03.18.2021_March(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Thursday, March 18, 2021

 

Meditation Opportunities

Romans 15:13 (NIV) 

A psalm of David.

¹³ May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

 

 (@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)

Trust Him one day at a time~

 

Psalm 84:12   O Lord Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

1 Corinthians 6:19  Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?  You are not on your own.  

Jeremiah 17:7 NKJV  “Blessed is the man who trusts the Lord, and whose hope is in the Lord.”

Matthew 6:34  “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.  Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives or feelings)

Thank you, Father God, Father Time, Christ Jesus.    Please come and turn it around!  Whatever that IT may be for everyone of your children.  Everyone of those who are trying to find you, grasp you. hold on to you.  God Turn It Around  @Jon Reddick

 

 

We are so quick to just throw everyone’s dirt out there holding them captive for what?

What about when we hold our own selves’ captive?   For What?

Lord, may we come to you and place all our unseen faith, all our hope in all that is pure, all that is good, all that is merciful, all that helps us grow forward.

 

All that we use to climb those metaphoric ladders of gain and success.  While stepping all over our own blood, our own souls.      

May we see our true reflection in you Jesus like a landslide or tsunami that washes fast and hard impacting everything we will ever be.  Landslide  @Fleetwood Mac

If only Father God I knew how to reflect those fears we do not speak about, yet clearly seen by where we get stuck.

 

How do we let go and let God?   That old cliché that many will laugh, many will get yet many more will do their best to challenge why anyone should not believe in just one true God or your son Jesus. 

So many parallel lines that we hope back and forth just doing whatever it is we think is working; yet finding ourselves stuck and unwilling to try you. Parallel Line  @Keith Urban

 

 

So quick to say what we think they want to hear, so eager to think they really believe.  Never really wanting to let the world see who we really are without having some grand theme or scheme to achieve that fame, that acceptance, that reason to become slaves to all that the world says we should be.

 

When do we allow you to take all of us and allow us to be the light that grows what we sow for good? Be a Light  @Thomas Rhett ft. Keith Urban, Chris Tomlin, Hillary Scott & Reba McEntire

 

We do not know until we open that door right where we are and allow you in Jesus.   Then and only then not knowing exactly when or even how at times.   We just overflow in abundance all the while the world spins and we sometimes are hit hard by the damage it sends flying.     Overflow  @TobyMac You Lord fill us up if only we allow you in.   

 

Please Lord, may everyone I am connected come to know your sweet love and abundant indescribable peace through all the waves of life.

May we all practice kindness and where we cannot; may we learn to refrain or lashing out in any way, shape, or form.

Even the slightest trigger sends messages to many who we never even realize are watching, listening, and replicating because that is all the know.

Help us find our way.  Help me stay within the lines of what is worthy, what is good with clean hands and a pure heart Jesus.  Good Grace  @Hillsong UNITED

As majestic as the highest mountain, or the greatness of the deepest ocean.  Humanity was created for so much awesome, beauty and abundant growth and grace.

It is up to each soul to choose how they will acknowledge you as creator, sustainer of all life.

Lead and protect all your children Lord, driving them in love to shine brighter than ever before in good grace, and endless love.

 

If we cannot, teach us how to not rob the precious moments we are given in haste and wasted time that will never be given back.

Forgive me for my transgressions in what you created me for that I miss or misstep.  Forgive others who have not yet figured it out.

Give me strength and courage needed to keep getting back up for every day full of opportunities given. Strength Courage & Wisdom  @India.Arie

 

  Comfort those sick and hurting Jesus. 

 

Thank you for what is, what isn’t and what may or may not be.  

 

 

03.17.2021_March(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

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Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2021

 

Meditation Opportunities

Psalm 23:1-3 (NIV) 

A psalm of David.

¹ The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
²     He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters,
³     he refreshes my soul.  He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.

 

 (@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)

He is always with us.

 

Psalm 139:1-4   O Lord, you have searched me, and you know me.  You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.  You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.  Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:21-22  Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ.  He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

Joshua 1:5  “No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life.  As I was with Moses, so I will be with you, I will never leave you or forsake you.”

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives or feelings)

I never started out planning on thinking of any one particular person, place, or thing on any given day.   I certainly never thought I would have ever thought that each day I am allowed to open my eyes I do everything I can to bring Jesus into my day before hitting the floor.   And honestly before passing back out on any given night.

 

Many people will never understand and even some that know me personally and always thought I was a little crazy think I have just lost my mind.   However, until you get there it is extremely hard to explain that when you want more, better and you have tried everything else, and you turn to God and openly turn to Jesus.   One day you don’t know how, you really cannot pinpoint exactly when, but Jesus just happens to be the best part of any day you are given.  

Jesus Happened @Baylor Wilson

Where you know that the spirit that lives within is far more deserving than anything you could possibly be.

Undeserving fully as human and my flesh that always pulls me in a million directions.  Lord I choose to stay  with you as you.   Staying on Him (Christ Jesus) and all that is beautiful and doing the best with moral obedient loving merciful grace in all we try to be and do. Stayed On Him (Isaiah 26:3)  @Terrian

 

Fighting the good fight every single moment to avoid what is dark and filled with hate that is all over this world.     Far from perfect, but I know HE has chosen me, I did not have enough in me to really choose him.  Yet I will stay on him.  Seeking only the guidance that makes sense of when to hold on and when to let go.   

Nothing else can give me the love I chased so many days of this journey.    Nothing Else @Sxxnt & Gatton

 With all the scars, lifetime lessons and just growth to be a better me because of you Jesus.

I am sorry that I so want that love from the outside in as you fill me up from inside out Lord. 

I am so caught up some days I forget to breathe.    To just be still in you and all you bless me with.   To truly know the difference.   I do not want; I deserve nothing but like that 1 out of 99 you allow me life with you.   I so just want all you are Jesus!

 

Hearing you whisper my name through the noise or in the silence takes my breath away. God Whispered Your Name - Keith UrbanNever seeing the physical or hearing anything.  Yet you are there and everything changes.

If only I could paint the picture or write that romance of the greatest soul ever held, kept, and loved beyond anything this world could ever give.

 

Knowing you and all you allow me. Knowing You   @Kenney Chesney

 I must purpose to breathe deeper than ever before.   Trembling at the thought of how I matter to be filled with such beauty.  Even when at times the waves of uncertainty pound everything and everyone around me.   Never sure if I will ever make it back to sure and when I do left to know no matter what.  Everything happens for a reason and we just should not always be chasing to find out what they are.

That sweet dreams ecstasy of life and love here and now through out onto the eternal hemisphere.  I have no clue how to explain any of it; yet the peace the passion and all that is wants the best of all of everything it means.

 

There is not a day I think how I can try to be less like me and more like you Jesus. Less Like Me @Zach Williams

  Yet the deep passion or compassion that flows from this heart with all the hurts habits and hang-ups.  I assure I have been given one too many opportunities, or abilities to keep trying in all the wrong places or maybe for the wrong souls and connections or even reasons. One Too Many @Keith Urban @Pink

Maybe I did lose it a long time ago, sinking deeper into this abyss of what pushes and pulls reality to the edge while dodging the bullets of everyone else’s reality.     Sinking Deep  @Bethel

So much collateral damage, so much unknown, so many needs, wants and everything in between.

Lord if there is only one thing, I could give let it be the abundant love you fill me up with as I cross the oceans for what may never be understood.

Thank you for this day.  Thank you for all you have given me and allowed me to give when I can when I could.  May everything reflect your peace, your harmony and the need and desire to grow forward in and with you and all you send to love.

May we all feel your love like thunder in all we purpose for, to and with Jesus.  Love Like Thunder @RICHLIN ft. Ryan Stevenson

  

03.16.2021_March(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2021

 

Meditation Opportunities

Colossians 3:12 (NIV) 

¹² Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

 

 (@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)

Finding peace in you Jesus~

Philippians 4:13 AMP  “I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency].

Proverbs 17:22  A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up bones.

Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com)

Dry Bones  @Lauren Daigle

Rattle  @Elevation Worship

Heal the World @Michael Jackson

That's How You Change The World  @Newsboys

Pay It Forward - A Song for a Better World @Brian Asselin

We All Bleed The Same ( Healing America Edition )@Alex Boye

Hands  @Jewel

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives or feelings)

Thank you, Lord, for allowing me up and moving forward.  Even if I was wakened at 2am because of others in my house.

Reminded it is not my job to fix or change those who do not wish to let go of the darkness that holds them back or gives them excuses to whatever.

Lord

You know my heart best for each and every soul that tugs on those strings.   Heal and guide each and every need.

As reminded last weekend we started a chain of events just getting a cup of coffee going through the local drive thru.  Someone paid it forward and it rippled through and past me.  

If only our world could be that simple to just one small act of kindness and direction to lift someone up every day we are given.

You Lord can change the world.  But I know we have to want it, we have to turn all that is spinning in our heads, our spirits and being and just learn to rest in you.

That is hard for even the soul that has their doctrine in everything you were, are and ever will be.  Much less that soul who chooses to dive into the world and ignore the promise of life with you.

Sometimes I guess it is easier to just hold onto all we always did or knew than to dare to be different and accept how much better we are or can be for it.

Rattle these dry bones Lord.   My crazy choices of any day sometimes are to be questioned.   Starting my day yesterday in a dental chair before barely being awake and wrapping up with that monthly haircut.  While all the in-between filled up with trying to gain resolutions on how to make something fit, something work for others that ultimately really should be doing it themselves as they have the last say anyway when schedules are filled, people are chosen, help is given.

 

From the puppy that should be a service dog that comes up and just wants to calm you and forces her head and body to hold her still.   To the laughter of those things that really bring joy and laughter.  To that which is still a work in progress and sometimes piles up way too much collateral damage along the way.

None of us really fit any one mold.  The world will stereo type us, Cast judgement and even damn ups or raise us up and depending on who we are and what we do.  We take it and run with it.    Everyone has something that is of value to contribute.    However, we get ahead of ourselves, or at least I do.    Especially when it comes to believing the best in everyone in any day to day.

Knowing iron sharpens iron as do relationships help build us up or absolutely setup us up for self-destruction.   I wonder too often the why does it all matter, or why did it happen.

All the while licking my wounds for that which I thought was something or someone great before I realize I too placed people places and things on a pedestal to somewhat be idolized and leaned on far too much for what the cost of it really turns out to be.

 Be it forgetting that celebrity is human and makes just as many day-to-day choices that make or break them.  Those and especially those that imitate, mock, and pretend they are something or someone they are not.  Those that put everything they are from the depths of their beings into empty promises or believing that square peg really can be forced to work in a big abyss round hole.

Many things are so matter of fact.  While even when you think to long or too much it turns into so much noise and chaos that your very being is the only one that really cares to continue listening to.

We all bleed red; we are all the same but different and more importantly.  It does not matter who you believe in.  We were all given life for so much more than just walking around with doom, gloom and constant madness or being upset.

 

Yes, so what someone else writes or speaks far better than I do.  So, what I have something a little more than someone else.  So, what if or what was or what will be! 

 

At which point do we allow the generosity of the peace and harmony from our ultimate creator to flood this land and just be our best self and be a shred of kindness and hope.

It is really unfortunate that I too have lived in the gloom in many portions of my life.  It is sad that I have seen people take full advantage of humanity.  When people were down and out or even dying.   Like cockroaches when a light is turned on, they come out of nowhere trying to scatter.

Yes 18 years old and went to look at an  efficiency for me and my son to rent back in the day.  And the Landlord met me at the place, and we walked in and when they turned the light on bugs everywhere.       The problem is, they did not see anything wrong with that.    Me I ran.   I do not do bugs.  Matter fact driving down highway 301 in my teens and a spider fell down in front of me and I almost totaled my car.  

The unfortunate thing is when I have seen people and all the belongs just tossed out into a street.  Or someone died and the estate keepers who were paid well to manage everything never did and everything that soul had left for people driving by to rummage through and just take.

Growing un in an inner city and moving back and forth from NY to FL. Well, there has been allot that these eyes have seen and never fully understood.

Life has a filled with curious moments and even more that we would wish we did more or never acknowledged at all.  At least my any way.   People using people, adults using children or just leaving them for the vultures that circle around.  

Even those moments when I as a 9-year-old kid would go next to the elderly neighbor’s home and play cards with them.  When one day the old man stood up and just dropped in front of me and honestly, I have no idea if he made it then or not.    

     I could talk about how in awe I was riding home on a school bus in elementary school in Florida and a bad car crash up ahead as they were covering up a body cut in half.    Or the surprises of family, friends, healing from craziness that can take us over at any given time.    I wish living in those moments really made a difference or had full understanding but sometimes it just is what it is.     What I do know is life is what you allow it to be.

 So, no matter who did or didn’t do to you.   In the end you get to choose if you will walk around shooting hate and getting even.   Or just truly treat others with kindness for no agenda but to just know maybe just maybe.   Your small act may just bring life and allow them to do the same.

No matter how I wanted to shake a someone most days, to have them think like me and step up in directions I would have.    To have priorities to set them.  To want more than what they can get from anyone in the world.   To know their value.

Well, how can I when I still get lost in my own lack of significance and dare to place portions of my life meaning with hopes from those who are only human too.

I can only just keep clinging to what I believe that fills me with peace and allows me a chance to breathe more than I do not.

I can only cling to that which has always been and always will be no matter when nothing or no one else is.      Jesus!

 

I can only keep my faith and hope for all I am connected and fight forward to be stronger, more courageous, hold on tighter and know in the end only kindness and love really matter.  No matter for how long it is allowed.

We are all here and allowed to choose and every one of us will pay the price of their choices.   Love, Live and be a light wherever you can.  We do not have to agree with anyone to be kind.  And no, just because they are whatever it may be.  Does not mean we have to be or do what they are.  We just need to be our best good human self with moral values and no agendas but to love and be a light. 

Maybe seeing a homeless man passed out leaning over last night on a dark sidewalk as I was driving up the highway and all I could do is reach out and let others know.  Is why it really matters we get back to loving and respecting humanity?    Yeah, maybe they choose to be where they are, maybe they have a drug problem.  But maybe just maybe one act of kindness could have made the difference.     May God be with him and all out there like him and anyone stepping in to assist.  

May our hands be used in prayer and building life up and stop allowing anything that is heavy to destroy or weigh anyone down including our own beings.

 

God be with us…

03.15.2021_March(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Monday, March 15, 2021

 

Against All Odds Series-wk. 3 Rebel With A Cause @New Life Christian Church-Spring Hill) 

 

Meditation Opportunities

Acts 4:10,12 (NIV) 

¹⁰ then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.

 

 (@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)

Find peace in the quiet times with Christ.

Zephaniah 3:17  “The Lord your God is with you; he is might to save.  He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.”

Matthew 17:5   While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the could said, “ This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.  Listen to him!”

Matthew 7:7  “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives or feelings)

Looks like nothing is going to change trying to keep up with everyone else and losing myself.    Just to be sitting on that dock and looking out over your creation Father God is a blessing.  Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay  @ Otis Redding 50th Anniversary feat. Jack Johnson

 

Just as getting up another day even if first thing at 8am I am sitting in a dental chair for deep cleaning and check up on how things are progressing.

 

Same but different and revolutionary in every way.  It is what we make it and it is what it is until it is not.  Revolutionary  @Josh Wilson

 

Pulling back the dark is easy but stepping and pushing out into the light and staying there is work in progress.  Each day we are given to get up.  We get to choose to die to self and live for so much more or just stay spinning over things we will never fully grasp, understand, and only know that once we were moments.  Pushing Back The Dark  @Josh Wilson

 

Deeper love, for self, for everyone you connect and even deeper on some occasions when  those once in a lifetime moment just flow through your veins like nothing you will ever be able to explain but it is just what it is… Have You Ever Seen The Rain @Music Travel Love (CCR Cover)

 

To love you forever and beyond.   Forever still waiting, for you to just show up and if that is never in this lifetime here and now.  Only God knows it will be eternal and nothing else will do.  Only He knows the pain of loss, the pain of almost or the chaos of needing, wanting things to work out for those which only he has the control to force but does not.     One thing is for sure in this imperfect world he will make all things as they should be.   Only God Knows @Kid Rock

 

Forgive me for these wandering thoughts that sometimes bring out things that I cannot say myself.    As it all falls apart it really does fall into place.  Even when we remain hiding from what we may never really get a chance to acknowledge all we can do is turn to the one we believe in to take out of our hands.    Out Of My Hands @Jeremy Camp

There is no doubt my flesh leads me so many directions some days more than others.   Wanting so much more, remembering where I have been and how far I have come.  Knowing I am not better or worse than any other living soul on this planet.    Just blessed to know the peace and tranquility that rushes through and over all that I am when I hope in you always and first Jesus.  You Keep Hope Alive @Mandisa @Jon Reddick 

 

God thank you for all the beautiful talented souls that pour so much life into our spirits.  Thank you for the ability to be broken to feel the love and life that comes when you fill the air.   Be with all who need whatever IT should be turned around, in me, in them.  God Turn It Around @ Jon Reddick @Church of the City

 

Maybe I am crazy, to want that pure agape unbridled love that you fill me with from the inside out to really know that with someone from the outside in.  Maybe I am crazy thinking that there really are such connections, such desire equally balanced and knowing when to let go and when to hold on.  More than that 15-minute rush of fame or 15 seconds from that which you pour through your bodies.  That which is about how long it takes someone to replace you in this world full of so many choices and opportunities.  Just knowing that deep awareness as pain shoots through you like that of the deep cleaning and you think they have a jackhammer going off in your head, but do not know why, but that in the end on the other side something healing, something beautiful touches just a portion of who you are, who you wanted to be then you remember what that felt like when you fully understood reality and truth.  Crazy @ Gnarles Barkley

 

I am sure there are days I am certifiable.  Always the landing zone to organize, filter or fix someone else’s needs.    All the while these days just done and so wanting to quit.   Wondering how in the world did I get here.   Coming up through the ranks of life no one ever did squat for me.   Living, breathing, breaking, and healing and that healing part to a lifetime that never started until I really was face down and deeply wanted the touch of God’s blessings.    To want the blessings and be touched by heaven is everyone’s own image.  Some with the more they have the more they are temporary there, others numbing the pain, burying themselves in whatever works until it doesn’t and if they are lucky, they find their way back and find you Jesus.  If they are not, they are taken way too soon.  All the noise of this world, all the chaos organized or not.  Nothing else will do, just that pure truth filling us up, filling me up.  To be touched by you God!  The truth, mercy, and grace even when I do not understand still allows me to know there is so much more wanting to be touched by heaven now and beyond.   Touched By Heaven @ Hillsong Worship

All those little things that add up.  Invited to sing on a stage but don’t sing until the rules and guidelines are met. Teach but only what we give you to mold everyone as we want them to be.  Believe in me even though I will never show up.  Feel well that one sometimes you just have to stop and turn it all off.  We can only tolerate so much pain in this world before we break.  And knowing this and all the pain that Christ took for me, for us.   I am broken in pieces but nowhere near what He has endured for me to live. Crazy to want the same love and peace to rush through all I know.  Even while the depths of this heart seem tangled on mistakes and foolish choices that reality just wanted me to experience for no good reason.  Or those that know my kindness will step up and they refuse to help themselves and I have just had enough.   Lord help all of us sort out what matters and what does not.  Help us shine our lights and act with kindness and be better for it. No matter what that it will be.  May our eyes be on the prize of abundant eternal life and love.   Eyes on You (LIVE) @Legacy Nashville Prayer Room with Dante Bowe

Show me Lord how to be a better version of myself letting go of what is not mine to hold, take or even touch.   All that I am or ever will be is the blessing of Christ himself.   May I never take that for granted.   You make me better than I am or ever should be.    Better Than I Am @Keith Urban