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Date: Saturday– September 25, 2021
Meditation Opportunities
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Daily Verse
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John 2:1 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)
2 My little children, I write you
these things so that you may not violate God’s law and sin.
But if anyone should sin, we have an Advocate (One Who will intercede for us)
with the Father—[it is] Jesus Christ [the all] righteous [upright, just, Who
conforms to the Father’s will in every purpose, thought, and action].
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Daily Devotion
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“ Pour all your energy into trusting ME.” “Baby
steps of trust are simple for you; you
can take them with the almost unconscious case.
Giant steps are another matter altogether: leaping across chasms in
semidarkness, scaling cliffs of uncertainty, trudging through the valley of the shadow of death.” “These feats require sheer concentration, as
well as utter commitment to ME.”
Psalm 23:4 Even though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your
staff, they comfort me…
Matthew 7:1-2 “Do Not Judge, or you too will be judged.” For in the same way you judge others, you
will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Proverbs 29:25 Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but
whoever trusts in the Lord will be kept safe.
Movers Motivations
& Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)
Creed - Six Feet
From The Edge
Tom Petty- Free
Falling
Creed - Six Feet
From The Edge
Jumper-Third Eye
Blind
He Knows My Name -
Tommy Walker
Third Day -
Children of God
Tasha Layton //
Look What You've Done
TobyMac - Scars
Ryan Stevenson -
Mosaic
Ryan Stevenson -
Amadeo
Daily Journal/Thoughts/
Prayers (Thinking out
loud)
Happy, blessed Saturday! Thank you,
Lord, for another day given to try and find opportunities, make opportunities be
or cease opportunities for all that brings life and color to this world that is
slowing fading to dark.
There is no grey area when it comes to you either do or you do not
believe in the one who gives and takes
away.
Each day is a new day, each moment can be for a new experience or wasted
holding on to that which brings sorrow and pain.
Thank you for all the differences and ability to know so much is the
same yet here and now is not what has happened but what we do with it.
So Thursday was a long day; up and at em starting work at 6:30 am then
finishing round one around 5. Doing the
kid zone thing, then being blessed with a wonderful group of believers wrapping
up our study on Forgiving What We Can’t’ Forget. Home by 8:30 pm and back on for work by 9pm
and then working until 1am.
Nope it does not happen often at all anymore but when it does it is always
a new experience. To say the least exhausted
for the Friday routine I did not dare put any thoughts that were like someone
who just got off of a Merry go round spinning 100mph then getting off trying to
walk.
Amazing back in the day I could go days on a couple hours sleep and now
if I miss even one hour out of the 4 to 5,I normally get I feel like I have
been out drinking all night.
But anyway, I started my normal then took a brief nap and worked the afternoon. Why am I sharing this? Well because my entire routine was different
yesterday including how I wander around and pick up, clean up and take care of
things. When I got up this morning looking
around seeing just how much those little things make a difference. I am appreciating everything I am given
and every bit of energy I guess am allowed.
To do even those things that seem so insignificant.
Trust me my house is lived in. Multiple
people, multiple pets. It makes a huge
difference to have someone in here cleaning all the time. Even if it is me and I cannot keep up with
ledges, ceilings, creases, and cracks.
I choose not to live like my house was an official drop zone that
exploded all the time. Even if it makes
me crazy others leave things piled up.
I long for the day my counters are showroom perfect. But that will take a total redo and putting
cabinets in my kitchen. Which is not out
of the question. I just took my savings
years before and shared with way too many that did not really need it in the
end.
Yet here I am. Learning not to
get hung up on what choices that have taken me through physical, emotional, and
financial valleys. But looking around
at the top to see the beauty of where life can be and where it’s been. Even if we are all including me one step
from the edge of free falling off that ledge to never get back up. Sometimes we seem to be our best selves, yet
everything still seems to be wrong or full of gaps and holes that we just cannot
reach what it is that fills us no matter how good and how much we love and
believe Christ Jesus.
Finding that road to somewhere when it does not have Him in your every thought,
even if it does not pour out of your lips when speaking the life, you are
feeding to grow.
Or even more yet; we cannot beat ourselves up for wanting and wanting to
see the best in every single soul we are blessed to connect and be it lifelong
or brief seconds to moments of new possibilities.
Just know nothing is ever wasted.
Perspective is everything in how we choose to proceed in every day we
are given. Oh, and by the way… I am a
huge work in progress learning what to say and what not to say or react to.
Though my heart holds many knotted-up
heart strings that sometime really hurt when they get tugged on for and with
others I engage. My soul belongs to the
one who allows me breath and ability to get up and just keep fighting forward
or trying at least. My soul is blessed
by those moments and connections that are forever locked into place that have
turned into never ending prayers for others, or even myself and the beauty and
overwhelming feelings of love when I remember. Nothing is wasted be it lessons where we
thought our good intentions are for something good or greater than we would
have ever figured out on our own. Or
just lessons that protect us and give us strength to keep proving all that
which is negative and does not believe just who God and Christ Jesus in my life
at least really is.
I know I have a maker of all things in this earth, this world, this
life. I get to choose. I would like to say every single soul gets
to choose; but we know in the world we live that is not always true. Many will rob, steal, and take the very life
of innocence and those who before they understand the freedom of choice and
will give. Well, they are consumed by
the darkness and evil that they create and are. We all go through stuff, and we all have
scars there is no doubt none of us will escape this world without them. However, to never forget where we came from
but always know what can be fighting for the better for your own and any you
are blessed to be a part of. Lord knows
its hard! I know I could have easily
been a statistic from age 10 through 17 under the influence and what seemed
then just the thing to do never really knowing anything but those doing the bad
things or even those you hug with participating in things that later could rob
you from life. Even those that were
hell raisers having fun turning on you
to make themselves look better. I
have a long list of real-life stories that could be shared. But none of them are yours. You need to peace all those of your own
together and find what has meaning and what helps you grow past the pain and
heals you and the days you are given.
But one thing is for sure. Jesus
knows every single thought, action, plan, word… All of it for me and every soul
in this universe.
I wish I had answers why good things happen to many who do not believe
or deserve it. You know those that are
always out hustling, gaming or out right stealing life from others. Never putting one good thing towards
deserving anything. All the while
those good girls, and guys who have great hearts and live giving and would
never do anything harmful to anyone are taken, if not just left to walk through
the earth with everything taken from them.
It’s just life after what has been done. The pain and process hurt like hell during
the time it is occurring. Pain; yes… I
have had even one too many broken bones, cuts physically and emotionally
through my days I have been given so far.
And though I pray no longer come.
What will be will! I think the earliest injury I was maybe six…
playing superman with my big brother jumping from a foot stool over a coffee
table onto a sofa and back. Well, it
was me that the foot stool moved, and I busted my head open. Then maybe 8 or 9 climbing on monkey bars and
my sweaty hands slipped and falling on my butt but hitting my elbow to the
ground in landing and getting a compound fracture. Was that all preparation before age 10,
being woke from a sound sleep being raped so badly I blacked out for a period
of time and still today do not remember how I exactly made it back home to
where I was living at the time. All I
do know is the years of waking fighting for life in the middle of a sleep finally
went away when I gave all I am to Jesus.
Or how about those 25 stiches in the chin where mom was run off the road
by a drunk driver and I ate a dashboard.
Or even at 15 riding home drunks from a party and the van flipping and
me being thrown through the windshield and sliding down a NY State
freeway. Looking up with the wheels
spinning like a movie and seeing the big boat motor that was in the back up in
the front.
The Lord has been good to me long before I knew who and what I meant to
him. Broken bones, stitches,
relationships and all the material things in life that we find we must have to
be that the end really can help shelter us but mean nothing if we do not know
the value of our own life and what mean to God himself. I
could tell story after story of being a kid in a place in this world with no
protection or guidance and being used and abused by the darkness and what it really
means to survive and know; we are not what we have done or had done to us. We are children of God with a purpose and
life only he in your meeting Jesus right where you are to walk any remaining
days given.
We can live with the God of the ultimate promise here and now or we can
chase all the broken pieces that will never always fit back the way they came
apart. We are all the colors of God’s
grand canvas that really is a beautiful mosaic piece of art that sometimes gets
shifted so much the abstract lack of understanding leaves us in awe.
I never chose to come into this world, I never got to choose who my
broken family was going to be. Yes, my
mother was married at the time I came to be.
I never got to choose even
though I was called a gift of life where I my part of my roots would start or
even where they might end. I never
got to choose who I would turn my back on, or who would turn their back on
me. I do get to choose though if I will
give up and give in to all the darkness and add to the negative. Or just keep getting back up despite who I
don’t have, what I do have or anything in between. As do you!
Every single soul that is living gets to choose to do what is
right. The key is it all starts in
prayer calling upon Jesus Christ to walk you through those valley’s or even
stand beside you in awe in those beautiful moments you really feel love or
become love. Or even on those mountain
tops that you never thought you could ever get to the top of.
God is and always will still be the only true God of this universe.
I know the world is full the rich, the famous, all those things we want
to experience, be or be connected.
That is all good. God bless the
souls that work hard and have made their way to what the people of the universe
think matters. But what relationship
do you have that will hold you together when it is all gone?
Are you numbing what you do not
want to deal with by drugs, partying, alcohol to be just another wasted bit of
talent and forgotten when you show up in the always negative headlines of a
drug overdose from parties that celebrate with the darkness awaiting to consume
you?
Or what about that famous headline romance that now is just a script
being written out because you don’t want the world to know that person or even you
has side-stepped, and you cannot get back to where you thought would be
forever. So, to save face and keep
the people who make you what you do. Carrying
you until you either cannot breathe any longer or finally give it all to God
and allow him to walk you through.
I am far from perfect. I have
said, done and not done or said many things that have impacted next steps. But one thing I will never deny is that the
biggest and best step of my life that ever was and will be is calling out to
Jesus and allowing him to come consume me.
And let’s be real as it is not my choice that he is with me anyway. He choose me long ago and after years of fighting
thinking I had it under control and all those scars that sometimes still break
open. I heard His voice to open the
door and want him within.
So, the fact is; if you are reading my page and you do not know Christ
Jesus personally. He is calling you as
one of his own. I have a T-shirt with the Nike emblem on
it. The cool part is it says “Whatever Jesus says, Just Do
It”
I am saying if you want the blessings of God. Start right where you are right here, right
now and call upon Jesus to come within your being, time and space and show you
every second of that should be next. You
do not need to go to the building down the street to do so. Right where you are start every day. In your heart, in your mind in your spirit. In a house, in a street, in a prison. Or the prison you cannot seem to shake from
all that troubles you in the world. “If
we have Jesus today, we are living in answered and prayer and perfect provision.”
@Forgiving What You Can’t Forget, Page 162
I wish I could be Samantha on Bewitched and just twitch my nose and
change things all around the world.
Although that would be dangerous especially for all those who have
harmed me in my past or even those that do not listen to reason today,
including my own self.
Instead, I pray in Jesus mighty
name and all the blood that flows that wash clean and give life to all those
who believe in who He was, is and forever will be, to take hold and lead us in
His will, His vision, His ways, and directions.
Lead me and all I have connected Jesus.
Heal us physically, emotionally, and soulfully.
May the perfect peace fill our undeserving day to days and life we are
given.
Thank you for this day and all the twists and turns on the roller
coaster of life.
You know my heart.
You are the keeper of my soul.
I am forever grateful for those you allowed to be locked deep inside no
matter what they day brings.
Show me and all who call upon your name, how to shine bright in the baby
steps or the giant leaps.
Knowing all of our deepest desires, hurts, habits, and hang-ups. Fill us up with your light, your love to
shine on for all those still needing to find you. Fill us with safety, comfort and your
abundant peace and your unconditional love.
Pat Barrett, Dante
Bowe – Nothing/Something
