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Date: Tuesday August 10, 2021
Meditation
Opportunities - Biblegateway.com Daily Verse
Psalm
46:1 (NLV) New Life Version
God Is with Us 46 God is our safe place and our strength. He is always our help when
we are in trouble.
Motivation Movers
& Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)
Light us up Lyrics
Matrix & Futurebound
Tasha Layton //
Look What You've Done
"Just
Breathe" - Live At Austin City Limits - Pearl Jam
Babe Rexha - Meant
To Be (Lyrics) ft. Florida Georgia Line
Keith Urban - To
Love Somebody
Consumed By Fire -
He Waits For Me-The Ward Brothers
Reflection lyrics
by Christina Aguilera
Rend Collective -
Counting Every Blessing
Daily Journal/Thoughts/
Prayers (Thinking out
loud)
Thank you, Lord,
for allowing me back up another day.
If one thing is for
certain, there is nothing in this day to day that is not touching, crazy or even
chaotic.
Thank you for all
you allow me each day I am given.
Waking this morning
finally able to rest after that sick kid of mine got out of the hospital and
just needed to get away and although still no diagnosis of what makes her
severely chronically ill.
They jump into a
vehicle taking their little and one of the dogs to drive almost 1300 miles to
see their grand parents that we are blessed to still have with us. My mom and stepdad.
What should have been
an 18-hour road trip for someone driving straight through because they have no
money or way to stop over and make an adventure of it. Took almost 30 going and longer coming
back. Just for the fact they had to
keep stopping to rest going but, on the
way, coming back started getting sick and could not drive. But finally, the pets, the kids made it
home safely and whatever will be will be.
One thing is for
sure. None of us are getting out of here
alive. And no matter what anyone thinks
about how you love your brothers, your sisters, your mothers, your fathers your
sons, your daughters. Well, that is up
to you if you do or if you do not. But
life is a precious gift and to be able to love those given to you well or as
well as they allow. Even if you do not like
or love the choices they make. That is what we are created for.
No, we should not
condone or condemn bad behavior and we should encourage all we are allowed close
with to always be their best self and seek what helps them grow forward. Not ignore the yellow lights or flaming red
they are about to run through and destroy any chances of what they dream.
It is
not our jobs to force anyone. Unless we
are the gifted parents and then we must direct our children up in loving
obedience. Showing them how to grow
for themselves and not ride the wings of entitlement to where when the are
falling the only thing they can do is hide behind some drug or lifestyle that eventually
destroys them.
Besides the fact when
we only allow our blessings to live in our shadows, they will never know who
they are for themselves or how to get what they need for themselves without
trying everything that we work at sometimes miserably failing with.
Be it
relationships, careers, fame, talent, or just trying to live as simple and full
as possible.
Teach and raise
them up knowing choices matter and to never look down on anyone for anything. Even if it is horrible. Teach them who God is and who his son
Jesus Christ is. Let them choose for
themselves and pray non-stop they too want to meet them right where they are.
Every single soul
on this planet has a battle they do not talk about, or some do. Some write about them some keep it hidden and
rarely disclose the hidden pains, dreams, desires. Some try and get let down while others
broadcast it across the world and act out like they have the rights and
abilities for the world to see them with the excuses layered up why they do what
they do. While others, well you get it
hope. We all got a name; we all got a
story. Love people for the same reason
Jesus did what he did so you could be something and loved here and now.
It is no secrete I
think humanity is the most beautiful artwork abstract and lined with so much
mercy and grace and colors that can transpire there can be in this giant canvas
of life we are given. Yet knowing when
the lines get blurred or we are chasing something to make us feel wanted, better,
loved, needed, just to feel something different. We get all twisted and sometimes become ugly
where the colors of who we are do not mix well with what the elements we are mixing.
That when we give
all we are into this photoshopped dreamscape and it works well for a year, ten twenty
even longer and one day you realize it is not just because of you but because
of what you can do for them. Sometimes
what leaks out messes with the colors of who we are, and we go outside the line’s
life was meant to be.
If I could change
anything in my life is that I wish I had met Jesus early on in my life and that
when I married it would have been a God-Fearing God knowing man that we could have
fought forward together. Loving can
hurt though and when you put everything into something or someone only to find
you were never what they intended; just what you can do or the fact you cannot
be or do what they want you to be or do.
Because there is no moral value or regard for humanity outside their own
demands and force of nature they have exploding at the slightest whim.
Anyway. Life is what it is, and I did not meet Jesus
myself until my early 30s and by then I had already chased love and been
married and divorced twice to those damn good-looking bad boys who in the end
might have been really fun but really once you were trying to be true,
faithful, and real. They wanted no part
of anything they didn’t think of or that allowed their image to reflect about
them.
No regrets for I
lived, I loved, and some may think I lost but actually I gained purpose to drive
forward. If I have any regrets its
that I ended up raising up my children and having to teach them what not to be
like.
That costs some
broken pieces along the way and reframed the canvas that we all are given to
have some colorful jagged edges.
I have never been
one looking for perfection. Just that
we all see the perfection and image we are created in a kind, beautiful canvas full
of so many opportunities where we grow and blossom, fade and come back bolder,
and brighter than each time we are over watered, or choked out by the weeds in
life.
We unfortunately do
not all get to find out how to do that before we encounter the damage of what
we have allowed done to our mind, bodies, and spirits to absorb. Some suffer throughout, some are taken way
to soon and some finally figure it out and are taken. Others stay miserable using and abusing
anything in their way; and some are blessed to share thoughts and perspectives
and the blessings of how choices matter no matter what the storm.
What happened
yesterday is gone. Today if you have
been given the chance to breathe and get back up. Use it!
Pause when you
cannot breathe! Pause when you
can!
I am that one that
takes off running for all the good and getting it done without a doubt. I even after all these years am learning to
Pause and just breathe.
I know my limitations
and the fact is. I will fight for what
is in front of me. But I also know I
cannot force anything to change, force anything to come to life, force anything
to be.
If it is real it
comes to life not just in a movie, story or even those dreams music takes you to
and through.
As a parent I
cannot force; nor would I ever force my children to think a certain way or be a
certain way. But I will always remind them
about choices and how they matter and that we are all responsible for what we
do or do not do. I will always hurt when
I watch others suffer; and I will always worry when innocence can be put in harm’s
way and try to do my part to shield, lead, or whatever you want to call
it. For those that have been blessed
into my life.
No matter the
landslides of life try and take us out when we see our reflection through the
eyes of God, we find purpose and strength and all the beauty knowing his love,
his peace through his granted salvation of mercy and grace. We can be, we can do, and we are more than anything
this world would ever be allowed to give or take.
For that alone to
love, who we are and know what loyalty, respect, perseverance holding tightly
to the promises of our unchanging creator,
Lord, Savior, and redeemer. We will
build our hopes and dreams through the storms no matter how much it hurts. As long as we do our very best in never let
go.
May we find what
brings us every lasting peace and the mercy of your hand Father. Guide us in your will lighting it up along
the way for all who desperately need to feel your hope and peace.
Show us how to put
all the broken pieces back into that special stained-glass path leading us to
all that allows us to just breathe in the beauty and wisdom life has to
offer. And when we are coming close to
the end. May we find strength to hold
onto love and those who gave us life and promise along the way. Most importantly may we make a difference
for those who are here and now going through it. Whatever it may be. May we continue to get back up and push
through the pain and be consumed by you Jesus.
For all the broken
families who lost something or everything someone or everyone in this pandemic.
For all the
brokenness in families of loss to drugs or self-infliction lost to the world
and darkness before they could recover and paint out their own stories for others
to heal by.
For all who are
giving up. May they give up to you
Jesus.
For the transitions
of life going into brokenness or coming out of it. For all the change of losing vision, losing
mobility, losing ourselves. Father God
show us the purpose for the pain.
For all those we
were so needing, wanting, believing that are no where to be found. Fill every gap as you catch ever tear
leading us through the whispers in the dark or the bold sunlight of the mountains.
In all things this
day and all days forward. Christ be with
all I am connected; but more importantly.
Thank you for always being. For hearing,
guiding, bringing us out of the fires unscathed. Bringing us home and letting us on this
day once again just breathe.
Forever My Sweet Soul
King keeping me in the moment, knowing what you do by doing nothing at all in
the here and now but love beyond all time and space in the depths of so much
that can and will be. Or that of what we
must let go. You are everything then, now,
and forever will be. No love has ever touched humanity as you do. Where it begins it ends, as where it ends it
has begun. What will be will be. The only way to see who we are is to look through
the reflection of Christ Jesus. Light
us up Jesus!
Meditation
Opportunities Daily Devotion
@Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young
“Relax in My healing, holy presence. Allow Me to transform you through this time
alone with Me.”
Romans 12:2 NKJV And do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good
and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Psalm 52:8 But I am lake an olive tree flourishing in the
house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love
for ever and ever.
Ephesians 5:15-16 NKJV See then that you walk circumspectly, not as
fools but as wise, redeeming the time , because the days are evil.
Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and light for
my path.
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You ask if I
am alright and as I cross your mind here and there you reach out to just
reflect maybe I may have a glimpse of importance to your life.
When every
soul has a here and now and only words that you painted and made so steadfast
in the beginning colored my world. For that brief moment in time. I looked up and was walked out of the desert
reminding me how these dry bones were ready to come alive.
But as soon as
I turned away the truth that blows the wind fulfilling my destiny opened my eyes
in the to the bright lights reckoning the painful truths. With just the smallest idolization even for
the gift of harmonic balance that allows every heart to beat. The truth that sets us free is what could
never be.
When it is too
good to be true those moments of finding the deepest parts of ourselves and not
what we do, not what we can have, not for anything more than realization the
only truth is how we react with the choices we make. Good, bad, or indifferent.
Love to the depths
of the deepest soul or wider that the widest ocean. When someone would bleed for you, die for
you; just to feel every beat of the heart that allows you to know you are no
longer dead to the world but have purpose.
Consumed by
the beauty and notes of all that lifts us up.
Tragically destroyed because of pretense and never really showing
up. Love cuts deeper than life itself;
while the balance of the scales also weighs out that love heals all wounds.
Without life
there is no love even the action the verb of the thought does not exist. Without love giving hope away and wanting,
desiring, sharing precious moments in time that no one else may ever know,
where you may never feel that what burns in the depths of what makes your heartbeat.
From the outside in. All because this world we call our home
signifies everything by presentation and what we have and never just to be who
we were really meant to be.
It is what it
is. I am who I am, as you are who you
are. Life forever changed yet here and
now still unchanged by happenstance that someone took a stand for truth wanting
all that is good, all that is pure all that is blessed and level-set by the
blood of Jesus.
He did not die
to promise us life on half truths or take what was given for the good of someone
to someone else. Never will Christ ever
bless the deeds of what is hidden in the dark, lies that are so smooth lives
are destroyed beyond repair.
To love somebody the way I love you. Beyond redemption, beyond conception, beyond
reality of all the deception. For I am a
bride of Christ. Rippled and worn, full
of life yet most days hidden tears and torn.
Nothing is
free in this world. Yet my life was paid
for by the one who hung on the cross so I could choose, so I could remember
what was and what can be. So, I could
forever miss you. In love with a dream
kept within the lines of harsh realities.
Forever in my
soul, forever in my dreams. Wishing,
wanting, praying, staying the course.
Maybe someday will be whatever it will be. But until then I cannot speak to what I
cannot see. Never wanting to wake up
for this is one of my dreams. Just create,
emulate life the best you can no matter how broken or strange it seems.
