05.17.2021_May(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Monday May 17, 2021 

 

Meditation Opportunities

Romans 11:33 (NIV)  @BIBLEGATEWAY.COM

Doxology

³³ Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and^[a] knowledge of God!
    How unsearchable his judgments,  and his paths beyond tracing out!

 

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

 “ Even now you have access to as much of Me as you have faith to receive.”

Philippians 4:19  And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3:20-21  But our citizenship is in heaven.  And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under this control, will trans from our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

2 Corinthians 5:7  We live by faith, not by sight.

 

 

 Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com)

Zach Williams - The Struggle

Jesus Lover Of My Soul - Awakening Music

To Love A Fool- Album Premiere | Cory Asbury

Tori Kelly - Never Alone

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

The struggles for every single soul each day given is beyond real.   From the survival of war bombing and blowing up innocence just trying to live day to day.  To that which we fight the battles deep within our own beings.

Setting off on a mission be it to fit in or not understand our purpose.   That which we cannot be ourselves free and love each other just for who we are meant to be.   We spin in everything or nothingness trying to be, trying to achieve.

The kid that secretly takes what does not belong to them but having it, wearing it gives them status.

The souls that give themselves away to every being who sweet talks and promises the world left broken, used up and sometimes caring hurting unable to get past it; others make it their way of living for the rush of that five minutes of being held.   

Chasing who we are, chasing who we want to be. 

Jesus Lover of my soul now, then, and always.   I myself need you more now than ever.  Seeking you in all things that are real and seeking you to protect this heart, wash away all that is not meant to be.    

Free those who try to play this world out not believing you within my path.   Pulling in all who walk with you by faith and not by sight.

Forgiveness for the misdeeds, crazy thoughts and jumping off those paths in the journey.  As we know we belong to you to the very end.    Yet we all fall short to your intention and gifts of what will be.

Worship you Lord; that will never be a question.   Until the very end.  You carried me through what I never understood; gave and give me strength.  Allowing me back up each day.   

Those temporal needs, desires where we are not meant to be alone are never meant to be played out as some collector’s game.

Thank you, Lord, for allowing us the very life of each day given even when we try and make it something it is not or should not be.

You alone just want our best selves and to acknowledge who you are, getting to know you.   Appreciating and respecting the gift and vessels we have been granted.

Yet the wars around us, the wars within us.     We run never getting away.

May we dive into you Lord and find that everlasting love and peace so deep no one can fully explain.    It just is.

 

Peace, mercy, and grace in truth for all to all I am connected.   Courage to be real, courage to be kind in those moments we are ready to just react.    Be it thoughtfulness of the words that come out or just restraint for those so layered up all they know to do is dig deeper in the wrong directions.

My own worse critic in so many directions.   Jesus the one truth is how you love God’s creation enough to take on all the hurt, pain and suffering at the cross.   Just so we could possibly find you, accept you and want all that is good within what you offer any given day.

Thank you.

 

I am just a speck of dust in this universe acknowledged even for that split second amazes all that I can be.   Knowing right where we are supposed to be and holding on when things be it our own or others get so tough that we cannot breathe.   

Everything happens for a reason.   Good, bad or that which spins in the great unknown.   All of it belongs in your hands.

We are never alone.

Even when the trolls are under the bridge ready to consume all that we ever will be.  You Jesus are with us.   May we call out to you before taking that step each morning we are allowed back up.

Love those so lost who think this is all they have to get by.      We will never see the pain that you have seen.   You will lead us the way we should go and not at the expense of others.

 

Time in you God is infinite, time here and now should never be wasted for what will not add to the growth and light of any future.   If it does not show up in truth; let it go for it is not meant to be.

Where, how, and when Lord.   Lead me away from how I want to react and through your will and purpose.      Protecting all who call you Abba; even the chosen. Your children cry out silently for the imperfections and choices that were made at the expense of their moment of loss thinking they had gained.    The power the purpose the hurt and the beauty through it all still remains more than anything this world will ever give or take.     At the expense of our souls may we find you now. 

May I always find your hand Jesus as I know it has been you alone that lifts me.    If only and you Lord know the rest of all that is, all that was and all that will ever be to finish that thought.

 

Thank you for this day with so many opportunities waiting to happen, be grasped, be created.  May all I am connected find your will, your beauty, your being deep within the depths of their souls.

Forgive me.  For all of it!   That which has been done through me, to me and from me.    May we rise up in humanity to be something better and want to grow a future of peace and positive growth.  Positive contributions in a society so in need of harmony Father. 

Right next to us or across the pond.   Your hand is upon us; may we have your blessings.  May we call upon you before anything else.   For you and your will not our own. 

05.16.2021_May(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date:  Sunday May 16, 2021 

 

Meditation Opportunities

Zephaniah 3:17 (NIV)  @BIBLEGATEWAY.COM

¹⁷ The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves.
He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you,
    but will rejoice over you with singing.”

 

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

 “ I AM YOUR LORD!  Seek Me as Friend and Lover of your soul, but remember that I am also King of Kings—sovereign over all.”

Revelation 17:14  They will make war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will overcome them because he is Lord of Lords and King of kings—and with him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers.”

Proverbs 19:21  Many are the plans to a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.

Luke 1:79  To shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.

 

 

 Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com)

Tauren Wells, Gary LeVox - Until Grace

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

The power struggles are real around this globe that spins as we are allowed to be part of.   Men against men women and children.  Death will become us.  

So much hurt physically, mentally where this world is fueled on emotions.

 

Emotions just wanting love; Emotions just wanting to survive; Emotions to just want it to stop.

Those wars where what once was brethren living in harmony now hiding in the shadows to take whatever they can.   Children killing children, or parents. 

 

Forget the strangers as the demons grow deeper and humanity says I got it.  The biggest war is within our own beings.    To really know and understand what is or should be.   We must get past and understand none of us were placed on this earth by happenstance.     Throughout time ticking away.    God called us to live, to create life in love and peace.  Acknowledging who He was and all we can and could do through him.

Yet our egos, overshadowed by so much; too much.    Maybe if we did not have so many choices the fight for power, amongst the haves and have nots would well maybe not be?

 

To wake is a blessing; given one more day even when darkness around the world.  Starving children, sick beautiful souls who did nothing wrong are suffering what they never deserved.

No none of us deserve anything.   Good, bad, or indifferent.   Yet some get all that seems everything while others suffer at the mood swings or demons released having nothing.

Where are you God for all those who you call your children, and they suffer this fate?

Where are you people of this world and what is it that you call upon?

We all want what we want, and many times throw temper fits degrading and disrespecting anything or anyone in our path when we cannot receive it.

We all talk a good game and yes; many true with clean pure hands even serving Jesus’ falter and end up in Satan’s sandbox.

Life is more than the power you think you have, the collectibles you have stored in a corner on the shelf somewhere.   Life is more than the toys you will not take with you when you die.

Life is more than that soul you crush or love you thought your money would by.

 

Oh yes life is fun when we can do whatever, whenever, wherever.     All that is temporal that vanishes in the blink of an eye, or the passing wind.   

 

What we do matters, what we believe matters.

Do we cry out or start praying only at the glimpse of trouble or things hurting, harming, not fitting into our plan?  

Do we give thanks and call upon Jesus before even letting our feet hit the floor?

Even if we take off in the day unexpectedly do, we purpose; do you purpose to believe in greater things or do you leave to whatever the world will bring?

 

Have you acknowledged your own power struggles?   Just for the day ahead, or that mission you are on for your own world dominance and be acknowledged on center stage by millions casting out demons like some kind of Hitler rewrite. 

Yes, so extreme how could I wake with such thoughts rushing through this mind maze?

 

One day talking about love, sometimes dreaming of so much more others waking to the realities of war that pour out all around us and at times within us causing those rippling out to everything it touches.

My own loss for what next at times remembering what worked and what doesn’t for me.   Even if it does not; is not working for those put in my charge.

All that was is no more, all those today, become yesterday’s gone.   Tomorrows never promised.  All I have is what is unchanged no matter how many times man tries to rewrite his story.     The love of the father who gave his only son of man to consume pain, sorrow and suffering for the sins we will make just so humanity can live.   Only wanting a relationship with us acknowledging the truth and to be our best selves in peace, harmony and learning and being love.

 

Like the wildflowers across the great rolling hills or the crystal blue waters of the untouched oceans.  Never too late to call upon the God who breathed it all into existence.   Like a butterfly and the metamorphosis that turns nothing into something, darkness into beauty.   Calling upon Jesus can do the same.

I am who I am no matter how many great choices or things done; or how many stupid and foolish.

 

Blessed to even those who have left scars deep deserve life with you Father God.   Be it choices are their own.  

The protection, guidance, and abundant life you have given.   So many stories, even if it hurts.   Blessed to have come to know and want you and all you are in my life each breath given.

 

You know all things Jesus.  From the bone of my bone to the suffering across the globe to your children, to your heart strings  to the universe your promise written said would not be destroyed again.

Lead us Father!

Bigger than cancer, loss of life, harm that scars us for all our days.  You Jesus have been, will be the same then and always.

Peace be still in all who acknowledge you.     Guidance through all the hills and valleys.   

As I fight to get back up each time I am let down, knocked down or fall down only comes as I grasp your hand.

 

May we lead by example?

May we love without agendas?

May we teach our children how to live without all that is temporal?

Yes, we all need purpose father God.    May it be towards your perfect and pleasing will.

Thank you for all that was, will be and is to come.

If this, is it, may you be the sweet honey pouring from my lips feeding the days you allow?

 

May we all come to know what true grace finding us means in you?    Not just those moments filling five minutes of pleasure; 20 years of freedom from pains of this world.   

Grace and life eternal learning to live, learning to love deeply within all you are Jesus.

05.15.2021_May(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Saturday  May 15, 2021 

 

Meditation Opportunities

Ecclesiastes 11:5  (NIV)  @BIBLEGATEWAY.COM

⁵ As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed^[a] in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.

 

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

 “Talk to me about what you are experiencing and ask Me to show you the way forward.”

Revelation 12:10  Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ.  For the accuser of our brothers, who accesses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.”

Ephesians 6:16  In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

James 4:7-8  Submit yourselves, then, to God.  Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.  Come near to God and he will come near to you.  Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

 

 

 Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com)

By the Grace of God - Bethel Music & Brian Johnson | Peace

Keeper of My Heart (Avalon)

CeCe Winans - Believe For It

NEED YOU NOW (How Many Times) by Plumb

Jeremy Camp - Out Of My Hands

Hannah Kerr Ordinary

Hope Darst - Peace Be Still

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

God and life with God; not just talking about it.  Thinking about something and living the experience.  True freedom giving all you are and just breathing in Jesus and all he stood for, suffered for, hung for, died for, and lives for in all who believe in His truth written thousands of years. 

A little like mercy that saving grace when we say nothing at all when we are offended.   When we love the person and not the action.   When we know letting go brings us closer than anything ever captured or trapped.

Thankful for this day just getting up doing whatever routine may be.

Dreaming and my heart smiling knowing out there somewhere someone thinks of me and I can make them smile from their own depths.

Despite what may have been or anything that got missed or misunderstood.   The peace, the love and all the compassion bursting at the seams as I rise and thank the good Lord above for all that is, will be or has come to pass.

 

Into the fire for you Jesus; into the fire with you.  Bringing all that will come… Knowing the only burn will be that great love shining brighter than anyone can fathom.

Keeper of my heart allowing me to feel and taste what is so unseen; yet beyond real.

May the peace within all who I am connected flow from and to you Jesus.

 

Be it I am walking around, running like a crazy fool, or just still watching and absorbing the blessings of all you put in my path and journey.    You Lord beyond religion deeper in spirit and  more full than anything of this world can ever give or take.  

No heights or depths, no building nor man in freedom or force will ever understand you Jesus and what you will always be.

Needing you now is beyond truth; knowing you are always!  Even If, even when…

 

Even if you don’t; yet you get back up and life moves on.  Even if you do and it is not what you thought it should be.  Even when it is beyond everything you anticipated.   Only you and the relationship with Christ Jesus and deeply knowing who He is.  Much less who you were created to be. 

 

Made in the image of God.   He knows every freckle, hair on your head and crazy antic we will ever live with, live out.   No one but our very own beings will ever be able to turn Jesus away from us.

He is, He was, He always will be.    No paperback romance or 90-minute story line on the big screen.    We get to choose who and what we believe in.  How and when we will move or decide if living in the doom or gloom or fight forward into the light…. We own it, we get to choose while we are still allowed life here and now.

 

No matter the whimpers of incomplete journeys, or fallacies falling apart in front of us.   It is what it is until it is not.   Dare to be different, dare to be more than just what you see in the mirror. 

Dare to love beyond all reason.   Deeply in unity with passion so hot you pour out trust and truth.  Agape love for the souls and not what they do.   For better, and brighter without any agenda.

 

If that takes you side by side how beyond everything it comes to be.   Yet if it is only through the airwaves knowing God of Abraham is the same God of you has the world in his hands and you matter.

 

Face down give all you are in thanks and praise to the one that allowed you new breath on this very day.    Everything happens for a reason; we are just not meant to spend our days wasting away trying to figure out what those reasons are.

If you are in a bad way; change it.   Sometimes that calls for us to let go of even those we feel closest to.    Give it all back to God through his son Jesus.

 

Everything we have, everything we are all belongs to Him anyway.   Everything we have here and now from bank accounts to clothing on our backs is all on loan and in the blink of an eye can be gone just like that.   No matter who we are; what our status or who we run with.   No matter what we do, or what we have done.    Just like the floods, the storms and all the unknowns.   We come in this world with nothing, and we leave with nothing.

Be good stewards of who and what we are given while we have it.   And always share with those who need that helping hand.   Kindness matters!

We are not meant to fix anyone.   We are meant to stand by and help them lean and stand where needed.  We are meant to love and be loved. 

What you consume visually, audibly, and physically matters.     Choose wisely and it will help work smarter instead of always harder.  

 

Thank you for this new day and opportunities.   Not sure what, or why or even when.  But I know this day is a blessing and thanks belongs to you Jesus.

And wrapping the day with week for series on Grace from New Life Christian Church Facebook watch  https://fb.watch/5w7w2JXe_R/   Enjoy!

05.14.2021_May(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date:  Friday May 14, 2021 

 

Meditation Opportunities

Psalm 139:13-14  (NIV)  @BIBLEGATEWAY.COM

¹³ For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.

 

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

 “I AM A Mighty GOD.  Nothing is too difficult for ME.”

Luke 1:37  For nothing is impossible with God.

Deuteronomy 31:8  The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will  never leave you nor forsake you.  Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.

2 Corinthians 12:9  But he said to me, “ My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”  Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

 

 

 Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com)

Zach Williams - The Struggle

Colton Dixon - Made To Fly

Maroon 5 - Memories

Lecrae - I'll Find You (Video) ft. Tori Kelly

Natalie Grant - Be One (Lyrics)

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

As I scurry out the door to get my annual heart check today, where 14 years ago I had a 35mm patch put into my heart to keep from bleeding out into my lungs.   I think how careless and carefree I was. 

At some point I grew up, not because of the heart.  No, I was born with a broken heart and lived with it all my days until 07.

At the time I was finally giving in and going for surgery I had enough of this world.   And had it all planned out telling God who I never really knew then it would make sense if I died on the table and although some would hurt; everything would fall into place.

Yes, that was me always planning my life and always finding my plans were not always best.    It took a 4-year-old then to convince me that I was needed for more than just the mundane that was happening.

So, I asked God if He was going to keep me alive to give me purpose.  Cause at that time all I had was what the world said…

 

Well then here I am 14 years after a 4-hour surgery and 6 hours after it was done, I hit the floor running.  And this morning heading off to see what has been going on.   

 

It is what is until it is not…. I have been chasing my own demons and running into healthy choices and running away from them too.

   Just that cycle of life, I guess.    However, I will have to think out loud a little more when I get back….from just a basic scan to make sure the scar tissue that grows within us does not create  block on what keeps me alive.    

 Always something right… For every good thing, there is always a risk of something.  We all get to choose if we will try and make the best of every situation.  We get to choose if we will spin or move forward.   None of it changes what we feel, only that of what we do.

 

So, as I am having this echo done and listening to my tech who I see once a year ramble on in our conversations about this pandemic, masks, and vaccine.    We both did agree we all get to choose what we do for our own beings.   For me outside of guidelines that could limit life choices itself and/or even impact where you can go, what you can do or even employment of those who work for companies that require you to mask up or take the vaccine.

It comes down to personal conversations with those closest to you.  Your husband, your wife; your children and the possible future of what will their world be like if you need to depend on public schooling or events, yet you flatly refuse to follow the government and those CDC guidelines put out across the world.

We all have to pick our own poison for ourselves and for those babies we were given to govern and be good stewards of.   None of which is any business of those far left or right or in the middle.

 

If I chose to have the vaccine and I shorten my life span no matter what my faith, or day to day.  It is on me.     If I had littles and chose to not and I get sick or make them sick and they are left to a very cruel world.   Well, that is a choice they are stuck with.

 

So, for all those who fit that new me term out there Karen’s which is bizarre;  where honestly just unstable wanted to be heard personalities demanding their way is the only way would even have a name.      Well, all I know is I don’t like conflict.    I fought my way through life just to survive.   Now that I have some wits and common sense, I hate being challenged over things that are no one else’s business much less wasted time none of us can afford to lose.

 

For me I know how I was with my temper and not holding back in my youth and God, it scares me to know if I am set off how bad I can be.    So, I just choose to find peace in harmony of any days I am given.  

The struggles in any one day any one souls’ life are real.  Even if many choose to look past just to get where they want to be.   I personally cannot take on anyone else’s burdens, but I certainly will never purpose to step all over any one to get anything I think I may want.  Never have been that kind of person, never will be!   No matter who or what I encounter…

 

Although Christ is ultimately the pilot, captain of all our vessels.  That freedom of choice allows us to invite him in and take flight.    No matter what we choose to get us through, keep on keeping on or staying curled up buried in what robs us from our lives.    We were made to fly but we have to release the baggage that holds us back from doing so. 

  We need that positive anchor that locks the demons out and feeds our spirit with hope so bold we never look back in regret.  We all need Jesus!

Memories are a beautiful thing; we can grow from them, learn from them; love from them and most of all build life from all that is, all that was into all that can be.     No matter what we are investing our time in.  People, places, or things… We all own the choices we make.  Even if the intentions were good or bad for that matter.   For every choice there is an end result and most times it will never be exactly how our minds eye dreams it up.

 

If it’s meant to be it will be.   In the meantime, find your peace and acknowledge the mercy and grace only the peace of God brings.    You do not have to give up life to build that relationship with Him.   Yes, to live you must die to the ways of the world.  However, it does not mean life ends.  It means our choices become clear and when we mess up, we grow and own who and what!   

Never shortchange yourself and boxing in all the opportunity or ability you have deep within.   Know who you were created in the image of and if you know; own the relationship to grow you forward.

Good bad or indifferent!   Let love find you through the ultimate lover of all our souls.

 

Fight a little longer even if this is your last second…Hold on to the light and all that is good.   Be that one when you cannot find someone to be it for you.

Yes, it gets tiring and wears you down.  But it is so worth it in the end to get back up and know the truth.

 

Fight longer, fight harder holding on tight even if just threads to the rob of the one true king.  Christ Jesus!

That is my thoughts out loud this day…

Happy blessed Friday.   Until next time may you find your peace and love wherever you are.