Thursday, August 19, 2021

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Date: Thursday- August 19, 2021

 

 

 

Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

1 John 5:12  (NLV)  New Life Version

12 He that has the Son has life. He that does not have the Son of God does not have life.

1 John 5:12  (KJV)  King James Version

12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

1 John 5:12  (MSG)  The Message Version

11-12 This is the testimony in essence: God gave us eternal life; the life is in his Son. So, whoever has the Son, has life; whoever rejects the Son, rejects life.

 

Meditation Opportunities Daily Devotion

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

“This spring flows freely from My thrown of grace, so your Joy is independent of circumstances.”

Psalm 131:2  But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Psalm 21:6  Surely you have granted him eternal blessing and made him glad with the joy of your presence.

Psalm 37:4   Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do no fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.

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

 

Motivation Movers & Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)

The Pretender | Jackson Browne 

Keith Urban - Wild Hearts

NEEDTOBREATHE - “I Am Yours”

for KING & COUNTRY – Joy

Gratitude - Brandon Lake

 

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

Anything can happen in this life, and it will mean something when you truly believe and share your hopes, your light and all that is good leading the way for those still drifting and unsure how to get there.

 

Man, what a powerful lyric “Sometimes I’m under starlit sky but feeling more like dirt.”   “So why do I still try to prove I don’t deserve your time.”   Cause I Am Yours, and you are mine!!!

 

I can lead the way all day long until it comes to my own self following the possibilities in feeling 24/7 that what I do matters and all that which goes with it.

 

No does not mean I do not believe it; just means my human side takes over for more often than the known courage and promises of God and how to react or be in any specific situations.  Be it work, be it day to day, be it words or lack of or actions and response or lack of.  Or even that of too much of anything above…

 

Most days are a world wind, being my own worse critic and purposed to succeed and overachieve in my day to day always deep down knowing to reflect the best I can be and pushing the boundaries just to stay accepted, needed, and not replaced.     Dealing with the many critics or imposed perspectives of the many you cross paths within every part of your day.

Be it how you say or ask something; be it how you walk, how you look, how you ???

 

While all the while Jesus you are always and forever on our, on my side!   None of us really know what is around the next corner although I try not to worry about the small stuff.  Sometimes the small stuff of others takes over the space and views of where we need to see up ahead.    And when we realize what is there, we just scramble far too much to people please, overachieve, get it done and move on.   Yet in this world we live nothing is ever just that simple without leaving some sort of a mark along the way.

Where is the Joy not the 5 minutes of happiness any persona, place or things will give us till we tire?  But where is the deep Joy if and when we are caught up in the wave pounding down called life.   Knowing once that wave passes there will be another and for a brief moment of our time the calm seas will allow us to swim like hell or breathe deep and rest until that next wave of whatever is coming hits.

Peace ever after.

Romance where is my King I wish I could dance with in fits of love and laughter.

Running on empty or full tank, none of it matters if we do not know who we belong to or feel our purpose.

 

Why would we get up another day if we have no reason to get up for?   Even when it makes no sense we keep fighting forward and avoid at all costs getting caught up in pretend.

Or am I really just doing that as I get up and do it over and over again?

Organized chaos and pure boredom any second of any day.    Unleash all that you are and all you want to be at the foot of the cross of God Almighty and ask for Jesus Christ to come consume every bit good, bad, or indifferent.

How can I justify what is wrong or right?  I cannot for you, but it won’t stop me from sharing the fact to find all that is pure, all that is just, and all that Jesus intended for us to have in our sights and let go of what we should not.

Find that soul that allows you to be evenly yoked where you live, you laugh, and you love hard together and fighting forward in Him even harder.

Where your passions for life and each other never cost what either of you cannot contribute to make happen and get by.

 

Say a prayer for you, yours, and all you have come to know.  All that will come and go.   This land needs less violence, less hate, less abrupt cruelty projected into the atmosphere and across any means of public awareness.

 

Yet that is one wave that I do not believe in my time I will be able to out anything.     The wars spiritually, physically are all around us and although Christ already won the battle.    We/I must put on my armor daily to just make it through.   

We all do what we think we must do to survive.      

In the midst never forget to be grateful even for what we do not deserve and are blessed.

Did you wake up today?

Do you have clothes on your back?

Have you eaten in the last 24 hours?

Do you have shelter over head?

Have you been blessed with what so many will never be able to answer this day?

Even the pain has meaning.    Be grateful for even what you cannot grasp and believe in you, believe in all that is good and believe in something that matters shining brightly and growing lighting the way for you to go back through or lead the way for others.

Give praise and thanks and know you are worth so much that Jesus Christ gave his life so you could have one of your own!

Do not get held down no matter where you feel beaten.    Get back up and know He is always there waiting to be with you every step of the way.

 

Thank you, Father God says a kid, who was tossed away by  a man I thought was my father and later at age 50 to learn he was never my father at all; yet never knowing the man who should have been.  I learned how true we paint images we want people to believe yet we are so truly different on the inside than what the book cover shows.

 

To that man that represented our nation, represented authority, represented, and advocated for children who spawned children all over the states he lived.   Including my own being.     Jesus thank you for allowing me to come to know you as my real father long before the human side of this flesh-eating world came to be.

Thank you for all the storms, waves, and demons you have pulled me from.   Mind, body, and spirit.

 

Bring the truth and light to this dark and what most think as hidden secretive world.   Shine bright for us Jesus.   Not just me but ever soul I ever connect.

Thank you for this day, these thoughts, and everything in-between.


Wednesday, August 18, 2021

08.18.2021_August(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Wednesday- August 18, 2021

  

Motivation Movers & Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)

Jeremy Loops - 'Til I Found You

Courtnie Ramirez - LIFE IS GOOD (feat. Apollo LTD)

TobyMac - See The Light

TobyMac - Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight) (Live from the Drive-in Theater Tour 2021)

Lifehouse ft. Natasha Bedingfield - Between The Raindrops

Less Like Me - Zach Williams

 

Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

Philippians 1:21  (NLV)  New Life Version

21 To me, living means having Christ. To die means that I would have more of Him.

 

Meditation Opportunities Daily Devotion

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

“Anticipate coming face to face with impossibilities: situations totally beyond your ability to handle.” “Allow ME to fight for you.”

Job 5:7  Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Revelation 19:1  After this I heard what sounded like a roar of great multitude in heaven shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to  our God.”

Psalm 91:1  He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

 

  

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

Till I found you I never knew how much life I was missing and had been held back stressing over things I cannot change or choices that didn’t turn out with people, places and things that here I am on the other side still blessed and up another day finding the good in every second I am given.   Well, I wish I thought about the good 24/7 but that is something I have to work hard daily in remembering you are in control Jesus and no amount of worry, doubt or that spiritual tug of war that I play with you will matter.

In the end I have either enjoyed and truly acknowledged the blessings of each day given or I have wasted moments that will never be replaced with things that become as irrelevant and forgot as that speck of dust blowing in the wind that only bothers us when it lands in one’s eye and irritates us until its rinsed, you know washed clean and we move on.

 

Thank you, Jesus, for allowing me the ability to get back up and either find fun and life in the beats and rhythms or just stay down and missing all you have waiting on the horizon for us, for me.

It does not matter where we come from.   It does not matter any brokenness that we call family or lack of.   We will see the light in God’s promise.    We just have to allow Jesus in and fight forward with and for his Promise of life eternal. 

Loving who you are and where you will be.

No that does not mean lay down and let the world beat the crap out of you or starve for anything.    God wants every one of us to experience his goodness and blessings that come from temporal things that come and go.

But that is just it.  Everything in this world including the pain we may be pushing through is all temporary and the fact remains nothing will experience as much pain that Jesus already took for us on that cross and the days and nights that led to it.

 

We will get through this.  Pray and pay it forward wherever you may be.   Do not be afraid to ask for help when help is truly needed only after you prayed to Christ first to know if it really something you should be chasing and holding onto.

Help is in Jesus’ name!

There is nothing anyone can do to deny that.   We may not see it.  We may be so caught up in the static to not hear His blessings.  But not to worry when we do, we realize it is here and not on the way.

Until you can calm the thunder of the beating heart and all that causes that stress and anxieties take time to pray face to face with the maker.   Call Jesus into your lives as we cannot get to the father but through Jesus Christ himself.  

Yes, serving and going to a church with fellow believers, brothers, and sister’s matter.  But it all starts right where you are in those one-on-one moments every day in the good and bad with Jesus himself.

Nope I am no authority, but I have lived life and have enough scars at my own doing or at the world that I put all my trust in until they tossed me out like I was nothing at all once they did what they did or was done and moved onto the next that can fill whatever accounts emotionally, financially, for their own growth and pleasure.

Being a kid in this world then was hard and I cannot imagine having to grow up in today’s world especially without God.

We all have to believe something and the hurt, and habits of those that go before us leave us spinning and making our own decisions of what we want, what we do or what we won’t do or be like.

Just know the world cannot define you unless you let it.   Choices matter but you are not alone and never have been.  Even if you came up in a broken home or a family that parents fight or do stupid things.  Or those you wanted and needed were /are never there for you.

I used to say I was going to create a license plate that said I am who I am because you made me this way. 

Until I realized growing up without the family unit made me independent and although it took me into my adult life to understand I owned my own choices.    Allowing myself to fall into to anything was my choice.  And if the end result was great, it was awesome but if it turned out badly or not as expected it hurt like hell and at times took bigger pieces of me than I ever thought I could replace.     Only later to learn I was not meant to replace anything.   In my growth, in your growth you become your authentic self with who you are in the creation of God the Father and once you understand your worth and sacrifice your meism’s from selfishness to selflessness you find an entirely different you.

 

We are not all the fun filled beautiful words that flatter me when someone is trying to get in my bank account or pants.  

Giving away oneself for 5 minutes or 5 hours or 5 days of pleasure only to live with a lifetime of regret knowing you can never get back anything once it is gone.      Matters in the choices we make.

If someone truly cares about your future, they help you together the best they can to grow forward.   Not stop and demand to allow consumption of any part of your being or time.

Grow forward to be something that makes a difference in this world.   Leave your legacy be it you are 10, 20 or 99.     Paying it forward can be just general acts of kindness or great choices that give others what they could never be, do or achieve without your help.

Paying it forward is as simple as saying thank you, holding a door, writing a thank you note, or checking in on someone that cannot get around.

Making a meal, sharing a sandwich, sharing a cookie as simple as it sounds makes a huge difference.

 

Today in our here and now we are on the verge of extinction.    Sounds funny right.  But humanity does not know how to remain human and deal with all of what is going on with us, through us, around us.    Wars are not new; innocence and death is not new.  Though in our instant gratification world we now have the real images of what happens when fires burn the world to the ground or cults, gangs, thieves, and armies of all that is evil takes over.

What it is like to live through a pandemic, plagues, hatred, loss at the hands of the inability to cope so our children are lost to drugs and all that consumes them when they cannot deal with how the world had its hold.

We need something good to believe in.  We need God the Father and his Son Jesus and that is one of the main reasons it is so important we allow the Holy Spirit to come live within us.

It is not going to make everything alright or make the pain go away.  But it will fill us up with strength, courage  and so much peace even through the pain.

 

Allowing Gods promise to live through you and you doing your best in moral obedience and want to grow forward in all that is good will not stop life from happening.    But it will take you places more beautiful and give you strength you never knew you had to get back up.   When you are face planted fallen over because of you or anyone else in this world.

Our talents, our bank accounts, our looks none of that matters to God.  He knows exactly our cost.  We are priceless.    

Yes, having it all and the fame and fortune where we sell out our souls and life to the images the world makes for us only takes life.

 

But what do I know?   Only that if I had a dime for every dollar, I gave away I could retire at this point.

 

Life is what it is until it is not.  We may live to be 80 or we may get 8 seconds.     None of us know when our time is up.      Dream big, allow Christ to lead and grasp on to all that is good and stop tolerating or settling to be second best, or anything less than what he has called priceless.

So, everyone has thoughts and perspectives and if you are reading anything on my page.  Well, you know it can go in any direction depending on the mind maze dump that falls out when the windows of opportunity and blessing allow me to tap out.  You do not have to believe, agree, or disagree.  In fact, if you are one of my readers or viewers.  Thank you.   This day-to-day journal really should be something no one sees.  But a long time ago I opened up and took the film off to be transparent to a point.   Sure, there is much I do not say.  There are many days I could call out every single moment or soul that has made me feel a certain way or even how I feel about them, what they do or had done.    But its all in the relevance we hold for what matters in the moment we need it.   And none of that is relevant to anyone else but me and those I have been blessed to connect.

If something is not working change it.   Say what you mean and mean what you say.  And by all means if you are going to talk the talk then show up walking it.    Stop riding on the coattails of all those you wish you could be, be like or have what they have without putting your time, effort, creativity and even blood sweat into.

Own your own choices and results.

 

God helps those who believe.

God helps those who help themselves.  

What does that mean.   Using today’s world events.    I believe if we use all this chaos and unknown about the pandemic, vaccines, and masks and all the unrest it is causing and separation it has entitled the world to live.

Well use common sense.    We can get a virus being we are vaccinated or not.   Read up on the facts and make your own honest choices for you and those you come in contact with.   No matter if you know them or not.  No matter if they are the love of your life or not.    You can make a difference in our future and humanity by what you do, what you say and how you contribute next.

Although the governments and law will instill and take freedoms away for what they think is the greater good, or just because they have the power.   You alone get to think for yourself, get to act for yourself and get to be yourself.   No one else will ever do that for you.   Even if you have convinced yourself otherwise.

You can poison many by one look, one touch, one sneeze, one attitude.     You see the pandemic is not just influenza or Covid19, 20, or 30.

Use common sense for you and those be it you know them or not around you. 

 

Your can heal with what you do and say next.    My perspective is the world has been broken long enough.   So even if I cannot make a difference for the world, maybe just one soul, one action, one word will plant the seeds to grow a light and the rains that come will cause the ripple effect of growth.    My light, my hope, my peace, my strength come from all I will never fully understand with great freedom to hope and try to be my best self and love with all I am even when it hurts.   For a glimpse of heaven on earth in waiting for eternity with all the power, glory, and beauty that no one will ever be able to clone, create or crush.

My prayers of healing and positive growth for all I am connected.   Blessings then, now, and always.  Just me Kelly

 

Lord even when I am doing my best but still talk the talk and miss the mark.  May I and all I am connected be more like you Jesus.   May if even just a figment of anyone’s imagination you spark life within.   Show them the peace and all you are in your abundant mercy and grace.

Thank you for this day and all that comes with it. Thank you for all of my yesterdays and every single thing that lives in the depths of who you allow me to be.     Be the love, the healing, the light for all that my path crosses with no matter where, no matter when.    Be all you are in the here and now.

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

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Date: Tuesday- August 17, 2021

Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

2 Corinthians 10:17-18 (NLV)  New Life Version

17 If anyone wants to be proud, he should be proud of what the Lord has done. 18 It is not what a man thinks and says of himself that is important. It is what God thinks of him.

Meditation Opportunities Daily Devotion

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

“Sometimes events whirl around you so quickly that they become a blur. Whisper My Name in recognition that I am still with you.”

Philippians 2:9-11  Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Psalm 29:11  The Lord gives strength to his people: the Lord blesses his people with peace.

Isaiah 43:1  But now, this is what the Lord says—he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel:  “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.”

 

 

Motivation Movers & Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)

Strong Tower - Kutless

Hillsong-Mighty To Save

Touch of Heaven - David Funk

Mack Brock – Even The Impossible

 

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

You Father God are my strong tower the only strength, and drive that allows me back up each day in this crazy world we have spinning around us.    Wars, death, destruction, plagues, pandemics, and it goes on and on.  Nothing surprises you in fact it talks about in the bible to expect them. 

 

It does not stop the concern, hurt, tears, bleeding out or total destruction when we are trying to be our best selves thinking we are doing something right yet for every 10 steps we get kicked back 20.

 

Thank you, Jesus, for this day!

Thank you, Jesus, for allowing me to get up and take in a deep breath and know the difference of what it could be.

 

Thank you for the little things of making a phone call and singing happy birthday 1300 miles away and hearing someone’s heart laughing and joyful on the other end or seeing the promise of new life when friends, brothers, sisters in Christ sharing new babies in such dark times.

There is nothing better than hearing the sound of laughter.   Deep, gut wrenching honest uncontrollable  laughter.   Except that which a child or baby sets us off on for our own moments in time.

 

Your Love deep within the depths of our souls.   Come Jesus show us what love really is!

Thank you for the love of others you have allowed to be tattooed on this heart and will never go away.

Be with those souls that we cannot ever get enough of even if we have never had to chance to really know who they truly want to be in you.

My list of prayers is long this day and continually growing Jesus.

Yet, you know every unspoken tear and prayer that is at times so overwhelming all I can do is just keep hoping in you to come.

Forever incomplete without you and the blessings you have given.    Fill me up Lord.

No one knows what tomorrow will bring, be it our fears of flying for years to at one point being in a plain crash and losing all the friends we have and vowing because we were speared, we would never fly again; yet in the news celebration and courage reflected although scared and filled with anxieties they flew again.      Or what about those that swear they will never let go yet their ties they honored so much for 5 minutes, 5 years or 50.     Are now tied to other people, places, and things.

 

It is not about holding true 20 minutes or 20 years down the road to all the tomorrows we will never really know will be or what will be within them.

We do not know who gets picked to fly to their freedom and who gets left behind.   However, we do know as it is written we all need to get it right with you Jesus.    For we know the end will come be it peacefully in our sleep, or in the middle of a raging war where innocence is tormented, tortured, and taken.     

Lord suffer them not!    Release all your children from the pains and torment during these times that are not coming but are here.

Here I lift my children, my grandchildren, my families’ children, my friends’ children up to you for focus, strength, courage, comfort and peace in your mercy and grace.    All the while babies are being tossed into the fires of hell because of so many lost souls.

Jesus, I know you hear the cries and although I would love to see it all stop Father God and everyone live happily after.      More so I need to see and hear your justice come to life for all the demons that are robbing life, peace, and innocence.    Nation to Nation, state to state, door to door.   Jesus’ wash through this land and make it clean. 

May heaven on earth light up the skies, light up every soul, light the way for the world to see you now.

 

More than that beautiful sunrise, or sunset.  More than the colorful rolling hills of color and beauty.  More than the butterfly or dragon fly and the significance and meaning of new life.     Jesus light us up to show us how and what to do in this life here and now.

 

So much loss, so much destruction and all the while mankind stuck on the material things.  They have worked so hard for.     Yet, they have forgotten how to even acknowledge they are on the brink of really losing themselves because of the lack of knowledge of and with you God.

 

May we all become face down with you not to show we acknowledge you publicly but to just build our relationship with you Jesus.

 

Every day we are given is time full of moments and opportunities that make a difference.  That are there for us to make, take or create.

Jesus may all I am connected make them with and through prayer and petition in you.     May each second, they are knocked down, backed up against the wall in fright or just confusion.   Jesus give them all they need to be to grow forward out of the darkness into your promise and light.

 

Love so abundant we feel it, touch it, taste it, want it.  Yet we have never been allowed to experience it as you have other plans father.   Open the doors and your will be done.

For all I know or do not; in need of employment, funding, food on a table and even shelter over-head.  Jesus your will be done.

 

For all I know or do not; sick, dying, unable to breathe. Ready to quit because this world has gotten too heavy for them, or disease has found its way into them.    Jesus heal them in your will be done.

Father guide me, protect my choices and help me with the boundaries I faulter on.    Lead me, where I need to be.    Show me the direction not just how I take off running because of loyalty, commitment, or thoughts it is job.

 

May I reflect and grow in you and acknowledge the love and blessings for all I am blessed to connect any tomorrows given.   Thank you for all I have been, Am or will be allowed to try and be.

Sunday 5-11-2025_PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe (AlwaysMeKelly)

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