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Friday September 29, 2023
Motivational
Reads / Daily Devotions
from Biblegateway.com - Daily Verse
19-21 “This is the crisis we’re in: God-light streamed into
the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the
darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God. Everyone who
makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates
God-light and won’t come near it, fearing a painful exposure. But anyone
working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be
seen for the God-work it is.”
20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not
come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the
light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in
the sight of God.
Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow
Here we are at the end of September
already. I wish I didn’t have memories
of the losses that occurred this year. As
I went to bed last night surfing through my photographs and looking at family
posts and once again waking this morning with the significant loss of you, big
brother and last year’s Pops and all those in between.
I won’t deny it’s always been you, me and big
sis and well I cannot stop the tears from free flowing knowing our annual meet
ups and just the strongest link in the chain that balanced us girls is missing.
When you have that relationship that you
could be gone for decades and come back together, and everything seems like
yesterday. It’s a gift not to be taken
lightly of those that we are given.
Not everyone has that.
Not everyone has loving caring, selfless
family members.
Not everyone loves you past any hurts, habits
or hangups.
Not everyone has unconditional love for just
being able to experience or well balanced meaningful peaceful relationships
without any expectation.
A gift of light when that person walks into a
room, and nothing needs to be said all the while the radiance leaves the glow
long after they walk out.
Not everyone needs to be well known for what
they did in the world’s eye to leave their legacy.
I think we got it wrong when we were supposed
to grow forward with each other not off or from each other.
But anyway, happy blessed Friday. We made it through a busy week, from
12-hour days to 30 kindergarteners to fifth grade midweek, to beautiful growth
and encouragement with my sisters in Christ and just blessed another day to
wake up and know He is not finished with me yet. I have been given the gift of more time one
more day, one more hour, one more minute.
A gift to not give up, or not give in to anything
that says I can’t figure it out when I have the ultimate creator within and
holding me.
Far from perfect without a doubt. Yet gifted to look around and know there
is purpose in HIS plan and through any pain or heart felt release as I think of
those who filled me up just by knowing them and their presence.
I look around at this place and want to do
this, want to do that. Take on or
create more projects this time is building or putting together a 6x6 shed. Knowing that the last 3x5 garden metal shed
was interesting I won’t ever work with metal again. Healing is a lot slower at this stage and
let’s face it this 20-year-old mind messes with the temple the good Lord gave
me every day. Still debating if I
will do this, if I will call a friend to help or if I will just pay someone to
put the kit together. Time is not
something I have an abundance of. Although
the feeling of accomplishment when you are able to do and deliver something successfully
is a beautiful thing. Sometimes just
the quiet meditation and flow while focused helps us balance what next or what
to avoid.
Balance, boundaries and busy work help keep
us out of harms way and out of the mainstream of creating trouble or being
caught up.
I truly do know a lot of folks and love every
one of them. But just with life you
need to learn how to hold on and when to let go. Not something I ever wake up and say let get
a check book out and go down the list and pick what will be.
Far from it; although I am not spontaneous,
there are some people, places and things that just capture me and well it is
what it is.
Trying to never let my spirit darken because
of anything bad or those things that chipped away at me while balancing what is
felt after and blessed to know I am still here; still able to get back up,
still able to look past the piles of messes into hope and promise of maybe
tomorrow.
I am chosen to always be me without any
doubts in my mind.
I have been blessed to love and well my
independence scares some.
Even scares me at times and others look back
and just breathe deeply to know how loved I really have been and all the temporal
things I thought was missing really needed
to be out of the way to be right where I am for such a time as this.
Even during the free flow of hurt and wants
because there is not so much that is needed.
We can plan all day long but ultimately if we
put everything we are or everything we can be into what we think we need or
have or are trying to get or even the people that surround us and any of it
lets us down. We may not get back up.
Putting everything into knowing who Jesus Christ
is, was and forever will be.
And knowing we are meant for more than any of
the temporal everything of this world. Well,
there will be days like today on the top of the mountain as we look into the
horizon of gratitude and hope and know no matter what in Him, we will always
be.
And because of that the significance of
anything else received or missed well is just a thing.
Hard to describe or explain any of the peace
that flows through the depths of who we are.
Well, I could ramble on and on this morning,
it seems the gates of this mind maze are free flowing in so many directions.
However, I have things to do and well I just
want to say you know who you are, and I forever love my Prince of Peace, my sweet
soul king through space and time. And I
am forever grateful for my God and the connections I have been given.
Lord thank you for this day.
Forgive us for what we do not see until it
slaps us in the back of the head.
Forgive us for the hurt and pain and gossip
and distain and vulgarity we can cause in our selfish moments.
Forgive us for not waking up and walking in
the light.
May your healing arms hold us tight even when
we feel so broken and lost that even for a glimpse, we recognize who we are in
you and who you are in this universe!
Most importantly thank you for another day
full of opportunity and allowing us to be in the light.
Thought Movers, Touching to the Soul
coming from YouTube.com / Facebook, Local Worship, or other public
venues.
Official Music Video for,
"Spirit Lead Me" by Influence Music and Michael Ketterer
In The Light (Remastered
2013)
The Goodness · TobyMac ·
Blessing Offor
Patch Crowe performs 'If You
Believe' as part of the 2021 Youth Music Festival
"Serve the Lord"
OFFICIAL music video 2022 | feat. Kenedi Anderson
