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Date: Saturday July 10th , 2021
Motivation Movers
& Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)
Creed - One Last
Breath (Six Feet From The Edge)
Riley Clemmons -
Fighting For Me
This I Believe The
Creed Lyrics Hillsong Worship
Chris McClarney ~
I'm Listening (Lyrics) Ft. Hollyn
Zach Williams -
"Face To Face"
Casting Crowns ~
Even When You're Running
Daily Journal/Thoughts/
Prayers (Thinking out
loud)
Happy birthday wherever you landed when you left this world P.
Fiacco. Find B. Augello and celebrate
the opportunity of change his birthday is coming up on the 12th.
Not even sure after all these years why I am thinking of my old middle-school
buds. But I remember the day called your
birthday. And I am not sure, but I
heard you left this planet too and I know Rocky did. I remember getting the call when I was
having mojito in the islands that he lost the fight of life when he finally
started to fight for living.
Sadness of so many unnecessarily taken so early. But hey who am I. Maybe it’s the other way around. Not really knowing what God sees in everyone’s
hearts. They say only the good die
young. That would be truth for Jesus as
he was only 33 at the time his death was logged.
Our time is up when God is done allowing us to be here. Prayerfully knowing that little dash called
life is so short and so unexpected.
Prayerfully we are being our best selves; with all good intent and shining
bright to help grow things for the future and legacy of planting behind us.
I personally do my best even if, even when. Though I get all twisted up and try to make
things that they should not be or really are not. And miss the mark so damn often. God has favored me still to live. All the time that should have taken me out;
all the things that have broken me. Even
those times of being shallow and looking at others like art or candy.
Until then they open their mouths or their actions or lack of
speak louder than any words I could begin to write.
Me although some of them have taken pieces of this mind, heart
and even spirit at times. It is not me
that has to worry about judgement. I fully
believe in Christ Jesus and we all will meet him face to face at the gates when
we live.
We, our children, our children’s children as our elders and
ancestors long before us. Will all be
called to the foot of the cross and not at the moment we seek redemption to truly
follow Jesus. But even after to speak
with Jesus about all those things we did out of lust and selfishness.
So why are we not trying to put the puzzle of life into
beautiful opportunities for those coming up behind us. Why do we get it so twisted and lost? My sadness watching so may beautiful young
talented souls and not just for creative arts.
But brilliant minds lost to drugs, demons and the lies of Satan that
cause them so much unrest and sickness.
Choices matter!
If I only knew then what I know now…
Mad absolutely I get mad about the things I end up needing at
times. And more so because I am not that 20 something with so many more years
ahead indestructible, taking the hits and getting back up to fight just to keep going and never
let anyone be the one to take me out.
Close calls and sometimes on the edge.
Yes, I was that teenager trying to kill myself because life as I
knew it sucked. Never having anyone
the alone became my biggest demons.
Funny now because once I learned I was never alone; I cannot see myself
anywhere else. Even if life is not what
I dreamed it could be.
Beyond close calls where friends I hung out with pulled me from
the bottom of a pool under the influence, or from behind the wheel of a car, or
what about even 4 days before my 15th birthday being ejected from a
van that the drunk driver bringing me home from a party lost control. Waking up sliding down the pavement in
Ravena NY. How anyone survived who
knows. There was a big ole boat motor
in the back of the van that could have easily well you know.
Guns to head, beaten down for standing up for respect. Or just broken in pieces when I finally
thought I would never be alone, giving myself away and only getting married
once to that forever. To learning
fleeing was the only way I could stay alive and give my children half a chance
to know that there really is good in the world and that was not it. It was just not the will of life’s law for
me to be so. Crazy as it was and crazy
as it seems now.
Every single soul I have connected no matter how. All were created by the same God that breathed
life into dust creating man and woman.
Every soul no matter what they allowed the world to consume them with
did not start out with bad intentions.
No matter what the movies say and yes, I believe that we can be
chemically imbalanced, and we need medications to help us be our best
selves. But that is because we have
altered the state of what was pure and true that God intended.
Just because you are a King or Queen of Christian Hip Hop, Country
or any other venue that has made you something in this world and you think it
is leaving a legacy where music helps grow hope in the lives around the world. Never
does not mean you are not human and subjected to making wrong choices. Or that you do everything write and those
you were blessed with get caught up and cannot break free in choices that will take
them out.
Just because you born in the ghetto maybe even in a back alley
with nothing. Or in the streets of violence where gun shots are the day to day normal. It does not mean your surroundings and what
you do, or others do will be your final destination.
Choices matter. In truth
or lies that you pretend to be. Living
your best life with someone really for you or just those that hold the house of
cards and doing what they do for all that is temporal and the image the world
painted. Be it they think they have everything, yet
nothing is right around the corner. Or
they have everything in the nothing and the truth and life are better than real
and pretense.
You still get to choose.
You can either get back up every time someone pulls that magic carpet
ride you are on out from under you. Or
you can roll with whatever life is throwing at you.
It is not easy. Hell no. We all want to mean something and be
something and be known for something in this world while we are here. Sometimes it consumes so much we sell our
soul and do not even know until we are trapped and cannot turn back.
If only I wonder sometimes.
And yes, I beat the hell out of my own self with those high expectations
that I falter and give in to what cannot ever be. Yet for a few moments in time, I ride the wave
living in ecstasy imagining just how awesome it would be. Even if all the signs say this is what it
should be. While others pull the vail
back and the truth releases the light on what really is.
Thankful for all the broken heart moments and looking back in
now where there moments I was crushed and so desperately need you Jesus and you
showed up. For myself, for my
family. For those I see in passing but would
never come to know and for those I spent so much time and seen them just open
the door to you and life changed forever.
Knowing you does not mean things of this world will not
happen. Great sadness, harm and even wrong place wrong
time collateral damage won’t occur. But
what it does mean is the strength and courage to get back up even when you are
exhausted and cannot see the hand reaching down to pull you up. You believe in love, in hope and that blind
faith allows you to make it up and over the top and have moments where you know
you did not deserve a thing. Yet every
day given is a gift and you become thankful.
Letting go of the me’ism can be dangerous because for awhile you
float so freely for everyone else, those with not so kind and best intentions
for anything but their own personal demons to be filled. But at some point, when you never let go
of Christ Jesus. Even when you forget he
has hold of you. You learn no matter
if it is Greenville NC, Tennessee, or across the pond or right in your own back
yard. The truth will always set you
free and anything in the dark will always come to light.
That no matter what you feel in the here and now; being allowed
back up and finding how to be truly thankful for the moments, the memories, or
even the blessings planted during the last storms. You know it is what it is; until it is
not. And you will always love wide open
with deep rooted dreams to find that one to be loved from the outside in and
work together in the balancing act of life.
Through it all learning to grow forward as you find yourself.
Stop chasing a better life; love, honor and respect the one you
have been given. Not everyone gets that
chance to do so. Chasing paper, stardom,
freedom well; the freedom is right where you are when you call upon the one who
allows us to just breath lets us up another day.
Even when you are running, and it feels like home. Peace deep within and that rush of
overwhelming abundant love. Washes through
you awakening all your senses looking back, looking forward.
Looking up! Never stop
looking up. You can stop blaming everything
and everyone. You can stop trying to
take, trying to be but never stop trying to get back up and fight forward even if
you do not know where that will take you.
Never forget where you have been.
Love the souls you have been given.
Love them for who they are not what they have done or will do.
Pray for them and seek the peace and mercy for all you are given
as you have been given every day you are allowed to seek new opportunity by
just waking up.
Cody Carnes - Run
To The Father
Meditation
Opportunities - Biblegateway.com Daily Verse
Philippians
1:6 (EXB - EXPANDED BIBLE)
6 God began doing a good work in you, and I am ·sure [confident; persuaded] he will continue it until it is ·finished [completed; perfected] ·when Jesus Christ comes again [L on the day of Christ Jesus; C the final day of judgment and reward].
Meditation
Opportunities Daily Devotion @Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)
“Relax in My peaceful presence. Do not bring performance pressures into our
sacred space of communion.”
2 Thessalonians 3:16 NKJV Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you
peace always in every way. The Lord be
with you 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.
John 15:13-15 “Greater love has no one than this, that he
lay down his life for his friends. You
are my friends if you do what I command.
I no longer call you servants because a servant does not know his master’s
business. Instead, I have called you
friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made know to you.”
