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Sunday July 10th
This Day in History - What Happened
Today - HISTORY
Meditation Opportunities coming from
Biblegateway.com The Daily Verse
Philippians 1:6 (ICB)
6 God began doing a good work in you. And he will continue it until
it is finished when Jesus Christ comes again. I am sure of that.
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Philippians
1:6 in all English translations
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7-10-2022 New Life
Christian Church - Spring Hill Worship -Sermon on Idols
The Supremes
"Come See About Me"
Drift Away - Dobie
Gray
Stand By Me - Ben
E. King
Grandpa - The
Judds (With Lyrics)
Casting Crowns -
The Well (w/ Lyrics)
Alicia Keys - No
One - Lyrics
TobyMac, Marlee -
Everything About You (Lyric Video)
LION (feat. Chris
Brown & Brandon Lake) | Elevation Worship
Thinking
Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow
Music is an amazing lifeline that can take you so many
places. From worship early in the day
as we come to the throne and ask Christ into our days. Or looking back to see about me or drifting
away to how Grandpa was always one of my favorite karaoke tones even though I
never knew my grandfathers personally.
On the father’s side my grandfather passed when I was young last, I remember
was I went to the hospital with nanny and Pa was in a coma in the hospital and
never made it back out. My mother’s
father I know allot more but never really personally. Although he lived to be
97 years of age unfortunately crippled up and he was a character. Though later in life he became a bible
thumper her was a womanizer an felt every woman should bow down and respond,
respect and just be obedient to men. He
remarried for the third or fourth time when he was85. One of those that if he requested something such
as a cup of tea it had to be a specific type of tea. If his wife cooked for him if it didn’t look right,
he would send it back.
Crazy thing was this man had like 13 kids maybe more nine I think
with just my grandmother who also died when I was young.
I could go in story after story, but we all got some. I used to claim with a capital D in
dysfunctional families. But I look around
now in this crazy world and know I was just a little sprinkle of colorful candy
on the icing in this worldly cake.
Beyond thankful that that 10-year-old kid got on that bus
riding around the neighborhoods taking kids to church and I got on. No clue where I was going, what I was doing
or when they did that alter call, I asked someone if I could go up and get baptized
and they said absolutely.
No clue at all that God called me then and put his shield on
my life. Even though the brokenness and
near-death experiences would only be the strength to keep fighting forward
until I as an adult could do it again and fully know what I was doing.
There was allot of crazy back then and still is only now it
is more prominent that those who were only self-gratifying at the expense of innocence
then. Has now become the broken filled
with hate and wanting the world to hurt as badly as they do. So, they go on rampages doing as much damage
in the shortest time possible.
Life is not a joke although if we don’t laugh, we will be
break and never be put back together again.
Today’s message hit home big time. Knowing I learned at the expense of so many
others not to put my faith in people and need them to make my life even close
to complete.
I have been let down, broke down, used, abused, and tossed to
the seagulls. When I made it through
then my self-destruct switch was stuck for a long time. It was not until I met Jesus because I was
seeing unnecessary pain and bad choices in my child. That I realized no matter what good, bad, or
indifferent we do we cannot control and force anyone to do something that will
allow them more blessings and not so many hardships.
I may have given my life fully as an adult over to Christ for
the wrong reasons. To save my children,
grandchildren, and anyone else I could that was tied up in these heart strings
back then.
But I think Jesus really knew what he was doing with me all
along.
I cannot tell you
exactly what day it was I looked in the mirror and realized I was not who I
once was. I had nothing to prove, and
it really didn’t matter what I could gain because none of it was ever lasting
or going with me when I finally leave this world.
Yes, it’s been hard wanting to step in so much and make
things right and prevent my own flesh from making any of the mistakes I did,
and I had to be humbled over and over again.
Reminded to whom I belong as do my children, my grandchildren, and every
soul I am ever connected.
There are days I am so caught up even though I start my day first
before hitting the floor with the Lord.
That by the end of the day I cannot even remember what happened when
first!
Then there are days that the let me fix it takes over and I am
again humbled to know it is not my job.
Doing the best, we can with what we get to work with is so
very hard. Every day we are allowed back
up we have a billion moments of opportunity and what we do with them matters
and when something does not go according to the best plans. How we react matters
even more.
I would not trade anything in this world do ever do it
without Jesus again.
I may not know where I am going but I absolutely know where I
have been.
If only I could be a little flicker along the way of any time
I may have left in this journey because no one is promised anything much less a
tomorrow.
Jesus is all I need; do I want life in abundance. Heck Yes!
No lie to that but I learned so long ago everything is in the nothingness
that we cut ties to allowing the spirit to consume and lead us.
Hard to explain but the peace even in the tragedy of missing our
so-called spot or hanging at the top of that platform looking down on anyone
around us. You don’t know until you
get there. When you chase everything
still coming up empty or become collectors filling our homes, warehouses, and
everything else with things that others will kill for. Really never being able to take any of it
with us.
If I can dance on the streets of heaven with nothing but the
nakedness of my soul knowing that there is no more hurt, no more pain and Jesus
has the glimmer and gold boldly shining through our spirits into the souls of
those he is rescuing.
Nope I don’t have to make sense. It is what it is until its not. Yet we never stop missing everything about our
IT. Be it you, your loved one, that
family member or love of your life.
Every day becomes a new normal. We never stop missing those broken pieces
and sometimes we beat ourselves up wondering what if!
What if I did something different. Then we realize hopefully that it is what it
was really supposed to be.
So, as we take that deep breath and exhale trying to get back
up to heal and grow forward.
Looking in that mirror knowing we gotta be some kind of unique
if God’s not done with us yet.
What will it be?
Yesterday is gone; tomorrow may never come. It is the right here and now.
Losing does not get easier no matter who or what it is. We are not supposed to watch our loved one’s
break and suffer.
We are not supposed to have to grieve wondering what if we
did something different.
But if we are there, find that flicker to turn it
around. Shining even a glimpse of the hope
of Jesus Christ’s healing for someone who needs that unseen hope that no one
can ever take once we let him into our souls.
Yes, I relate to music and beyond blessed to be in a booth
and help run production for worshipping the one and only that has given me
everything in all those nothing moments.
He is and always will be the one that turns it around.
Relate to sitting on a dock of bay; or remembering life through looking back
absolutely. May it never change for me anytime soon.
Praying every connection, I ever make have or run into will
know who Jesus is and feel that abundant peace and knowing His mercy and grace
we are favored with.
Hating the thought that someday will come that I am not here,
and my blood line may suffer beyond anything I could ever try and protect them
from. Or perhaps be beyond more than I will ever deserve to know. Either case I won’t be here to be, to do, to
do all I have in me as a mother a grandmother.
And if I listen to the message today as hard as it is to swallow the
truth. That is way it just is.
Jesus show us and make your glory known teaching us the truth
and protecting us from ourselves.
From the evil that lurks.
May we love people right where they are and for they are and not what
they do or what they look like or what they may have.
Show us the way Father.
Show me the way through the caverns and crevices of this journey yet to
come. You know my needs and all my
wants.
The depth of love from the inside out! In you, with you. Now and always
no matter how busy or who I think I have become.
Protect the children for they are precious to you Lord. They are the future!
