Sunday, February 21, 2021

02.21.2021_February(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Sunday, February 21, 2021

 

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Hope Now @Addison road

Smile @Sidewalk Prophets

BELIEVE @Fearless Soul

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):

 

I cannot tell you the last time I wore socks falling asleep and waking up with only one on in the morning.  Saying my thoughts out loud make me chuckle a bit.   However, God has been generous and allowing me back up again this day; giving me something silly to smile about while feeling really peaceful, even though the weights of the world I will go up against, take on or even create still hang in the balance all around me.

 

We can all grasp on to all that is going wrong, we can grasp on to all that we know is going to sting a bit trying to get through it.  We can dive in to all that is quick easy an many times dirty.    Or we can just be thankful for this new breath and do our best with what we have to work with.

 

When you know you do not have to do what you do, and it is not your place to be where you make sure you show up to be of assistance, stability, consistently.  

 

 Even when you know sometimes you are tired of being or doing for so much noise in the world screaming even in the silence.    All the disruptions, all what seems wasted.

 

God wakes you up smiling, and wondering what happened to that other sock, I don’t recall moving around allot last night.    Or what about that puppy that is so happy to see you in the morning she instantly runs and gets her toys to play fetch.

 

Whom by the way has gotten super at catching her toys when you throw them up.

  

Simple things I am hoping to hold onto today.  All those simple little things that make you smile.    When your curled on the sofa and a kid crawls up next to you and then their pet squeezes in.

 

Just being up and alive another day, knowing there are so many opportunities to be had.

 

Sure, we do not shut the world out, sure we must obey and follow rules.   Sure, along the way, there will be moments of stubbornness and choices that make some unhappy.

 

Or even the acknowledgement of reality where pains and sorrows are beyond real.

 

The moment where we or someone we know can no longer breathe.   Where our physical being needs so much healing.  Where our emotional and heart state of mind seems so hurt and angry.    Or even simple things you are trying to do, and something goes a bit crazy.

 

I try and live by not letting the small stuff sweat me, because there is always something bigger waiting around a corner at any time.   That been there done that has helped me keep trying to find new direction and avoid corners when I do  not know what really is lurking around them.

 

No, I do not hide from much, and I normally do not back down when things get a little tough.   However, I try to avoid what is not mine to take on and just be my best self when and where I can.

 

Balance~

Yeah, just like that is, balance is never easy or straight.    Sometimes we need to do what we need to do, speak up when we need to speak up or just be silent and find our place and give thanks even when no one hears it.

 

Sometimes even when things are going wrong, even if they are not yours.  You just own it and move on,  sometime when they are yours, you do your best to fix it, seek forgiveness were needed and move on.

 

In life, in laughter, in love all of those things.   More importantly in the one who creates the ability and blessings to get up each new day so we can do it again, do it differently, do it with thanks. 

 

Life is hard is all get out.  Really!   There is not a moment when you are out there in the world comingling with personalities and everyone else; whom by the way all have their own stories, layers, and fragmented pieces. 

 

 

All that bundled up into a mountain that looks hard to get around, climb or avoid.    Just do it!    Get on your knees, call out to Jesus, slowly get back up, brush off and say thank you each step along the climb.

 

Just like the Nike commercial; Just Do It!     Don’t lose hope, perspective is everything and we get to choose what we allow our eyes, minds, hearts, bodies to consume and shine out.       When things are just!   Smile, if nothing else it keeps the world wondering.   Not to mention attitudes are very contagious.   Do not dwell on what is not; or all those would of, should of, could of; but never did.

 

It is not easy, and never will I try to convince anyone it is.   But we have mind over matter and the ability for what we allow into our hearts.   More importantly who we let into our spirit.   I know I cannot do this life on my own.   

 

 And although I never planned to not have soulmate side by side.   I know we need know one to fill us and make us complete.   We only need to be filled with the spirit of God and to be so we must call upon Jesus.   My perspectives, my strength, my hope, my faith. 

 

We all get to choose and just like every individual in this world that we can portray so many things misunderstood and confusing.    We get to choose what we will believe in and grow forward with.

 

We get to choose the spirit of Abraham, Isaac and Moses and wish we could be even half the obedient souls as they were.  Or we can do what will ultimately allow the landing when we fall from grace unnecessarily hurt and even destroy everything in the path of the landing.

 

No matter my belief is if we can see it, we can achieve it.   If Jesus is that firm foundation you choose to stand on; all things are possible.   Through the hills, valleys, lessons, messes, healing, teaching, preaching or just being.  

 

   Tomorrow is never promised.   So, love today, love yourself enough to heal.  To let go and yes Let God!   

 

We all get to do and be what we think we need to do and be.   Every single thing we say and do has impacts, results and we are accountable good, bad, or indifferent.

 

Be your best self and shine on.   Learn to be selfless.   It does not mean a doormat.  But find your calling and be your best self.

 

Prayers and blessings for this Sunday to fill you with so much more.    Stay well, and know you are loved and made for something so much more than what this world convinces us otherwise.

 

Though I may be broken and walk through the shadows of any mistakes I make.  I fear no evil or give up the life the God of all the heavens and earth intended for me to be.   

 

If Jesus allows me or you back up.   Never stop fighting forward for all that is good, all that is pure, all that forgives often and loves beyond comprehension. 

    

Meditation Opportunities

(Biblegateway.com) Bible Verse of the Day

Romans 13:9-10(NIRV) 

Here are some commandments to think about. “Do not commit adultery.” “Do not commit murder.” “Do not steal.” “Do not want what belongs to others.” (Exodus 20:13 15,17Deuteronomy 5:17 19,21) These and all other commands are included in one command. Here’s what it is. “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” (Leviticus 19:1810 Love does not harm its neighbor. So love does everything the law requires.

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Psalm 31:14 NKJV

But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord; I say, “ You are my God.”

 

Colossians 2:6-7

So the, just as your received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness

Psalm 141:8

But my eyes are fix on you, O Sovereign Lord; in you I take refuge - do not give me over to death.

1 Peter 5:7

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Saturday, February 20, 2021

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Date: Saturday, February 20, 2021

 

 

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Fires (Lyric Video) @Jordan St. Cyr

Don't Lose Hope @Cochran & Co.

I'm Leaning On You @ Crowder ft. Riley Clemmons

Jesus Happened @Baylor Wilson

Touch of Heaven @ David Funk

Jesus Lover Of My Soul @Awakening Music (Lyrics)

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):

 

Walking through these fires of everyday life.   Sometimes feels like the freezing cold that invades our homes, our hearts, our minds, and spirit. 

 

 Sometimes is the pain of loss of those we never thought would see leave us, those we gave everything for and just cannot live without.   That brokenness of all our guts pouring out all over the place and our emotions shattered and cutting everywhere we go.   

 

 Or just that simple accident leaving us  with injured pride and hiding because someone sees we are human.   Those mistakes of choices made that leave lasting marks.   Some like a rubber band too tight on the wrist and others deeper than the abyss that will be with us forever.

Do we not remember what has been done for us from the one who promises eternal life in the land of milk and honey with beyond everlasting love never to feel shame, pain, sorrow, guild or that insignificance that well allow the here and now make us believe?

Yes, we get to choose.  But even the strongest souls on earth cannot carry the weight of feeling so alone, cannot feel the weight of sometimes just the results they did not expect of their choices.       Sometimes the one that cannot pick up and move out of their own way because they just do not have strength and courage to get back up have more power, more strength than they will ever know.

Just because we love the one who allows us to exist; does not mean we will not feel the shards of broken pieces flying everywhere we go.  Sometimes getting deep within our vein’s others straight to the heart.  

I can only hold onto hope and pray daily that Help is on the way long before midnight. Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight) @TobyMac

Help heal this world, this nation, this very being Heal This Land (Lyric Video) @Kari Jobe I am so broken wide open. Lay It Down @Jordan St. Cyr

 

There is no doubt just because we do our best walking doing our best to live holding that moral compass, we do not feel the pains and the shame of the world.  There is no doubt that the brokenness and let downs of expectations even when not planned cut away at you when the choices you make even with the red flags have allowed you to feel the stupidity of that though maybe just once you could be wrong.   Yet that sledgehammer crushes down and now smashing how you can even look at what you love sometimes dearly.

Left wondering when something is so close feeling so real you could almost taste it.  That maybe even when you could see the result ahead you try to dig in and hope for something just once is different. 

 

Lord what a mess sometimes reality can make us feel life is.   Sometimes no matter who we are we all have to face the stories we never talk about.    Sometimes we allow feelings to invade us allowing hurt, distrust, and shards to dig deeper.   Knowing it is who ever acts upon the bad behaviors in their own choices to, with our around you.  

When we believe in others far more than we believe in our own selves and they let us down because the image we paint in our minds is shattered.  Lord heal our way of thinking.   

Knowing boundaries does not mean anyone else does.   Just because we do our best intentions with pure thoughts does not mean when we allow others in for whatever the reasons, that we will not get our hands and even at times our heart dirty.  Even broken.

 

Forgive yourselves, say what you have to say and forgive them, forgive yourself and more importantly give it all to the one who sustains your very life.

Even when times are so ridiculously hard, scary, and unknown.    Even when the storms freeze us out, the floods wash us away.   We are really good souls and have never purposed to hurt, harm, or do any wrong to anyone.    Yet we are held to the fire that is burning us up from the inside out or freezing us into darkness from the outside in.

Being woken in the middle of the night in the winter as the roof of the brownstone you live in collapsed from the weight of snow and ice.    Just getting back on your feet when you flee from the one who you said would be forever and took vows.   But to live you have to let go.    Being blessed to remember how many times as a child the God of the universe saved you from the darkness that haunted you for years.

Living as a child with no heat, hot water in the middle of the great north and going to school to get food and hope just maybe.       Being kept alive when you just wanted to leave because all those layers got the best of you when you are barely even a teenager.      Sliding down the pavement in the middle of the night as the van wheels spin like some kind of move.  

So many have stories.

So many have lost hope then, and even now during a harsh world full of cruel reality and even more joy vampires and even dark soldiers.   Sucking the life out of so many unsuspecting, undeserving beings.    Many will retaliate, many will be lost in the system, many will be lost and consumed forever chasing ways to make everyone pay for what someone, one soul did.

But many more will hear the call of Jesus and maybe not understand why, or what the purpose is for.     But they will open the door and breathe in the peace and brighter light of hope there is so much more waiting.

 

To get back up and know the hurt will come, the brokenness will impact every soul we come to connect.   Yet God the Father calls upon us, to learn what his peace is.  Even when we will never be able to fully understand it.   Even when we still will be human and falter face planting and sharing pieces of ourselves with those who really have their own agenda’s.

 

All I want is to just know your heart Jesus!    Keep me here with the blessings in all the messes I see, I hear, I make, I allow myself to step over the boundary lines and get into.        All that I am all that I am connected is your maker and creator of all the heavens and earth.

Nothing else can or will if it is not of and with you.

Wash through all I touch, all I see, all I am allowed to tap out.     Heal, fill, show the way and let all I am connected to know Help is on the way, help is with you.

Jesus keeper of my soul who allows me to just know.   Allow me the ability of some so deep within this being.    Even when, Even if.       Until the very end Lord of Lord, God of all Gods.  Jesus King of Kings.   Father, Son and Holy Spirit.      Shine through me with all the crazy antics, big hearted kindness.    Take all that I am, all I am connected and change us, change this world.

May we shine brighter than any darkness could ever come close to.

And if this is it.    Thank you!

If there is more.  Thank you!

If there are more lessons.  Thank you!

If there are more times I am to fight to get back up.  Thank you!

Jesus just guide me, show me.  Lead me.    If you choose not to.   Forgive me!

Forgive those I am connected that violate, harm, and just make a mess of things sending pieces flying.    We are all cursed in a world of death, destruction, decay.   Many will participate just because they think that is what will fill them.  Yet in the end the truth prevails; and you Father God, Jesus Christ, Son of God, and your Holy Spirit are the only Hope and true peace that is deeper than any ocean in a world drowning.

I need you, for me, for my children, my family, my friends and all my connections.    Come Jesus!    Please come and fill us all.

Meditation Opportunities

(Biblegateway.com) Bible Verse of the Day

Proverbs 17:9 (NIRV) 

Whoever wants to show love forgives a wrong.       But those who talk about it separate close friends.


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

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through.  May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

 

Colossians 3:15

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace.  And be thankful.


Colossians 1:27

To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 

 

Friday, February 19, 2021

02.19.2021_February(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Friday, February 19, 2021

 

 Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com

Better Than I Am @Keith Urban

“Strong God”, “F.A.V.O.R.”, “Hosanna” (50th Dove Awards) @Kirk Franklin

Amen (Reborn) @for KING & COUNTRY [feat. Lecrae & The WRLDFMS Tony Williams]

Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight) @TobyMac

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (my perspectives and/or feelings):

 

Sometimes we need to be completely empty before we find out just how full of blessings we really are.  I guess a different way we have heard that is we have to hit rock bottom before finding our way back up.

 

That can mean allot of different things in both statements to each and every soul who feels it, sees it or even says it.

 

I so know deep down in everything I am I need a strong God.  Cause each time I look around, each time I fall face planting spiritually or in the world because I take off running and don’t pay attention.  Slamming into a wall too close or tripping up in flight on flat ground or stairs I am climb.   I need more than I am to just keep going. 

 

I so wish I could have that one significant other that would be, do it for me.  I wish more than ever with all this strength everyone tells me how strong I am.  Well, I wish I were.

 

I wish that no matter how deep the love is, how something so connected is but yet we will never really have it.  I wish all those feelings at times were what was got or gets me back up.

 

I wish at times that all the education I made it through be it secular and the school of hard knocks.  I wish I could really say that is what carries me through.

But I know it is God alone that has given me the air in my lungs, the healing in the broken bones, the healing in this broken heart that sometimes hurts so much I feel like I just want to go under and disappear.

 

Had anyone asked me through out my youth even when as a 10-year-old kid I got on some bus that road around the neighborhoods in Jacksonville Florida and went to a church sitting amongst strangers and walking forward not even knowing a thing.  But just asking and being accepted and becoming an immersed believer.    Even then having no clue what it meant and totally forgetting it until later in life.

 

I do know at some point we all want something or someone that we cannot have or should not.   We all look past what should be and is good for us as we allow ourselves blinded by what drives us at that moment in time.

 

Who we are and what we do or don’t do, matters!

Living years just going through the motions of what was thought to be how we do life.   How it was supposed to be because there was never anyone there to say anything different.

 

Oh, through the woods, broken home, battles to survive from health of my own or just at the hands of all we believe in only to know.    Most times they don’t believe in who they really are or were created to be.  So, they use you up or take their hurts out on whatever and whoever is in arms reach.

 

Doing what ever they can to get that rush that takes away all they just do want to deal with or feel.

 

The world and life and all in it.     Matters!    Every single individual soul matters.   We are all created out of love and God’s great hope we would find peace and everlasting love with him.

 

Yet here we are today still living in our own definition of what love is.    For some love is what someone does for us, what someone makes us feel, what we feel like when we do things to make our own beings more appealing, more of the same.   

 

Love is everything and nothing at all!

 

To be filled with an abundant peace no matter what is or is not happening with and for someone.

 

Love is Jesus, love is everything we make it and never forgetting when everything we made changes and feels empty.

 

There is nothing in this world that we can do, be or say that fills the void we all seek for that rush of deep lasting joy, love, peace.   Only Jesus can be that glue, that light, that illuminates every second of every breath.

 

If we do not have Him deep in our spirit and soul.    We miss so much while we wait, while we chase.   While we just are.

 

I wish but not as much as I believe.     That same deep root that lives within for those I care for.   No matter what they are or turn out not to be.   For all those right in front of me.  For all those I have yet to see their glow.

 

Life is what it is until it is not.  We can hold on to whatever turns out rob us from any hope and peace and stay down letting the world walk all over us.    Or we can reach up and out for Jesus to please show us the way.

 

He is the only one who can wash us clean no matter what rut we are stuck in.

 

Boundaries

Funny I once taught a session on them.    Right from wrong, setting ourselves up for failure. Even as simple as not going in places that put you at risk and doing things we just should not be doing.

 

From social media, to being alone for any length of time and you get too close with that brother or sister.       Craziness.  But life. 

 

We all have the ability to choose our thoughts, our words spoken and our actions.  Yet even the most committed and dignified soul.  Sometimes falters losing grip not so much of God’s word and 10 commandments; but of self and finds themselves wanting and falling into something so temporary for the good and layered up with scars from the worldly judgment.

 

What really matters is who are you?   Who are you deep inside?   Not what you do, certainly not what you have or ability to get.  That is all temporary, everything changes and if it hasn’t it will.

 

But who are you inside?  What is your spirit craving for?   Exactly right here right now?

Have you found yourself in that so very empty place and realized just how much and blessed you really are?   Have you given thanks?  

 

I won’t deny my spirit sours when I am surrounded in events or part of what feeds my soul.   Even some humans in this earth, that I cannot explain why but just everything about them has a glow that you just want to rub off and stick on me.     Yes, even those that the mare thought takes me to places I need to run like hell from.

 

Then what about those that your gut feeling is so strong and so haunting that something is not right about them you have to flee and if you do not.    You look back and have that hindsight and healing if you allow it of what was will never be again.

 

It is and can be crazy.    If you allow your mind and your spirit to be overwhelmed while you are consuming what is in this world.  It can and will drive you mad; robbing you of any peace and everlasting joy that was intended for your very being.

 

It is not easy.    Every single day we have to give it to God through his son Jesus Christ.

Every day we have to choose and purpose forward dying to ourselves for all that we think we want like collectors that we become.    We like something or someone and give all we are away for it.   Later to find the appeal is gone once the challenge is met or we have it.

 

Our choices matter.

Every single choice we make has a lifetime in this world of tsunami waves impacting what next and everyone we are connected in the path.

 

Why do we make our lives so hard and painful?

Why do we not make a difference and lesson the statics of the 15-year-old girl in and out of foster care and facing attempted murder charges here in 2021, still happen.

 

Why does the uncle fight with if he wants to be bi-sexual or just gay with a lifetime of energy wasted trying to find himself?   Yet only speaks of how he use to be the support system for a beautiful niece, but she became too much to handle and left it for the system to deal with?   What happened to the parents and the support system?    What happen to family?

 

Yes, we can pick apart every single portion of the real-life scenarios given.    And if you want to get all biblical there is so very much wrong with every single aspect of it.  

 

IT in every ounce is beyond broken.

How we react or respond matters.  Do we condemn because life is not as it has been written it should be?   Do we condone and just say well it is not me, so not my problem?

 

Right or wrong

My response in a very deep conversation last night was.    Not even talking about sexuality first of all.   Stop giving yourself away.   Stop giving pieces of your very being to the world.   When you are ready for a real relationship be committed.     And be your authentic self.    As for the niece, it is heart breaking to know that even with all the help, with all the opportunities in this world.   That baby girl has time to change the outcome but is destroying any chance of life she has.    And what about her support system, It cannot be just part time.   It has to be affirming and morally supportive.

 

Most of all we should always be praying for those lost.   Even if we do not agree with what is and what should be.

 

Don’t get it all twisted up.    We all have demons in our closet. Infidelity, urges, cravings, foul mouth, hidden secrets, hurts, habits and extreme hang-ups.

 

A lie is a lie no matter how big or small.

 

Being wealthy only allows you to roast faster in the luxury furnace.    When you have nothing, you chase getting everything that you set yourself up easily believing in all those you listen and surround yourself with.

 

Life and choices are never easy and whatever is in the world the good, the bad is all temporal.

 

So why not fight forward with the creator of all the universe.   Why not meet Jesus right where you are and put as much energy in even five minutes a day with him and get to know him, lean on him, and grow with him.     It does not mean you still won’t be caught up and want or think you need of this world.

 

But it absolutely will give you a peace beyond understanding and will change your heart when you are touched by the fires that burn uncontrollably around you.

 

Find His like and make His light your light and beacon for any remaining days on your personal journey.

 

Thank you, Jesus!   You will always be so far better than I ever can be.

 

May you hear the whispers of my heart and all the names that are yours.    Lead me with strong hands and show me when to stay down, and when to get back up.

 

Show all I am connected what it feels like to have your abundant peace, guidance, protection, and Love and how to reflect all you are back out in their days to come.

 

Heal the broken and confused or the so very lost being consumed by the darkness in this world.

Show me how to make anything I do count and reflect you.  When they think of us, Jesus may they always think and know you.

 

 May I never stop loving people for who they are and not what they do.    In your precious name that had me long before I ever came to be.

 

Thank you for this day.

 

Meditation Opportunities

(Biblegateway.com) Bible Verse of the Day

1 John 4:11-12 (NIRV) 

11 Dear friends, since God loved us this much, we should also love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God lives in us. His love is made complete in us.

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

Exodus 3:14

God said to Moses, “ I AM WHO I AM.  This is what you are to say to the Israelites:  ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

 

Psalm 63:2

Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.  You guide me with your counsel, and I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.

Habakkuk 3:17-19

Though the fig tree does not bud and there is no grapes on the vines,  though the olive crop fails, and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD.  I will be joyful in God my Savior.  The Sovereign LORD is my strength;  he makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to go on  the heights.

 

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