02.27.2021_February(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

Music pulled from https://www.youtube.com/ and are free for public consumption**** Bible Verses pulled from https://www.biblegateway.com/ unless noted otherwise and are free for public consumption****   (NIV -New International Version, NKJV-New King James Version, AMP -Amplified Version, TPT-The Passion Translation)

Date: Saturday, February 27, 2021

(Biblegateway.com) Bible Verse of the Day

1 John 3:18 (NIV) 

¹⁸ Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

 Meditation Opportunities

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

Psalm 73:23  Yet I am always with you, you hold me by my right hand.

 

1 Corinthians 10:13  No temptation has seized you except what is common to man.  And God is faithful, he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.  But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

 

Hebrews 3:13  But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com)

 I Believe I Can Fly @Yolanda Adams

I Look to You @Whitney Houston

Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight) @TobyMac

Music GATHERING @Bethel

Reasons @Hulvey  ft. Lecrae, SVRCINA

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

Thank you, Lord, for the new day given.  Thank you for allowing me to see family and hug that big brother of mine that it has been far too long.   Those relationships so far apart but so remarkably close every chance we come together.  Always bound by our life, by our blood, by our hearts.   Those deep in our souls. 

Reminding how we all just knew, my siblings and I, if we could vision it no matter what.  We just knew we had to get up and go get it, go be it, go and just live.

Knowing if we could see it and genuinely believe it will be.      We were able to get back up and keep going even if we go down for the count a time or too.

I looked to you, somehow in 1995 I walked right up to you for myself, not understanding why.   Just so very tired of all I was battling and losing big.   Fighting to stop living with no purpose. 

How clearly and loudly I would scream and fight with you over the years.    I am sorry for such disrespect when my anger would get the best of me.     All that hurt, all that which I could not fulfill, all that I could not control and just wanted peace.    All those times where I was purposely destroying myself because I just did not want to be where I was anymore.

All the hurt watching loved one’s crushed as they suffered tremendous losses and they spiral out of control trying to just get out of this world.   With no ability to just call upon you themselves.   

Thank you even if I do not know any of the hearts of my blood, friends, or connections.   Thank you for those whom I love dearly to get back up and keep trying.   Even if the battles they face now are bigger because of all the self-infliction.   They are still filled with love and trying to just keep going for the blessings they acknowledge right where they are.

Every one of us, in fact every single soul in this universe according to the world is just a number.  Added to one statistical bucket or another.    Everyone one of us layered and stressed with something we are trying to get through, get over, become, prove.   Battling the changes in our families, in our employment, in just our day to day in a world that has dramatically changed how we ever once knew it.

It started long ago where unless you live out away from everyone, kids just cannot go out and play until the streetlights come on.   Where we once gathered for festive parades and celebrations of authenticity, achievements now has become celebrations that we openly can choose our sexuality, gender, or even wrong doings.

We celebrate more even when we can no longer line up and watch the floats go by; all that which will carry conversation for years to come.   Yet ignore and shine bright for all that they sell their souls and want the world to see, just so they can feel purpose and meaning why they exist.

Sometimes it just is all we know, sometimes its fighting what we think we know others its just stuck somewhere unable to breathe needing reason to live, to escape, to be.

Only you know really Lord why we do what we do even when at times we do not mean to do it.   Help is on the way in you, with you.  If only we look to you from our souls to your very being.  Help is here, it is on the way we just need to call upon you any time of any day.

     Not that I promise I won’t do it again if you just help me, make it stop, give me one more anything.     But that deep release of giving our spirits unto you, Jesus. 

 Knowing deeply, passionately, and willingly every day who the God of the universe is.  Knowing who you are and what you have done for us, with us and in us when we call upon you within our hearts, within our spirit. 

  No matter who we are, what we have done; You Jesus when we call upon your name to live within us are given abundant life right where we are.

My life has been so close to the edge of that six feet more than I care to count.  My life hurts, watching so many losses, watching loved ones, family, and connections in the fire of life and not realizing the peace they could have as you walk them out.

We can plan, we can be our best self in every aspect.  We can love others so deeply we cannot breathe when they are take away or we find out they never really were.

Yet, in you we Father God, Son of Man!  Jesus give us hope, give us peace, give us one more day to exhale.

In all your goodness, in all the fires, in all the pain, in all the mistakes, in all the achievements at the top of our mountains.  Thank you, Jesus!    Please direct my steps, protect my heart, show me the way to shine just a little bit more when things, circumstances and even losses make it so hard to see, so hard to lift hands to grasp on and pull up.  

Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is never promised.    May we be that kind word, that no agenda friend, that truth, that blessing, that listening ear, that ride, that kind gesture.

  May we stop trying to put ourselves out there for the world to see what we are for what we do; may we shine bright for all the good in our hearts and souls.  May we heal, from all we cannot speak about.   May we rest well in the blessings of one more day and find our way and opportunities no matter what they are.  No matter who we are.  May we shine bold, bright and wash away the stains with your blood, wash away the dirt and get away from the sandbox that like quicksand is just waiting to suck us down and stifle suffocating all that you allowed us and created us to be.

Thank you, Lord, for this day no matter come what may.   Thank you for the ability to see those of my blood and all those I will be blessed to come to know.  Thank you for all those that are lost, I have been able to know who have found themselves and found you.

Jesus it is between you and me.  It is between you and every soul who calls upon you daily. 

Protect your called. Protect all our children.  Heal the broken, bring safety to those traveling with you deep in their spirits and in your name.   Show the world your name is worthy Father God.  

 Thank you for all I do not understand.

Thank you for all the times I could not get up myself and it was you who carried me.

Thank you for the love that will always be.  Thank you for the hope I cannot explain and to the human eye I cannot see.

Thank you for allowing me life and just to be me, no reasons needed but just to keep breathing even when we do not know why, how, or when. Thank you!

02.26.2021_February(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

Music pulled from https://www.youtube.com/ and are free for public consumption**** Bible Verses pulled from https://www.biblegateway.com/ unless noted otherwise and are free for public consumption****   (NIV -New International Version, NKJV-New King James Version, AMP -Amplified Version, TPT-The Passion Translation)

Date: Friday, February 26, 2021

(Biblegateway.com) Bible Verse of the Day

1 John 4:9 (NIV) 

⁹ This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

 

Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com)

 

Don't Worry, be Happy with lyrics original @Bob McFerrin

I Need You More @Kim Walker Smith

Just Be Held @Casting Crowns

Dream Small @Josh Wilson

Hills and Valleys @Tauren Wells

The Elements  @TobyMac

Hold On To Me @Lauren Daigle

Happy @Pharrell Williams (feat. Minions)

 

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

Happy Friday

We made it through our 6-6 Monday through Friday fire drills, trying to fix, coordinate and making things happen that really are not in our grasp.    We did it!   Thank you, Jesus,!!!

You have allowed me up another day and allowed me to forge through.  No matter how many minutes, seconds or the hours were spent.  You have allowed me up and gave strength to not quit and just keep doing my best with what I realize I have right here, right now.

May we continue to just get up and dance even if the music is only in our head.    May the world never crush us so badly that we cannot look up and imagine the greater things yet to come.

Despite that which I want, that which I run from, that which is truth and that which just is.  You are all I need; and I need you beyond anything I can deserve or work to have.

That switch yesterday taking me back to those good old rock and roll legends as I am dancing around cleaning up this shelter you allow me to give those who dwell.

From Credence to Skynyrd nothing compares to the need I have for you Jesus.  Although the music just vibes straight from head to toes and takes me places I once was or where I think I may want to go.   Nothing like the worship of you when your spirit dances through and over hundreds of souls all at one time and just the love and peace like that electrical current that cannot be explained but must be felt.

I need you then, now, and always Jesus.  More than ever before.

I will keep doing my best to get back up and just find that glimmer of light and when I can just dance, just be happy right here where I am.  

I am just needing you to hold me Father.  Hold all I am and all I am connected.   I am so tired of fighting that is not mine to fight.   For those who almost have their own puzzle pieces together than out of no where they fall to the floor and scattered.      It is not my place to be Jesus.  Yet you know me; when you say get up, I take off running, when you say move, I am moving. 

   I just want to be held and rest in love, in you here and now.    Forgetting about all that has been all that will be.   Just looking out over that meadow of beauty and colors while the smells of a favorite fragrance waft through the air, yet no reactions of allergies from all the impurities of life take over.  May we learn to dream small and just live.

It has taken me so many years, so many messes to clean up.    May you use me where I am one day at a time.

Forever my sweet soul king who fills those who find you with a love beyond all time and space.

Thank you for allowing me to know you Jesus.   Thank you for allowing me life and all the hills and valleys that our journey may takes us through. 

Lord please never let me go.  I am who I am and a mess on any given day.  Just hold on to me when I seem so out there trying unsuccessfully to achieve or be.  For me, for others it does not matter Jesus.   It is you that is the air I need to breathe that is lasting and truth.

Show me how to be more than simply happy for anyone or anything I have in this world.   Show me how to be forever in the joy and blessings no matter what the storms, elements of people, places, and things.      Always get me and all I am connected back up to fight with all you are, all we got!   Leading for all that is pure, all that is good all that should be.

I may not get it right, understand or perhaps miss what seems to be what should be.   But one thing is for sure is I have nothing, am nothing and can do nothing without you Jesus at my wheel.

And there goes that squirrel knowing I am back to one of those times where almost every other word triggers a song.   

Thank you, Jesus, for all you have blessed to create harmony in the souls such as mine with music, lyrics, sounds and beats that truly allow this heart to pump and know I am alive when those times of numbness try to take over.

Please protect and guide all your children, protect, and guide all the artists that are out there today and all that are finding their voices and visions.   

May all that has meaning, all that is clean, all that is good in your truth Jesus fly higher than any platform we could ever dance upon.

Wash over, through and around all of what we are and show me and all I am connected how to lead by example.  In you!   With you!  For you!

Thank you for this week, this month this day and all that will or will not be.

One Love @Bob Marley

Meditation Opportunities

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

Deuteronomy 29:29  The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the tings revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of his law.

 

Luke 12:25-26 “who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?  Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do worry about the rest?”

Psalm 32:8 I will instruct you to teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.

02.25.2021_February(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

Music pulled from https://www.youtube.com/ and are free for public consumption**** Bible Verses pulled from https://www.biblegateway.com/ unless noted otherwise and are free for public consumption****   (NIV -New International Version, NKJV-New King James Version, AMP -Amplified Version, TPT-The Passion Translation)

Date: Thursday, February 25, 2021

(Biblegateway.com) Bible Verse of the Day

Matthew 22:37-39 (NIV) 

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]

 

Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com)

 

God only knows for King & Country, Dolly Parton

Only Love @Jordan Feliz

Everything @Lauren Daigle

Rest For Your Soul @Austin French

Battle Belongs @Phil Whickham

Lean On Me @Kirk Franklin

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

WOW

Don’t just love the people who are easy to love; go love the difficult ones.  Reading one of my devotionals today from Bob Goff from Everybody Always I am reminded how powerful our actions can or cannot be.   Loving the prays “Don’t put a toe in the water with your love; grab your knees and do a cannonball.” @Bob Goff @Everybody Always 

Here is a portion exerted from the bible.com and  one of the many ways to just keep growing forward in motivation, in spirit, in peace and in finding and learning who Jesus really is to us, for us and with us.   If we allow him in.   

 “Obeying Jesus when it comes to loving difficult people is hard. I’m still working on it. I’m sure it will take the rest of my life. The heavy lifting is worth it, though. Difficulties and setbacks will give us the chance to go back or lean forward. I’m convinced heaven is watching us, knowing full well all that will be left standing in the end is our love. I bet our spouses, kids, and friends are watching too.  If you want to become love, stop just agreeing with Jesus. Go call someone right now. Lift them up in ways they can’t lift themselves. Send them a text message and say you’re sorry. I know they don’t deserve it. You didn’t either. Don’t put a toe in the water with your love; grab your knees and do a cannonball. Move from the bleachers to the field, and you won’t ever be the same.”

I get it!  Not everyone wants to constantly hear about Jesus, being happy, feeling good, growing forward.   Actually, there are some out there that have crawled so far back in a corner trying to disappear from the life they have at hand.  In some cases, rightfully so.  Hiding the best way, they can from the pain of abuse, be it verbal, physical, or emotional.   Health needs, starving and alone.  Not having anything or anyone to help them up out of the shark infested waters of life.

Giving everything of themselves and then sometimes everything they have to that one special wanna be connection forever.   That soul connection, right?  Why else could you have come together, and everything is working even if it’s a little rough at times, because we justify, we just got to teach each other.   Then that one day we find our physical, our emotional and most of all our trust bank accounts have been drained and beyond in the red.  

That one we married neglected to tell you up front it was not going to be just you and them.  Although you will build some really awesome feeling moments that last forever.  Until that day you find out there has always been someone else getting the same flavor of what was supposed to be yours.  Just a different time but it all hurts the same.     

What about that which we trusted and are proved to no be worthy in that other supposed friend or significant other to even have the respect to be honest and up front.   Releasing what they do not really want.  But instead, openly treating you who have given what you thought to be everything to them with such disrespect and distasteful actions.   Yet wanting you to shut up and take it because they don’t want to let you go.  

People are people all day long.   What works one moment for one area of life some how changes for that same soul and becomes something different for someone or somewhere else.

When people let us down, its really because we have put expectations on them to be that everything that perfection and sometimes, they are just acting out on the triggers that have somehow loaded up something in them to not know, not care, who knows but only Jesus.

What about that unfair thing that we put all we are into?  Perhaps that job, that business, that creative masterpiece  and somehow someway its now all gone.    A storm came, change came, a pandemic came.  That something that no one ever plans for. 

What about that diagnosis?  What about never smoking, never doing drugs, never putting anything bad into our vessels yet we suddenly are laid out on a hospital gurney getting tests and not sure what will be, or we are, the doctors say we have limited time.

Life is so unfair.  All that could happen if we planned and thought about it all the time and lived in a bubble would be like looking down the end of a loaded barrel in a game of Russian roulette.     Your life would be over because you are paralyzed and the only thing you know is what happens if this is the loaded chamber or the bubble that we hide in bursts exposing us to a contaminated world that soon has us sucked up into the vortex of anger, hate, bleeding out and afraid to breathe.

Yet, for the glory of the God the creator of all things  who wants us to live.   We forget His promise of eternal peace, comfort and love that will never fully be deserved awaits His son Jesus Christ waiting to meet us, to show us our worth, to show us how to walk through the valley of the worldly lava flowing openly in a world so vast.    He is our only life jacket, our breath daily, minute by minute.

Thirty years ago, I would have never believed so.   I knew God so I thought.  Went to church every holiday.   Sometimes even during the week when I lived close enough to one.

You know I was not always aware who Jesus always was.   Confess your sins to a man behind a curtain go pray your hail Mary’s and don’t do it again.  All the while they were hiding behind their own curtains of using children for their own pleasures or getting drunk at the latest neighborhood wedding.    Yet when you do all the classes and seek them to be your priest for your wedding or to Christian your children, they find fault in you and refuse.   Humanity has always been messed up in thinking their thoughts or my thoughts for that matter are what is right.    WE ALL have a perspective, dreams, and beliefs.

We all get to choose what we allow to overtake our minds, our spirit with us without Jesus living with us.    Being a good human and trying to stand up for anything right or nothing at all.  The choices have been given to us.   WE ALL have been blessed with freedom of will, freedom of choice.

We all get to choose what we label our own bad choices and behaviors with excuses or quantify it addictions and/or reasons.

Yes, it is true, when we allow our state to be altered by drugs and alcohol, we are not who we were made to be.  We become that bold person to do whatever, whoever to or with anyone that is playing in the same sandbox with us.     Using and abusing ourselves or those we managed to get our hands on.

Deep thoughts flowing out, mine even yours reading through.  Truth is God only knows what and why we do what we do, and it is with and through Him alone that releases us into what will never be perfect but will be with perfect peace.     To find him and know him we must come to know and walk with Jesus Christ. 

The same God that holds this universe who breathed life and created humanity.  The same one who gave his only son as a sacrifice to allow us the choice to live in peace, light and be our best doing our best in the light.   Or choosing to be the darkness and reap what we sow either way.   The same God that allows birds to fly, bold colors of flowers to bloom, oceans, and waves to dance, is everything to me.   

The same God whose story is in a book that has been published and sold more than any other book ever in the universe and allows us to know him personally through his son Jesus Christ and the teachings of those who honestly believe, learn, and grow forward to Him, with Him.  Who love beyond anything we could ever fully understand?

We all get to choose.  I really do not know why I come out and let it flow out other than I would be a fool to withhold the blessings I still am able to feel each day I get up.  By not sharing.

I used to want to be a motivational speaker at one point in my life.  I used to want to share all the bad things in my life and make sure no young adult did not see a clear picture of their choices.  Always thinking maybe, I could save someone from the pains or prevent a lifetime of stuff that does not need to be.

Over time and its all part of growing up people are going to be, going to do going anything they feel like it no matter what they know or do not know.    Just because we know right from wrong it will not matter once we allow ourselves in a mindset and we just do.

That mindset sometimes is selfish and harmful, and we just do not care what anyone else thinks.  Sometimes that mindset is filled with hurt and anger from something that has occurred.  Others we just want no part of if and others we just try to be better or do all that we think is good and sometimes that good sets us up for our own drama, failures just as it also can lead to success and what we feel is achievements.

I guess the main thing I have learned.

Is what I am doing necessary?

Is it True?

Is it Kind?

Do we really have a reason why we need to make others feel good, or on the dark side of that; pay for something they have no clue is going to cost them?

One word, one action can make or take a life!

I personally hope and sometimes pray that every single connection I have is doing their absolute best to be a light, be that little glimmer of hope in an oh so darkened world.

For me I choose to give all that I know I fall short in, with and for to the one that created all things.    I lean on Jesus.  Yes, before I came to know him I leaned on my own understanding and what everyone else had answers for.   The peace I have now knowing Jesus is my filter, my protector, my healer, my very breath, my teacher.   He lays me down in green pastures next to still waters; He reveals all things through lessons, messages, and messengers.  Through song and music.   I am far from perfect and hardly ever get it right.  My goal to want to help, to want love to be love to even be that everything if I talk about my human desires and thoughts at time.    To avoid conflict over all that is temporal and just see a healing of life, laughter, and true love to shine and reflect growth.

I am finding my way with Him at the wheel.   What works for me may not work for you.   It may actually tick you off I talk about it so much.   It is what it is, and I am blessed.   Each day things work out, or I pick myself back up.  I am blessed.

This is what I choose and the pieces I share out, prayerfully and truly are shards of light that give you the energy, the hope, the desire to want something lasting, something better.  If so; dive in lean on Jesus.  

Start feeding your spirit, resting your soul and know you are everything to the creator of all things and all He wants is you to know everything with, for, and through Jesus his one and only son. 

Have a blessed day or evening.   No matter who you are, you are not what you do.  Rest well in Him!

Meditation Opportunities

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

Matthew 11:28 NKJV  “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

 

1 Thessalonians In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

02.24.2021_February(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 Music pulled from https://www.youtube.com/ and are free for public consumption**** Bible Verses pulled from https://www.biblegateway.com/ unless noted otherwise and are free for public consumption****   (NIV -New International Version, NKJV-New King James Version, AMP -Amplified Version, TPT-The Passion Translation)

Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2021

(Biblegateway.com) Bible Verse of the Day

Jeremiah 29:11-13 (NIV) 

¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ¹² Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. ¹³ You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

Soul Vibes / Motivation Movers (YouTube.Com)

 

Ruins (feat. Joe L Barnes & Nate Moore) - Maverick City | TRIBL

Love @ We Are Messengers

East to West @Casting Crowns

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

Amadeo (Still My God) @Ryan Stevenson

Out Of My Hands @Jeremy Camp

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

Faith in all that is good, all that is unseen comes in many shapes, sizes, and colors.

Hope, peace and the want for goodness and joy for all it touches sees no wrong.  When no agenda souls come together and absolutely allow Jesus to wash through them, knowing when they sing about His ability to wash away the ruins.   There is nothing that blocks the love, the care, the truth that is written and pours out of one’s spirit.  

For some this may be laughter at what they do not understand, some beautiful unseen sounds coming together of every voice, every musical instrument.   For some like being lifted and flowing through every beat and rhythm filled with energy, for when they land and look back they know it is only because the same God of the universe that has given them a new day allow them to feel a glimpse of what is yet to come.

Can you hear it?  Can you see? 

Have you laid your burdens down?

Have you stopped looking around, looking at everyone else? 

Have you looked into the depths of who Jesus Christ died so you would be allowed to really know who you are meant to be?  Who you are?

Not what you have!

Not what you do!

Who you are in the eyes of the creator, that same God who knows every hair on your head, knows your thoughts and what you are about to do; even what you have done that you cannot shake off.

Have you met His son Jesus right where you are?

We are all imperfect souls that sin against all that God the Father created us to be daily.   So what in the eyes of the world some sins of many are more heinous than any we could see our ever be caught up or do.

Yet a sin is a sin, so who are we to judge others for what they once did.   

Don’t get it twisted.    Those that do the crime me, you; everyone one; absolutely must pay for what we do.    Every action has a result.  Every action is someone’s choice and the tsunami wave of what washes out at the end of that choice has the effects of good, bad and everything in-between.

Yes, in a heartbeat I fight not to react to some choice others make that involve me or my family or even those I find myself caught up in.

 

However even when a criminal that is in prison and the crime, they commit robs a life, or puts others in permanent distress.  Though they will always be required to pay for their crimes, it is  up to God what the final judgement would be.   Yes, I struggle daily and often have to ask for forgiveness because I am that one that though I love everything about God the Father and in love with all Jesus Christ is.    I still say I will be the one to help line them up.    When it comes to harming children, elderly and those who cannot defend themselves for whatever the reasons.    Yes, I cast judgment too.

I can make excuses; I can say its because I know what it is like to watch those who have no regard for anything but their own personal demons to be fed.   Watching myself in the looking back glass.  Watching others.   

How easy it is to lose ourselves to what is already been and gone and here we are with a new day and new opportunity to grow up, and forward. Finding the best in all we are, all we are meant to be and most importantly with whom we belong.

The same soul that reveals beauty, promise, and hope from the East to West is the same Father of all things that wants our absolute best, for who we are despite how much we try to fit into this abstract world.

When you know every single thing about us. Most times we do not know our own self until we are figuring out how to get out of a mess.

 

   Sure, we know what we think we want, what our goals of who we want to be in the future, what we will tolerate or not.    But how many of us really take time to know who we really are in the eyes of God?  How many of us really meet Jesus where we are and seek the truth and the way?

Seek what may not make sense but fills us up we overflow with abundance even when we have nothing. 

We are the water that Jesus turns into wine.   Not to walk around drunk, lost, under the influence and stupid but that of what lifts our spirits so high we will never touch the earth ever again.   Even when the waves of day-to-day pound on us.

Death, destruction, let downs, surgeries, accidents, anger, volatility, crimes of delusion, crimes of passion.   Illness, cancers, pandemics,  mental, emotional, heart, head; that which is self-inflicted or the hands of others.     The list of all that can and will consume us at some points in our journey.    Lay it all at the foot of the cross.     Really get to know not just hear about Him, but dive in and find who Jesus was the, and is still now.

There are many ways to learn through Pod Casts, Youtube.com, Music, Music, Music,  Yes did I say Music.  Speakers, Movies, READ the BIBLE.  Start with daily devotionals, find no agenda Christ Centered friends that are on the journey with you.  Find a church that teaches what is in the Bible.  Challenge, ask, seek.    Do not just assume and take what someone gives you.    Dive in and know that the God of the Universe in the days of creation is still our God in everything all the time and nothing can change that. 

Giving it back and acknowledging it is out of hands and in the hands of the one who allows us life and breath in our lungs is far different that just turning our heads and hiding in what the world says it should be.

We all get to believe; we all get to share perspectives in this free world that is falling apart.  Maybe not openly for some.  But the blessing no matter how good or bad life surrounds me here and now.  Mine is to share the pieces of me and my ability to share that Jesus is still my God.

Lord, please teach me, teach us how to pray for those who are less than kind, those that offend us, those that at times purposely see we are easy targets and harm us for their own personal desires or what they think are needs.   Perhaps even those that have so much hurt, anger or untamed emotion that just comes out and anyone within reach is the collateral damage.    For when I harm or offend anyone Lord; please forgive me.

Lord, come down and heal this land.   There are so many needs that only you can fulfill.   May we fill up with the love that you intended and not get it twisted and confused for all that consumes us.

Guide and protect our children and any future that will come.  Jesus you are the light, the hope and all that is good.

Thank you for this day and all the opportunities that can come to be.

 

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

1 Corinthians 13:12 KJV  For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

 

Ephesians 3:16-19 I pray out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.  And I pray that you , being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep  is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of tall the fullness of