03.07.2022_March(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Monday March 7th

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Psalm 139:23-24 MSG

^23-24 Investigate my life, O God,
    find out everything about me;
Cross-examine and test me,
    get a clear picture of what I’m about;
See for yourself whether I’ve done anything wrong—
    then guide me on the road to eternal life.

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Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

With all this craziness going on in the world and all the death and destruction.  Don’t wait until tomorrow to love those God gave you today!

I have spent the past couple days catching up with family for relocations, birthdays and even talking through what next after death.

None of us are promised tomorrow and the darkness wants you to believe you are not worthy to live today.

Some of us get 100+ years while others that capture our hearts only get a day.

We are just getting started as long as we are allowed back up.   Hold tight and true to the faith of all God is and beyond forever will be.

We cannot take back yesterday and damn it is hard to erase those images we see in our minds eye from the world that surrounds us.

Know who you were created in the image of.   The same one who created the heavens and earth.

You are worth more than any of us will ever give our selves credit for.  And it is far more than what we look like or what we can acquire.  By hard work or the greatest hustle ever.

Trying to understand and filter out what is truly important in every day choices can be hard.  Until we dive in and really purpose to believe and live by faith and feed our mind, body, and spirits with all that is good, all that is true.  Life is nothing but one big bucket of propaganda.

 

It may serve the purpose of the here and now immediate self-gratification.  But in the end, it is meaningless and robs us of all we were meant to be blessed with and for.

While we are out chasing the dream why are we not breathing in Gods promises and living them.   

It is a beautiful thing to be able to be part of going and coming, seeing beautiful things and even being part of sharing such.

But life happens right where we are.   Though it seems the normal is to force others to go along for the ride we are in.  But making our misunderstandings and shortcomings anyone’s within reach.

It is not.   We lose life every second we are allowed to breathe.   Yet we waste so much on what robs us.

As we propel through life either face down or strategically aligning all the stars that we think we have in control.

Do we ever really dive in to hear what Gods promise says?   I struggle I won’t deny.  It is so easy to take off running even if my goal is to never hit the floor before opening my day in thanks and conversation with the Jesus who gave it all so I could chase bits and pieces of any day that at some point become irrelevant and just fill space because I forget who I am in Him or why I am even allowed to be.

Life is precious in short.   None of us are better or worse than the next.   Our choices matter how we will get back up if we are  not sent to our final destination.

Life is too short, and everything changes at the hands of our choices or those we are trapped to escape that just do not care.

May the God of all things show his abundant mercy, grace, healing, and love  to all who follow.   May we as a nation rise up and call upon the Lord now before we think we can in harm’s way.

Jesus give your people strength, protect the innocence and your children.  The widows and orphans and the numbers are counting not just those discarded here and now.  But all left as collateral damage of all the unnecessary wars between good and evil.

It has started and you are on your way Jesus. There is no doubt.  Just as the world sits and watches trying to do something for those in need in this war that never stops.   You are on your way!

Give your people the means and way and will to step up, rise up to do something to help stop this madness.   Show us Father.  Stop the demons, stop the darkness. 

This is more than what was and not even close to what it will be.

Show me, show us who you are and who I am to be.  Who we are to be for and with you.

 

03.03.2022_March (PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Thursday March 3^rd

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Isaiah 55:8-9 MSG

^8-11 “I don’t think the way you think.
    The way you work isn’t the way I work.”
        God’s Decree.
“For as the sky soars high above earth,
    so the way I work surpasses the way you work,
    and the way I think is beyond the way you think.
Just as rain and snow descend from the skies
    and don’t go back until they’ve watered the earth,
Doing their work of making things grow and blossom,
    producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry,
So will the words that come out of my mouth
    not come back empty-handed.
They’ll do the work I sent them to do,
    they’ll complete the assignment I gave them.

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The broken prayers to each day you are given are just baby steps of you making the choice and just getting started.    If He the God of all Gods, Lord of Lord, Christ Jesus has given his life to flow into the dust to come back alive within us.  It is never too late until you cannot get back up again!

Nothing you have done or will do cannot be forgiven and you given new life.   Yes, sin is sin and we all have it, done it, live in it.   And yes, perhaps your dirt is really grimy and hard to get off and the road to Egypt is so difficult you feel you cannot.

You are right.  Alone you cannot.  Sure, you can let this world manage you and all that you think you are.   But to live you must surely die to self and life within the realm of Jesus within you.

 

Burying ourselves to not feel or getting so busy to forget.  Yes, it helps I know I am an authority.   I hate feeling when it comes to those heart strings that get all knotted up.   But then although I do not know I remember back to Christ on the Cross and my feeble miniscule, little mind imagines how horrible He had it for those who would never know him.   Yet he did it anyway.

So why can’t I keep going.

Why can’t we all keep growing forward.

Choices

It is all about the choices we choose to make.  Sometimes we just make them and do not think, and they bite.  Others we just do not care and do it.

Absorbing the impacts or leaving the impacts.

This world is so full of that these days.  And I am sure I too am on the list even if I never purpose towards any opportunity that finds itself coming to life.

You cannot see it if you do not believe it period!

I often say if you put my resume along side me running day to day the convoluted confusing mess would surprise you.

I am not what I do.   No one is; no matter how hard we try to prove what we do what we have is who we think we are worthy to pretend to be.  Allowing the world to manage us and judge us according to whatever the standards are at that time.   And we already know that what was last minute is either changed or cancelled and no more.   Much less any history that continually repeats itself badly.

I so wonder why good things never continually repeat, spawning positive growth over and over???

 

The life cycle of broken prayers or so we think when we do not truly have a relationship with our maker.   I spent years believing in God and just to be part of something was always out and about.  In the end nothing matters without hope and belief.  More importantly without a true relationship with God and the only way to be so is really being in relationship with Jesus Christ. 

We all get there in our own time and choices.   Or not!  Depending on the choice we make every second of every day we are given.

Stop lying to your children, stop lying to yourself and own it.  Whatever it is at the time you are in.

I sat last night in my kids’ zone and trying to get one of our more unruly boys that comes and hangs out on Wednesday night just to be respectful of everyone around him and more so to sit and let others enjoy what they were learning and not just think we can do what we want and will be rewarded because someone said they promised it.

Don’t get me wrong our kids need love.  But you cannot do whatever you want or not do what you are requested.   But still be rewarded.     No matter who said what.  At some point in life, you will have a huge price to pay.      I get how tired we  can get and battling sometimes with a middle school age kid can be draining because they do not have that switch to tell them stop.  But seriously when you plow over littles to play and say oh sorry it was an accident.  Or even when you get in continual disruptive trouble.  Even bragging that you were in trouble because you disrupted an active shooter drill at school.

Oh my gosh…. PLEASE parents God loves us all and we should love everyone for who they are and not what they do.   But to grow and be a successful contribution to the human race or future of this already messed up world.   Keep it real and teach respect, logic and basic responsibilities.

Stop talking out both sides of your mouth.  Making a show in public and not following through or letting things go until the next episode.  Sets your child up to be then next person in the news because they cannot handle reality.

 

Okay that rant is over, but it is real.    We ignore the signs we rush our kids to grow up because we are too damn busy with things that never give us long term joy.    And we leave our responsibilities for others to be scuffed up by when the abrasions of bad choices happen.

Mine, yours, and everyone is washed over by the wave that is flowing.

Life is what it is until it is not.    We see it on the news, we live it day to day.

Burning up in what does not matter, matters!   Someone once shared with me they were burning up in a luxury furnace.    They had it all at their fingertips but was missing life.

That unfortunately is so heartbreaking when we cannot find life and lose it before its too late.    It’s sad we suffer at the hands of demons but to truly lose so many of God’s angel army is riveting.

I do not believe anyone in this world will ever have all the answers.   But we all can certainly spread love, peace and harmony and respect and remain accountable never letting go of that moral compass and help others shine even when we do not feel the light within.

For those who read through this mind maze.  Blessings and prayers for all that is good.

Keep getting back up and be the goodness in the moments you are given.   Know who you are in the creation of Gods realm and shine bright lighting the path.

Keep in pray for good of all things and all people.   None of us are promised tomorrow and any of us could be put in harms way or the biggest blessed moments of our lives at any time.

Our world is changing, cycling just as it did centuries before.   We can joke and say survival of the fittest.  But truly what are you doing to contribute and deserve anything more or less than the person standing next to you.

 

No don’t lay down become a doormat, become silent.  But when you raise your voices raise them in love and sound the tones and tunes that the heaven’s open up welcoming us all for.

My mind maze, my thoughts in prayer, in love for eternity!

 

Thank you, Jesus, for allowing me !!!!

May God be with you in healing, comfort, protection and direction.

03.01.2022_March (PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Tuesday March 1st

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Psalm 73:25-26 NIV

²⁵ Whom have I in heaven but you?
    And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
²⁶ My flesh and my heart may fail,
    but God is the strength of my heart
    and my portion forever.

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Psalm 73:25-26 MSG

^25-28 You’re all I want in heaven!
    You’re all I want on earth!
When my skin sags and my bones get brittle,
    God is rock-firm and faithful.
Look! Those who left you are falling apart!
    Deserters, they’ll never be heard from again.
But I’m in the very presence of God—
    oh, how refreshing it is!
I’ve made Lord God my home.
    God, I’m telling the world what you do!

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Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

Wow what a perfect verse reminding us we are not alone, and we are beyond loved by the one who gave everything for those who held tight to faith, hope and love of what God truly wanted for us when heaven came down and allowed humanity to exist.   Only to be validated later by Christ Jesus and the blood He allowed to be poured out of his own being so we could and would learn and act on the understanding of choice and the difference between good or evil, light or darkness.

It’s been a really thick several months around this globe that we are in unlike any snow globe being shook for its beauty.    This world and globe we are in is shaking and falling all over the place leaving us weak, and uncertain and in some maybe many cases grasping whatever is quick and easy just to feel something good for the few seconds that it lasts.

Death does not become us although it is coming for us in this world as we know it.

 

Losing loved ones or losing ourselves in the end becomes an irrelevant giant loss when we do so never knowing the ability and living making freedom of will and choice a priority through God’s eyes and son Jesus Christ.

All that he taught and is still teaching, all that he gave away or gave up, all that broke his heart and all that he fought for that very last breath to show love and promise of Gods beauty.

 

I cannot begin to compare the hardships and pain so many are feeling in this day and age right here right now.   I can tell you that you, we are never alone there is always someone who has been there done that; or crossing the Jordan trying to save whatever life they have life within them because of so much darkness that is consuming the world as we know it.

Is this time no different than so long ago?  Plagues, Wars, famine, innocence sacrificed at the hands of selfish ambitions now days called as bullies and power players no matter what the cost.

Yes, covid and the pandemic, wars, and rumors of wars.   And all the bullies that have a little more pocket change to pay off those who think they are doing the right thing while forgetting morality and humanity all together.

Let’s face it there are some criminal minds out there that function and thrive of pain and sorrow even if it is their own.

I have been battling this past year to keep my writing up.    The Jesus girl and freak I have become over time and the Jesus hippy of this decade that seeks peace, love, and harmony.    Which has often gotten away from me allowing the love at a distance in to closely and getting burned seeing the good in everyone.

Falling in love with dreams and honestly finding myself caring so deeply for some that I forget they too are only human and when their faults smudge my kaleidoscope view, I allowed it to rob me of what Jesus allowed to feed and grow me in the first place.

That old saying, I was born at night not last night has always been true.   Just sometimes trying to fill more good to numb that which sometimes sucks the life out of us takes over and before you know it well, we all just like you, just like me need to choose how we will fight the demons that trying to chip away at any days we are given.

Wishful thinking well I don’t wish too much these days.   Pray allot and need to do so even more so!    It’s not about me, but in life we have to be careful of the trolls and vampires of this world to make sure it doesn’t become so.  At least not in the process that we allow the world to dictate what life really means.

We are not defined by this world.   We just do not know it or remember it every day we are allowed back up.

My heart breaks.   Honestly it has been broken for a long time.   Between my growing up and learning what love isn’t.  To watching so many broken beautiful souls consumed and not make it past the demons of addictions, and choices that take their life.    To those who were a great impact on my life that I learned I really knew nothing about them at all and were not so good to look up to.  Or even those who I have admired my entire life and lost due to the cycle of life as it should be.

Those people, places, and things I found so uplifting and exciting to see what next to realize I should not even know anything about them.

Life is what it is until it is not though right.

Sometimes we just do the best we can when we cannot squeeze anything out of a day of rotten lemons.

Sometimes we hear nothing but bad and wake up to the sirens while trying to flee the wars or rumors of war that do not shut off in our heads.

I wish I had different things that have finally allowed me to set them free of this mind maze.

Some great romance story and deep passionate love as deep with every touch, breath, or word outside as it is from the soul inside wanting out.

I Pray daily that God will allow Christ Jesus to come heal this land now.  Not tomorrow later, right here, right now!

So much innocence and not just babies being harmed or robbed.  Not just the elderly being discarded without any respect or loyalty much less thankfulness that the younger generation would not even be without.

So many calling out, singing out, crying out acting out the need for Jesus to come!  All the while the demons in spirit and flesh taking all they can without hesitation and no justification for morality and payment for the injustices they force on everyone they go near.

Lord I pray your justice becomes swift, bold, and now.   It matters not what the sin is.  God sees everything.   The pedophile is no less guilty than the bully stealing life from those who have done nothing wrong.   The sin no more wrong than a lie, a thief stealing or player playing out the great hustle and taking from kind of hearts.     Be it in the neighborhood you are caught up and the hustle to get your next fix or across the pond just to get whatever you can.   There is no grey area.  Darkness will always be dark as brighter harmony and promise is always in the light and prevails.

Maybe we just cannot see that or feel that or know that depending on the day and spin of all that happens as our life globe is shaking us to pieces.

Maybe we do.

I wish here that I could say some magnificent thing and Jesus show up and prove me right with modern day miracles for so many more to turn to him and all that is good all that is pure, all that is moral and all that grows life and stops taking it.

Having nice things in life and the abilities to do what makes us feel great is awesome.   But selling our souls, our bodies, our peace to get it is not ever lasting.

Nothing good lasts forever however God’s truth, beauty and abundance in life is eternal.

May we all stand boldly steering at the face of evil and know no matter what comes next, We belong to Jesus and his sacrifice was not for nothing.  That we are worthy to be called son’s and daughters and have no problem for anyone watching  as we be our best selves holding that moral compass and forging forward.   That no matter what is behind us, God is forever up front telling us to take his hand.

May this world and all I am connected know you personally Jesus.   May our hearts, and souls burn for you and that warmth filling us be the energy and light that helps those seeking you and all you are to fill them up.

May we love people for who they are and not what they have or what they can get.   May we teach our youth no matter is or isn’t.  God’s promise is so much better and waiting for us to tap in.

 

In a sense I didn’t pick this life, but I never really chased anything to make something different.   Rock bottom can be so different for every single soul.  Am I a peace with who I have been allowed to be and grow into?   Yes!

God is not done with any of us yet if he has allowed us back up.

Be strong and stand your ground and do not sell your soul because the darkness around you suffocating and stealing the very air you breathe with something that will never make sense.

 

Hills and valleys and mountains coming up empty.   Till the day I die; I may never fully make sense or grasp it, but I know to whom I belong, and He has hold of me and right where I need to be.    I pray you find that peace too even in the painful moments.

Is it not better to believe and get back up fighting for all that is good then to just be the status quo and be like whatever moves the moments?

Thank you, Jesus, for this day.

Thank you for all that I have come to be part of and all that I have had to let go.

Thank you for knowledge and the power it brings and the difference of what we have verses what or who we become by things that will be no more.

Thank you for loving me and my family that you breathed life into these lungs and directed my steps for something more and not what I will have to leave behind.

May all that I am love like you, be loved by those who believe in you.    Purpose for something greater than ever deserved and fight the good fight forward knowing yesterday is gone, tomorrow is never promised and right here right now is what counts.   May your good will, live and abundant love in mercy and grace bless every one of my connections to be something better than their previous selves.

Protect and guide this world Jesus.  Come and show us, heal us and lead us into the eternal promise!

02.25.2022 February (PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

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Date: Friday February 25^th

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Matthew 22:37-39

³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’^[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^[b]

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Footnotes

1. Matthew 22:37 Deut. 6:5
2. Matthew 22:39 Lev. 19:18

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Talking to Him has been so filled with distractions these past few days in all the travel and hustle and fake personalities coming together for the loss of a loved one.   Not to mention getting everyone there then working our way back in a 1300 + track with bad weather.

Yet here I am pulling this new day back to the top and knowingly reminded how blessed to still be here even with all the bullies of the world harming and robbing innocence of life with over shadowing impacts to the once free country we were blessed to be given to live within.

 

As I watched the video of what is left behind covered with snow falling and thinking how thankful I am to not have to drive another day in it making our way back South.    The bittersweet reality of all the memories wash through and over me.

I am sorry

In a sense thinking had I not packed up years ago and left I could have somehow kept people that were Gods in check and the mess that was left to clean up would not have been so bad.  Then I remember although I knew God back then; I never knew Jesus as I do today.

The one who gives me strength and blesses me through it all every day allowed back up.

All the while the spin around me makes the worry and battles over what really does not matter.  

Life does not have to be easy; it does not have to be filled with nothing or everything.  It just has to be real for any real meaning in the end.

So, no matter if we have the biggest, and best of everything or nothing at all.  In the end its too late if you do not have Christ Jesus flowing through your veins.

 

I thought about the authenticity of a person when remind just how authentic Pops was in every area of his life.    Nope not sure how many times he every went to church or if he really believed in God and knew Jesus.    But I know whenever I invited him, he would go.

He was the light and hope for the many sickly and those he rescued over the course of his lifetime be it with words, with EMT abilities or fire/rescue days that would almost kill him.

May all his jokes and stories from on the big ship as a sailor or even around the neighborhood where he was allowed to grow be the smiles that all who were blessed to know him live on.

Logic, reason, and the ability to break many.  Yet he always stepped in a little closer and gave reason to find a way to just breath and smile.

 

As the little things seem as nothing while those who pretend, and smile seem to be everything.  May we never forget to just breathe in Christ Jesus and all he was, is and forever will be.

The hurt, the hate, the brokenness of what is lost or unknown will spin and we either become part of it because of where we are or get sucked in because negativity spawns across the globe so much faster than love and humanity.

Tomorrow is never promised and the reality of the new normal sets in day after day for everyone allowed back up.

May we all learn to love as Jesus did and does.    Love for who the person is in front of you.  Not what loan or gift you can get from them.  Not for what they do that will carry you into the spotlight.   Yes, maybe even we can learn to live and love ourselves for who we are and not all that we do or don’t have.

 

Hard to say what is up ahead.   WE can plan all day long, yet only God knows what will be.

None of us are perfect; yet the trolls of this world that grip on to take everything they can because that is what feeds their demons have them convinced; they need to be different than what they were / are truly created to be for this universe.

The bullies of this world that eventually are replaced by the next version of hate and darkness every century.

No matter what side we choose, light are darkness.  Greed, Power or giving it all away none of us can outrun God’s love.  We will see him and will be judged in love in the end.  Even if we are the worse human beings in the world.  

Before we go North or South, we will all answer to the creator.

Even if, Even when!

Hearts are breaking as innocence is lost.   From Pandemics, from insanity, from war, from just our time being up.     May you Christ Jesus wash through this universe.

Protect and guide in your will all in harms way.   Stop the madness as it unravels entangling so many.

Guide me as we find our way to pick ourselves back up.  May we not so much tune out the vulgarities of this world but learn how you would react.  And step up growing forward helping to plant the garden of life.

Thank you for all you have allowed in my life.  Good, bad, indifferent.  Those authentically still here and those who like ticks just cling on trying to suck the life out.   May you light hem up with all you are.

May I never stop loving and seeing your promise and good in any steps forward.  May I balance knowing how to hold on or when to let go when I have to step back.

I don’t want to get away from you Jesus. Ever and ever always till the day I die.

May I never stop loving and seeing your promise and good in any steps forward.  May I balance knowing how to hold on or when to let go when I have to step back.

I don’t want to get away from you Jesus. Ever and ever always till the day I die.

Shake up and shake out all the negative broken pieces and allow them to create something new and more beautiful with you.

 

Protect all your creation Jesus. 

May we all find our way to you and our souls washed whiter than snow, with our dedication and life needing, wanting, and doing what we can to reflect you in every way.  

Forgive me for allowing the distractions and sometimes not reflecting you in hope and love as I should.

Thank you for all you are and have allowed me and for any possible tomorrows!