09.15.2021_September(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Wednesday – September 15, 2021

Meditation Opportunities

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

Avalon - Keeper Of My Heart

Jewel - Hands

Sia - Courage To Change

 Evan Craft, Redimi2, Danny Gokey - Be Alright

Daily Devotion

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

“ Be careful that your devotion to Me does not become another form of works.” “I want you to come into My presence joyfully and confidently.”

John 15:13  “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”

2 Corinthians 5:21 NKJV   For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Zephaniah 3:17  The Lord your God is with you; he is mighty to save.  He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.

Numbers 6:25-26  “The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you;  the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.”

Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

1 John 4:16  Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

¹⁶ And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the love God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him.

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 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

My Crazy day.    Standing up during a meeting to stretch look out the window to see my pool has lost about 2 feet of water.   Run outside to see what was going on, because although I am waiting for a new cover for one of the pieces of hardware that runs where the o ring wore out and the pressure is all over the place.    To find it blew the PVC piping into the filtration system apart and all my pool water went bye bye ☹

Always something in life…

Allowing negative people, negative actions of anyone to consume you if there is no lasting damage is crazy.  Even if I will be the first one that I hold onto things far too long.  You know that spiritual tug of war give it to God, pull it back thinking I got it.    Instead of just shaking my head like yes, okay sure. And letting the scolding of anyone I am engaging with where I am not living up to their standards.   Well yeah, I am my own worse critic and pretty much beat the crap out myself for minor deviations as I hate making any sort of mistakes in any arena I am doing for others.   People, places for free or earning a paycheck.

 

What are we gonna do right!  We all tic, toc a little different each day with any minutes we are given.

 

Hit the pause button the best you can.   Look behind see what stuff you have already traveled through and look at here and now to know how it could be.  And just give thanks for anything and everything you have got.   Yes, I say this to and for myself as well.

Life is what it is; People are who they are; things will be what they are going to be.  Until it is all over and done.   

 

Now I do not look at my devotions used in my shares until seconds sometimes before actually writing.   So, when it blows me away when Gods got me and speaking to me over this crazy life. 

So, as you can tell I have been stressed over different things that are happening in things I do and have done for more than 16 years.    I have not really given much thought about keeping up with this shack I am blessed with. I normally just do what ever needs to be done.    But reality came back quick as I right about fighting forward and lifting up today during all things.   If God doesn’t take you out.   Just keep fighting forward.

Yet the world around me seems to be closing in and its just that spiritual liar that is whispering doubt and steeling confidence in my day to day of giving, doing  with a joyful God filled heart and the worse part of knowing this I still hear the whispers causing me to  angst and although my heart got an unplanned work out when I see my pool draining fast to unknown places. 

All of this temporal stuff is just so unnecessary to be getting tripped up on. 

 

I am working on my mole hills, and you need to work on yours as well for whatever is got you out of sorts.     The fact is Liars will always be Liars, Givers will always be givers, Takers will always be takers, performers will always find new ways to perform, hurt people will always hurt others until they understand who they are and what has then doing, saying, being the way, they are.   None of us will ever live up to the world’s standards, as there will always be a critic.    And God will always love us for who we are in his creation.  Not what we do or do not do.  Not what we give, take etc.…

 

In the end only kindness, love, mercy, and grace matters.    Even if others are not giving it to you.    Seek Jesus even more to give it from him alone.

No matter what we believe in faith with, to or from:  We all get a turn to go through it.   Whatever It may turn out to be.

Love yourself enough to keep working on you; forgiving yourself for holding onto what others really need to ask forgiveness for.   And be your best self to shine bright and lead the way because someone is always needing you to lead the way.  There is always someone watching.

Someone in need of just a kind word, a hug, and love even by just being you standing next to them.

Anyway, tons of meetings working since 6:30 this morning on stuff.  Yup, just stuff that helps productively deliver and be good at what I do.    Tedious at times but beyond blessed I am even one that has been able to remain employed during the crazy world we are living in right now.  

Why because we have more job opportunities right now than ever before.  But with the pandemic, political agendas, and all of the unrest in short, the world is just gone mad, and we never know what may transpire next.

So, thank you Jesus for allowing me this thing called life.

Thank you for the sudden rush and ability to grasp any messages in my day to day.  Especially those that give clarity as if you were sitting next to me and holding this conversation directly.

Thank you for my blood line, thank you for my spiritual line.  Thank you for all the connections I have been able to live, breath, laugh, cry and hope in and with.

Be with them all.  You know my heart; you are the keeper of my soul.

 

 

 

09.14.2021_September(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Tuesday – September 14, 2021

Meditation Opportunities

Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

Philippians 2:1-2 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

2 So by whatever [appeal to you there is in our mutual dwelling in Christ, by whatever] strengthening and consoling and encouraging [our relationship] in Him [affords], by whatever persuasive ^[a]incentive there is in love, by whatever participation in the [Holy] Spirit [we share], and by whatever depth of affection and compassionate sympathy,

² Fill up and complete my joy by living in harmony and being of the same mind and one in purpose, having the same love, being in full accord and of one harmonious mind and intention.

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

Nightwish Sleeping sun

Early Morning Rebel - Lifeboat

#Unspoken #GoodFight #Vevo

 Jeremy Camp - This Too Shall Pass

Chris August - Listen To "Battle"

Matt Redman - Gracefully Broken (Lyric Video) ft. Tasha Cobbs Leonard

Pat Barrett - Canvas and Clay (Live) ft. Ben Smith

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

Sleepless in the maze of raindrops traveling through the forest seeking the lost city of love, loyalty, ever after unity as the gremlins steal your mind, some make it to steal your soul others stealing the abilities for life as creation intended it to be.

Maybe this is what it is, this is what it means as fear sweeps, and the waters rise with no way out.    Maybe this is your last chance to grab the one eternal life raft that even in the perfect storms no matter what is threatening; instead of that bottle, instead of those things that numb you, instead of sneaking that her or him, instead of not knowing how to approach them and just have that conversation that reflects you really do want things to work.  Perhaps you find yourself facedown meeting Jesus for the first time, for the 99999^th time or maybe this is the one and only last time you will get the chance.

Maybe, just maybe in order to finally let go and release you hold tight to the one that allowed you in the first place.    Not the biological mother or father that spawned the seeds.  But the God of all heavens and earth that gave them the blessings of your creation.   Even if they did not live up to the standards and give you that perfect life or maybe they did.    In the end nothing here matters.      Release your control, release your mind find your way to everlasting peace no matter how hard you have it or how spoon fed luxuriously are allowed to be.

 

You don’t want to miss one thing; I get it. You want to believe in what you are chasing or allowing to pursue you.  Be it fame, fortune, persons, places, or things.

You do not feel like you’re chasing anything; perhaps you feel life is just perfect or all of sudden the choices you made changed everything.     Perhaps you are the best you have ever been, yet something just keeps coming up short.    Somehow you find yourself annoyed or triggered because of what others are or are not doing for, with or to you.

 

You do not feel the need to talk to anyone, that is not what you are here for, and you are going to do what you feel like doing because you can.   You have an in, you do not need to worry about anything or anyone but your immediate cares and self.     Yet something keeps eating away as to why others are constantly trying to fix the world and doing things that although it shows great effort and a huge kind heart you just wish they would go away.

No not like that; you are not one to wish  anything mean on anyone. Even if you just want what you want and at some point, when you break the last thread that ties the unity.  You will get what you want, and others will see it your way.

As the heavens roll in thunder laughing at such craziness of that and of the world and how it has responded with the big things they do or do not do; or the little things that your every heartbeat for and you think no one will ever know.

The universe and the creator of all things knows every single second and thought.

 

We all bleed red; we are all the same but different.   We are all meant to live, love, laugh as a body in unity; lifting each other up not coming along thinking we have the right to judge or condemn.    Especially if you only give the time of day to walk past and acknowledge who is in front or besides you because you don’t want your reputation to be tainted.

Even when the sound is just not what motivates you; do you have the right to condemn or condone?

Anything, Nothing, everything always comes full circle.    What, who are you really looking to for that eternity?    Oh wait; its all about here and now forget thinking eternally!     No time for that as my head shaking in pity or bewilderment because it is even my place to have such thoughts for anyone besides my very own.

Then I remember every single second I am alive.  Good, bad, great, or horrible in love and laughter or paralyzing pain.     Nothing will ever compare to what poured out days before, up to, onto that cross.      So, God came down in form of man and called himself Jesus Christ Son of God King of kings, Lord and Savior.     Taking on all the pain, all the sin, all the unspeakable crimes against humanity.  All the broken emotional lost and lonely moments to allow humanity a chance.

What do we do with what we are given?    What do I do and why cannot I not control that battle those rages to keep fighting forward and not just cut the world away?     Peace by peace I have eliminated anything more that could let me down or cut into already healed wounds.

Yet the one second in Gods timing I tried again there was that unfaltering game of chance by man that sometimes they seem like they are winning yet in the end they have really lost everything but the ability to start again raising lifted hands.

Me, I am not giving up just working out the details that keep me awake sometimes when it comes to my walk with Christ.    Knowing it is not about a building, it is not about a performance.   Yet we forget quickly as we try to fill the seats and call upon people to worship what we do and not Christ within.

 

The battle for my heart was already won in the war long ago.     All that other stuff no longer matters.   Nothing but reflecting Christ in my imperfect journey and steps I trip up on along the way.

May those who believe never stop fighting the good fight Jesus!    Including my own fight while shadow boxing that which I do not understand and holding on to what does not matter too long and just moving on in your will and plans bigger than anything this world will ever give or take.

Thank you for everything up until here and now.   May the love in the depths of this soul always pray for the good in all I am connected.     In your mighty name and blood that has poured out to wash those who believe into life.     Lead and protect in your will all that I am and have been given.

Like a bull in a China closet never wanting to be acknowledged for what the outside was, is or will be.  So gracefully broken in the depths of your love and hands of the potter that always reveal that which is more beautiful than our eyes will ever see.   

 

May your creation dare to be different and hold onto that moral compass that walks the path of life in you.   May they hold steadfast love and enduring mercy and grace in community for perseverance and persistence in respect, loyalty and true love from the depths of their souls knowing who you are Jesus.  

 

Daily Devotion

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

“ Worship Me!”  This was my original design for man, into whom I breathed My very breath of life.”

Genesis 2:7  The Lord God formed the man form the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.

Psalm 89:15   Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, O’ Lord.

Romans 12:1-2  Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in the view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.  Do not confirm 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.

09.13.2021_September(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Monday – September 13, 2021

Meditation Opportunities

Daily Devotion

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

“Give your mind a break from its habitual judging.  You form judgments about the situation , that situation, this person, that person, yourself, even the weather—as if judging were your main function in life ”  “I created you first and foremost to know Me and to live in rich communication with Me.”

Matthew 7:1  “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.”

John 17:3   “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”

Romans 9:20-21  But who are you, O man, to talk back to God?  “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it. ‘Why did you make like this?”  Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?”

1 Timothy 6:15   Which God will bring about his own time—God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords.

 

Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

1 Peter 3:8 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

⁸ Finally, all [of you] should be of one and the same mind (united in spirit), sympathizing [with one another], loving [each other] as brethren [of one household], compassionate and courteous (tenderhearted and humble).

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

Tori Kelly - Colors Of The Wind

Lecrae & Zaytoven - Only God Can Judge Me

 Metallica: Nothing Else Matters

Aaron Cole - Right On Time (feat. TobyMac)

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

Thank you, Jesus, for another day.  As I work my way through trying to be productive, but meetings and plans are at the hands of if I am called in for jury duty or not.  Things are a little different this day.

 

Seems the knowing is in the waiting.   Just like waiting for that special order to fix the pump cover or to even to just hear the signs from you of what direction to go knowing how lost and empty the lack of connections and communications with those who are to serve you and love you  as a whole body and not just bits and pieces that are chosen as they find the time to remember it may be important.

Harsh my thoughts out loud seem also judgmental even though nothing else really matters that even when knowing you are the only judge Lord.     We are broken sometimes into pieces we just cannot fit back together picking them up and moving forward for you.   All because of the lack of or tone of communication and connections.

 

Even when you do not look for, anticipate, or demand  it.   Knowing relationships all take work.  Be it husband, wife; siblings, parents, relational or intimate.  Business or pleasure.   For anything to work everyone must do their part in kindness.

So, popcorn kisses  and bubble gum hugs everything is sweet and sticky in day-to-day life like a huge honey bun.

Where at times we have those moments when the sweetness just is not what it should be and sometimes even causing that adrenalin rush that causes disruption and choices that we must attend.   Even when it means letting go of what was then to go over there no matter when.

I can cry about how I feel in this big world sometimes.   Sometimes life and how things are going no matter how well I pray from within.   Tears just do not always agree to with stand and wait the tests of time.   Others the harmony plays so loud there is no way shape or form anything seems out of place or wrong.    Those are the days we dance to Christ heartbeat.     Others I am left to on some days what feels like to be burned. 

Yet when you look deep within the facts remain; when you are the only immersed believer trying to remain that light in the tank full of sharks.    Things can be messy and hurtful at times even when those who are the lifeline to the heartbeat of Jesus are surrounding sometimes, they too are so caught up in their own ways and not Gods purpose, your just left drowning.

Oh no don’t feel bad at all.   One thing is for sure I will die fighting forward no matter how many times it hurts, or I have a hard time getting past the pain from any thing that relates to a fall.

So, as I wait on others or do my best to serve.  As I plan out my escape to go get with God’s country, nature, and birds.     No matter who demands, who sits, who stands.  No matter which way the colors of the wind blow.   Jesus Christ died for all of us if you did not know.   He and God are my judges and if you do not like that or how I serve him and not man.

Unless you are my husband, my keeper, my family, or something more grand.    Do not treat me with disrespect or distaste because I do not live up to a performance of any temporal man.

God gets the final say and I will apologize any given day for my misdeeds or offense.    But do not burn the hand that willingly gives up and gives out.  Even if it does not look like what you think it should be.     Don’t cop attitudes be human and come and talk with me.

Nothing else matter when God always shows up even in his time.

09.12.2021_September(PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe_AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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Date: Sunday – September 12, 2021

Meditation Opportunities

Daily Devotion

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

“Receive MY Peace.”  “You are waging war- not with the weapons of the world, but with the heavenly weapons, which have divine power to demolish strongholds.  Living close to Me is a sure defense against evil.”

John 14:27  “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.  I do not give to you as the world gives.  Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”

Isaiah 30:15   This what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength,  but you would have none of it.”.

2 Corinthians 10:4  The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.  On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

Biblegateway.com Daily Verse

Philippians 4:4 – Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always [delight, gladden yourselves in Him]; again I say, Rejoice!

 

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

 Michael W. Smith - Surrounded (Fight My Battles)

Michael W Smith Great are You Lord

Florence + the Machine - Shake It Out

NEEDTOBREATHE - Carry Me (Lyrics) Ft. Jon Foreman of Switchfoot

In Christ Alone (Official Lyric Video) - Keith & Kristyn Getty, Alison Krauss

Kirk Franklin - Lean On Me

Cochren & Co. - One Day

 

 

 Daily Journal/Thoughts/ Prayers (Thinking out loud)

Micah 4:-5-4 – Life Application Study Bible

The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has made this promise!  Though the nations around us follow their idols. We will follow the Lord our God forever and ever.

Not sure why this stuck with me today and touched me so early this morning where I left it open on my desk to dive in further when coming back from service.

But it did; and if I look into it from other views the only real thing is on days like today where you go to step up and step out to serve the one who gives life knowing you are never enough for the world or the performance that is being written.

It means; It is not about you or about any of the nonsense and technicalities. 

Even with the biggest intention of serving the Lord when in his house serving with others as one body takes clear communication and bending when you think you might break remembering it is not about self but the Lord himself.  

That in itself is often a very hard pill to swallow at times.   But when you are a servant not for man but for the greater good you remember and wait as you call upon the Lord to direct your steps and know soon worship will be restored to all ends of the earth.   And that which is being robbed of today will come in abundance if we just hang in.

Micah 4:4-5  Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

⁴ But each person will sit under his grapevine and under his fig tree
with no one to frighten him.   For the mouth of the Lord of Armies
has spoken.   ⁵ Though all the peoples walk in the name of their own gods,
we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.

So, pushing forward in peace, in harmony can be a struggle and if you are not grounded holding tightly to your moral compass and know that there is more than just the here and now, we become a mess and create or get caught up in messes. 

Even when you work hard to remain obedience in Christ and not get caught up, serve and love on people for who they are.   Stuff always ten-fold happens to just tweak situations and we at times have to struggle to breathe through it and hold on to the worship and nourishment you once received by serving that has all changed and your left hanging in the balance.     You find the need to drop to your knees and just cling on to God leading you where he wants you to be.   In work, in life, in balance no matter how good you are.  Not everyone is going to see with God’s heart or vision.  

In fact, sometimes growing pains and learning what respect, loyalty and self-image through God is something we all must strive for every day no matter what or where we are.

It is just much harder when we are in a different generation to communicate at various levels. 

One thing is for sure in the end no matter what we allow to beat us up, take us out or continue wrestling with.   God wins!!!

 

Chasing anything else or hanging on to what is continually being pulled away from you only robs you from living.    Sometimes our master plan, plotting how the stars will need to be aligned to have perfect anything even if we are not purposing it to seem that is what we are doing.  Only robs the joyful heart and love that God has to offer and we receive, or we give others.

Somehow, we/I need to learn how to shake it off, shake it out and take it all for that the temporal moments really are.

 

Carry me Father God!   Lord knows I am so off balance at times with all those scars that healed with a wall bigger than any mountain to be climbed.   Self-preservation in is no longer the issue as what will be will be.   Yet just to exist does not work either.   Take me to the place that I have purpose and am of most use.  When I cannot see it carry me there.

Thank you for the beautiful souls you allow me to be part of life with.   Hear the whimpers to sobs of their hearts leaking out with all this injustice worldly things flying like deadly objects robbing our moments and abilities to be our best selves.

Bring the mothers off the ventilator to know you and raise up their children.  Bring the fathers home to love their wives like Christ calls for alone.     Brothers and sisters leaning in on me and I on them.    Removing all hate and animosity for what we think it must be.    

One day we will see the light but until then Jesus be with me.  Be with all I am connected and show us the way of your will and desire for any future there is to be left.