.
Far from perfect nor
will I ever pretend to be. Yet fully
aware with clean hands a pure heart I am forever yours Jesus.
Nothing I could do
will remove me from the blood that was written for the kingdom.
No love will ever be
more than what God the Father gave.
From the beginning of time God knew he was going to ransom you Jesus coming
to the earth to give all you are so we could have the choice to live.
You did not have to
do what you do, what you did or continue doing.
But you Jesus loved and respected truth, life and promises of all who
will cling to you.
Thank you for
allowing me to be one. When all else
fails, ends, breaks, or even becomes everything out of nothing or even that
nothing out of everything.
Thank you for
creating us to become creators, builders and shine the light of hope even by
the most basic simplicities.
I could ask all who
I believed in to show up, just say something before I had to give up. Yet what is the worth if you have to force
anything or anyone to do what is right.
Counting my
blessings
Letting go of what I
have no control
Letting go of what
never was knowing if it was it will be
Silently forever
unseen, untouched in the realm of unawareness
Lead me Jesus
As it is you that know
what Love beyond all space and time all that was is no more all that will be is
not yet arrived
Thank you for all
you have put in my hands
All the life you
have given to care for, to love, to be.
For all the sorrow of
that has been taken back
All the so close but
you could never touch it, never taste it.
All that was all the
dreams you feel.
All that is so bold,
so beautiful all that is everything in and with you Lord.
Where nothing is
everything and everything is nothing!
Forgive me Lord for
making so much out of nothing, For give those who play out all the everything
and make it nothing.
If tomorrow is so
will I! Every moment of every day never
will I forget. Always will I be what
you call me to be Jesus.
There is no amount
of anything in this here and now that can ever change that.
When you have been
pulled from the depths by the love of Christ, no matter what tries to pull you
back down there is nothing that can take
away the very life that God alone breathes into you. This is the place I am allowed to feel and
be who I am in Him.
Never chosen
Never planned
No longer lost
No longer a slave to
the world or anyone within it.
No longer angry
Even the pains are
numb in the love of the Father, Spirit and Holiest of all Sons!
Thank you, Jesus,
for whatever is, or whatever you will allow to come.
Be with all my
connections, all my family, all my friends and all whom I have and will eternally
deeply, truly forever love.
May your will fill
all there is, all that will ever be.
Protect and heal us
Lord for your heart, your eyes already know what is ahead. Please for all of us. Take the lead. https://youtu.be/ABWnLjXer10
“Spirit Lead Me ” @Michael Kettering & Influence Music
Despite all our best
efforts, despite any plans. My life and
whatever is left is in the potters’ hands. https://youtu.be/bgXL3y9RIbI “Potter’s Hand ” @HIllsong
It is here I pray all who believe will shine
bright, grow forward, and take that stand.
https://youtu.be/UbiErL_pc8M
“The Stand ” @Hillsong UNITED
May your blessings alone
Jesus find their way to every soul I know, I am connected, I have released, I
have been blessed!
Bible Verse of the Day (Biblegateway.com) Meditation
Opportunities
Praise Him in all things.
1 Chronicles 16:8 (AKJV) The Authorized
King James Version
8 Give thanks unto
the Lord, call upon his
name,
make known his deeds among the people.
1 Chronicles 16:8 (NIV) New
International Version
8 Give
praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;
make known among
the nations what he has done.
1 Chronicles 16:8 (ICB) International
Children’s Bible
David’s Song of Thanks
8 Give thanks to the Lord and pray to him.
Tell the nations what he has done.
1 Chronicles 16:8(MSG) The Message
8-19 Thank God! Call out his
Name!
Tell the whole
world who he is and what he’s done!
Sing to him! Play songs for him!
Broadcast all his
wonders!
Revel in his holy Name,
God-seekers, be jubilant!
Study God and his strength,
seek his presence
day and night;
Remember all the wonders he performed,
the miracles and
judgments that came out of his mouth.
Seed of Israel his servant!
Children of
Jacob, his first choice!
He is God, our God;
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Date: 11/25/2020 Wednesday
Soul Vibes and Starters (YouTube.Com)
https://odb.org/2020/11/25/anyone-and-everyone/ “Anyone and Everyone” @Our Daily Bread
https://youtu.be/7tElvdnId4Q “All My Hope” @Crowder ft. Tauren Wells
https://youtu.be/8sbuR-fLTgg “The Worship Medley: Reckless love, O Come
to the Alter, Great Are You Lord ” @ Tauren Wells ft. Davies
Inspirational Thoughts
You can shed tears
because they are gone, or you can smile because they lived.
You can close your
eyes and pray they come back, or you can open your eyes and see all that they
left for you.
Your heart can be empty
because you can’t see them, or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your
back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because
of yesterday.
You can remember
only that they are gone , or you can cherish their memory and let it live on.
You can cry and
close your mind and feel empty, or you can do what they would want.
SMILE Open your
heart, Love, and go on.
@Elizabeth Ammons
@lessonslearnedinlife.com
Daily
Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):
There is no direct
right or wrong or anything even science can really do to make us choose what we
will do with the days we are given.
We get to choose.
Never in my journey
have I ever been in a year with so many twists and turns and whatever normalcy
is considered to be so out of touch, out of focus, out of reach.
One thing is for sure
even if some days looking in that mirror, I can see every failure, every missed
opportunity, every hurt, habit, or hang-up.
I see all I wished upon those stars and prayed for and with. And all that I will just never understand
why.
Dealing with it all,
getting back up and brushing myself off doing the best I can. Surrounded for and with every battle of every
day that may await and think they can take me out this time.
Looking around as I
walked out of my bedroom this morning and snapping a photo of all the holiday decorations,
I had pulled out yesterday. Thankful I
was able to see my beautiful family who is healthy, hard working and just
trying to make sense of their own days in 2020.
Thinking I know the
end of the world must be coming because I let the kids talk me into pulling out
Christmas decorations before the month of November being over.
Yes, I can smile,
and it is not about rushing the commercialism.
But more about finding all those beautiful
colors of innocence and bright shining love during what such an uncertain year
has been.
I myself has had
that flicker of motivation and shine slowly fading this year. https://youtu.be/UUrlV6uR7rQ “Slow Fade” @Casting Crowns
Not so much for the losses all around, even if none of that helps. But I think more for what gets in the depths
of this very soul and I cannot just get up and go be busy and consume myself
with all I do to stay busy and not think even for one second of any day.
Nope, Just so much more time to really dive in and
grasp hold of the who, the what and more importantly the how I am even able to
get back up on any given day.
Thank you, Jesus! For all my yesterdays, today and anything I
may be blessed with tomorrow.
I can be mad, hurt,
angry or in that never-ending sadness of doubt and stop trying. Yet somehow, I know there is more to the
story. For the beauty in all things
that surrounds us was not just to exist but there is more. https://youtu.be/O9YaEicJbzo “The Never Ending Story -Theme Of Sadness”
@Klaus Doldinger
Anytime you allow us
back up, there is more to be done. More to see, more to give, More to be thankful
for. More to learn through and from.
Those you allow us
to love even when we can find a billion reasons to not even acknowledge
them. You remind me that you created
all things for more than just here and now.
If you can love without seeing all the flaws in the broken pieces; I too
will do my best for all that you allow me.
So, will I Father of
Abraham; the only father I have ever been able to know. https://youtu.be/GfVd5x9W1Xc “So Will I (100 Billion X)” @Hillsong
Worship
None of us pick to
come in this place called earth.
https://youtu.be/NOGEyBeoBGM
“Heaven Is A Place On Earth @Belinda Carlisle Many do not even get to choose any point of the journey as
they are birthed in and molded without ever being exposed to who you are or the
depth of love filled with courage and strength that allows them to grow forward.
May their souls find healing and peace Jesus
for all it is that many will never know.
Yet there are many
allowed up one more day knowing the same God of all creation that hangs the
stars, sun and moon allows us back up one more day.
May we make each
second of any day given count.
Thank you, Lord, Through it all no matter what. May you remain the glue that gives me the
courage and holds me together. May it be
your will that raises me up each day you have in store. https://youtu.be/dxKLnySMbYM
“Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace)” @Hillsong Worship
Not for this holiday
season, but for all day’s you Lord allow us the air we exhale. May we (all I am connected) forever be
blessed to know who you are. Even if,
even when!
Many will suffer
intense sadness during the losses or what they feel having nothing at all
during these next couple months. With
2020 being beyond a bad dream for so many.
Lord come down wash through this land.
Shine hope and soften the hearts of all who have been so broken they
must hurt whoever or whatever is in their path.
Be with all who call
upon you for direction. Heal and
connect those you mean to be.
Teach the unteachable,
lead in your will and for me never my own.
Thank you for allowing
me to choose. Allowing me life and that
journey then, or what ever may be in any future given.
May your promises
Lord forever wash through this land. https://youtu.be/q5m09rqOoxE “Promises” @Maverick City ft. Joe L Barnes & Naomi Raine
Bible Verse of the Day (Biblegateway.com) Meditation
Opportunities
Praise Him in all things, hold on loosely.
Colossians 3:17 (TPT) The
Passion Translation
17 Let every activity[a] of your lives and every word[b] that comes from your lips be drenched with
the beauty of our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One. And bring your constant praise to
God the Father because of what Christ has done for you!
Colossians 3:17 (NIV) New
International Version
17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the
name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Colossians 3:17 (ICB) International
Children’s Bible
17 Everything you say and everything you do should all be
done for Jesus your Lord. And in all you do, give thanks to God the Father
through Jesus.
Colossians
3:17(MSG) The Message
15-17 Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, in
step with each other. None of this going off and doing your own thing. And
cultivate thankfulness. Let the Word of Christ—the Message—have the run of the
house. Give it plenty of room in your lives. Instruct and direct one another
using good common sense. And sing, sing your hearts out to God! Let every
detail in your lives—words, actions, whatever—be done in the name of the
Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way.
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Date: 11/24/2020 Tuesday
Soul Vibes and Starters (YouTube.Com)
https://youtu.be/6ZMM91LWvVo
“Amadeo (Still My God)” @Ryan Stevenson
Inspirational Thoughts
If you Can’t do anything about it then let it
go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you
can’t change. @Tony Gaskins
We experience Private Victory when we learn self-mastery
and self-discipline. We reap the Public
Victory when we build deep, lasting , highly effective relationships with other
people @Franklin
Covey
Daily
Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):
Wow those hills and
valleys in live, in spirit, in emotions, in reality.
Thank you, Jesus,
for all of it. You are the one truth
that will never change and no one or nothing will change that. I am one of those that found my way from nothing
and no purpose to know you are all I need even when it hurts, or tears flow
from happiness or another blow that hurt.
I wish I could
explain and that control freak in me wants to take over and just know and own
all of it. Making things my way. Bringing that which feeds so much beauty and
growth and just squashing all that is sucking the life away.
Oh, what a mess it
would be then. More so than what I have
already made on any given day you allow me up.
Thank you for the
surprise of my number one making it home from college. Thank you for the laughter seeing just how
much I miss those sibling agreements between them at the dinner table.
I now we are not
supposed to tap into knowing what the future may hold. But I long before I knew you. That day when I was a kid, and a palm reader
came into the store and said they had to read my palm telling me I would have
four children. I told them they were crazy
back then. And I the way life turns out
well I would not then or now wanted to take over for anyone. It is a precious gift of life to even have
the abilities to do a portion of what I do for these kids.
However, things do
not ever really go according to plan.
Even if they seem to
be doing so for a while, in the end of the journey there are so many twists and
turns; hills and valleys to look back on.
I remember growing
up knowing strong people never cry. I
think that is why I fought my way through.
Yet the truth is, the tears caught up with me when I met you and learned
to open my heart and want to see with your eyes. https://youtu.be/P5AkNqLuVgY “Give Me Your Eyes” @Brandon Heath
Oh, how we must be careful
what we ask for, pray for and call to life.
Everything we set
our minds in, allowing what all it is to feed our mind, body, and spirit it
matters.
Thankful for you
Lord. Thankful for it all. No matter what I feel so close and it just
never goes away; yet I will never touch.
Or that which is rubbing up on me so often and prayerfully all the good
stuff rubbing off on others.
Lord this season of
the year is so hard for so many. Life in
generally can be so hard for all. May
every connection I have the blessing of you within.
May healing take
place through you and all you are, showing us and leading us for all we can be
as you intended.
Protect us from
ourselves and from all who walk with darkness.
Be with all the lost
and lonely. https://youtu.be/t5THbA_MLLc “Lost And Lonely” @Aaron Lewis
May we all find our
way to step up, step out and just always be real and true to our authentic
selves you Jesus sacrificed so we could live.
Be with my family
going through reliving the pains of loss, be with my friends be with all those
you allow me to connect. Thank you for
this day, this season, this life.
Bible Verse of the Day (Biblegateway.com) Meditation
Opportunities
Maintaining Healthy Growth
Colossians 2:6-7 (TPT) The
Passion Translation
New Life in Christ
6 In the
same way you received Jesus our Lord and Messiah by faith, continue your
journey of faith, progressing further into your union with him! 7 Your spiritual
roots go deeply into his life as you are continually infused with strength,
encouraged in every way. For you are established in the faith you have absorbed
and enriched by your devotion to him![a
Colossians 2:6-7 (NIV) New
International Version
Spiritual Fullness in Christ
6 So then,
just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in
him, 7 rooted and
built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and
overflowing with thankfulness.
Colossians 2:6-7 (ICB) International
Children’s Bible
Continue to Live in Christ
6 As you
received Christ Jesus the Lord, so continue to live in him. 7 Keep 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.
Colossians 2:6-7(MSG) The Message
From the Shadows to the Substance
6-7 My
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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Date: 11/23/2020 Monday
Soul Vibes and Starters (YouTube.Com)
https://youtu.be/NrTv39-lG4M
“Yes I Will” @Vertical Worship
Inspirational Thoughts
Sometimes there is simply nothing that we can do to
fix the circumstances. All we can do is rely on God. @Gods411
Daily
Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):
Thank you, Lord, for
this slow Monday. Up another day to find opportunities, thinking of those who
we cannot be with due to all that has come to be in 2020 and all those who have
left far in advance.
Holidays are never easy, and I am thankful you allow me to just keep
doing each day. Please be with all
those who truly have no family and have never made connections and they are alone.
Healing and comfort
for all that is fresh in the grand scheme of so much pain and sorrow that can
happen in this world. https://youtu.be/k8EA-EcBMMg “Heal Us” @ft. Blessing Offor
Prayers for all
those who are incredibly angry and bitter in the here and now and especially
during times when we celebrate or try and come together and have good cheer.
All in this world is
temporary. How we react, how we
progress forward or spin in reverse holding on to all that was. It all matters! https://youtu.be/FpcRsu2VauQ “All That Matters (Cover)” @Julianna Ritz
How do we make the
difference Jesus? How do we take the
blessings you give and truly make the difference? It all starts with that small mustard
seed. With lots of hope and even more
love wrapped in thanks for every single thing. ! https://youtu.be/YKMHyFQf2Z4 “Thank You For Everything” @Jason Gray
Perspective is
everything or nothing at all. https://youtu.be/mKQQlWFT1so “Everything or Nothing” @Carrollton We get to choose.
We get to hold on
even when we know the truth. Or we get
to let go and make way for whatever will be.
As I look out the
windows and nothing but rolling fog trying to lift. https://youtu.be/yJ_1y3iNvwc “Rolling In The Deep” @Adele Wondering!
All while knowing if
it will be it will be. https://youtu.be/B6fA35Ved-Y “Even If” @Mercy Me
Nothing can change that; yet wishing when we
have such great blessing of choice. What
makes some choices work and others not.
No, I will not be
stuck here too long; this is for sure.
But it does not stop the acknowledgements of know how blessed with just the
little moments and what it could be like with the big.
What ever is I am thankful!
Whatever was I am
thankful!
It is after all the
cycle of life, even those moments you are so close but just unable to really
reach out and touch it.
Blessings
always. Just as there is always a
reason throughout any day to find something if not everything to be thankful
for.
Bible Verse of the Day (Biblegateway.com) Meditation
Opportunities
His Love, So indescribable all we can do is
give thanks
Psalm 100:4-5 (TPT) The
Passion Translation
4 You can pass
through his open gates with the password of praise.
Come right into his presence with thanksgiving.
Come bring your thank offering to him
and affectionately bless his beautiful name!
5 For
the Lord is always good and ready to receive you.
He’s so loving that it will amaze you—
so kind that it will astound you!
And he is famous for his faithfulness toward all.
Everyone knows our God can be trusted,
for he keeps his promises to every generation!
Psalm 100:4-5 (NIV) New
International Version
4 Enter his gates
with thanksgiving
and his
courts with praise;
give thanks to
him and praise his name.
5 For
the Lord is good and his love endures forever;
his
faithfulness continues through all generations.
Psalm 100:4-5 (ICB) International
Children’s Bible
4 Come into his
city with songs of thanksgiving.
Come into his
courtyards with songs of praise.
Thank him, and
praise his name.
5 The
Lord is good. His love continues forever.
His loyalty
continues from now on.
Psalm 100:4-5(MSG) The Message
4 Enter with the
password: “Thank you!”
Make yourselves at home, talking
praise.
Thank him. Worship him.
5 For God is sheer beauty,
all-generous in love,
loyal always and ever.
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Date: 11/22/2020 Sunday
Soul Vibes and Starters (YouTube.Com)
https://youtu.be/RThZQ1aww20
“Heal Me” @Grace Carter
https://youtu.be/eSV-pRGbg4k
“21 Years” @TobyMac
https://youtu.be/KUYClC6vqKk
“I’m Sorry (a lament)” @TobyMac
https://youtu.be/dqzrEaNizAI
“Good Grace” @Hillsong Lyrics
Inspirational Thoughts
3 John 1:2 2 Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that
all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.
Daily
Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):
Oh Lord, you alone
let your light shine last night as one or more gathered. Not because of anything we did or do. But because of the love and hope and want to
live in faith and love. You Alone
know all things even if we here and now seem to be getting it right or making a
huge mess of things.
Thank you for another
new day allowing me up to choose. Thank
you for the everything you allow me each new day given https://youtu.be/LycNrV0j25A “Everything” @TobyMac
As I pulled myself
up and out starting this day. Laughing
so early as to how good I have become at making my bed on days like today
without even getting out.
Goodness. Yes, just leaving the
final pulls and tucks once up and out.
Something about not
making that bed that leaves a day stuck and not started feeling unaccomplished like
that missed cup of coffee in the morning or missing something in being
productive at any time we just get up and run.
Organized chaos in a
world of choices we all make. If only
was always that simple? Yet, as I walk
through a house, I acquired with your blessing so others would have a place to
live and see this here, that there. So
much collected or collecting that they will never use.
I feel the need to
start working on the inside and minimizing and cleaning up and out. As I have been blessed to work and do for the
outside this season.
No one knows what tomorrow
or if tomorrow?
So why not take this
investment back. But why; where will I
go then. You called me for a long
time to come back here and face the demons that haunted me from my
childhood. How those dreams over and over again told me
what I did not understand then but know now. At some point we would be stuck and
unable to leave.
So, what does that
mean when dreams come, and time reflects what is not understood?
Show what, who and
where next Jesus. Heal all that
shook me out of my sleep in 2018 and led me to what I can never fix or wake up
and know it was just a dream.
Time moves on and
that what has come to pass cannot be undone.
Oh, how important to
always say what you mean and mean what you say and never ever play games with
the lives and trust of others.
Scars will heal even
when they would takes a long time to drain the poison that all that happens in
this world spills out.
With you Father all
things are possible; and when we can see it, when we can feel it, we can do it
and be whatever we get back up and fight forward for.
I heard the whispers
of my name Lord in the middle of all those nights right up to this day
given. https://youtu.be/JxL9R-1VGmk “Whisper Name” @Keith Urban
How or why is not
for me to question Jesus. Even those
moments being flashing as I and tumbling down those stairs back in my 20’s or
standing on a stage last night.
How I got here or why
I see things of today, maybe tomorrow.
You alone have all
that is to be.
I used to joke that
being openly in love with you Jesus kept all that who thought I was crazy
away. Those that would only hurt and
use up whatever was left of this abstract being I have become.
Yet the depths just go
further into the abyss when trying to understand.
Father thank you for
all of it; forgive me for any foolishness or offense I have caused. As forgive those who I will never understand
why. Guide and lead me through what
is next because Jesus You know all that is in this heart and soul. All that I need you more than ever for. https://youtu.be/xfkhqpl81NA
“Forgiveness” @TobyMac
That love is no
longer a safety screen Jesus. Falling
for all you are truly, madly, and deeply and wanting one who is filled with
such is no joke. A bride of Christ for
the final time 12/05/2005 and always.
I am not waiting for
anything in this world to make or give me anything Lord. Though I did not pick this life. I did not pick how or where I came
from. I did not pick brokenness that haunted
this life. I did not pick to give up and
quit. You allowed me to pick up and
fight even when I did not know what I was fighting for.
Those dreams, the
plane, the fire, the bus, the winter, the knocking at the door and years later
there I was.
Show me Lord; don’t
stop now. Show me now what you alone
need from me.
All I have here and
now is on loan from you. If you allow
it and show me over and over to share it.
So be it. We cannot take
anything with us anyway.
Just as I look and
think let me get on it and put cabinets up in this house to organize what really
is not even necessary.
Everything,
everywhere, every time. You Lord are in
everything and it all matters.
Lead me as time is
running out and transformation is forever in motion.
Imperfect pieces strategically
placed throughout this worldly canvas.
Love inside out! Beyond all time
and space.
If your going to say
something. Say It! Never leave anyone you care for in the dark https://youtu.be/NvFkkmiZMuA “Silence” @Grace Carter
.
Bible Verse of the Day (Biblegateway.com) Meditation
Opportunities
Pure Hearts.
Colossians 3:15 (TPT) The
Passion Translation
15 Let your heart be always guided[a] by the peace of the Anointed One, who called
you to peace as part of his one body. And always be thankful.
Colossians 3:15 (NIV) New
International Version
15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
Colossians 3:15 (ICB) International
Children’s Bible
15 Let the peace that Christ gives control your
thinking. You were all called together in one body[a] to have peace. Always be thankful.
Colossians 3:15 (MSG) The Message
15-17 Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, in
step with each other. None of this going off and doing your own thing. And
cultivate thankfulness. Let the Word of Christ—the Message—have the run of the
house. Give it plenty of room in your lives. Instruct and direct one another
using good common sense. And sing, sing your hearts out to God! Let every
detail in your lives—words, actions, whatever—be done in the name of the
Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way.
