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Date:
Saturday November – 27th
Meditation Opportunities
coming from Biblegateway.com The Daily Verse
Colossians 3:16 (TPT) The Passion
Translation
16 Let the word of Christ live[a] in you richly, flooding you with
all wisdom. Apply the Scriptures as you teach and instruct one
another with the Psalms, and with festive praises,[b] and with prophetic songs given
to you spontaneously by the Spirit, so sing to God with all your hearts!
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Footnotes
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3:16
Colossians 3:16 in all English translations
Thought Movers, Motivations Touching to the Soul coming from YouTube.com
Kid
Rock - Only God Knows Why
Lynyrd
Skynyrd - Freebird - 7/2/1977 - Oakland Coliseum Stadium
Hidden
(ft. Will Reagan)
Rivers
& Robots - Shepherd Of My Soul
Ground
Wire (Original Mix)
Rhett
Walker - Believer
70's
Soul - Al Green, Commodores, Smokey Robinson, Tower Of Power and more
"Stand
By Me" (Original)(1985) Canton Spirituals
Kirk
Franklin - Love Theory
Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow
Blessed and thankful to be up another day. What a great past few day to see folks (family,
friends) some I have not seen in almost ten years. And even meet new friends while gathering in
thanksgiving.
I know
better than anyone how time is fleeting as each day given progresses us closer
to the heavens.
It is
not big secret between being really sick as a kid, then in the hands of
darkness, to my own journey putting me at gun point and hands of
destruction. Later just trying to take
my own self out. To major surgeries. I have had the blessing believe it or not of
really riding that roller coaster of life.
So, when something out of the normal starts happening with me; I try to
just get myself back home out of the way of harm or people and work it through.
So although
I was not expecting to have some weird reaction to what I think was the ibuprofen
I took for a knee that had been bothering me the past couple days. Which by the way I have in the past taken!
Well,
I had some reaction to what I think was the trigger.
I
think it was about an hour after taking it, on my way to dinner and I started
feeling itchy. Which never happens
outside of a little cooler weather change that lotion takes care of.
But as
time was going on then like when I first had heart surgery 14 years ago when
they put a 35mm patch in my heart to keep me from bleeding out. Started getting that kaleidoscope vision. They call it ocular migraines and say its
nothing to worry about. Although
something just told me to stay in one place.
So, we
visited a bit then I had to get home.
Once
home I just found myself in bed and dozed.
Waking up feeling super sick I headed to the bathroom. However, I never made it. Not even sure exactly what was happening, somehow,
I felt myself up against something really cold and it was dark. Realizing I was laying on the bathroom
floor I pulled myself back up and headed back to the bed. When that next step I seen coming and went
down again. Thinking Lord just let me
to the bed. If its my time just let me
make it in my bed.
I was
lucky even if this is not normal. Some bruising
where I hit the first fall and gosh, I have braces on so it could have been really
bad. Not only could I have broken a rib, cracked my head or the second time
getting up face planting with braces. Thank
you, Jesus it was not! Minor cuts inside
my mouth and some bruising on my back and back of my head.
Some
time later family came home to check on me and as I got up and this time made
it to the bathroom started getting sick.
No, I didn’t really eat anything all day. Even at the gathering. I just
wasn’t feeling it. So, I know it wasn’t
the food.
Even
if I have not been really good about sticking with my high cholesterol meds which
prevent blockage and the fact remains, the Ibuprofen most likely made my gut
act up but the other stuff which is most likely time to talk to my doc
again. I see him once a year and things
have been great. But these past couple
years have been stressful and not exactly the most physically active compared
to what use to be. Not to mention my
diet this past year has not been focused to say the least.
Internalizing
life is who I am so all kinds of stuff could be. Anything!
I will
get it checked out for sure. Even if I
am not looking for all that testing or cost again.
I
spent black Friday under the covers all day sleeping on and off and today feel
pretty good. But taking it slow. Not pushing anything just in case.
One of
the downsides to having any implants is at some point they can cause a
blockage. Which is why I see my doc
every year. I am praying its not time
to plan some other fix.
But
anyway, I am up and taking it slow.
Thinking about what my next couple days should look like. And all I can come up with is whatever Jesus
says will be.
Kind
of appropriate this year has been lots of change with many thorns digging in. To where I actually started stepping back to
slow down and see what happens next. Guess
I just gotta maintain that faith and keep watching, while hoping all my fellow
friends, believers and family keep prayer God’s mercy continue to wash over and
through all I am or am to them.
I have talked for years about our time stamp
in and that which we leave is the unknown when. Sometimes things just get shook up because. Could have even been my own internal anxieties
even though I have taken my own precautions, just being around people even when
I am not up on them these days, well you just don’t know what you don’t know as
this freaking Covid pandemic has proven across the world. That and all the agenda’s of so many pushing
this or pushing that. Well, I guess
that is just another topic that could take a lifespan in itself.
None
of us are getting out of here alive in the vessels we were given to travel in
this here and now. God has been good then,
now, and whatever future he has aligned for me.
Life
is what it is while we are here, and I am far from perfect or obedient in the true
eyes of Jesus. Any of us! But especially me. That little Irish temper and mechanisms that
kick into gear sometimes without even noting as I was living the world for half
of my existence. Believing in people,
places and things and doing what I had to do in efforts of survival or just
getting the heck back out of harms way that I found myself. Thank you, Jesus, for being the shepherd of
my soul then and now.
There
is no need to find that hiding place anywhere but in you. And although I don’t
take life lightly, I am slowly in your timing Jesus learning to listen and not
just react to the fire drills that come in every instance we forget who our
ground wire in this life is and should be.
From wandering
lost out of the woods, to the guided path in and out of dessert places, to those
crazy lights and raves in NY city to just sitting in the middle of God’s open
country with nothing but nature flowing freely with beautiful abundance.
May we
never stop looking up even if or when things get a little too hard to understand
or deal with. May I never stop looking
for you Jesus.
Maybe
we freely flow with our spirits riding high or just feel like that soul in a
bubble looking in from the outside. Filled with peace, love and all that is
good; or broken hurt misplaced pieces that need to be glued back to the better
places in life and our dreams.
We all
get to choose how to deal with the little or big anomalies in life.
Prayerfully
we won’t panic or freak out in angst or bitterness.
No
matter what; it is what it is until it’s not! Be your best self and yes be logical and take
time to care for yourself and others who could use that boost. Even if just a
simple prayer from a believing heart.
Anyway,
now that thanksgiving is over, although being thankful should never be. Time to see what is next up ahead.
For me
find out what triggered this episode of almost that could have went in any direction. Dive in to see what I need to do to be
worthy to the new career challenge I took.
See where God is calling me in his kingdom. Maybe there will be a bunch of things to do,
maybe just sit back and watch. Only God
really knows but one thing for sure, I will need, we will need to stay tapped
into Him through his Son to find out. Wherever
we are headed, may our spirits always fly high in truth, love; yes, so much
real love and Gods Mercy and Grace that only walking with Christ Jesus allows
us to know.
Like
some of those old rhythm and blues, funk, soul or just memories may the beats
keep coming in harmony for a pure and healthy life to each being here and now
or beats in all the talent we are allowed to be part of. It does not matter what is going on if we do
not know the meaning of who you are Jesus.
Show us your will, with heart opening widely in love.
So as
this day moves on Jesus thank you for all the opportunities! Big or small; important to just me or anyone
and everyone. May we know not everyone
gets the chance to know you or choose in the end. So, before it is too late may we choose you
now.
Be it
makes us look crazy, stupid, or filled with something others want. May it be you they are chasing.
Thank
you then, thank you for any tomorrows that I am brought to life; thank you for
here and now.
