Monday, April 4, 2022

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Date: Monday April 4th   


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Ephesians 1:7  (The Living Bible)

So overflowing is his kindness toward us that he took away all our sins through the blood of his Son, by whom we are saved;

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Ephesians 1:7  (The Message)

7-10 Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people—free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free! He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.

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Everlasting God (Chris Tomlin)

 

Mosaic by Ryan Stevenson

 

Terrian - Let Love Lead (Lyrics)

 

Crowder - Milk & Honey (Audio)

 

Crowder - He Is (Lyric Video)

 

TobyMac, Bart Millard - Overflow (Willyecho Remix/Audio)

 

Big Daddy Weave - "Redeemed" (Official Music Video)

 

 

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

Thinking about the wrap up in yesterday’s we need to talk about it.    The meaning of sanctification and the journey it is to get there.

 

My thoughts this morning is nothing worth while and lasting will ever happen overnight!

Sanctification means to set apart, to separate us for pure, holy purpose.

It absolutely involves obedience in our choices and, commitment.    Thus, the term dying to self-daily.

The past is, becomes positional the moment we step forward wanting something better and eternal with Jesus Christ.  Ephesians1:4-5 (The Message)

Leading us, leaving us to make decisions as we all have a beginning, middle (that little dash) and an end.

Rebirth is the choice of future sanctification whereby the end prayerfully we are all wholly sanctified.      Romans 8:29-30 (The Message)

Positional to perfect to Progressive.  1 John 3:2-3 (The Message)

No; I am not a theologian but am learning daily and somethings I have to journal about.    We all have a lifelong process of transformation even if only at the time of our death it just reflects to the world our timestamp in the dash in the middle that is the lifelong process of transformation and of course our timestamp out. 

What we drive for, what we fill our minds with our heart will soon be consumed.  

Just because we may have messed up yesterday make note if God allowed you back up today.  No matter what your situation.    You have a choice to call upon the name of the Lord to start learning, start walking and accept Jesus Christ into lead your spirit and take you the rest of the journey on to home.

 

Nope I don’t know what that looks like for anyone of us.   Much less myself.   These past few years have opened my eyes to so many things and much misfortune and change I would have never wished on anyone.   Yet, many of my heart strings and people, places, and things that I have grown with or grown fond and down right loved.  I have seen suffer, lost, taken.

Including even misfortune of my own.

I know if I am wrong for holding on to Jesus, holding on to the only hope that fills me with indescribable peace even in the perfect storms.    I have lost nothing.   Lord knows me living in the world and knowing firsthand what it means.    

Have I been blessed with many souls that I have connected that I have had to let go because their lifestyle or intentions were just not healthy for my own future?    Oh yeah!   Without a doubt and many times walking away with missing broken pieces for the love and fondness I grew to have for their souls that I could still see their talent, their goodness, their own hurts that they just could not get past.   And as a fixer most times it is rubbing off into my already deepened wounds peeling back the scars over and over again.

 

I have never been good with waiting, which is why I have to believe and walk with everyday with the hope and love of Jesus spirit as a necessary.       So, what if I am wrong in the end which I am not.   The worse case is I have been allowed to not let the anger, the hurt, the brokenness of my own and the world consume me.

Let’s face it; after awhile we all grow weary when  we put all we are into letting others be the reason we truly live.     In the end reality is everyone God allows in your journey was just bonus to allow you to love on, grow forward and sometimes they get to ride with us, while others are just fragments of that mosaic canvas of the colors in our life we ride out.

Kudos and love to all who spread the seeds of growth all the while they battle the weeds and vines that try to take over and strangle them out. 

Sounds crazy but if we think about all the hurdles and derailments life has jumping on us or in front of us.    And all who just keep getting back up to be the best version of themselves with no expectations but to let love lead and grow.

It is not about color, we all bleed our red.  That will never change even for those who have lost their soul to the darkness while still walking this earth.

Hate the sin not the sinner but always do your absolute everything to protect what God has blessed you with.    But know you cannot do it on your own.  And like medication we sometimes take to heal us; we often can get others to do it with or for us along the way.


But!!! Eternally only Jesus Christ is, was and always will be unchanging loving us for who we were created to be.

We all are created in the image of God with abundant talents and gifts.   

Some of us chase them throughout life and play that game of starting over trying to recover what we lose along the way.  While others just lose balance and get back up before anyone notices.   

All of us are continually surrounded by enough noise of the world that others don’t notice we are going through that IT moment or time that makes us want to just disappear.

Even though someone is always watching, and someone always knows.

Fragmented thoughts yet impacting facts such as God is always right there with you waiting for your truth, your redemption and your transformation taking all the thorns you left or those you acquired to be redeemed.

Not by going behind a curtain and confessing to man and going back out and doing it again.  But truly coming to Jesus!

I don’t have the answers; like I said many times I am a mess, but I know who I belong to and although my days may not be perfect, and the hurt gets to be too much some days.   I am in the arms of Jesus!    That no matter what will never change and when that love breaks through to you.  You too will overflow with indescribable love and want for all that is good.

Far from perfect but I work towards remaining redeemed daily.    Life is what it is and the effort you put into it.    I love beautiful colors of all life can bring.  

I can only hope in whatever time I am given in this journey the light that has been given to me continues to grow into the future.

Good, bad, or indifferent.    Filled with knowledge of all things, or just blessed with specific talents.    Days filled with so much the blessings cannot be counted, or those days it just hurts so bad we, I cannot breathe.

May the God of all mercy, grace and love pour into every connection I will ever cross paths with.

In truth, strength, and good will.

Saturday, April 2, 2022

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Date: Saturday April 2nd  


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Matthew 20: 17-19 The Message

1Matthew 20: 17-19 (The Living Bible)

17 As Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside 18 and talked to them about what would happen to him when they arrived.

“I[a] will be betrayed to the chief priests and other Jewish leaders, and they will condemn me to die. 19 And they will hand me over to the Roman government, and I will be mocked and crucified, and the third day I will rise to life again.”

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  1. Matthew 20:18 I, literally, “The Son of Man.”

 

Matthew 20: 17-19 (The Message)

To Drink from the Cup

17-19 Jesus, now well on the way up to Jerusalem, took the Twelve off to the side of the road and said, “Listen to me carefully. We are on our way up to Jerusalem. When we get there, the Son of Man will be betrayed to the religious leaders and scholars. They will sentence him to death. They will then hand him over to the Romans for mockery and torture and crucifixion. On the third day he will be raised up alive.”

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Keith Urban - Nightfalls (Official Lyric Video)

 

Terrian - Light It Up (Sub. espaƱol) + video

 

Brooke Ligertwood - I Belong To Jesus (Dylan's Song) (Acoustic Version)

 

Nothing Left To Prove (feat. Israel Houghton & Naomi Raine) | Maverick City Music

 

Lead me back Morgan harper Nichols (lyrics)

 

I just need U. TobyMac Lyrics Video HD

 

Crowder - Red Letters

 

 

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

Life is but a dream.   Sometimes the storms come crazing through the atmosphere leaving us trying to find the pieces scattered in all directions knowing how blessed we really are but mostly shell-shocked finding ourselves having a hard time sorting which direction to feel or go.

Kudos to the new release Night Falls by the guitar hero Keith Urban.

 

May we all be blessed to see it light up and find our way for who we are meant to be and not what we do.  May we all understand the world does not define us before it is too late.  Nothing is promised in this life only the truth spoken and lived is we so often make things much harder than they have to be.   That we never in the end find ourselves where we thought we would be.

No one wants to die alone.   Yet the heart wrenching truth lays where no matter who surrounds us, we can never let go of the emptiness that slowly takes our final breath.    When our children, friends and other family forget who we are to them and we do not even have them walking us to heavens door.    There is not much to fight for when we are not ground in Jesus’ spirit and aware of better days on the other side of this creation called life.

I have been really struggling since Wednesday this week with just day to day.  Ever since I learned that kind beautiful soul once well visited friend of mine somewhere, somehow took a turn for the worse and the cancer that she was in remission for spread all throughout her body and into her brain.    It was a matter of days if that from then to Friday I received the news she had passed.

My soul weeps for her, as the love of her life died a decade ago, her daughter died suddenly just maybe a year ago one son cannot be found her baby boy in jail and the other trying to keep his family the best he knew how.

She made that lemonade as long as she could, but the squeeze finally got to much.  And I wish I could say I knew everything she was going through sharing a meal and laughing doing karaoke.    But miles and life put that gap and everyday we just do the best we can with what we get to work with.     Doing my best to love those I have been given and not get to hung up on the hurts, habits or hang-ups that come to life at any given day.

The only saving grace I find is knowing I belong to you Father God.  Creator of all things and lover of my soul’s future.    No where near perfect, no where near together on any given day.    Working much harder than necessary on any given day.   Forgetting what should and doing what shouldn’t all the while holding on to what I couldn’t.    Jesus you are and always will be in the arms of your safety then, now, and always.

Despite the overwhelming rush of emotion as I think of elderly family and what will be, what is.   When I just can’t or even when the want is like starving from the depths of anything we could ever know.    All my strength, need and courage to just keep going is because of Jesus.

No great explanation other than life and all the pieces he put right where they made sense on any moment.

I got nothing left to prove to anyone.  Yeah, they say perceptions matter.   You want to make a good paycheck or sell tickets to whatever you have ready to perform.   But truth is though that check keeps a roof over our head and blesses us with more than many others.   And that stage allows a platform for people to make us into something we really are not.   Robbing the light and story to be shining all about you Jesus.

Good, bad in different learning this century what the terms of binary or non-binary mean outside of computer programming.   Or totally blown away how some dudes are dressing up as more beautiful women in this world.  

While all those created with such depth and beauty throw it all away for something different because what they have is never enough.

We can numb ourselves, climb that fence to the fake turf that looks so much greener, we can work our lives away, we can do all kinds of things because we are blessed to be given another new day.

But when do we make it really count and not for what we can get, not for what we can take, not for what we can make or hustle others to do or be?

If only

Yes, as the storms pour down this soul weary and trying to stop the sadness reality of then now and always leads me back to you Jesus.

Without you there is nothing but pain.

I need you now; please lead me back!    You Jesus are my only hope.

 

Be with all who are struggling to just hold on this day Lord.

Be with all those in the freezing cold, war-torn unknown.

Be with all that have it so called together, including me.   And show us how to be unstuck in the world’s reality and in the will and depths of all humanity was made to love and reflect.

Forgiveness; show me the way.   Show me how to take the walls down and really stop that reflection on to promises of any new day.

But if you cannot for whatever the reasons will be Jesus.   May you just hold us, me, myself, my family, my friends, my connections.  Those that are, those that were and all the in between.    Please just hold us in your protection, mercy, and grace for nothing more than to get back up and never stop fighting forward and trying to shine that flicker for brighter days you promise in all the red letters of your blood.

 

Thank you for the love.  Then, now and any tomorrows I may be given.    Be it through dreams wide awake or those in the depths of slumber.  What life does one have even if to have lost love is nothing compared to have never loved at all.


 

Ryan Ellis - Heart of the Father (Official Music Video)

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

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Date: Tuesday March 29th


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2 Corinthians 5:21 The Message

21 How? you ask. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God.

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2 Corinthians 5:21 The Living Bible

21 For God took the sinless Christ and poured into him our sins. Then, in exchange, he poured God’s goodness into us![a]

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  1. 2 Corinthians 5:21 For God took the sinless Christ and . . . poured God’s goodness into us, literally, “Him who knew no sin, he made sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.”

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Vertical Worship - Yes I Will (Official Lyric Video)

 

Never Fail (Official Live Video) - Hillsong Young & Free

 

What I See | Red Rocks Worship

 

NF - WHY (lyrics)

 

God's not done with you - Tauren Wells (Lyric Video)

 

TobyMac - Favorite Song (Feat. Jamie Grace)

 

TAYA - For All My Life (Official Music Video)

 

 

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

Yes, I know you never fail.  Even when it hurts as we watch those we love grieve.  Even when we watch those, we love slowly quit the fight of what was doing so well, yet they just do not have your strength within to carry them forward.

 

We all take off with intentions and although some not thought out, others planned and vile while most good taking us where we have much to think about after.  

When I received the text this morning from a friend’s sister I have not seen in awhile.  Just because distance, day to day caused us to stop hanging out.   And yes my lifestyle has been dedicated to staying busy and serving where I can… well life just is what it is.

Yet my heart aches to know that cancer is again taking its toll on such sweet souls of this world.   No one is exempt and well Father God please wrap your comfort and healing and hold Lisa tight as she lay in that hospital bed. 

Fresh wounds from just coming back from saying goodbye to pops and getting mom’s stuff that will fit in the rental and driving 1300 miles back with much to think about.

And so very grateful to know her flight with family was uneventful knowing her situation and she is starting to live a little before her time finally comes.

Just makes me hurt for the pain and sorrow that comes with cancer.

Lisa recently lost her only daughter Jen to a sudden heart attack at a very young age.  So am guessing the grief without you really without you Father is what has caused this fight to give up.

Please let this beautiful soul suffer no more.   May all I am connected come to know you personally through Jesus Christ. 

Even for nothing else the peace that fills us knowing forever and amen!

 

Do you see what I see?   From a child that walks alone 900 miles to find a new uncertain unjust life ahead that could have been just another tragic.   To the healing as we wave goodbye through the rainbow overhead when our loved one is taken too soon.

Choice’s matter, intentions good going wrong or wrong going into some beautiful growth and change that never had been planned.

 

If only, If and When and forgetting all the why even if in most cases of our day to day the why matters.

As long as God gives us air in our lungs our fight and purpose to keep fighting forward.   So many do not get that opportunity.  

Push through the pain like you would push when you thought life was great, good or even perfect.

Stop giving up.  Stop letting vampires no matter if person, places, circumstances suck the life out of you.    You, we are not defined by this world.  

God of all the universe through His son Jesus Christ is with you.  Let him in, learn to know who He really is and find your true being.

No darkness and all it consumes, and the little demons will never stop knocking as long as we live in a world of brokenness and lost faithless people.

But that does not mean we are anything more or less than the beautiful image created in and with God through the sacrifice of Christ Jesus.

Days will get longer and sometimes finding that favorite song to just keep moving towards hope and anything good becomes a struggle.

But unless he takes you home.   Keep going!

As long as we can crawl, walk, run or even just be still and have our voice, our vision, our hearing no matter how good or bad.   We still have purpose until we are blessed to reach the end.

 

I will never understand, but I lost that being mad thing a long time back.

I am at peace with the choices I make and even the abrasions that take place because I am taken far out of my comfort zone when I learn I really had no clue, or even when it just adds one more notch in this spirit as wounds heal and after the pain and the bleeding stops.   I realize just how important and full this life really is when we have faith and dive in hopefully to better days ahead and absolutely not only on what I may or may not understand.

 

Thank you for this day even as my heart is heavy and my unspoken prayers are crying loudly for all who need you now Jesus.   Give us strength, courage, and the wisdom of knowing it is your promise peace is that promise you eternally keep.

P E A C E (Live at Hillsong Conference) - Hillsong Young & Free

 

Jeremiah 29:11 TLB  11 For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

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Monday, March 28, 2022

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Date: Monday March 28th


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1 Timothy 2:5-6  The Message

4-7 He wants not only us but everyone saved, you know, everyone to get to know the truth we’ve learned: that there’s one God and only one, and one Priest-Mediator between God and us—Jesus, who offered himself in exchange for everyone held captive by sin, to set them all free. Eventually the news is going to get out. This and this only has been my appointed work: getting this news to those who have never heard of God, and explaining how it works by simple faith and plain truth.

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Till I Found You - Phil Wickham (Lyrics)

 

JORDAN SMITH - Tremble: Song Session

 

RED ROCKS WORSHIP - Something Has to Break: Song Session

 

Red Rocks Worship - I Will Trust (Official Lyric Video)

 

TobyMac - I’m Sorry (a lament) (Lyric Video)

 

Why (feat. Valley Boys) | Elevation Worship

 

Nick Lachey - Outside looking in

 

Lecrae - Cry For You (Lyrics - Sub) ft. Taylor Hill

 

Tauren Wells - Known Lyrics

 

Under my feet - Zach Williams (lyric video)

 

Gratitude - Brandon Lake. (Lyric Video)

 

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

In the trembling fear Jesus may we all see you for who you are as you hold us tight.

Consuming all the pain, all the sorrow in the abyss of unknown, unfair, and so undeserved.

Never would I have ever considered such thoughts until I found you.    The warmth in your smile the touch of your hand the love of abundance you pour into your creation.  

Thank you for allowing me even just a glimpse in time to have felt such depths of what could be.

No one, no things, no places can ever do what you have done for my soul.   As the rushing flows through this heart like the majestic waterfall pouring through the earth with such beauty and amazement.

 

Want more of all you are to see, to touch to breathe you so true.   For the light needs darkness to shine; healing needs something to break.   Lead me through your world in all that you want me to be.    

Jesus your will be done yesterday, today and any tomorrow’s given for myself and every connection I have ever been blessed to love, be loved; learn or share lessons, or even just pushing through the pain.

God you are and always will be the one truth in beautiful harmony of this thing called life.

No matter how off key or how many broken spirits wander this earth as instruments for what is not your will.   Break on me for all that is eternal feeding life and not just bits of shattered pieces floating around sometimes being strategically placed and others just to help others bleed out.

 

You wash all the wounds clean forcing life back through us; when we acknowledge when to let go but always hold onto you.

I will never understand…

I do not know where you are taking me, I fully know where I am going; fully holding all that has fed this spirit and all that has tried to pick all my pieces for their own consumption.

No Way can I ever be worthy of your love no matter how much gratitude you fill me to acknowledge back.

As the smoke billows through the air wafting fear and distain with all of the noise of opinions for all who think they are qualified to judge, or full the fires.

Jesus your will alone be done.   I am sorry for all that I have made it in this speck floating through this atmosphere.   I am sorry for all that I miss or just let go by.

Heal those who do not know what they are defined by.    Level-set those that have found life in all that is temporal.     Love us for who we are as lessons are breathed into every second we are allowed back up.

Jesus forgive those who have trespassed on this soul; forgive me for wanting to think what judgement should be.  

The why does not matter.  Everything happens for a reason.  May we stop chasing for reasons.  May we just know you are the anchor through all the storms.  May we rise up in unity.

The wars are closer than ever before.  That which are within our own beings and those that will show reality and the evil in living color.

Knowing you personally Jesus matters more now than ever before.   Yet, all we can do is know the truth.  

And we live and breathe it not just whisper it.

Knowing I need to get up and move more than anything now.   So close as this last time going down was so hard getting back up.   Taking its toll yet you never let me go.    Thank you!

If only humanity could truly feed us unconditionally as you do Father.

When you feel it too, when you know you are with me in the hours that no one sees.

When you wear the choices on your sleeve, and everyone sees through all that you think you cannot be.

Only you Jesus and that is not ever in vain.  Because nothing is perfect without you.  All we can do is the best we can with what we get to work with here and now.

Yet blessings flow like a spiraling roller coaster wishing you were sitting by my side to with heads and hands held up high.

Never will we be what the world says we should be.  Yet only you Christ Jesus can set us free.

Fully known and loved by you and needing for nothing even when the desires and wants of humanity forget and get caught up.   Thank you for never letting me go.   May I never be far than whispering distance to the souls you allow me to love and grow into .

Your passion, compassion will never fully wake those who already think they are woke.   The noise, the sound, the bright bold colors of so many so confused and even more that are and will be lost to the darkness and misconception anyone can think they can change the creation allowed by God.    May the innocence suffer not at the hands of the confused hateful misdeeds of an unkind world Jesus.

May love all we are and love all you allow us to be.   It is no competition it is those who just want because they have their own reasons even if sad, hurtful and so very temporal.

 

Your will be done Lord of all things.  May I never judge the souls for who or what they choose to be or do.  May I be in your grace and mercy for protection and blessings that are all yours anyway.

Though the days come I struggle to lift my eyes up may this soul never stop knowing your blessing of life as it was as it will be.   For I am all things with and in you. Rain down on us Father God and wash peace and healing through these lands.    A perfect dream of love never-ending.   Yet more importantly.  Wash through us all wrapping and holding us tight during all that is and all that will be.

Heal us, heal me for all that I need to shake off.

   May this fear within me be proclaimed and reflect the faith that your blessings consume me for and to be.

Thank you for this day needing and wanting like no other the truth and eternal.

I will never be enough, have enough, do enough; yet I am so okay with that as I know to whom I belong and one day will be mine.

Thank you for the opportunity and any/many more to come!

Sunday 5-11-2025_PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe (AlwaysMeKelly)

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