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Date: Saturday April 16th
Meditation Opportunities
coming from Biblegateway.com The Daily Verse
8 Pay all your debts except the debt of love for
others—never finish paying that! For if you love them, you will be obeying all
of God’s laws, fulfilling all his requirements.
8-10 Don’t run up debts, except for the huge debt of love
you owe each other. When you love others, you complete what the law has been
after all along. The law code—don’t sleep with another person’s spouse, don’t
take someone’s life, don’t take what isn’t yours, don’t always be wanting what
you don’t have, and any other “don’t” you can think of—finally adds up to this:
Love other people as well as you do yourself. You can’t go wrong when you love
others. When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is love.
Thought
Movers,
Motivations Touching to the Soul coming from YouTube.com
Maroon
5 - Beautiful Mistakes (lyrics) ft. Megan Thee Stallion
Ed
Sheeran - Bad Habits | Lyrics
Imagine
Dragons - Enemy (From the Series Arcane League Of Legends) (Lyrics)
Riley
Clemmons - Irreplaceable (Lyrics)
Riley
Clemmons - Healing (Lyrics)
It's
Friday... But Sunday's a Coming!
Thinking
Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow
So here we are again.
Up with good intentions to get out here and write something meaningful
and not just jabber on about life and pieces of me or about the vast world that
can be so cruel. Yet, all week long once
at my desk work that I am blessed to have calls me in and well it is what it
is.
Those cute little writers block gifts in my curio standing
out as I have been here so many times before.
We could go left; we could go write or we just stay in the
zone not allowing anything to seep out.
Sure, life has moments and those moments that never go
away. Hurts maybe, habits we all got
them and hang-ups that we deny. Those pet-peeves if you will. Much does not necessarily offend or set us
off. But the just one thing that even
heard or seen 10 miles away makes your skin crawl and truly just wish it never
was.
Life is what it is until its not. And well we all miss it if we are not
grounded or when we are all caught up in someone else’s motivation.
Sometimes thinking of young kids trying to find their way,
trying to be something getting caught up in gangs just to be someone or have
something never fully understanding what they are doing until it is far too
late. Either taking someone else’s life
or losing their own for 15 minutes of being recognized.
If we are lucky to have enough time and acknowledgement to
look back, we realize no matter if it is a gang or not how meaningful it really
was to be invisible.
Even if, Even when we still have the yearning for
something more, but reality of the only life worth living is the abundance of
all that is not filled with temporal things.
I myself was a fearless kid, living dangerous was the only
way to go. Especially when you had
nothing to live for.
However, times have changed dramatically. Unfortunately scaling a 6-foot fence in the
middle of the night to hop into the local boys-club pool with a bunch of crazy
friends while having a few drinks in us was
just mischief compared to what many do for fun in this world today.
I thank God every day even before walking with Jesus that
I was always filled with love. That I always
did and always will see the good in others and just hope darkness does not leak
out around me or my loved ones be it friends or family.
Yes, I was a child victim of misfortune at the hands of
those my mother placed me in. Yes, I
lived to die as a teenager. Broken
and bleeding out in so many ways through-out my life yet Christ whom I now know
and rely on.
God, who could have just let me be a statistic allowed me
to continue this journey.
Being woke out of a sound sleep with some fat drunk barely
at the ripe old age of 10. Leaves
scars.
Sleeping with one eye open or jumping up at barely a pin
dropping across the house was how life was.
Thankfully I sleep well now but there are times when I still do not.
I tell people all the time to keep an eye on their
children, no matter at home or in a so-called safe place like church. We all know unfortunately schools are no
longer safe between the brokenness of the world plaguing our children and just
the sick minds of adults who are supposed to be teaching them.
We know what has happened year over year if we watch the
news.
Someone is always watching. By the time I was 11 and sent out to play
the predators of the neighborhood who would show me how to get high on magic
mushrooms or huffing and taking us into the woods. Still remembering a sleep over in Jacksonville
Florida with a school friend and how this skinny little flat chested girl had
the father come in to say good night and feeling me and his own up.
Then I never understood any of it and there was no one to
tell. I wandered when no one was around,
and I think from 10-16 I stayed under the influence of something.
Moving back to NY in my early teens the kids I grew up
with no matter what the reasons were not much better. All of us unsupervised and always staying totally
wrecked because no one was ever around to tell us any different.
Learning then they were not really friends just someone to
hang out and party with long before knowing what partying meant with.
There is always someone watching and not always for good
intentions. You leave your kid to hang
out at the park by themselves someone will introduce them to things they should
never know.
Now days they do not just tell you never tell otherwise something
bad will happen. Now days parents kill
their own or sell the blessings of life given to the highest bidder and we call
it human trafficking. Sometimes the
parents are so lost from the scars they never allowed to heal and make sure
would not bleed out into the next generation by the time the realize they can
make a change. It’s too late.
Wow
That writers block should have stayed in the curio.
I need to get back to my story soon this I know. Life has had many twists turns, moments and
believe it or not blessings through it all to be able to still get up each day
and dare to make a difference to make it count and seek out the opportunities to
grasp all that is good or as much of it as I can reach.
And not just by taking what others give or just because I
want. But to truly seek something
lasting.
Now my vision of beauty, peace, love I am sure is not even
close to many others.
Beautiful mistakes we all get to grow forward with.
Are we?
Growing forward!
Or are we just spinning stuck. Kind of like me looking around this place
wishing someone else would just once step up and do the corner to corner and
read my mind of the visions I have to greater things that I will someday see
but they would help get there sooner.
I never asked this direction, but I have made choices to
go right, left, or just keep forging onward. The difference God got my attention and I met
Jesus in 1995 and although I do not understand how he does not stop the madness
of what humanity creates be it my own story or all that is around this
globe. I will never be the same person
I once was before knowing who He is and the love he has for all of us.
So thankful my bad habits led to you Jesus!
Our own worst enemy is that which lives inside of us. Yet with the healing touch of the light that
shines through all that the Son of Man shines bright, for all that he took on for
us to allow us life with us. For all the
good that creation was hoped for.
Indescribably written, stated, or lived out. Where only our very own choices to call upon
the name of the Lord to be with us can be justified. Not hearsay of the truths or anyone else
speaks or writes.
Jesus within is a choice you yourself have to call
upon. We all believe in something
there is no doubt. Even atheists believe
in God not to believe at all.
Loving people for who they are and not what they do. That is hard especially when we are all so
needed with wants and desires.
We were made that way.
And blessed with the freedom to choose.
Beyond all else we get to choose.
What to do with the outcomes of what was forced upon us or what we will
force upon others.
We get to choose forgiveness even if we know never to
allow it to happen again. The world was
formed from darkness so why would we not want to shine bright wherever we
are. If we cannot, why would we not
want it to be lit up around us for all that is good and lasting?
Purposing forward!
It’s easy to get caught up. Trust me on that just like those Netflix
binge watching cycles that I get myself in.
Knowing I have things to do so I just look more and more exhausted because
my choice is to do so.
It what it is until its not. What are you running from or chasing? It’s not too late to make a different choice
until you don’t get back up again.
That rush you get and the excitement you thrive off taking
all you can take or having some power over those who just have not been able to
stand up yet. Well, everything we have
here and now is temporal.
Sunday’s coming you all…
I should have gotten out here and wrote yesterday because
it was Friday and Sunday is coming.
We can pretend we don’t see it or hear it. But we can never change the truth.
The story of Jesus written more than 2000 years ago still
unchanged.
Father God I will never be worthy enough to truly deserve
life and all the blessings of people, places, and things you have allowed
me. In my mind I have a right to live
and your blessings allow me Freedom of choice.
May I never harden my heart, may I never stop choosing and
needing all you are Jesus.
May all I am connected be blessed to know you and grow
through the pain and rise up no matter what.
May we unit and fight forward for all that is to give life
and never take it. Yet may we be
protected from the darkness that will come.
Heal the suffering Jesus. For it is who you are. Call us deeper still Jesus; allow us to
hear and see and want to be with who you are always. Thank you, Father, for all you are! If tomorrow does not come thank you for every
yesterday given! Out
of Eden - Here is My Heart
