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Monday August 12^th, 2024

Motivational Reads / Daily Devotions from Biblegateway.com - Daily Verse

  

^16-20 There’s more to sex than mere skin on skin. Sex is as much spiritual mystery as physical fact. As written in Scripture, “The two become one.” Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us lonelier than ever—the kind of sex that can never “become one.” There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for “becoming one” with another. Or didn’t you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don’t you see that you can’t live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body.

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Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

Hi my name is binge watcher and generally not paying attention to length or the fact that it will be my nemesis because I get hooked and run on empty until the series is over.

What I have learned with this series although I am almost at the end and need to ask for lots of forgiveness because it is one that sucks you in with the super-natural vampire, wolves, fairies, shape shifters.  But also, an abundance of raunchy mature content that should never be available to watch like it is today.    

I am human and yeah far from perfect.   And I like lions, tigers, and bears along with vampires, werewolves etc.  I could do without the gore, but it has kept my attention too good.

Bottom line though; there is only one true blood and that is Jesus Christ.

Yes, you have the name of it and it is an older one that I had not seen but ran across on when I had some time to just relax and I turned the tube on with the remote surfing while forcing myself to take a break from trying to conquer the list of shifting and organization I have going on here at the home front.

 

Breaking down and dumping everything that I have not looked at and/or even touched in a while. 

Got a lot going on here always being on the run, always having something planned every day of the week if not work, its volunteering if not volunteering, getting my mom, if not getting my mom its working… You get it and apparently my grand did as well because she gave me a book this weekend, The Self Care Planner.

I know my age is creeping up on me, always looking really tired cause I been on this chaotic mission for the past few years where I got caught up helping someone or thought I was a few years back and well just about buried myself.    Since then, I took a job extremely demanding and been working my butt off all the while family needs arise and well, I could go into details, but the bottom line is.   I am tired.

But not giving up yet.

I thank God every single day he allows me to make it through and each morning he calls me to get back up and do something again.

Thank You Jesus for convicting me of what the truth really is.    Despite all the worldly karma, and chaos all around while trying to find distractions all the while I should just be sitting quietly in your beauty.

I am not always that Martha but gosh, can I tell you distractions are what allow me to get through this life at times.  When trying to live with unconditional love knowing it is one of the hardest things we will ever be called to do.

With all the noise, hate and anger and so much uncertainty for each day.   Some days are so much easier than others.  But we are called to love the least of these everywhere every day.   And to separate who they are from what they do or don’t do.  Really calls for purposing each and every day dying to self.    Within all those big things that you have let others down or you have been let down.   Or just what seems really stupid suddenly assuming there is more to it or judging someone for how they look or that they must have motive and not just care or perhaps look the way they do because they too are burying themselves with distractions and getting lost within them.

Things really changed for me that few years back.   I guess none of us are ever the person we were yesterday.  (hopefully) we are growing forward and living in what real truth is.

I hope I am not the person I was, and I know I am not.   I remember the day still I woke and realized I did not know exactly when I changed and truly openly fell in love you Jesus.    But I am truly beyond blessed knowing you have called me and been leading me since.    And yes, as I seek forgiveness for the big and small things outside what you would call me to be or do.   As you allow me to forgive and let go of those painful moments that have pulled me back on the path of yours.

Perfection takes time and I pray I am forever in your timeline throughout eternity.

Forever who I am because you allow me to be Jesus.   Thank you

I will continue to do my best with what I have to work with and best not to let the world get to me or me to those you have blessed me with be hurt by any lack of self-care that distracts me so badly I react leaving marks by actions or words.

Most importantly Lord let me handle what does get to me the way you would.

If I have you, I have everything; but please know this heart and aging asks to not lose your favor and blessings.    I so want to just play in the yard and admire your beauty.

Living simply and full of unconditional love.  Pure Agape love!

Forever freely given and maybe blessed to truly see what it is like to receive.   No expectations, no agenda.  Just able to breathe in all you allow.

For everyone out there riding that wave you do not understand.    It will get better than another will come.   This is the wilderness that we are called to grow forward for something so much more!

Don’t give up no matter what it is and if you need to find your distractions.  Just do it with Jesus living on the inside of you.   Do it without selling your soul or harming others.    Be your best self in all that is good and of value as you are priceless.

Meet Jesus right where you are. And call upon him every single day you are given.

I will never be a theologian, but I will never stop being a vessel for all that brings even a glimpse of light and hope.  Even if it is just for this soul itself.    We should never have to prove who we are to anyone.   Be yourself and if those you circle up with don’t get it.  Find a new circle or get face down and have God’s loving arms hold you tightly and call upon him to fill your circle.

Well not sure why my mind maze gets to share all that is chattering within.  But I pray goodness, protection and abundant truth for all you are.  Heal us Jesus and show us the way!

 

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Tuesday July 30th 2024-PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe (AlwaysMeKelly)

 

 

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Tuesday July 30th, 2024

Motivational Reads / Daily Devotions from Biblegateway.com - Daily Verse

  

Matthew 5:14,16  MSG  The Message

^{14-16 “Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I’m putting you on a light stand. Now that I’ve put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand—shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you’ll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven.}

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Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

Okay,  I have to say seeing today’s verse of the day and seeing the world of destruction and so much suffering of natural disasters where we are rescuing elderly off roofs of homes with pets in arms or babies.   And just knowing how blessed they are; but still filled with sorrow of knowing how much innocence and precious souls are scared, alone and lost.

Though I never stop trying; I wonder how much more can this world endure and yet still keep trying.

So much loss, hate and even unnecessary violence.   

No I don’t watch the news often at all.   I live in an area that goes from June through November for Hurricane season, so I do try to stay aware.    And God yes, I am beyond grateful it is not my area today dealing with mass flooding and storms.

Though  I know what it is like to lose everything over and over.   I am so grateful for now I don’t have to start again.

I am far from perfect and deserve nothing.  Yet, over time I have been blessed and when I was able to hear Jesus calling, I thankfully heard.

I never want to live of the world and have all the drama and anxiety or constant recovering of wrong choices.  Or worse yet loneliness and chasing love.  Never realizing I never even knew my own value. 

Falling in love with Jesus: well, I will never be the same!

These days as I stand out in the 90 degree weather watching kids or even playing with them on a Wednesday night seeing through the eyes of nothing I could have ever predicted.     Or stepping up on Thursday nights and growing forward with other women to really dive deeper in learning who you are Jesus; and especially who I am.

Holding babies some Sunday’s and earning their trust while they snuggle in just a little closer.   Or even those precious moments of just being present for family.  

Sometimes it is overwhelming; after working long hours and trying to shake off the secular to just have some sort of balance.  All the while wondering how I ever got to be the responsible one.

Not often but even sometimes wondering what will happen to me, when I cannot do it any longer?

Always trying to the best, I can with whatever I get to work with.  However, not necessarily always wearing that smiley don’t worry it’ll be alright mask.

My eyes tell the story of years of life, my face carries my emotions and sometimes folks don’t know how to read me.   My body well, I am not in Kansas anymore and absolutely not jumping up and do that 20 stuff even when my mind tries me.

Those days that I am mentally exhausted and wondering what I could do differently; yet remembering to stay in my emotional lane the day is not over and the last thing we need to do is let anything spill over on precious family members no matter how tired we get.

Although recently I found myself after 22 years saying out loud; it’s not my job and you are robbing me of being a grandparent.    Next time you will need to step up and in.   I can no longer be the buffer getting caught in the middle of unnecessary drama that is not mine to own.

As I think about what I can do next to maintain my blessings, live for whatever days I am given next and not go through struggling of what so many are dealing with.   All the while remembering when you come from nothing, you leave with nothing so what is the issue in-between.

Stability matters: One of the reasons I stepped up years ago knowing I was raised without any.  Losing my grandmother when I was 9 years old, not having a father until pop came into the picture for years and being raised by my big sis pretty much for a period.   Well, it is what it is; until it’s not.

Anyway, thinking out loud is a good and bad habit I have as in some cases you just never know what may be crossing through this mind maze and flowing out.

Beyond grateful for all the life God has allowed me.  All the messes that transformed into messages or the so many lessons each new day allows me to work through in whatever comes my way.

The one thing that I can say out of all of it.  Without the same creator that hangs the moon and stars gives me breath in these lungs and I am nothing without His blessing.

Everything here and now is just on loan.

The times we see it coming, and all the in-between surprises.

Crazy is and is doing in this world we have today.     Love those you are given and truly if they are not what you expect.   Reevaluate why you expect anything at all.

So as the world turns and the daily everything transpires.   Good, bad, and so much unknown especially in an election year.  And NO, I won’t ever talk about our government.  Only that we so need rescue, fresh morally sound new opportunities to maintain the land of the brave, land of the free.  And not just the bullies, throwing dirt at each other.

I know myself so much has changed. The new decade hopefully not but since Covid came to life there has been so much.   People are not the same; not even me.   How I used to love hitting every concert and music event I could possibly see and hear.  Now I have just one I always make sure I attend when they are in the area.

Blessed to work with our worship teams and just the feeling of all the voices praising in one voice.    Nothing compares to the love pouring out.  

I have to believe that He has me right where he wants me.

So as I take a quick break from work, try some new Yakasobi meal kit for lunch.  Which could truly have more flavor; but hey instant is never the real deal.

And if it is, the flavor of life never lasts.

So I will just remember and appreciate my day given and all the currents flowing through this mind map maze for all that I have been blessed with.

I pray deeply for all those suffering, be it out loud or in silence.

Knowing aging is a gift and nothing lasts forever but God’s eternal promise and love.

Healing starts within.  It can never be given by anyone else no matter how they make you feel to numb the pain and chase the demons we all have.

We truly have to ride the wave; holding on tight and thank God for all of it.

Through the pain on the other side, we find our purpose.   Which is to be a light; big or small wherever we are in the storm.

Lord, wake us up and change our hearts and guide our minds, bodies and words to grow forward.

Protect and guide us from ourselves. 

Shine brighter than we can ever possibly imagine.  

Heal this nation. Allowing us to fully grasp wants and needs.   And stop the madness of entitlement or would of, should of could of; but it did not fit my agenda.

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Tuesday July 9^th, 2024

Motivational Reads / Daily Devotions from Biblegateway.com - Daily Verse

  

Ephesians 3:20-21 (MSG) The Message

^20-21 God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.

Glory to God in the church!
Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus!
Glory down all the generations!
Glory through all millennia! Oh, yes!

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Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

Holy Moly!!!!

That is all I can say, every time I think about getting up in the wee hours to write. I talk myself out of it and all my good intentions to just take time and release this crazy mind maze.  Well, as you can see, I have not been out here.   But I have been super busy.   Work- life -unbalance.

Blessed to be employed, especially being back in the day I know what it was like to be raising two children and getting laid off.   Or just living paycheck to paycheck and still never having enough for anything.

In today’s world where we have all become unknowingly greedy and always having to have that trip or that thing from the store.  Be it for ourselves or others.   It all cost.

I have made so many mistakes in my lifetime.  Bad choices that I have lived with and worked myself towards the top of being out.

So, if me once beyond anticipated hobby to wake bright eyed and ready to tap away in the wee hours and still make a full day of work has been paused.   Well, the blessing is here I am today.

Anticipation a great reminder of emotions and the roller coaster ride came to light during a gender reveal party this weekend.   Oh, how we have to know or cannot wait for those temporary insane moments.

If only!

The hunger, excitement.   The Joy I remember in my early walk with Christ how that warmth and all those things with anticipation would fill me over-flowing.   I could not wait to get more, learn more and if I missed a service or study group how I felt like I was starving.

Later I started growing forward learning the differences and feeling the differences in Godly things and worldly choices and things.

Even today.   A continual process.

As time goes on, we don’t ever stop the hunger for what we anticipate, need or desire.  And Prayerfully for all those who struggle with the addictions and demons in their life.  May the same God who rose from the dead, the same God who took all the pain and suffering for all of humanity in this world to have the opportunities of freedom of will and choice even when we make wrong one’s.    To just breathe and call upon Jesus.

And all those things that wake us, derail us or even knock the wind out of us and leave us in a heap on the floor.    Call upon Him and get back up.  

No where is it written we will not suffer.  It is written he is with us and will help us through and no matter what we endure.  It will never come close to what Jesus already took to the cross so we could choose.

What is your Why of every day that is presented for you to choose the various opportunities that could be.

Good, bad or indifferent.  It does not matter.  If he allowed you back up and you have air in your lungs and a voice, or way of communication.  You have a purpose to continue the journey in gratitude for all of it.

It has been tough.   Man, the stories I could talk about all I have seen, heard, been part of either by choices I have made or even just by circumstances and the ripple effect of those I care about.

It is what it is until it is not.

And trust me when I say no one is guaranteed tomorrow.

We just recently lost a 34-year-old mom and her husband in a tragic auto accident, and they left 3 babies behind, one with special needs.    He was a lineman and traveled for work and were driving in Idaho and well tragedy struck.   We have mom with Alzheimer’s starting to kick in.   Who can hardly walk from years of living in fear and never leaving her place to get out and about to do anything.

Yet in the bitter-sweet cycle of life given here I get to celebrate another 22-year-old who will have a baby come Thanksgiving.

What about when the storms come, and we are so consumed in fear and worry trying to control the situation they miss the rainbow or the new growth that occurs when the storm passes.

Everyone is going through something.  Always remember forgiveness is for your own well-being.   So, when those offend you make yourself safe and forgive them and move on.

Living with bitterness, hate or fear.    Ready yourself for what may come to pass but let go and truly let God.    March around your walls of Jericho with faith and prayer when faith dwindles.

If you stop believing you will surely never see the light and miss so much that is intended.

Pray

Pray for everything, to see, to hear, to be!

Pray in thanks, pray in protection of not just you but all you surround yourself with.

Remember Jesus has already won the battle, but our wars are still beginning.   I want the Armor of God running so deep in my veins that through any of the pain, joy tears or laughter.   I know it is only Jesus who will allow all that I am, be and have who will also allow me life beyond measure on the other side.

It is a scary time in our world, for our nation and for so many unexpecting, and innocence.  Our Nation is in turmoil.  Bullies are surrounding us everywhere, just not in middle schools.   And well Government cannot even begin that abyss.

We need to pray for healing, guidance and morally sound, humanity driven leadership.

Cause the bottom-line is we all bleed the same.    WE ALL gonna feel the tidal waves of destruction our greed and materialism, cancel culture has built without even realizing we don’t need a boarder wall.   We need removal of heart blockers and personal selfishness walls.

I mean it starts with you and me.   It starts with parents that are so overwhelmed just trying to make it so they can provide for their family, and they try this or that and get caught up losing their families or they become someone, something families don’t recognize or tire of being around due to the emotional roller coasters they are on.

Unfortunately, we cannot take it back once we have been caught up or say something.   We can only pray for or give forgiveness and grow past it.  Whatever IT is.

We all got IT, do IT.    Sometimes we don’t even know what IT is when we are traveling at the speed of light trying to get IT or do IT all!

There does not need to be an excuse, we just need to know how to give it all to Jesus to take back to the foot of the cross and heal, love and find our true compass in obedience and live with purpose for eternity and stop steam rolling over anyone in our way for five minutes of temporal delusions.

I pray you find your purpose, your peace, your why!

I pray you love in all things filled with Jesus!

I pray for healing, reconciliation, and true light filling the depths of your soul.  That which only God can do.

I pray the heat within your heart and the desires of the soul are eternal.  

I pray you have a really good plan if you think you got this life on your own. And you can stay humble and caring.

No doubt there are a ton of people in this universe doing bad things lost and seem to be blessed all the while really good people are suffering.   Well dare to be the light to shine in the darkness and give those good people suffering hope.

All it takes is truth and kindness.   Be it, Live it.    Get back up, brush off, say thank you and know we got a Big God!

 

 

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Friday May 24^th, 2024

Motivational Reads / Daily Devotions from Biblegateway.com - Daily Verse

  

 Romans 12:10  MSG  The Message

^9-10 Love from the center of who you are; don’t fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good. Be good friends who love deeply; practice playing second fiddle.

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Tuesday May 28^th, 2024

Motivational Reads / Daily Devotions from Biblegateway.com - Daily Verse

  

 Romans 12:15  MSG  The Message

^14-16 Bless your enemies; no cursing under your breath. Laugh with your happy friends when they’re happy; share tears when they’re down. Get along with each other; don’t be stuck-up. Make friends with nobodies; don’t be the great somebody.

 

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Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

Well, I thought I was not going to have distractions and when I did I would get back to it.  Here we are, just like that 5 days later and I am finally taking a moment to allow this mind maze to tap out.

It still is what it is until it is not.   And I am trying very hard not to just tap out all that is going on in this life.    We all have stuff, and we all have demons in our closets.

You can fake it or deny it but just face it and know our humanistic imperfections are exactly what will allow you and I to build that deep bond with Jesus Christ who is just waiting for us to answer His call.

 

Sure, some of those imperfections will be sin and sure some of those sins will be so great a ripple effect that people, places, and things will be changed forever.   But are you truly trying to live in the shadows or are you just struggling and looking for the light to do and say the right thing?

We all have our moments; love people for who they are and not what they do or cannot do.  Love them for their souls and when their soul is so dark just give it all back to Jesus.

There is a God though you cannot see Him.  You, me; all of us have air in our lungs that we cannot see just as the wind that blows and we only know by feeling the breeze on our skin on those hot days or cold winters.   We cannot see it, but we are allowed to know by trees, and things that move around us.

We too know that God is alive in the souls of many through the spirit of Jesus Christ by the good and sacrificial selfless acts of kindness that so many give without expectations.   Just as we know Satan is alive by the darkness, we are challenged with in so many others.

 

We all get to choose, not only what our next actions and words will be of what we start.  But also, that of how we will react to all that others hook us into.   It is hard to sometimes to even get out of bed day after day when life we call tragedy strikes, and we seem to get knocked off our feet day after day.   That mentality of it does not matter what I say or do because nothing ever goes right.

I took today off from work as an extended long weekend from the holiday.  Blessed to be able to do so.   Not having any real plans; just that I did not know how I would feel when the heaviness of my sibling’s death has reached one full year today.

Knowing there is no more suffering but more so knowing where I will be or what I will be doing in whatever days  am  I may be blessed to have left.   What is the why behind anything I do?

Physically, Mentally, Spiritually~

It has truly been a wild ride this century so far.

Learning about loss, learning about how we can get caught up in what we think is love and appreciation but really a lesson in making something or someone an idol.

  Looking for the good for and with people and places and things allows so many doors of good, bad, and indifferent opportunities to swing wide open.   And once they do how easily we learn reality.

Unexpected loss.  Well, none of us are promised tomorrow. Some souls are  robbed from this earth in our human perspectives way too soon leaving us behind with unfinished feelings or things to say.   While others suffering in the hands of darkness only hope and pray, they themselves will end if the darkness cannot be lit up.

It is a wonder our universe is so unbalanced at times and people think they can actually change what God designed.    So much chatter and static noise and never enough time with the father.

We all believe in something that is a fact that can never be changed. 

We all must own our boundaries and own the responsibilities of what we are given.

Unlike a kid that wants everything but does not want to step up and in to earn it to the soul that just cannot do enough because they think they cannot survive if they don’t.

We, You, I all of us must truly own our choices of what we will do and how we will react.

Just because others label us and think they know our own destiny better than we do ourselves.  It is between our soul and God and the only way to get to him is through Jesus Christ.

We all have stories; call them what you will.

Every single one of us that are allowed 24 hours in any day have 24 hours of opportunities to be a light somewhere for someone when we cannot find it for our own needs.

As much as I wish I should of, would of and absolutely could of moments in my own life then and now.   Sometimes we just need to be still and let our spirits seek the goodness of all that is even though human nature does not want to get past all the hurdles, hills, and valleys of not really knowing why or when.

Do your best to always find the good in every moment you are given.   Holding on to all that is good.

It’s a hard task on any given day to do that.   There is not a day that goes by when it seems we have to prove ourselves or justify we are qualified in some area in our lives.  Then when we actually make our own little mistakes that add to the layers.  Well, I know even at this stage it rides under my skin and sometimes gets the best of me.

I dislike, sometimes even hate the fact, especially in the area of service.  Serving the church for many years I still struggle when to hold on and when to let go when service becomes a competition in God’s house as this huge production.

And even long before falling in love with Jesus how I would be the first to jump up against bullying or just mean people in general.

And what about those valuable lessons in this journey when I had to stand up and find myself and then own the truth.    Ain’t no one ever gonna love me like Jesus.

Leaving me beyond grateful for allowing me to stop chasing what was meant for him to teach me first.

Hard to explain, harder to show the peace that fills all the voids in all the beautiful broken pieces through this atmosphere.    Still in love with all he has given and all those souls that have helped me beyond the mountain tops and far deeper than the abyss.    With so much more to learn and love.

Forever learning, growing with and for Him!

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Saturday April 20, 2024

Motivational Reads / Daily Devotions from Biblegateway.com - Daily Verse

  

  1 Corinthians 15:55-57 MSG  The Message

^51-57 But let me tell you something wonderful, a mystery I’ll probably never fully understand. We’re not all going to die—but we are all going to be changed. You hear a blast to end all blasts from a trumpet, and in the time that you look up and blink your eyes—it’s over. On signal from that trumpet from heaven, the dead will be up and out of their graves, beyond the reach of death, never to die again. At the same moment and in the same way, we’ll all be changed. In the resurrection scheme of things, this has to happen everything perishable taken off the shelves and replaced by the imperishable, this mortal replaced by the immortal. Then the saying will come true:

Death swallowed by triumphant Life!
Who got the last word, oh, Death?
Oh, Death, who’s afraid of you now?

It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power. But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three—sin, guilt, death—are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God!

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Thinking Out Loud – Journal Thoughts/Prayers / Mind Maze Overflow

I used to think I had to always be busy, always getting things done and always making sure I responded, stepped up, or was just present no matter what the cause or moment had in store.   And for the most part that was true.  But as I learned over the years, being present to one-self, being present fully aligned spiritually truly is what matters most.

There is no greater feeling than gifting those who really need and appreciate it.  Nor spiritually leading one into the arms of Jesus.   

But what I have found this past year or so when those who have always been a huge part of my spirit have been taken.  Be it darkness prevailed, and they really should have never been, or their time has come.    Each and every one of us have our own demons in our closets and each and every one of us are battling something.  

Not just those who openly, and emotionally release and are deemed struggling with disorders or depression or anything that can have a label on it.    But even Jesus a time or few had to put Satan back in his place when the temptations and misfortune came his way during his deeper desire to grow forward and know who and what God truly wanted for him.

Oh, I can be my own worse critic and if I am not careful it spills out of me, and I start seeing others’ faults or broken pieces.

Not for nothing, I still find it hard to separate those who truly have nothing living in the slums and just need love from those who purposely have it all and continue to take unnecessarily acting like they are meek and needy.      I guess over time in this journey I have been blessed, I put my faith too much in humans, when it should have always been face down with Jesus.

Thus, beating the crap out of my own self when I faltered and fell believing in the wrong things or helping the wrong people.

But its not about me, even though April and May are changed forever as I cannot help but think about this will be the first year myself and two siblings will not come together for the annual celebrations of birthdays, catching up and just loving on who we were and where we are today.    Losing my big brother a month after his birthday last year has left an impact.   

I am not sure if you can relate in bonds that even if you only get to come together once a year its like you have never left.  

What an appropriate time to be reminded that death comes to us all.  Not one but two of my co-workers lost their parents this past week.   And not one but two shining stars that shined brightly working for God’s kingdom were called home this week.

Trying to make light of the losses that are truly the cycle of this heavenly and earthly realm my mind shoots back to that old Goldie Hawn comedy Death becomes her.

Funny movie but not funny reality.     Every second we are allowed back up someone else is not going to speak or see their beloved family, friends, pets or have another opportunity to just fight forward and share the gospel of all that is and can be good.

As I struggle with my own inner being at times knowing even where I step up and step in is changing as the time I am given and especially where I thrived spiritually is changing at the control of other generations and let’s be truthful, others own agenda’s.

Maybe for the better, maybe for just a time to be still or maybe the time of new callings.

No matter what comes my way; I so have to dive deeper into what Jesus needs from and for me.

We all do right!

I have been beyond blessed over time despite the many hurdles or even true face planting because of others, because of choices, or just because of going a million miles an hour trying to get it done and suddenly out of know where you are just lying on the ground being still for a moment to see if any pain will let you know you really messed up.

Yeah, without a doubt last week, running to the mailbox in-between meetings spin around going to rush back in and next thing I know I am on the ground hoping nothing is broken.

What happened?

Happened so quickly I think I just wiped out not paying attention to the sand by the mailbox and well I have never been graceful.     Thus, one of the many reasons I am not really allowed up on ladders any longer or for that matter my house has not been repainted since 2019/2020.

Beyond thankful, truly only my pride was shattered as someone was driving by. 

But the school of hard knocks knowing when I take on a recent study book with our Creative Arts / Worship team “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry ~by John Mark Comer” Trust me, I think it was written for me less the working for a church or being credentialed or an educated theologian.

Then I think how the month of June schedules to serve came out and although I have over time shifted from serving the church pretty much all week long to all weekends long to Wednesdays, Thursday, and Sundays.   I actually have the entire month of Sundays off come June.   Serving is no big deal but in context thinking about all we try to cram into one day with a full-time job, full time responsibilities of still having family at home being the sole provider, with fur babies, day-to-day and spending my Saturdays and weekends I am not serving with my elderly mama.    Well at first of course I felt like well that suck.  But then I think about all the things I never really get done like help organize the mess in my garage that belongs to others in my dwelling.  Why not because I am a control freak.   Because clutter brings the wrong things in.  And trust me I don’t want anything extra.

Not to mention also how nice it would be to get going on my yard this year even though I am behind the timeline.

There is a time and place for everything.  Even in how we respond to choices that change our normal.   Hopefully, none of us spend too much time chasing the why’s!

Prayerfully and knowingly, I am a child of the most-high God, faithfully and deeply in love with Jesus.    For all he has done so I could live.   For all that is written even if I was not there to see it for myself.     I want to be like Him; to be able to give without question, to see past all that is deep into the souls of what humanity was created for.

Breaking and hurting for all the hate in this world and the suffering and tragedy of innocence.

As I am reminded when those who I am blessed with and by just being in their presence.  I can only hope I leave that effect on those I am given in this journey to connect.

This imperfect speck of a human perfectly placed right where God says I need to be.  Knowing that it all matters. 

Each and every one of us created the reminder and image of Christ almighty.

You don’t believe me watch the Loui Giglio conference where he talks on Laminin.

I pray not only for all suffering, all our brothers and sisters in this universe going through it.  Thanks for all the blessings we share and hope for all the unknown that no matter what we remember how much we are loved and how deeply our love counts for others even when they are gone. 

Thank you, Jesus, for all those beautiful souls talented and gifted that feed my own soul.  Be with us and if we have to face plant to hear you speaking.  May we know you are there to help us back up.

Loving the unlovable and feeding the lost and lonely may you Jesus in spirit and in truth shine brighter than ever before.

And for all the broken missing pieces that are leaving such an impact on this world Jesus.     May we all see just what you see in beauty and hope never losing sight of you.  A love beyond all space and time; you are my sweet soul, King!

Guide me on this day of up and running!

 

 

Thought Movers, Touching to the Soul coming from YouTube.com / Facebook, Local Worship, or other public venues.

 

 Louie Giglio - Laminin

 

Mandisa ft. TobyMac, Kirk Franklin - Bleed The Same (Official Lyric Video)

TobyMac - The Elements (Audio)

Brooke Ligertwood - Honey in the Rock (Lyrics)

  Cade Thompson - Arms of Jesus (Official Lyric Video)

Terrian - Shorts