Monday, March 29, 2021

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 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)

 Daily Journal/ Prayers & just Thinking Out Loud 3/28/2021

A beautiful Sunday service @ New Life Christian Church – Spring Hill  https://fb.watch/4xtnS8lEz6/

 

Just passing thoughts 3-28-2021 Perspectives cruising with AlwaysMeKelly


My Sunday was a day of rest from social media including writing.   So here I am today up and blessed another day.   Sharing yesterday’s service and just those passing perspectives LOL.  Always have some.  WE all do, right?  


Date: Monday, March 29, 2021 

 

 Daily Journal/ Prayers & just Thinking Out Loud

Interesting but true we all believe in something right.  

So today touching in my controversial side that I sometimes read about, listen to here today I am tapping into a couple of speakers that absolutely hit that nail with their freedom of speech and saying what most people would not dear even let you know they are thinking.

 

First of all, I am not here to force anyone’s opinion on anyone.  Just like my perspectives shared.  We all get to choose what we want to feed our minds, body, and spirits.    This morning I happened to be intrigued enough to share the following two speakers if for nothing else but to challenge every living soul to stand up and think for themselves.   To stand up even if you are standing alone.  And to stop stereotyping every single thing and yes acknowledge across the world humanity has a huge heart issue.  

Thus, allowing what we feed on, to create beliefs and actions upon so in whatever next steps we take. In this clip from Facebook Graham Allen although I cannot justify one way or the other of his facts around all of the information he is speaking on.  He is passionate and speaking facts when it comes to the lack of discipline and lack of heart for what is good, what believes America was found on and that it is not a color issue.  As we all bleed red; the heart and the actions that pour out are the true    Daily Rant: We have no heart @Graham Allen  

 

 

My thoughts out loud.    There may be many ways that lead us to a sort of temporal peace or excitement, or we think blessing.  And maybe it is at that time and place of where we are at in life.  

However, there is and always has been only one true God, and the only way to get to him is through Jesus Christ!  

Starting out and the first thing I see is interesting and just another moment of truth as I listened to this first public post.   We all believe in something right.  

 There may be many ways that lead us to a sort of temporal peace or excitement, or we think are blessings.  Maybe it is at that time and place of where we are at in life and us what we choose. We all get there in our own time.  Where there is; what we choose to believe for lasting joy or finding peace.   There is only and always has been only true God, and the only way to get to him is through Jesus Christ!

 

Interestingly God allows the unqualified to do his bidding and allows their voice, their writing, their passion to reflect no big surprises.  However maybe just that nudge needed to wake us up in a sleeping world.    A Shocking Message to Anyone Who Calls Themselves Christians @OffTheKirbMinistries  

 

How true it is that the world is known for so many misdeeds to those preaching Christianity.  Those who are raising up Jesus’ name are still being killed and tortured around the world.   Just at times for believing in the greater good, hoping for peace and love and something brighter than the negative or even evil that overshadows all we can be in this journey we are allowed.

 

Yes, the  But why? Sits with me wondering if there is no God, if things that are pure, good, and bright are wrong, why does the darkness and all it consumes fight so hard to eradicate or eliminate before it feeds into others and grows something beautiful.

 If he our God and his son Christ Jesus;  is not real.  Why must we eliminate those who preach hope?  

 If it is not real than why do, we not just leave it and let those who try and speak on it go.

  Like all the other things that this world freely challenges, broadcasts, fights, or tries to sell to anyone that will listen.

Why do we not just turn our heads and have one big hopeful love fest?

Because darkness is seeping into our hearts, our vision, our minds.  Darkness always tries to force it’s cover over all the light.   

Do we not know though, even if some collateral damage leaves irreversible damage, the light will never be blocked, closed, or covered when it comes to what is true, what is pure what is real!   I choose to hold onto Jesus as my light house, light in the darkness my very breath and meaning for life.  Light In the darkness @Hillsong  

 

No matter what we believe, no matter what the storm.  The above-mentioned speakers in the links shared have some truth of their own towards the awareness we as a nation, as a people have a huge heart issue.   Even for those who believe in the same things most days.  We have an issue when we feel, something better fit for us comes along. 

Or even just following through being real and true to our own beings and then of course our family, our children, our friends and so on.

 

The world is so dangerous, so vast and so necessary for survival.   I pray I may never lose confidence or lose my strength while facing whatever may come and not turn it into what it should never be.  Lord give all I am connected all that reads this heart your will, your confidence! Confidence @Sanctus Real

 

We should always know and have enough confidence without our own beings to create conditions to allow people comfortable to hear and respond truthfully as well.    It does not mean although we are doing what we do, and it is truthful, pure and with clean and clear intent.  The receptor on the other end will be truthful or even kind in however they are responding.   Not everyone has no agenda’s when they are connecting to you.

 

Some have true intentions, while others have their hidden agenda’s and although that is the most truthful about them; they will put up a façade and run the game on you or whoever they are trying to achieve something from.    Those people do not deeply care what happens to anyone but themselves.        

Like a drug addict does not care while they are stealing a dying persons drugs that will keep them alive, nor care at the moment it could even keep them alive.   They will only care for the moment they are in and do or say whatever it takes to find their way in and to that vault that the drugs are stored.    Now I know that is an extreme scenario but a truthful one.  Especially knowing most drug addicts are and will never be the clear mind pure heart that we once knew before darkness consumed them.

 

We all have a voice; we all have a choice and both of them matter!  Voice Of God @Dante Bowe ft Steffany & Chandler Moore  

Whatever you are finding yourself in, whatever you believe in, whatever you are standing or even falling apart for.   Give it to Jesus; call upon his amazing grace, his name that will never turn you away.   Amazing Grace @Gary Downey @youtube.com

 

There is nothing I can say, I can do to make you believe.  I can share the voices that make common sense, I can share the louder voices not afraid of speaking out and getting us thinking.  Or hopefully thinking and not reacting and finding we are burning at the end.

Easter Sunday is coming, and He has risen then and will rise again.    No matter what we believe or react to; nothing will change the hands and purpose of Gods will. 

Until then love yourself, love others and do not assume its always about you.  Do not assume those you love that cannot freely accept you is because of you.  Kindness matters, we are all toppled up and falling over with the weights of the world and the collection of particles are all carrying.

Be a good human to yourself and know your worth!  Be good to others even if their actions and deeds do not deserve it.

None of us deserve to be here; yet Jesus died so we can have life.    Show your gratitude in all you do and light it up everywhere you go. Light It Up @Terrian

More importantly dare to be different, dare to make a difference for all that is good all that is lasting.   One change at a time, one soul at a time together can make the world a beautiful place.  While we are trying to get there love the reason, we are here in the first place.  Without Jesus we would not exist. 

 

 Romans 12:2 (MSG)  Place Your Life Before God

12 1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

 

Meditation Opportunities

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV)     

21 God made him who had no sin to be sin[a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

 

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

Stop trying to know the future, stop trying to work things out before their time is ready.  Accept limitations of living one day at a time.   Find blessings right where you are! 

 

Ecclesiastes 3:1  There is a time fore everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.

Ecclesiastes 8:6:7  For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.  Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come?

John 16:33  “I have told you these things, so that you in me you may have peace.  In this world you will have trouble

Saturday, March 27, 2021

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Date: Saturday, March 27, 2021 

 

 Daily Journal/ Prayers & just Thinking Out Loud

Good morning and happy blessed Saturday wherever it may be for you. 

Thank you, Jesus, for allowing me up another day.   Be with me and all I connect with, to, through on this journey you allow me to take. 

 

So that infamous question that has been shadowing my thoughts all weeks had a lesson about to pour out for me.   Why do we do what we do?    Yet, You Love us; Love me no matter what Jesus!  You Still Love Me @Tasha Cobbs  

Running back to you Jesus each and every day giving you me; is all I have to give.  Wishing I was more like you, knowing I will all fall short but fighting forward in all I am, all I do.   Aaron Cole - LIKE YOU (feat. Tauren Wells & TobyMac)

 

So what about it?  That IT? That question: Do we really even think about why we do what we do; or do we think about in advance how we plan to react when what we choose and what we do reflects an end result.   Good, bad, or indifferent!  

We will react when we find out what we are doing; even when we are doing it for something better, the greater good or well you get my drift hopefully.  We are not just doing something because we can.  But some of us do.  

Anyway, there is no lie that despite my lifelong journey through brokenness, lost pieces, illness, and recovery of many scars. 

I have and am blessed with abundance to have known what it feels like to have loved and lost.  The pain is far greater to have never known love at all! 

I know what it is like to have it all that filled my spirit; to fill my needs or desires and lost it all.  To have the biggest heart giving all I got and be flattened and never be enough, do enough or have enough and have to fight to get back up; more times than I care to share.  

Sure, at my own hands and choices and many times through others.

  I will never say any different.    Even on the moments where before truly diving in to meet Jesus; I know I had blessings and especially as I look back at history and see the world around me.

Adults put their trust or assumptions in the hands of other adults and leave their children for safe keeping, or even get into messes themselves and the children/gifts of life and legacy are bumped, bruised, and sometimes harmed if not destroyed along the way.

The demons and darkness of everyone always comes to light.   Sometimes just not before loss and suffering picks its collateral damaged pieces. Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace) @Hillsong Worship  

 

But that is neither here nor there.    Still blessed to have the choice to decide how will I react to what happens next. What if those choices I make do not turn out as I hoped for?  

I still get to choose what I will do next.  And nope I do not always react or get it right! 

     Everyone knows I work hard, most times harder than I need to.  But I have been out here on my own for a long time.     Over the years this college graduate who was once very street smart and educated forgets the lessons and just dives in helping others without question.

It is part of my DNA and that is why it is so easy for trolls and users to sometimes spot me in a crowd.

There is nothing I would not do for those that manage to get hold of my heart strings.    People, organizations, pets.   

We all have different things that feed our energy, our spirit, our want to get up and go.  And although I will never understand why the beat of my heart never stopped and hardened before I met Jesus.  I know now He is with me it never will.   He is the strength, courage, and life in these lungs where I will never deserve why I am still allowed the Heart of the beat in this life. Heart Of My Beat @TobyMac  


Anyway, the roller coaster ride of life has hit my road and  many close to me, my entire existence.  Thinking now if I am honest.   I grow from helping others and feeling of being filled up being needed and wanted.   Played a big part over the years.    It was a few years ago I finally sat down and looked at my future DNA, my finances and well I have always been one to know.

It means nothing unless you work for it yourself and You CANNOT take any of it with you.

I unfortunately did not come from a well-grounded family or even one that had stability and parents in the home to help guide and direct those thoughts or to have you think before acting.

 

I pretty much raised myself once my sister moved out.  Trial by fire and the school of hard knocks all the way.   When I became a parent.  I made it perfectly clear along the way choices matter. 

Who you associate with matters, especially because guilt by association is to me one of the number one driver of what happens next in anyone’s life!

Just because you are not doing, acting, or speaking what those others you surround yourself with are doing. 

Does not mean you are not opening the door to the repercussions of the results that flow out just by being with or around them.    No, it does not necessarily need to be partying, it could just as easy just be sitting around and always being lazy, putting things off or stuck on some video game whilst you should be working on studies or doing something productive to grow forward.

Anyway, like always this could go on forever.   You may not know what the end result will be from the choices you allow to happen, or you are about to make.  But you damn sure better be accountable no matter what you do or do not do for allowing it to happen in your life.   

 

When you are not responsible for the choice itself and I get we all sometimes are just in the path of others.    You need to be strong enough to step in and take over what you need to do for you after the fact.   If God willing you make it out the others side.

 

So, as I always take the long scenic sometimes colorful route to where I am going.    So, though I will always tell you about my Jesus and the wind that fills these lungs and He alone carrying me through all the journey I take.    I will always be the first to acknowledge that no matter what is or is not.   My freedom and joy that I can never lose is through Christ Jesus.    I will never get it right or be worthy.     But I am free in him and nothing or no one will ever take that.  Found My Freedom @Found My Freedom  

 

 

I have also found the lessons are daily and recently the lesson I have learned from the choices I make or have made surrounding finances is up ahead.

What I will say first though; Is this I am Always Me!  Broken pieces all along the way put together living life like being a kaleidoscope.

Finding beauty and abundant colors and designs along the journey I am given no matter what direction I choose, walk, or try.

I will not stop doing what I do or being who I am.   Love it, leave it doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.     If I am stuck working harder than I ever had to.  Well hopefully I will be enjoying pieces colors of this worlds journey along the way.

So over time and all my helping this one, helping that one.  Doing this or OH NO; the transmission went out; the AC went out the something major absolutely cannot be ignored.    Life happened!   

 

One day in 2019 I sat down to deal with my crazy world and yes was slapped head on with all the good I was thinking I was doing just about was ready to take me out.

I had things all over the place and to get a handle on them.  So, listening to the professionals, I decided to go with a consolidation loan.  

 

Regardless of the unknown outcome I thought my choice to make things better and maintaining my responsibility to align and pay for what I get into.    Having one bundled payment and not 20 all over the place was a great thing.   Great sounds wonderful; people do it all the time, right?

    So, listening to the experts I followed their guidance.   And although my credit scoring did not go to the depths of the abyss as it sits on the edge.     Letting the professionals negotiate with the financial institutions.    

What I just found out that no one knows until tax time is this.  And this is FACTS:  Every dollar over 600 dollars any consolidation company negotiates with any institution or any amount any financial institution waves, releases you from paying. 

**You are required to pay taxes on  as if it were earned cash into your paycheck**  Let me say it again.   Any $$ over 600.00 any credit card, or financial institution even health care facilities release you from paying is reported to the IRS by them and you are required to pay taxes on to the IRS!    Yes, taxes like it the debt you were released from was like cash earned in your weekly paycheck.     Legally yes it happens but it is never talked about.  

And no, I am no finance major and yes, I am a train wreck where I have always no matter the details always jumped in and helped wherever I could whenever I could. 

So, when I was just a mess and needed to get everything in one place, I jumped at the chance to just get it together.   One bundled payment; consolidation and never doing a deeper dive or analysis when the company said part of the program now that we have everything consolidated is to work with the debtors and see if they will agree to a reduced pay off which will lower the interest and life of the payments.   

  Thankfully, I have not filed my taxes yet because I did have allot of big-ticket items the past couple years come to life and 2020 was no exception; so, I did what I did to make sure I could manage and keep my investments worth the time and money.

There is always a catch, even with the professionals and big-name companies. 

 NOTHING in this life is free and there is always hidden rules or really fine print you just do not see.

 Even if I am still paying, I could have been paying everything in full to the companies I was working with.

Now all that consolidation did was take from the companies I do business with and hand it over to the government and I have to pay all taxes on every dollar above 600 to the IRS.

I will always to my best and it has nothing to do with God or anything else; but just doing my best to be a decent responsible human in society.

If my best is not good enough and sometimes it’s not, sometimes it is easier, sometimes there are grand lessons.   But one thing is for sure.  All the time I will keep trusting and trying to grow forward.

But since we are on the topic of God. 

LOL, well my help is not on the way; HE has always been with me.

 He is always with you! He Is Always With You (Jesus) @Rich Moore

  It maybe midnight or morning light or right here and now when you realize you have never been alone, and Jesus has always and will always be with each and everyone of us who call upon his name.  As your help is not on the way but right here, right now when you call his name.  Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight) @DC Talk   He is right in front of you, right next to you, behind you and honestly just want you to allow him to come live within your spirit.

 

I know sounds like I am one of those Bible, thumping crazy Jesus Freaks!        Well Jesus Freak yes! Jesus Freak @DC Talk

 

I am beyond in love with the spirit and being and person of Jesus and who he was, who he is and who he came for us to be.    Nothing will change that.   Will I tell you to learn and read for yourselves? 

 

Absolutely!  Just like working for what we really want to appreciate it and have lasting meaning.   You have to want the love, mercy and grace and abundant peace to live within your own being.  You have to want to believe there is abundant blessings in everything that is or will be when you allow Jesus to be the captain of your journey.     Captain @Hillsong UNITED

No one else can do it for you; and even if they convince you of any choice.  Unless you own your choices, you will never find peace or direction and always have chaos.    Even if sometimes we choose knowing what we are choosing matters but we did not fully understand what the result may be.    Harder does not even begin to explain the journey ahead.   But I know who holds me close and pulls me, carries me and will never leave me. 

Bottom line we all trust in what we do, we trust in others and things will always turn out as we least expect it.   However, one thing I know I will always trust in and I know will never let me down, always be as He was, is and will always be.   That is trusting in God and in Christ in Jesus!!!! Power  @Chris Tomlin ft. Bear Rinehart of NEEDTOBREATHE

Learning to be still in His presence!  An absolute work in progress for me but learning so much along the way.

Meditation Opportunities

Psalm 62:7 (NIV)My salvation and my honor depend on God[a]; he is my mighty rock, my refuge.

 

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

“I do my best work within you, transforming you by the renewing of your mind.  If you skimp on this time with Me, you may plunge headlong into the wrong activities, missing the richness of what I have planned for you.”

Romans 12:2  Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his  good, pleasing, and perfect will.

Revelation 2:4  “Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love.”

Colossians 1:27  To them God has chosen to make know among the Gentiles the glories riches of his master which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Friday, March 26, 2021

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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, March 26, 2021 

  

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

 

Why do we do the things we do?

I woke with the thoughts on my mind that I do not have think of a reason why I serve.  I am not out looking for gratitude or expectations I am getting anywhere for what I do; not even that I should be paid as my child asked not that long ago.

 Hey mom, how many days a week do you work for free at the church.  I laughed and said I am not working even though some of the skills we learn serving can be great on a resume.   Back in the day I was pretty much serving at the church seven days a week.

 My payment was and still is that it spiritually grew/grows me.

 It helped me find myself in a no judgement zone.  For me to love on others and be loved on and learn the gospel and grow forward. 

 Yes, over time you can burn out.   When you work in the secular world and serve a greater power there is always something that is playing out.

Many will never give one ounce of there time for even what they have purchased.  Much less get up and do and be whatever your called to do at that time for a God you cannot see but know exists.  Or strangers that in the moment they are thankful but as soon as they walk away, all you can do is pray that the seed of faith, promise and love grows like wildflowers deep within them.    Graves Into Gardens @Elevation Worship

When my kid asked me again, I smiled and said look around.   You and all of us here and now are the payment, the reward the blessing.   The house we have as shelter, the health and wellbeing.    The ability to have someone close.

Each day I am allowed back up, that is the payment I am given. 

None of us deserve a thing and it does not matter if you gave all you own away and worked in the far country in the slums helping those in need.  Or you and your gift and talent took you to be president or a top celebrity.   NONE of us deserve a thing.   Yet we all think we do more times than not.

 

I get up and do what I do because if feeds the spirit deep within. Spirit Lead Me @Michael Ketterer & Influence Music    Yes, with respect and every now and again just being hugged on and thanked or even just acknowledged helps on those really hard days.     But even when it does not come; the love of the souls I have truly been able to connect.    The ability to learn and grow and even when I managed a prayer list for many years.    To know we are all going through, coming out of or in the thick of something.

Those we know, those close to us and those we do not.

So as these thoughts pour out before even touching my devotionals and just getting started with my day; now that my eyes can focus and see.    My thoughts are: Why do you do what you do?    I am not talking about because I have to pay the bills, so we have shelter and all that stuff.

Why good, or bad do you keep doing what you do?   Even those things that you try so hard not to do.

Trust me not just the fact one bad habit I had was I smoked for many years.  And that was not even half of the things I am sure I did and should not have; but like everything else when I dove in headfirst and really wanted to know more about Jesus and invited him into my life.  Then later found I cannot be, I cannot exist, and I really am nothing without Him.    All those things just one day were like there never was a struggle.  Break Every Chain @Jesus Culture

 

You hear it all the time but is true.  Be it addictions, struggles all of it.  And it does not have to be drugs, alcohol, spending, eating, sex, anxiety, or the billion other things that can consume us.

 

They can all become addictive like drugs.  Once you tap into them and start wanting more it is hard not to keep going.  Even when you know how bad it can be for your well-being, or even the possible destruction of those you love and care for immediately around you. 

Even the biggest, most well-known, most holy go through trials and sometimes fall into everything or anything besides God himself.     Later left trying to recover from the shock waves of the quake that wrecked or took lives of those that were far to young to go.   

It does not matter if they were taken out of the world or just from our immediate lives.  The shock waves of what we do when we do it lasts forever.

I cannot say it enough, just like that social media post that came back around again yesterday.   

If you believe everything you read, why not start reading the bible?  I Believe In You @JJ Heller

If you have tried all these other things and they do not last; why have you not yet called upon Jesus?

No, it is not that simple; no, it will not happen overnight.  But I can assure you each day you purpose to get up and give it all to him.  Each day you try just a little bit more; each day you find your way to a spirit lifting devotional; each day you listen to songs of hope and just allow your soul to be loved.   Each day you give thanks for even the things that go wrong.  

It does not mean we will not be impacted by things that hurt, things that leave us or those we love in suffering.  It does not mean we won’t mess up and even at times find our way in places we left long ago.

But that day that you finally wake up and feel and see something is different and you do not know when it happened but there is an abundance of peace that just continually flows.

You will never question again the need to just keep diving in and wanting to know more, contribute more of who you are to the light.   See The Light @TobyMac ft. Jordan Feliz

 

Yes, these are my thoughts and perspectives.   And this light carries me. Hold On To Me @Lauren Daigle   It does not mean I do not go through those moments of self.  

 I know I will never be good enough in the world or be that one for that one or any of the other crazy that spins around us.  Push @Matchbox Twenty

I know who I am, I know when I do, and I never should have.  I know when I need to call upon my brothers and sisters to help me stay on track and not just do without thinking.

 

I also know when God says do it; you just do it!   I am perfectly placed right where he wants me to be.   And on the day, he says it is done time to come home none of the things I got wrong or would of, should of could of will never matter in the first place.    All of the inanimate objects that I chased, had, gave away, had taken or just got destroyed.  None of them will matter.

Yes, many of us want something for our family, to leave something behind for our children.   But have you ever noticed in this world how broken families are?

 

Why are we not leaving them the gift of life now?   Why is it that we wait to look up or down from wherever we end up seeing those same people that never really cared while we were alive, now are fighting over what was left.

And I know there are so many around the globe that need so much help.

I know the U.S. is really one of the richest countries when it comes to even just having shelter, running water, and all the things we take for granted.

So why do we have so many homeless children?     Why is it I can drive down my roads and see so many homeless people living in the woods, or sleeping outside a building in the inner city?

 

Yes, we all get to choose!    Yes, many people live off the grid because they do not want to deal with the messed-up government and all the messes that roll downhill.  Or they just do not want to fit in the box.  But what about the children that never had a chance and have to just be because of the choices adults make?    

 

What about those people who really have been working to just have a life with shelter and love and had everything fall apart?      I know what that is like.    To be a single parent and working hard and one day the company says we are closing, or we no longer need your position.   What it felt like to not know what or how I would do to feed my children. 

To know what it was like for me being the responsible one and holding all the burdens of what seem to be the world while everyone else was going on with their life as nothing mattered.   

 

 Knowing what it is like to be nothing and fighting for a place in this world which I could have never made without meeting Jesus 26 years ago.   Place In This World @Michael W. Smith And the thing is even today I forget who I am until I cling to Jesus.

I may or may not get it right, but one thing is for sure I will keep fighting forward until my very last breath and absolutely always know how, or why I get to do so.

Because there was Jesus!  There Was Jesus @Zach Williams, Dolly Parton  

 

Never give up hope in all that is good.  We get to choose each new day he allows us up and gives us one step to the future of what our dreams may be.  No matter what you are never alone.  Hello Future @TobyMac ft. David Crowder

 

No matter what He is always with you!  Choose to laugh through all the tears and choose to love even when the worst of things fight you hard to give up. Let him in~  He Is With You @Mandisa

 

Meditation Opportunities

Philippians 1:29 (NIV)     

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

 

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

Jesus has promised many blessings to those who call upon and wait upon him!

Lamentations 3:24-26  I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore, I will wait for him.”  The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation for the Lord.

Isaiah 40:31  But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.  They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint.

Psalm 16:11  You will show me the path of life; in  Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand ar pleasures forevermore.

Thursday, March 25, 2021

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Date: Thursday, March 25, 2021 

 

Meditation Opportunities

1 John 1:9 (NIV) 

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

 

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

Thankfulness is a safeguard against this deadly sin of grumbling, despising, causing hate and hurt.

1 Corinthians 10:10  And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.

Hebrews 12:28-29  Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our “God is consuming fire.”

Colossians 3:16  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

 

What are we doing to protect our mind?  That which feeds our spirits and transitions even the most beautiful being into chaos, hurt, anger and at times a broken-down puddle of goo.

Are we turning to that which is supposed to help us be better, do better, feel better only later to find out its all temporal and at some point, when the flood comes rushing back through it hurts more and sometimes even triggers destruction or unrepairable fragments that forever rob us from the beautiful memories or at least that which started out with such peace, laughter and full of love moments? Forever @Claude Kelly  

 Those moments that can have so many different spins on what forever would of, should of, or could have been. Forever @Keith Urban

  All those things that we allow in through our minds eye into our spirit that sometimes over runs and has us spinning later to find its all temporal and gone in a second. All the while we hear rumors and truth that there is a God who gave his one and only son so we would have eternity and he will forever never leave us.  Forever @Michael W. Smith

As we get caught up in the day to day or find ourselves lost in the dark at times.   We all have to know there is more to life than just what is in front of us.  We are never alone.

 On Your Own @TobyMac @Lost Demos

 

Finished at that cross that day He took all we never could.

But why for knowing the world was falling before it began, and humanity would so often struggle to find the peace and promise of hope in all that is good.  Yet God the good father promised life no matter what we choose. 

He has risen long before Resurrection Sunday or our choice to cling to all things new or all things beautiful.   Finding the diamonds in the rough.  Bleeding out for slavery of all that temporal sometimes our own choice many times at the hands of others.     

Knowing we would always fall short He made that choice to take all we would shamefully give so much pain we would never be able to repay.   Yet he did just so we could choose to live with and for Him.   Christ our King then, now, and always.     Resurrecting @Elevation Worship

 

Jesus so many days I could run and never look back; but your strength alone tells me when to stay and when to go.   None of us know what or if there will be a tomorrow and what it will contain.  We can choose, plan, hustle and it may turn out to be beyond our wildest blessings we would not deserve, or it can be just one more layer in an already most days heavy world.   Whatever it may be; Jesus may I always do it again with your guidance, your love, your courage, your strength.   Because without you I am nothing.  Do It Again @Elevation Worship

 

All I am, all I will ever be, all that was all that lingers.  None of it will ever make me worthy of the blessings of life you have allowed me.  Good, bad, or indifferent.  It is you and nothing could ever change that to make me think differently.   It is you that sustains the wind that blows the leaves, the air that fills these lungs, the ability to allow such creations in humanity and all things. 

Though I will never stop those deep desires, and things I do, I say or even want for in this flesh.  I am fully aware of who you are and who is in control.  Feel It @TobyMac

 

 Forgive me for my transgressions and thank you for each day I have been challenged with as I am able to get back up one more time. May I learn to love and be loved like you do Jesus?

Love me, and all I am to be all I am connected.    Like You Love Me @Tauren Wells

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