07.30.2021_July(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Friday, July 30, 2021  

 

Meditation Opportunities - Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

Matthew 5:14,16 (EXB - EXPANDED BIBLE)

¹⁴ “You are the light ·that gives light to [for; ^Lof] the world. A city that ·is built [stands; is set] on a hill cannot be hidden.

 

YouTube.Com) New song for me for the day~

DCC Collective - The Place You Found Me

Motivation Movers & Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)

Dan + Shay - Lying

Hero - ft. Seph Schlueter SongLab

Zach Williams - To The Table

Shelter In - VOUS Worship

Magnify - We Are Messengers

Francesca Battistelli Free To Be Me

I Can Only Imagine - Mercy Me

Cody Carnes - Let The Light In

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

The more I hide or hop off the reels you come and find me.  Thank you, Jesus, for never letting me go.    I would be lying if I did not admit the love wanted, love lost, love those spins sometimes in this mind maze.  Yet the truth will always remain Your Love never runs out of breath to give me; never lets me go hope in the darkness, and never stops doing whatever it takes to get my attention.

No doubt I can easily walk up on those I once believed were on the same path, want and needs as I; and just wish them well.   For the truth hurts, but over time in you Christ healing is beyond words.  Even if sometimes I forget the warning to keep my hands and feet within the ride and leave myself hanging out on a ledge looking around thinking and wanting to know what it would be like to have it all.

 

You have my attention and thankfully so that you allow me to get back up and keep seeking the hero of my heart, lover of my soul and to know one day!   For this I will do whatever it takes to never let you go.

 

Make me whole Jesus.  With or without never let me go and keep showing me who I am in you.

As I just open the door to my discomfort, uncertainty, need for you is beyond anything I can ever deny.   Coming to the table far more than social hospitality.  But to really get to know life of my own, and others you bless in my path.

So far from where I was, so far to go.  Yet forever knowing I will always go the distance with you above me, beside me, within me.   With you Christ Jesus all things are possible.  No words, no deeds, no empty promises, or human mountains being moved by all that is temporal and gets our attention.     It is, it was, it always will be what you alone allow to pass from your hands to each beat of our hearts Lord.  You Abba, Father God…

 

Use all I will ever be, all I will ever connect.  Through the messiness bring truth and shine bright in healing, love, and life ever eternal.      You hear our souls Lord.  You are the very breath that allows us to be.    May we bring it all to you and learn to open those doors for the least of what we think we are, or what we think we should deserve.

It is not about the platform we stand on, or the talents or tools you allow us to use to grow.   It is the depths of love and passion beyond any 1minute to win it or 60 minutes of fame.  We all get our 15 if we ourselves recognize when it’s our turn.

What we do with all of what you bless us with leads to life and death.  For our own souls, for so many we will be blessed to cross paths in the journey or even be connected.   Thank You!

Shelter me from the war that rages within.  Shelter all I am, all I connect, all I love in you God.

My transparency not even begin to read this heart and want for all protection, healing, guidance for everything I am.  Family, Friends, Acquaintances, My deepest desire, or most ridiculously silly moments in time.    Take it all Lord anything and everything I am connected.

For just one moment in eternity to see you face to face and forever know what truth and the worth of fighting forward to hold that moral compass every moment you allow me to be here.

Truth is what we make it when we show up and fight forward.   Many will never come out of the shadows, while others will fight forward and go through the realness of what life is here and now.

But all at some point will have to face the demons that lie, doubt, and destruction robs all they are given.

Lord come

Take all the sadness away.

Take the sickness away. 

Magnify the streets of gold when our souls openly need and want you Jesus.

Shine bright in love, honor, respect, and passion that you Christ reflect.

 

You have already won the war Jesus; even if we still get caught up in battles that do not have to be.   Life, however, has never been promised to be easy or free.   There is a cost to live even if you paid the ultimate price.   We are still called in humanity to pick up your cross daily and be our best selves without harm or contempt, hate or judgement towards anyone.    That alone is so hard.   Yet fitting all the pieces together and imagining that giant canvas complete.   No, I really do not know if I will get to see you face to face and if I did.  What would I really do?  I can only imagine.

All the while I keep dreaming and living and trying not to get lost in the blurred lines here and now.   Lost in the whispers I wish, want, and even chase after for truth.  Only to find the road leads back to you while I help ignite some along the way.   I slowly lose myself afraid of fading before every really knowing.

 

Yet, that is what it is all about isn’t it.   In the world, those who die with the most toys wins to watch from the other side as everything they wasted life on is tossed to the street for the dumpster divers and those seeking treasures from others trash are picked over and left to nothing.   We cannot take any of it with us; just the truth, or the secrets that God already knows even if we do our best to pretend and sidestep what will not matter.

It is time for us all to take a stand in the light or in the dark.   For truth to let go what we have lost or hold tight for what we fight for the better.

But all time in and with you Jesus to shine brighter than ever before.

Show me and all I am connected how, when, and where.    The why is you alone!

 

In our darkest hour may we know you are with us Father God.   May we never let go of your promise!

 

Meditation Opportunities Daily Devotion @Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)      “Worship Me in the beauty of holiness.  I created beauty to declare the existence of My holy being.”

Psalm 29:2 NKJV  Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

1 Samuel 2:2  There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.

Isaiah 6:3  And they were calling to one another:  “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty ; the whole earth is full of his glory.”

07.29.2021_July(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

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Date: Thursday July 29, 2021  

 

Meditation Opportunities - Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

Psalm 119:93 (EXB - EXPANDED BIBLE)

⁹³ I will never forget your ·orders [precepts], because you have given me life by them.

YouTube.Com) New song for me for the day~

Wonder Working - All Creatures

Motivation Movers & Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)

Love Is Your Name - Steven Tyler

Carrollton -- Holding On To You

Where I Belong -Jordan May

Hymn 42 (Feat. Sajan Nauriyal) - IMRSQD & Moflo Music

Gonna Be Okay - Brent Morgan

Red Letters - Crowder

So Will I (100 Billion X) - Hillsong United

One Day -Cochren & Co

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

There is not a day I don’t open my eyes and give thanks.  Almost every day before the feet even hit the floor; but on those days I jump up running and I stop and pause remembering how I am even able to be.   For this I am grateful during all the organized chaos of this world.

That which spins around me and that which I cause the spin to take off out of control.

Control such an illusion.  Where we think we got this until we do not.    Jesus, you changed my destiny and I have to hold to you as my family, friends, loved ones, and those I do not even know or even myself go through it.

Covid

Cancer

Loss and destruction

Unknown illness, physically, emotionally

Disease by happenstance, Disease by self-infliction

Loss so great that I can barely breath and wonder and confusion wondering if I move will this be it

You Jesus created all creatures with and for all the heavens and earth.   Stories of undeserving love for me and everyone in those red letters.   You have forgiven humanity, yet we cannot forgive ourselves and move on towards all that is blessed by you.

I could have been as I stood on the edge to six feet down.  Yet you called me out of the darkness, and I have to hold onto the love given just by saying your name.   Jesus!   As your blood has poured into life, strength, courage and a hope and peace that no one can really fully describe.

What happens when you are the only immersed believer in a family living in the world and going through it and fighting as the world fights and never allowing the battle in prayer and faith.  For God has already won the war.

Watching the beauty in all the stains turn into that canvas beautiful mosaic blended sometimes so bright the tears makes it shine brighter and others so dark waiting for the big reveal of what is next.

There is purpose for all things new, purpose and reasons though I may never get it and I do not need to.   Just show me the way to keep leading.  Someone is always watching Jesus.   For me my blessings as I begged before knowing you to allow life long enough to see children grow and now begging to allow them life to see their generations to come.

No matter what I am with you no matter where I go.  Just as everything I am, everything I have, everything I am connected belongs to you.

Show all of me how to stay out of the weeds and nourish and feed those seeds that have been planted.

 

Yet, when they are not meant to grow as I think they should be.  Show me the path in this journey what should be.

I know no matter what its gonna be okay; because I know I needed you then and I need you now and always.    More than memories to be made and look back.   None know what tomorrow will bring.   Be it an 8.2 magnitude earthquake rocking Alaska or my grandchild sick with covid, my daughter with unknown chronic illness, my friend’s child overdosing, that relationship that did not hold true and work, that job that leaves you empty unemployed and not sure when your next meal will be.   Been there done that is beyond all description yet it just keeps happening no matter what we plan, what we fight for, what we chase what we spend our every waking moment thinking.

 

It is only you Jesus, God the Father that knows all things.   You have got this and all of me.   Change is and always will be.    Good will always battle evil and oh yes, those imposters and sheep in wolves clothing so good at getting the hooks in and we are left to watch suffering of those we just want to see live slowly being strangled by the lies and torment of the choices they could change.

Speak to all I am connected Jesus as you have breathed the world into existence.  Breath life of good and want to grow forward without condemnation and selfish acts into life with you.

 

Speak to me for your promise cannot be broken!    Love pouring all over and out with so many so misconstrued may it be you that catches the breath of us all even when we need each other may it be you that we need always and most.

 

Pieces of me over time, who would of ever thought that the universe has been given a glimpse of this mind maze of just one speck of dust blowing in the wind although so grounded.    Full of life, already dead yet the pains and sorrows of loss, hatred and all that just keeps spinning at times feels so suffocating.  Drowning in the lies as we love too much, believe, and see too much good and maybe that spark of light in the souls that have their own agenda’s we are reminded nothing, no one was created without going through you first.   Yet you bless everyone to know you, you have also released the freedom of will for every soul to choose their destination and grieve deeply when those that are caught in humanity’s collateral damage crossfires.  

 

If only we could turn back time and know what we know now.  Would it make a difference?

May I continue to be my best self and have the strength to keep growing in and with you when I face the moments I never was intended for the misconceived notions, and I fall face down myself.

If it is meant to be it will be.  And if it was not, it is blessings that are now designated to be taken back.    Guard and protect all that I see, all I speak all that I do.    Bless and heal all that I am connected or will ever cross paths in this journey with.

 

May one day come soon for this world in such great need of healing in so many ways. 

As I find devotionals, music, brothers and sisters in Christ, lessons to be learned, lessons to help lead.   Jesus may you never stop growing me.  Allow me the hunger for you as the first day I came out of the water so long ago.   May all I am connected hunger and turn to you in your will, your teachings, your light and reflect no matter what all that helps growth and stop allowing negativity to grow.    It is so hard, but nothing is impossible with you Father God.   This is proven for centuries past and centuries to come.    Show us the way!

 

Meditation Opportunities Daily Devotion @Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)      “Come to ME continually.  I am meant to be the Center of your consciousness, the Anchor of your soul.  Your mind will wander from Me, but the question is how far you allow it to wander.”

Hebrews 6:19  We have this hope as an anchor or the soul, firm and secure. It enters in the inner sanctuary behind the curtain

1 John 2:28  And now, dear children, continue in him, so that he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming.

Matthew 22:37  Jesus replied:  “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”

07.28.2021_July(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Wednesday July 28, 2021  

 

Meditation Opportunities - Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

Philippians 3:14 (EXB - EXPANDED BIBLE)

¹⁴ I keep ·trying to reach [pursuing; chasing] the goal and get the prize for which God called me ·to the life above [heavenward; ^Lupward] ·through [or in] Christ Jesus.

YouTube.Com) New song for me for the day~

Bright Side of Broken by MercyMe

 

Motivation Movers & Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)

The Lion Sleeps Tonight | Music Travel Love (From Music Studio Love)

I Don't Want To Miss A Thing - Music Travel Love ft. Felix Irwan

Khalid - New Normal

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves CHER

Keith Urban - To Love Somebody

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

Lord I don’t want to miss one thing.   Be it we are planned out and prepared and we travel the world seeing and making beautiful harmonies or just riding the wave of uncertainties called life.

 

May I never stop chasing the prize of all you are Jesus.

As I think back in time listening through these vibes this morning and songs take me back to yesterday or fill me up with motivation for today.  Knowing it is going to be better than okay no matter what the other side of broken looks like.  It is always brighter fighting forward instead of just sitting and waiting for whatever comes next.   And we know something good, bad, or indifferent always will come.    Always trying to never sweat the small stuff because those mountains that something bigger can always be up around the corner.

Transparent to a fault without a doubt but when it comes down to it you Christ can see and know all things before, they ever occur.  It is the world we must watch out for.   Knowing without a doubt not everyone who listens is there to just be present for you but some if not many will collect as much if not everything, they can of you to utilize for their own personal gains.   No matter how good the intentions.   Life just is what it is.   Filled at times with so much beauty and harmony yet more often depending where, and when filled with so much conflict, misconception and so much deception.

But your word God, your story in the depths of John the Apostle tortured and exiled to Patmos Roman Empire , A.D. 97 (John 1:4-5) or Gilbert Hovsepian (Iran 2015) or a 12-year-old boy who found his father stabbed 26-times for preaching the gospel among Muslims.

So many stories in and out of the bible tied to and with you Christ Jesus that are good, bad and so misunderstood or never justified as what or why.

Scary when we think about it.  Really who would want to follow a God that death and destruction is coming for anyway?

I wish I had the answers.   What I can say is always a believer in God the higher power in this universe and always a believer that everything always happens for a reason.  But thankful I didn’t spend my life in the depths of pity or chasing what those reasons might be when life happens to me.

 

Christ suffered pain beyond anything we will every know or go through and with that there really are some messed up people in this universe that rob the pure, innocent, and undeserving anything we would want for anyone including Christ.

We never forget our yesterdays until that day comes that Alzheimer or some incident, accident or disease comes and takes our minds.  Yet, we get to choose what we do with what should never be forgotten but used to continue to learn and grow forward.

 

Love, Laughter, and Life right!

Some of us, really if we think about it many of those in the world numb what they do not want to remember.   Because they have never really asked for the wounds and scars to be healed.   Some just cannot let go and they take their hurt and anger out on everyone and anyone around them.  

Me, I seek Jesus every day to lead me and walk me through the fires of life if that is the direction in the journey, I am on must go.  He does not purpose to see his creation destroyed, broken, or even hurt.   But when life at the hands of our own or other people’s choices happens and we are traveling or spinning within it.   He will never leave us, and he will give us healing and strength to keep moving forward.

 

Yeah alright.  WE All get to believe in something, and I can tell you from my own life experiences even it took me awhile to see it in hindsight the difference and the path to peace and harmony is always brighter in hope and blind faith in what is written and always has been and always will be.

 

I will never be a theologian and although I learn something new every day.   All I have is the blessings of each new day and knowing where the air in these lungs come from.   Even if my surroundings sometime feel suffocating for the choices and happenings of the world, I am get heavy or not aligned and, in the direction, I thought I could see planned out.

 

Really, I am no different if I could easily turn everything that I see, everything I experience through my own or others or even all that bad media that sells like wildfires on the television.    Easily I could not give it one thought and just be that negative nelly of Its going to happen anyway so why do we prepare?  How do we prepare?

 

Seriously I could walk around ticked and mad at the world.   I could be that little 5-something skinny kid that had no problem standing with my arms wide open up against the giants and say go ahead do it.  But make sure you kill me because if I get back up, I am coming after you and I won’t hesitate to do you the harm you have done me.    After all, back then I had nothing to live for and was tired of the bullies and takers of this world. 

Yeah, broken every way you can imagine in my youth and young adult life we never lived or thought so unless standing our ground, no fear and dangerously.

I will never forget my childhood, my past, my friends that even today even if I have not seen them in 50 years would be like yesterday laughing and talking about the blessings, we really never understood then to be able to be here now.

Thankful that the God of mercy who controls the heavens, earth, and every breath we are given allows me each new day.    Even if and when the world challenges us to think and push forward in directions, we sometimes do not think out, but feel is where we should run towards.

 

Every day we are given living this life in this world becomes a new normal.   Sometimes the loss and pain is so great we do not know how we will get back up and let’s be honest if we do not have hope somewhere within us.  We will not!

Our choices matter.   And although I personally as a parent would love to instill the direction for my family, my friends or young one’s coming up after me how to avoid the mistakes that cause  pain, and loss and at times very hard lessons.   Just so they have an abundant prosperous life.   Our choices are our own.  There is nothing I or anyone that can answer for the results of any choices made but our own being.   Even if we think we are doing the right thing, even if we do not trust ourselves enough and go by whatever one or anyone helps us make the decisions to do.

 

If we choose or choose to go along with whatever.   It is on us.     God gave his one and only son as His choice to show the love for life and want humanity to walk with him.     And he has an eternity of pain and suffering for a fallen world that repeats itself over and over.

We may or may not have eternity; well, we will have eternity. Our souls in the end will.   Where they end up in the heavens with no more suffering or in the depths of hell feeling our mistakes over and over as the demons never stop tormenting us or giving rest.   

Maybe I am crazy!    But I am at peace and know that even in the unseen blind faith in Christ Jesus no matter what was, no matter what is, no matter what will be for me.   God is bigger and more real and ever lasting where everything in this world is temporal and fading fast.

 

Judgement is nothing new, scorned, Gypsy lifestyles and if we are lucky, we won’t become takers and thieves of the world for everything and anything we can.   More importantly we won’t be taken and lost, battered, broken in a world that chews us up and spits us out quick and easy.

Judgement do you really think you are qualified, or do you really know what is like when you sit up on your pedestal looking down just thinking about what game you are going to play out next?

 

Do you really know what it is like to love yourself much less someone else?  Not just looking good, working out being 50 looking 20 or styling and profiling.    To really find yourself through purpose and any pain and want more than what the world will give or take.     To call your life your own or know whose you really are?    To not live by what the world creates you to be alone, an image that fades or by one wrong tune, line or action is destroyed and you are lost forever.

Guess I need to go back to crazy, because this mind maze dumps out all kinds of thoughts from life, from dreams, from places I could not even tell you. 

 

Maybe it makes sense, maybe it doesn’t.  One sure thing I know I am blessed and to whom I belong, and nothing can change that.   Nope my journey is not easy and gets lonely, let down and hard.  But just knowing the blessing that Jesus died so I could live, and I am given one more day full of opportunity to look past the darkness and try to be something more than just a statistic, or clone of what others are, do or say in this world that is fleeting.   I guess that has to be enough until its my time to meet at the pearly gates and see what direction this soul will fly in. 

 

I will never stop wanting, I will never stop dreaming.  I will never stop desiring to really have that forever and be loved in the flesh that makes me know eternity is real from the outside in as Christ has filled me up with unspeakable peace and love from the inside out.

It is better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.   So, no matter what, if this is life for me.  My story is still being written and pages are so much the same as many and so very different than many others.   And they are mine.    What are yours?

 

 Meditation Opportunities Daily Devotion @Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)      “Let my love seep into the inner recesses of your being.”

Psalm 139:1-4, 23-24  O Lord, you have searched me, and you know me.  You now when I will sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.  You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.  Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord…  Search me, O God and know my heart, test me and know my anxious thoughts.  See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.

Hebrews 6:18-19  There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown [complete, perfect] love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror!  For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and [so] he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love [is not yet grown into love’s complete perfection]

07.27.2021_July(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: Tuesday July 27, 2021  

 

Meditation Opportunities - Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

Hebrews 12:1 (EXB - EXPANDED BIBLE)

Follow Jesus’ Example

12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by a great cloud of ·people whose lives tell us what faith means [^Lwitnesses], let us run the race that is before us ·and never give up [with endurance/perseverance]. ·We should [Let us] ·remove from our lives [get rid of; cast aside] anything that ·would get in the way [impedes/hinders us] and the sin that so easily ·holds us back [entangles/clings to us].

 

YouTube.Com) New song for me for the day~

God, Turn It Around (feat. Matt Maher)

Motivation Movers & Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)

Mountains O' Things- Tracy Chapman

James Arthur - The Truth

King Of My Heart - Kutless

Never Lost feat. Tauren Wells | Live | Elevation Worship

Dan + Shay - Good Things

Cochren & Co - Stained Glass Window

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

Breakthrough comes we just have to pay attention for it to show up.  And not have tunnel vision that it will look or be one specific outcome.     Jesus will never just let us suffer or sit without showing up and leading us to what we need to be putting our effort and truth into.

Yes, that is a tough pill for many; because we all think we are so damn good and never do anything wrong. We are good with no sin on our sleeves.

 

Yet we all have demons in our closets with a story and a name.   Be it we are really good at hiding and bury them or we are still living them as we walk out of the sight of man we are still living to self and not truly believing God will turn it around and dying to self and inviting Christ to live within in us and then we ourselves doing our very best in obedience and truth to him living.

That does not mean we will not fall short.   But we will find ourselves worried about us and not everyone else’s business.  We will truly want to help when we are asked to help and not just be involved because it gives some sort of status or something to hold over someone.

Judgement comes fast and furious every day we are given.  But it is the wrath of God’s judgement you really should be more concerned with. 

Seriously if you could change one thing in your life that would change everything giving peace, love, harmony, hope and a brighter today here and now; all the while you know it will be eternal.  Why would you not want to?

 

This world is so static filled with noise and temporal things that lead to a lifetime of hurt and brokenness.     Why if we say we care do we not come in unity for more than a weekly service or clean up after tragedy?

We have so many ways to teach us how to lie, steel, murder be it someone else or who we are and we never really see it until we are too far gone.   When we wonder why our adolescent children know things that grown adults should only know.  Why wouldn’t they when we have adults playing children and living out scripts on the big screen.  Why wouldn’t the world be a mess when we live life as it is portrayed in the movies and out of magazines with what, and should be, look like, be like or even say.

What is wrong with the family unit?     If you find it please ask them.    Broken families with single parents depending on perfect strangers to raise their children while they are working around the clock just to have a roof over head and food on a table.        What about those who are wealthy because of their careers, and they hire others in to run their family.  Even those who forget who they married and get caught up with the help and break the commitment they made.

And even if that is the case; neither party at the end stands true to the fight to the end to make it work past all the broken pieces that cut deep and have them all bleeding out everywhere.

Yes, in some cases that commitment has to change to preserve life because of physical or mental abuse where one or both have snapped.

 

But why is it we do not fight for what is ever lasting and good with purity.  That we are so eager to just quit and keep hopping fences to the greener lawns all the while they miss how burned up and dead they too are.

 

This mind maze this morning.   Shaking my head knowing the truth is relevant to what you want to believe in this day and age.    But knowing a leopard’s spots will never change.  When it comes to people it does not matter if you pour every ounce of your life into them.   They will be whatever they are choosing until they see, want and be the change for themselves.

It does not matter how much they lust or love their family, friends or even you.   Only the truth sets them free when they purpose and work hard in obedience themselves to gain it, and hold on to it for themselves.

 

  Even though we feel out of control, stuck in the gutters that make it so hard to climb up and out just to live.  To think through just enough and not too much.  In Christ with Jesus, we will never lose.    No matter what that storm looks like or how many sleepless nights we have with or without him.   He will walk through the fire surrounding us and filling us with all that is healing, peaceful, and fruitful.

 

So, what if it is not the picture you paint in your mind.    It is far greater than anything we will ever be able to really fathom.

 

Train you mind looking past what the world says must be.   Dig deep into who you are and were created to be.   Nope its not easy and even when you really fall in love with Jesus and do your best the world and all that we are in it still at times gets the best of us.   But surrounding yourself with growing forward in the fruits of the spirit and want something more than being stuck on that infinite loop of going nowhere.    We never really know how free we are until we understand the mercy, and grace that we do not deserve but we are blessed with each day we are allowed back up.

 

Anyway, say, do be who you are or think you want to be.  Just remember the cycle of life goes full circle and anything in the dark always comes to the light and eventually the truth will either take you our or set you free.  For me it was the Grace and Love of Jesus Christ found me.    Even it doesn’t stop me from being opinionated, excitable or judgmental.   My faults are my own that I have to live with as the demons in my head I have to give it to Christ to slay daily.  If not knowing I will never be enough and the doubt and static that screams from the world will numb me to really know just how much gave up for me to truly live.   Some may get it; others not.  But really who cares.   These bits and pieces hopefully are my stained-glass window called life.  As each day I am given I do my best to find my identity in Christ Alone.

Meditation Opportunities Daily Devotion @Jesus Calling 365 Devotions with Real-Life Stories @Sarah Young)      “Hope is a Golden Cord connecting you to heaven.”

Romans 12:12  Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

1Thessalonians 5:8  But since we belong in the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

Hebrews 6:18-19  God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged.   We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.  It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.