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Date: Thursday October 21, 2021
Meditation Opportunities
Biblegateway.com Daily Verse
Psalm
40:8 (NIV) New International Version
8 I desire to do
your will, my God; your law is within my heart.”
Psalm
40:8 (MSG) The Message Bible
7-8 So I answered, “I’m coming.
I read in your letter what you wrote about me, And
I’m coming to the party
you’re throwing for me.” That’s when God’s Word entered my life,
became part of my very being.
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Son of Suffering -
David Funk, feat. Matt Redman
Keith Urban and
BRELAND “Stand By Me” Grand Ole Opry Loretta Lynn & Friends 9/13/21
Keith Urban -
You'll Think Of Me
Kane Brown, H.E.R.
- Blessed & Free
Arms that Hold the
Universe - 33Miles
Exhale - Mercy Me
TobyMac and
Cochren & Co. - Edge Of My Seat
Lauren Duski - I
Would For You
Micah Tyler -
Different
Priceless by For
King and Country
Daily Journal/Thoughts/
Prayers (Thinking out loud)
No matter what is up ahead always look up and always know there are
physically, emotionally, and spiritual opportunities that await you. Good, Bad, or indifferent… We all get to
choose what we will consume, what we will give away. Into or of ourselves, every single day we are
allowed back up. That is the blessing
of freedom of will and choice.
So, if things are not feeling the way you want them to feel, not that we
should be doing life by feelings alone if at all. If things are robbing you from health and wellbeing. You own the ability to change them, it!!!
I speak often of wanting to really feel that love from the outside in
that God has allowed me to come to know when I met and fell in love with Jesus
from the inside out. Perhaps we have
always known who we are; I have always known who I am. Just rarely do we understand it and really
make choices based on everlasting growth opportunities.
It can be our fault, but it does not start out that way when every soul
given a day to get back up also has abundant choices and opportunities and we
can in our mind, in our heart and in our physical being choose to not be like
or dive in to grow more and more towards.
All so the same but different.
All of us bleeding red; all of us must have a heartbeat to reflect life. Even if what my life may seem so dreary, or ecstatic
compared to another.
The thing is we spend far too much time trying to prove to gain people, places,
and things. We give too much away trying
to get others to love us. We do mad
crazy things and put up with mad crazy sadness and dark scars that are left on
us. All for something that may be for
a long haul or only just long enough for others to take the pieces of me,
pieces of us away when they leave as they never intended on staying.
What are we chasing the result, or eternal, everlasting growth and those
people, places, or things that we smile at just the thought and memory?
Not everything that turns out not the way we planned is in error. God allows us to grow through the fire for
refinement and many will never understand it; but he is with us always!
We choose to dig in and learn what that means, and the first step is to seek
who Jesus openly, purposefully is and call upon Him 24/7.
Yes, my perspective. We all have them,
and we all get to choose. I have
always believed in God, but I never really knew who he was until I met Jesus
and openly called upon him years ago.
Not long enough ago. However,
even those born into the church and raised up in what we deem Christian families
sometimes never really know who Jesus is for their own choosing.
Many people go through the motions because that is what it is said must
happen. Like being raised up Irish
Catholic and knowing you go to church on holidays and Sundays, and you learn
about God but not very often ever really dive in and meet Jesus.
I am not here to pick apart different religions; far am I from being a
theologian or educated much less have the energy to debate any of it.
Same goes for politics although I can tell you I think the way the
government body in office right now and
all they are choosing to make laws to benefit themselves and not the people and
the future. Well, my perspective. SUCKS!
We all get to choose what and how we are going to react, and I have
never liked drama and was one that had to fight my way through life emotionally
for all I never could understand, physically for all the situations I ended up
in by the hands of others as a child, as my own choices as I was growing
up. And really, I that sitting around a
campfire singing kumbaya doesn’t sound so bad. Hanging out in a forest and living with the
beautiful wildflowers, butterflies, mountains, and streams. Guess I could have been a really good
hippie if I go back to what makes me smile.
Hopefully when people look back and think of me and there will be days,
they do they will shake their heads and smile.
Even for myself, even through tears my heart smiles for all the moments
I have been allowed to grow through.
Thinking this Keith song remembering the first time I heard it when it
first came out; and even looking back now and knowing how much it means and
just the fact I/ we are allowed another day to grow forward and climb up one
more step to whatever that top we are seeking to get to.
Be it alone, be it with those we are obligated or be it with all that
fulfills our souls. Prayerfully always
with Jesus living within us.
How do we do that… Gosh being hungry to learn. To never stop learning daily, moment by
moment. Learning of what the Bible is
and means and to do so you have to study the scriptures. Question over and over digging in what and
who is within it, by learning how our choices can help us and so many we are
allowed to connect. To never stop
wanting to learn and always sharing wherever we can. Without expectations…
I don’t need anyone to point anything out where I am failing; I am fully
aware of where my weaknesses are, and most days let everyone know. One of the many gifts of being blessed and
free to be able to know who I am and can be in the eyes of God and more so with
Jesus deep within this soul.
The whole world is in His hands as he is the potter and no matter if we
believe or not it will never change who God the father, Jesus the Son who came
in the image of man and the spirit that lives within all who call upon
them.
We can strive for many things, but what will be eternal is what matters
in the end.
As long as you are given a new day; you get the choice to really believe
in eternal heaven or eternal hell.
There is not an in-between. Living for and in the world and whatever it
gives or takes. Or believing in the
creator with everything for the greater good.
Trying and live obediently in harmony with humanity and everything
around and lending that helping hand be it to just hold or pray or give away whatever
blessings you have been allowed. At least
until that day no longer comes and you no longer are allowed the breath to
exhale, to get back up.
Forever will your soul be with
Jesus or in hell and eternal condemnation of all that is wicked and dark.
Just because we choose Jesus does not mean we are perfect. The only perfect being that ever was and will
be is God himself. Father, Son and Holy
Spirit! So no matter if you are a
brand new believer, on the edge of your seat trying to choose, or someone that
has walked in the kingdom your entire existence. We will never be perfect. Our imperfect sinful nature and judgmental
persona’s even when we try our best not to be. Will always depend on the creator of all
things to redeem us.
I get it, many do not care.
Many used anything positive that others are trying to grow to feed the
fires of hate and darkness they are trying to grow for whatever hurts, habits
and hang-ups they grew up into or with.
Or maybe just hurt one good time and flipped a switch they cannot find
to flip back.
I miss the mark often; focused in like a laser surgeon the hurts of words,
actions or lack of others do directly or indirectly to me. Leaving me to waste time trying to
understand more of who I could have been if only.
Thing is if it’s not to be it will not be. If it is meant to be things will come
together.
I stay on the edge of my seat and have to purposely drive what and how I
will manage my emotions, wants, hurts, habits, and hang-ups every single day I
am given. And I fail miserably most days
while others I am like a kid at Christmas where all the glory of looking up
consumes as a little kid in a huge Christmas store filled with bright colors
and lights.
Me growing up as a kid was not about what I could get; heck I was lucky
if I got a new pair of underwear or socks.
I remember one year I actually got a brand-new winter coat and that was
everything in the middle of NY State winters.
I was a teen then and I remember how heart broken I was when one of my so-called
friends was being a jerk and put it on and ripped it and I was right back to
where I was before with nothing. Why
because I could not tell my mother what they did as I was not supposed to be
hanging out with them and she was hardly ever available or had means to get me
anything so it would have made her really mad at me.
Crazy how those little things matter, and you find out from your own
behaviors and those of others who is really going to help you grow and who is
just riding your wings because they can.
Because you let them. Unfortunately,
it also allows you to really know who you are to them and how they treat you in
the end.
My first crush that person was. Pauly
the ultimate bad boy with a bad reputation all around the hood. Started long before even being a teen, and thought
I knew what love was. Parents I can
tell you to always stay engaged in your children’s life and never make your own
friends a priority over your family. I
don’t care if you come from wealth or poverty. Your children need you to know who they
are, where they are and who they are engaging with. Your
children are your responsibilities and a gift of God to and for you. Not everyone even thinks that way or
believes that especially if they are going through stuff the world throws at
them.
But they are. They are not
anyone of your friends, male or female; they are not your brothers, your
sisters, your cousin, or those close friends that are like family at this point
in your life.
Don’t leave your children for anyone else to raise up and think you have
a right to whine and carry on about what they are learning or feel bad when
something horrible happens to them at the hands of others.
Make your choices, live with them, and move on. No excuses and absolutely no do overs when
someone harms and takes the innocence of what you should have been protecting.
Squirrel sorry!
I was ten years old a flat chested little kid that just love playing
with my friends when I was entrusted with a family friend who changed my life
forever. And although the scars and so
much growth has taken place through out my journey. What I can say is I don’t know what or where
I would be if my journey did not take the path, it did. But also, I would be who I am today if it were
not for things out of my control that God allowed me to grow through.
Allot of years, allot of wrong way turns, allot of broken colorful
pieces placed on his canvas and although I am imperfect to the world I am perfectly
placed where I need to be for his artistic imprints of my own mind and many I am
connected.
I would for you walk through the fires if you needed me to for truth and
opportunity to really see you growing for God has created you to be. All in and out of Love even though my
purpose is not to rescue anyone.
Sometimes it just happens I grow more from stepping out in faith even in
the end I find I was just in a spin to avoid a cliff to what could have been so
different.
And I want to be different.
No matter what was, or what will be.
I dare to look up in hope, in awe and in love even if and when it
hurts. Prayerfully one day there will someone
to help me balance before it is too late.
But until my God says make it so; Jesus is enough. Dare to be different, dare to believe, dare
to own your freedom of will and choice and be something more with Christ. Break out of the labels and what the world
predicts you must say, do or have to be of worth. Because in Christ you are priceless as he
created you to be.
Thank you, Lord, for the growing pains and always no matter what funk
spins around or within. You allow me the
freedom to look up and choose. Thank
you for another day given and so many opportunities even if I miss them; they
are still given in this thing called life.
Be with all I am connected in your will, your love now and always.
