Monday, September 13, 2021

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Date: Monday – September 13, 2021

Meditation Opportunities

Daily Devotion

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

“Give your mind a break from its habitual judging.  You form judgments about the situation , that situation, this person, that person, yourself, even the weather—as if judging were your main function in life ”  “I created you first and foremost to know Me and to live in rich communication with Me.”

Matthew 7:1  “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.”

John 17:3   “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”

Romans 9:20-21  But who are you, O man, to talk back to God?  “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it. ‘Why did you make like this?”  Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?”

1 Timothy 6:15   Which God will bring about his own time—God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords.

 

Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

1 Peter 3:8 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

Finally, all [of you] should be of one and the same mind (united in spirit), sympathizing [with one another], loving [each other] as brethren [of one household], compassionate and courteous (tenderhearted and humble).

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

Tori Kelly - Colors Of The Wind

Lecrae & Zaytoven - Only God Can Judge Me

 Metallica: Nothing Else Matters

Aaron Cole - Right On Time (feat. TobyMac)

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

Thank you, Jesus, for another day.  As I work my way through trying to be productive, but meetings and plans are at the hands of if I am called in for jury duty or not.  Things are a little different this day.

 

Seems the knowing is in the waiting.   Just like waiting for that special order to fix the pump cover or to even to just hear the signs from you of what direction to go knowing how lost and empty the lack of connections and communications with those who are to serve you and love you  as a whole body and not just bits and pieces that are chosen as they find the time to remember it may be important.

Harsh my thoughts out loud seem also judgmental even though nothing else really matters that even when knowing you are the only judge Lord.     We are broken sometimes into pieces we just cannot fit back together picking them up and moving forward for you.   All because of the lack of or tone of communication and connections.

 

Even when you do not look for, anticipate, or demand  it.   Knowing relationships all take work.  Be it husband, wife; siblings, parents, relational or intimate.  Business or pleasure.   For anything to work everyone must do their part in kindness.

So, popcorn kisses  and bubble gum hugs everything is sweet and sticky in day-to-day life like a huge honey bun.

Where at times we have those moments when the sweetness just is not what it should be and sometimes even causing that adrenalin rush that causes disruption and choices that we must attend.   Even when it means letting go of what was then to go over there no matter when.

I can cry about how I feel in this big world sometimes.   Sometimes life and how things are going no matter how well I pray from within.   Tears just do not always agree to with stand and wait the tests of time.   Others the harmony plays so loud there is no way shape or form anything seems out of place or wrong.    Those are the days we dance to Christ heartbeat.     Others I am left to on some days what feels like to be burned. 

Yet when you look deep within the facts remain; when you are the only immersed believer trying to remain that light in the tank full of sharks.    Things can be messy and hurtful at times even when those who are the lifeline to the heartbeat of Jesus are surrounding sometimes, they too are so caught up in their own ways and not Gods purpose, your just left drowning.

Oh no don’t feel bad at all.   One thing is for sure I will die fighting forward no matter how many times it hurts, or I have a hard time getting past the pain from any thing that relates to a fall.

So, as I wait on others or do my best to serve.  As I plan out my escape to go get with God’s country, nature, and birds.     No matter who demands, who sits, who stands.  No matter which way the colors of the wind blow.   Jesus Christ died for all of us if you did not know.   He and God are my judges and if you do not like that or how I serve him and not man.

Unless you are my husband, my keeper, my family, or something more grand.    Do not treat me with disrespect or distaste because I do not live up to a performance of any temporal man.

God gets the final say and I will apologize any given day for my misdeeds or offense.    But do not burn the hand that willingly gives up and gives out.  Even if it does not look like what you think it should be.     Don’t cop attitudes be human and come and talk with me.

Nothing else matter when God always shows up even in his time.

Sunday, September 12, 2021

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Date: Sunday – September 12, 2021

Meditation Opportunities

Daily Devotion

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

“Receive MY Peace.”  “You are waging war- not with the weapons of the world, but with the heavenly weapons, which have divine power to demolish strongholds.  Living close to Me is a sure defense against evil.”

John 14:27  “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.  I do not give to you as the world gives.  Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”

Isaiah 30:15   This what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength,  but you would have none of it.”.

2 Corinthians 10:4  The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.  On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

Philippians 4:4 – Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

Rejoice in the Lord always [delight, gladden yourselves in Him]; again I say, Rejoice!

 

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

 Michael W. Smith - Surrounded (Fight My Battles)

Michael W Smith Great are You Lord

Florence + the Machine - Shake It Out

NEEDTOBREATHE - Carry Me (Lyrics) Ft. Jon Foreman of Switchfoot

In Christ Alone (Official Lyric Video) - Keith & Kristyn Getty, Alison Krauss

Kirk Franklin - Lean On Me

Cochren & Co. - One Day

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

Micah 4:-5-4 – Life Application Study Bible

The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has made this promise!  Though the nations around us follow their idols. We will follow the Lord our God forever and ever.

Not sure why this stuck with me today and touched me so early this morning where I left it open on my desk to dive in further when coming back from service.

But it did; and if I look into it from other views the only real thing is on days like today where you go to step up and step out to serve the one who gives life knowing you are never enough for the world or the performance that is being written.

It means; It is not about you or about any of the nonsense and technicalities. 

Even with the biggest intention of serving the Lord when in his house serving with others as one body takes clear communication and bending when you think you might break remembering it is not about self but the Lord himself.  

That in itself is often a very hard pill to swallow at times.   But when you are a servant not for man but for the greater good you remember and wait as you call upon the Lord to direct your steps and know soon worship will be restored to all ends of the earth.   And that which is being robbed of today will come in abundance if we just hang in.

Micah 4:4-5  Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

But each person will sit under his grapevine and under his fig tree
with no one to frighten him.   For the mouth of the Lord of Armies

has spoken.   Though all the peoples walk in the name of their own gods,
we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.

So, pushing forward in peace, in harmony can be a struggle and if you are not grounded holding tightly to your moral compass and know that there is more than just the here and now, we become a mess and create or get caught up in messes. 

Even when you work hard to remain obedience in Christ and not get caught up, serve and love on people for who they are.   Stuff always ten-fold happens to just tweak situations and we at times have to struggle to breathe through it and hold on to the worship and nourishment you once received by serving that has all changed and your left hanging in the balance.     You find the need to drop to your knees and just cling on to God leading you where he wants you to be.   In work, in life, in balance no matter how good you are.  Not everyone is going to see with God’s heart or vision.  

In fact, sometimes growing pains and learning what respect, loyalty and self-image through God is something we all must strive for every day no matter what or where we are.

It is just much harder when we are in a different generation to communicate at various levels. 

One thing is for sure in the end no matter what we allow to beat us up, take us out or continue wrestling with.   God wins!!!

 

Chasing anything else or hanging on to what is continually being pulled away from you only robs you from living.    Sometimes our master plan, plotting how the stars will need to be aligned to have perfect anything even if we are not purposing it to seem that is what we are doing.  Only robs the joyful heart and love that God has to offer and we receive, or we give others.

Somehow, we/I need to learn how to shake it off, shake it out and take it all for that the temporal moments really are.

 

Carry me Father God!   Lord knows I am so off balance at times with all those scars that healed with a wall bigger than any mountain to be climbed.   Self-preservation in is no longer the issue as what will be will be.   Yet just to exist does not work either.   Take me to the place that I have purpose and am of most use.  When I cannot see it carry me there.

Thank you for the beautiful souls you allow me to be part of life with.   Hear the whimpers to sobs of their hearts leaking out with all this injustice worldly things flying like deadly objects robbing our moments and abilities to be our best selves.

Bring the mothers off the ventilator to know you and raise up their children.  Bring the fathers home to love their wives like Christ calls for alone.     Brothers and sisters leaning in on me and I on them.    Removing all hate and animosity for what we think it must be.    

One day we will see the light but until then Jesus be with me.  Be with all I am connected and show us the way of your will and desire for any future there is to be left.

Saturday, September 11, 2021

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Date: Saturday – September 11, 2021

(9/11/2021) Spiritual Health @Dennis DeRight @New Life Christian Church-Spring Hill

https://fb.watch/7YZ4TPKIg9/

 

Meditation Opportunities

Daily Devotion

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

“Rejoice in Me Always!  No matter what is going on, you can rejoice in your Love-relationship with Me.”

Philippians 4:4, 12  Rejoice in the Lord always.  I will say it again: REJOICE!... I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty.  I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.

Psalm 102:27   But you remain the same, and your years will never end.

1 Peter 1:8  Though you have not seen him you love him; and eve though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with inexpressible and glorious joy.

Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

Psalm 121:1-2 (NIV) New International Version

A song of ascents.

I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
    where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord,

    the Maker of heaven and earth.

 

Psalm 121:1-2 (MSG) The Message

1-2 I look up to the mountains;
    does my strength come from mountains?
No, my strength comes from God,
    who made heaven, and earth, and mountains.

 

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

 James Arthur - Avalanche

Jeremy Camp - Steady Me

TobyMac - Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)

Wait On You | Elevation Worship & Maverick City

Jireh | Elevation Worship & Maverick City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b61wsBdqrKM

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

 

“We can’t change what we have experienced, but we can choose how the experiences change us.” #Lysa Terkeurst #Forgiving What You Can’t Forget

 

God, you hear every broken aching soul even 20 years later where hate and evil changed our worlds forever.     Thank you for never giving up on a world that has given up on itself. 

Wow how appropriate that I am still in this study and the reminders when the world stops because we are reminded just how evil and dark things from choices people that have been lost to the darkness and what scars and reminders that come full circle over and over.

Lord I will wait on you.

I do not know what that looks like.  I know the avalanche of life, pain and so many cuts that left me bleeding out and lost in my early days.  And even the brokenness from the lost trust where I have made choices that betrayed my own good works or those that betrayed me for their own personal gains when I really believed in them.

Broken bones, broken promises, scars cut straight through all the while we just keep getting back up and either let it spin us so bad, we never find the track back to really try and journey through life.    Or we get up swinging and fight forward in baby steps sometimes big kid steps sometimes we make it and get knocked back tenfold.    But Lord in you while we are hanging on the balance.  You carry me!!!

There is no doubt.

Growing up living in a New York State winter with no heat, hot water, living off whatever we could get from friends’ homes.  Going to school to find warmth and relationships.

Times are hard now and we serve to help no kid going hungry; but Jesus what is different then to now.

At least in my day there were some adults that truly stepped in and said what they had to say and kids did have half a chance.   It seems now days if they are not being robbed on of their innocence, they are turned on to empty promises of the high that will take them straight to hell and back if they make it out at all.   That does not even touch the evil exploiting and human trafficking or worse.

It has always been there all of it.  There have always been sick minds with dark souls.  But now there is so much more instant.    

Everyone wanting what someone else has worked for.   For no greater purpose but to just take it.

Lord on this dark day when confused lost dark souls picked a cause and gave their life to hurt and harm so many; be it 9/11 or individuals for all those lost never talked about.  

Come wash this land clean Jesus.  

Give those knocked down, broken and left bleeding out from all the hurt, hate, harm your will; your strength; and your purpose for all the pain even if we never ever understand it.

Waiting on you as I know help is on the way for all who seek you.   Jesus make a way for all those stuck in the darkness and unable to see any flicker of your mercy and grace.

All this unnecessary that spins us sometimes.   Caught up on so much that yes needs to be fixed but we must fix ourselves deeply upon you Father God.

If we must perform; Jesus may we perform for you. 

Change is coming there is no way around it.   May I dive in and wait on you for all you are Father.

Hear this heart, you know this soul and all that is tugging and knotting up these heart strings. 

For all you have pulled me through and carried me when I never knew it.   When you have protected me in those places I should no longer be. Never even knowing you.  

May you do the same for every single soul good, bad, or indifferent I am connected.   Lead them to the truth and way.

As crazy as that sounds.  Your will be done; for me and all that will be.

Thank you for this day and all that have been and any yet to come.   May all I am never let go.

Friday, September 10, 2021

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Date: Friday – September 10, 2021

 

“We can’t change what we have experienced, but we can choose how the experiences change us.” #Lysa Terkeurst #Forgiving What You Can’t Forget

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

So, writing before devotionals today is my disclosure here and setup to see what God will put me in check or align for me.    One of the things without music without just thinking about all the WHAT IF’s everyone out in the world is allowing to get the best of them all the while God is waiting for you to turn to him daily through His son Jesus to vent, cry, jump for joy whatever you got He wants you to share with him for a new day that you are even allowed up to do so.

We have to own our decisions and absolutely start living in and with kindness.   Take care of our own business and know who it matters to scream and shout at if we have to and those that do not.

Scream about your own issues and stop getting in other people’s business to take the light of yourself.

 

Given life we are all given freedom of will and choice.   Stop forcing people by manipulation, disgraced behaviors and just plain hate and just riding that train because everyone is to make choices that disrupt, destroy, and harm their space, and being.

 

So, all the controversy and hate and broken relationships when we cannot even stay dedicated to the blessings we are given.    We are nothing but a bunch of kindergarteners that don’t know how to play nice and nobody really wants to share we just keep chasing the shiny ring and things that we can say we took, we got it.   But in the end do we really care about our own being enough to know who we really belong to?  Do we really care about anyone we were given in life?  Instead of just riding the mile high club and making that money chasing that paper, getting  a big screen name all the while God is allowing us time for now to see things getting shook up and allowing us to turn to Jesus to learn and know who we really are meant to be and who God really is.

 

First, I will apologize for my candid thoughts today.

As I am far from being an expert or telling anyone to pick one way or the other when it comes to health and wellbeing of your own bodies given as a gift.   However, I will speak on the fact it’s not just you or not just about me.     Think about who you surround yourself with, think about what you do daily.   Be it are totally alone and killing yourself slowly because your fear will not allow you to interact with humanity.  Or you’re out there hanging with your buds and doing your puff puff pass routine.

 

What is a fact is viruses are as deadly as an STD with long suffering and easier to pass and not by kissing on someone or sleeping all over the place and not valuing the temple you were given for a journey you really do not know will when it will end?

 

One thing is for sure the God of all creation allowed you to come and be and only He knows the time you will be taken home.  And unfortunately, he will know how it will occur for every one of us.   From dust we are formed to dust we will return.

With that being said with all the energy we are spending out here screaming and squawking about wearing a mask, not wearing  a mask.    Making fun of those who are so scared they drive down the road in an empty vehicle with their masks on or even those who have no regard for life at all and do more than just expose everything and everyone to their bad careless behavior.    What are each one of us doing and are we minding our own business and managing our own house before adding to the noise and anger feeding demons in this world?

 

I don’t need a response this is just thoughts that normally would stay on my blog page but today I just thought the need for me to go out and see what we have done in the past and what makes 2021 so different they decades before.       With that I suggest everyone do the same.  

 Take care of your own house.

Take care of your own children.

Before screaming the sky is falling and I hate everything and everyone.

What have you found to be the problem, and have you given any real depth and thought to what could a solution be for you and your circle?   

Write your government body scream at them and if you have a solution share it with them.

But come together in unity and stop destroying the very existence you were given to have life being fruitful and multiple.

All we are doing as a nation is complaining while we should be praying and doing anything and everything positive for our own and those around us.    So many are so ready to go out and hustle and take whatever free they can get.  All the while thinking entitlement means to take from those really in need.   

And the government well I try never to get into politics or religious arguments because firstly I am not educated enough and the bottom line for government, they all need term limits and when something is not working replace all of it until it does. 

As for talking about my Jesus.    Well, He is yours too!      God gave his only son to die on a cross who went freely and willingly so we could have life and be abundant with and in mercy, grace, love, and more beauty than I could ever describe.    Yet we spend more time finding faults and pointing out the brokenness or judging everyone around us all the while we ourselves are right there in the thick of it.

Speaking life is a necessity and remaining morally valuable in this world that has lost what respect, and loyalty means.   Well, I get it… It has always been easier to remember that one bad thing over a billion good.   It has always been easier to make noise but put no effort into life.

Well, I could go on and on and even disclose my faults, my dirt, my own shortcomings with judgment even though I believe and serve something greater than I will ever be able to prove.

But what I can say is you want it to get brighter.   Be the light, you want it to get better, do your part!

Dig in and find the truth, the facts and share your ideas and go for them in peace and love.

Stand up in truth with Christ and with your family that you were given and take the noise to the government and make those that get paid far too much hear and act for change.

Shut down the radicals by not participating.       Yeah, easier said than done.   But it all starts with each one of us.

Stop panicking and own your world you have within your reach. 

 

Here is just a little history and the point is this is our generational pandemic that will be in the history books.     I get the fact we are a Free not Free country.     And the government many elected in are screaming left, screaming right, and doing nothing in the middle.   

Make your choices for you; and stop hating those who do not think like you or act like you.    

Call out the bad behaviors and stop allowing them who are misbehaving be anywhere near you.     If its your kid, put them in check…   

Do something positive   Live! Learn! Love! Laugh and share God’s peace, wisdom, and eternal grace.

 

Thanks for reading and apologies for any offense.  I am far from perfect, but everyone is getting freaked out over so much and I say what has history taught us, who do we really believe in to no the end result.  And no; just because I love who and what Jesus was, is and always will be.  Does not mean I get a free ride.   I have to do my part in my own choices every single moment of every single day as well.  However, I just miss where we once could really talk to people and hang and have life and just live without constantly fighting just to get by day by day or more importantly not hear the world around us that is filled with so many we know and love fighting or having to defend who they are and what they do or do not do.

I am not one to be locked in a box or not keep moving.    For sure and thank the good Lord I am not who I was 25 years ago.  I absolutely would be controversial and loud.     Fighting first and digging in later.

We are all blessed and for that for me, for my own little slice and moments I am able to recognize the love and give some back.    I can only give thanks.    Even if, even when…

Some history

Vaccination Resistance in Historical Perspective | The American Historian (oah.org)

 

Polio

No Lockdowns: The Terrifying Polio Pandemic of 1949-52 – AIER

Wiping Out Polio: How The U.S. Snuffed Out A Killer : Shots - Health News : NPR

History of polio - Wikipedia

 

Spanish Flu

What did Congress do during the 1918 flu pandemic? | by GovTrack.us | GovTrack Insider

Rapid Response was Crucial to Containing the 1918 Flu Pandemic | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

How the US Handled the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918, 1919 (businessinsider.com)

 

Measles

History of Measles | CDC

Measles - Timeline | History of Vaccines

Why It Took So Long to Eliminate Measles - HISTORY

The MMR and Single Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccines: The REAL Facts | The BMJ

 

Biblegateway.com Daily Verse / Meditation Moments

Isaiah 46:4 (NIV) New International Version

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;  I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

 

Isaiah 46:4 (MSG) The Message

“Listen to me, family of Jacob, everyone that’s left of the family of Israel.
I’ve been carrying you on my back from the day you were born,

And I’ll keep on carrying you when you’re old.   I’ll be there, bearing you when you’re old and gray.   I’ve done it and will keep on doing it, carrying you on my back, saving you.

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

 Train -Calling All Angels

Alec Benjamin - Beautiful Pain

OneRepublic - Someday

Tori Kelly - Soul’s Anthem (It Is Well)

Sufficient For Today (feat. Maryanne J. George) | Maverick City | TRIBL

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