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Date: Wednesday July 14th , 2021
Meditation
Opportunities - Biblegateway.com Daily Verse
John
15:10 (EXB - EXPANDED BIBLE)
10 I have ·obeyed [kept] my Father’s commands, and I
·remain [abide] in his love. In the same way, if you
·obey [keep] my commands, you will ·remain [abide] in my love.
Motivation Movers
& Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)
TobyMac - Help Is
On The Way (Maybe Midnight)
TobyMac, Jordan
Feliz - See The Light (RUSLAN Remix/Audio)
Come Alive (Dry
Bones) (Lyric Video) - Lauren Daigle
Another In The
Fire (Church Online) - Hillsong UNITED
THE STAND -
Hillsong UNITED - LIVE IN MIAMI
Do not remember the past events, pay no attention to things of
old. Look, I am about to do something
new; even now it is coming. Do you not
see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the
wilderness, rivers in the desert.
(Isaiah 43:18-19) @Jen Schmidt Just Open The Door
No matter how often we open the door, and our good intentions or
courteous loving ways are used or missed.
There is always something good to learn, to be, to do in everything that
transpires.
Even when we don’t feel it!
No matter what it is and sometimes we just cannot put a name for
it. There is always purpose in all
the joy, temporal anything or nothing at all and even in the pain.
Never stop looking up seeking all that is hopeful and brighter. Never stop listening to the words and work of
God and all creation to speak to you.
Never stop praying to be drawn near to all that grows beautiful
without cost or impact at the expense of other human life.
That alone needs prayer 24/7…
I know in my silence or noise that static that creates chaos or
contributes to anything positive. Well,
I am constantly needing to just feel the presence of all Christ is in and with
me.
Love and peace so deep like laying back on a hot summer day in
the cool spring brook looking up at the beauty of skies that wrap the earth with
all the hope floating in the clouds of what was, what is and what will be.
So grateful I keep trying to fight forward. So grateful that God has over time sent so
many angels from his army to help get me back up, back on track to do anything
or nothing at all.
I won’t ever understand allot.
But if I was not to be part of it.
If I were not to create or help, make it happen. If all it was for more color to come into my
world. So be it. Sure, the hair is up on my neck with caution
and the wall built so tall I cannot even get over it any longer.
But nothing in life just happens. Ever…
Own the blessings in every single scenario and when you do not
see them ask God to reveal in you what was meant to be. At the very least seek peace and the path to
move onward and let go of what was yesterday that is gone and if it has not
come to life then. Do not waste any
future on holding and waiting. Be your
best self and live life.
No that does not mean go out and party it up, giving yourself away
in every possible way thought of. Or be
consumed by anything that controls the life you were given to live.
You can live life and miss, love and be all you want to be
without giving pieces of yourself away to all that will rob or haunt you for
the remainder of days you are given.
Yes, abstinence when it comes to sexual promiscuity. And yes, have a drink with friends here and
there or go have a great time visiting, entertaining, even dancing or anything
you find fun. But you don’t have to be
out there taking or giving anything, you are away to live.
Loyalty, respect for self and the temple you were given to travel
within comes first and by all means always respect your brothers and sisters even
if they are not blood. They are human
and created with the same beautiful intentions by the very same God of this
universe as we were.
The very same Jesus that hung on that cross, died, and came back
three days later and will rise again for all who was alive when it took place
as we are today; loved no less and meant for so much more then just being like
anyone or everyone else. More than
riding on the coattails of anyone or what they do.
When you do what you do, and you feel it through the atmosphere,
and it never let’s go. Maybe waking you
in the sound of a deep sleep or in the middle of any day. No matter who stands by to their word or they
make up their own definition of loyalty and truth.
Jesus is, was and always will be here and now or on the other
side of eternity.
We here and now can claim, promise our lives and anything we are
blessed with away for everything that lasts our lifecycle or just moments in
time that leave pain throughout every beat of our hearts while here.
Facts will always be facts… and there will always be someone, something
that hurts and hopefully prayerfully even more that just fills you with much
more than what takes away from the moments you are given.
Anyone that reads any pieces of me, realizes I am all over the place,
but one fact is somewhere along the line I was blessed to hear the calling of
Christ Jesus. And even if I cannot touch
the physical being. His spirit lives
within me. That God no matter anything;
not just what. If you let go of what
you think makes sense and grasp on to faith deep in hope of all that is written
for more than you or I will ever be around to justify if time is what is needed
for the world to believe.
When you get there, you know.
Be it all of the times you realize should have been it. Maybe all those you loved so much that when
bad things happened you are crushed broken and as you see you in the mirror you
no longer recognize what it all means or who the new you as you pick up the
pieces and keep trying to live even though you want to die.
What about love when you give yourself away just to be loved and
hear all those empty promises and after a day, a year, or even seconds that
other soul reflects their truth. That
unfortunately selfish ambitions to collect and use up whatever they can get for
free takes over and all you have is that what you turn into ever lasting
lessons.
No matter what your burdens, choices, mistakes, or the scars of
the collateral damage that caught you by surprise of just living life or being in
the wrong place at the wrong time.
Lift your eyes up. Never
stop looking up. At one point and time
or another it is hard for everyone.
Some have it much harder than others.
Some just don’t want to deal with at all so they float and ride the
waves of whatever they can consume before it consumes them. And it will!
It always does…
It does not matter who we are; we all have to fight forward for those
who need help and support as well our own beings. Not in anger, not in strive, not in bitterness
because life does not go according to the plans set forth.
Damn if I was mad over every single moment something didn’t turn
out. I would have dried up and
disappeared a long time ago. I have to purpose daily, and it does not
always win that happy joy, joy smiling moment. Some days I am so exhausted and discouraged
feeling like I could be so much more if I just became more selfish and forget
everyone else and just ran off living for myself.
Remembering all the times I did do that and was so stinking
blessed undeservingly in my youth. And no,
I am not old, but I have lived enough to know that it is God who breathes life
into these dry bones that will return to the dust they once were breathed to life.
Come alive and really live!
What does that look like for you?
Are you in a dead-end relationship where you cannot stand each other but
you tolerate each other because of maybe the kids, maybe you have too much financial
equity that you know neither of you are willing to take what you truly worked
for but want everything the other has?
How about being stuck in that domestic emotional and/or physical
relationship that is going to destroy you in the end. But you feel you have no where to go so you
just hope for the best that it will get better.
Living on the streets, you lost everything not by anyone’s fault
but just how life works sometimes, or maybe you have lost everything you think was
all that gave you life and you don’t know how to get back on track.
If you got back up today and you have air in your lungs. No matter how much it hurts to breathe. God has purpose and plans for you. Call out to him and ask him to show you the
way. Today, right here, right now and
any tomorrow’s you may receive.
It won’t be any easier, but you will find a strength deep within
that no one will ever be able to take from you…
His grace that surrounds and consume and protects all that you were meant
to be.
Take the stand for something positive not to prove anything to
anyone but to lead the way. No matter what
it costs you in the world. Dare to be
different… Dare to be your own person.
Dare to love without an agenda, Dare to accept love without ever really
knowing what it means.
Dare to be you as I will always continue to Dare as I also will
always be me. Always as I was, always as
I can be, always as I might be. Just always
just me Kelly.
I never picked it, planned it, never any goals with someone supporting,
pushing, and helping along the way. Yes,
sure wanted to be a vet, wanted to go into the peace corps, wanted to fall in
love and have a family and live and love with that one forever. Wanted to be something different, something
that gives light and not constantly needing to keep up and be like anyone else.
No matter what I picked, became, or even am classified in this
great world of judgement. I will stand
surrendered to the one who called me his own.
For Christ bled out on that cross in great hope of humanity, love, and
kindness and all he believed could be.
In awe, never enough that I could ever come close. Despite what I want, what I dream, who I am
or who I loved or love. Christ Jesus
is the reason we are allowed to choose and why we are allowed to just breathe
even on the days we seem to be drowning.
Kindness matters in the logical world of things. We all do what we do, and it matters. But do not let it consume you so much that
you are no longer you but that of what the world says you have to be. And if you do… just be good, kind and be a
light even when you cannot find one. Dig
in and fight forward until you do.
Meditation
Opportunities Daily Devotion @Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)
“Whenever you feel distant from Me, whisper my name in loving trust.”
Proverbs 18:10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the
righteous run to it and are save.
Acts 4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under
heaven given to men by which we must be saved.
John 16:34 “Until now you have not asked for anything in my
name. Ask and you will receive, and your
joy will be complete.”
