Tuesday December 24thth 2024-PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe (AlwaysMeKelly)

 

 

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Tuesday, December 24^th, 2024

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

 

Luke 2:16-20 MSG (The Message Bible)

^15-18 As the angel choir withdrew into heaven, the shepherds talked it over. “Let’s get over to Bethlehem as fast as we can and see for ourselves what God has revealed to us.” They left, running, and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger. Seeing was believing. They told everyone they met what the angels had said about this child. All who heard the shepherds were impressed.

^19-20 Mary kept all these things to herself, holding them dear, deep within herself. The shepherds returned and let loose, glorifying and praising God for everything they had heard and seen. It turned out exactly the way they’d been told!

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Advent: A 25-Day Countdown to Christmas

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

Merry blessed Christmas Eve!

 

Though every single one of us are going through something right where we are.   Be it directly or through loss, family, friends or just about love we cannot give, or love we  think we lost.  Please know that Jesus is the reason for the season and no matter what you are more than anything or anyone could ever give or take away.

 

If you are not seeing the light up ahead; be one shining brightly and invite Jesus Christ to walk with you and let him, just be in your heart and grow in the depths of your soul.

 

He is and always will be there with you if you let him in.  We Are Messengers - God You Are (feat. Josh Baldwin) [Official Lyric Video]

I am no theologian, trust me on that even if I wanted to be.   After going through the school of hard knocks and beating my head against the proverbial brick wall one day I just got it.  Though my memory is not what it once was and that bothers me.   I could look at something once and put my hands on and I had it in that steel trap bringing back results needed for any situation.     Blessed beyond survival in so many arenas and more than grateful that my reckless abandoned youth left even one brain cell to regenerate and finally get where the air in my lungs comes from.

 

Somehow, somewhere the days filled with fighting to just live and care for what was given; that which I would never let anything ever take and picking myself back up off the floor time and time again.    Knowing it was you Jesus that actually lifted me and allowed me to brush off and keep faith focused forward for who I was already in you and never for what the world said we are supposed to be.    Justin Bieber - Purpose (Lyrics)

 

So, as I sit here drinking my second cup of coffee this Christmas eve morning; reaching in the depths and trying to just be still.    We all know I am that morning person that needs no caffeine.   I can get up and clean the whole house before sitting down at my office to enjoy a cup and read through the day’s alignments.    Here today I am reading within.   Reminiscing on these years passing and though still blessed another day here in 2024 as the year is slipping out the door.

 

The tears that fall knowing this is the first Christmas without you, my brother.  Knowing you are forever with me and all the memories I have been given being your little sister that drove you crazy.  Following you everywhere, tormenting, teasing, causing trouble and absolutely adoring all you were.    I am grateful you are at peace and praying you have reunited with your love.

 

Two years since you left pop, as I watch the changes in girls.  In fact, just talking with my number 1 a couple days ago and how you would be on the phone right about now telling her no swimming for her because its cold up there.     I pray you are at peace and there will never be enough thanks for all who you sacrificed for so they can continue on.

 

My crazy friend Sharron it has been, what 7 years.   Forgive me that I have not been out to visit Allen.     Life for me is never still or boring.  

 

All those fur babies that we become so attached to.  And you blessed aunt that left this year the day after Thanksgiving.   I thank God you are not suffering any longer.

 

Yes, it is no secret death is inevitable, and we never know when our number will be up.  Which is so much more reason to get your soul right with the maker.

 

What a greater peace there is even in the storms, or the crashing waves that will come upon us.        Casting Crowns - Oh My Soul (Official Lyric Video)

 

I am blessed another day, alive and moving, a roof over my head, people who I am able to love and who love me.   Food in the refrigerator and memories of a youth when there was none.     Lessons in life that have allowed me to know; it is not about me. 

 

Psalm 23:4  International Children’s Bible

⁴ Even if I walk through a very dark valley,
I will not be afraid because you are with me.
Your rod and your shepherd’s staff comfort me.

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Casting Crowns - God of All My Days (Official Lyric Video)

Father in heaven and creator of all that was, is and will be.  Thank you for the relationships you have blessed me with.   Growth from the good, bad and indifferent.   Allowing me back up when like many I just want to stay under that blanket and never deal with one more thing.    On those days Jesus, when my soul smiles and others when it cries for the world, we are in and the inability to understand me as this little speck among the many just need to breathe in and with you.

 

For all the innocence lost, and all the opportunities to help others find you long before the world consumes the beauty you have given.   God of the Poor (from the album Shine) Lyric Video - Graham Kendrick

 

 

Lord, you are the reason for the season.   No matter those who will never understand it.  Ben Fuller - If I Got Jesus (Lyric Video)

No where do I ever want to go back; though humanity at times was me to line up every lost soul that has done me wrong or I have done wrong to and make amends.  But fortunately, I am blessed to know and always have some insight for there is a time and place for everything, and though I may never see the reasons for any of it.    God has given us the freedom of will and choice.   We get to sell ourselves out to darkness or fight as hard as we can each day allowed back up to run to the light, if not be that little flicker of hope along the way. No matter what we choose, may we pause long enough to pray it forward, to the creator of this universe.   Jordan St. Cyr - Fires

 

  There will come a day when we won’t get back up and our souls will drift through eternity. I would rather live all this time with peace, love and chasing the harmonies.  Rather than eternity consuming me in the darkness.  Yeah, the world can be the living hell right where we are, but it is not about the circumstances; it is about what we do with it on the other side.     Do your best to ride that wave for all that is good, all that is pure in morality, hope and light.    Find God’s Compass in your soul.     We all need truth and that little church TobyMac - a lil Church (Lyric Video)

Merry Christmas to you all!   Prayers for a healing, blessed fulfilled 2025. 

 

As the hardest thing in this life is knowing who is really in control and stop playing that spiritual tug of war and let Jesus lead.

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TobyMac - Christmas hits Different (feat. Tasha Layton) Lyrics

Ryan Stevenson – Home For Christmas (Official Lyric Video)

Non-stop Christmas Worship Music with Snowy Winter Backdrop - Vineyard Worship

Tuesday-December 10th, 2024-PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe (AlwaysMeKelly)

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Tuesday, December 10^th, 2024

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

 

Deuteronomy 18:15 MSG (The Message Bible)

Deuteronomy 18:15-16

The Message

^15-16 God, your God, is going to raise up a prophet for you. God will raise him up from among your kinsmen, a prophet like me. Listen obediently to him. This is what you asked God, your God, for at Horeb on the day you were all gathered at the mountain and said, “We can’t hear any more from God, our God; we can’t stand seeing any more fire. We’ll die!”

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 Advent: A 25-Day Countdown to Christmas

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

Yes, it has been some time since I have just gotten up with all those wide-eyed thoughts running through my head in the middle of the night or wee hours of the morning and jotted down what is going on in my life.    Purposely PAUSED.

I can use the excuse there is so much going on around me and in my dwelling that I let others dwell with me.    I could say man the job I took a few years back after I stepped out and helped some and got scammed and truly set myself up.    Takes all my time.

 

I could say there has been more negative than positive, or I could say choices matter and the one’s I have made this year has truly allowed me to pause, think and just listen while looking around at everything there is on my journey.

I have been hobby writing since a little girl.   Even back then remembering my very first experience where a so-called friend read some of my writings and decided to in the middle of a group read them out loud and pretty much crush my trust at the time.

I can say let downs from a very early age of crying as my mother walking out the door and me wanting to go and she just closed the door behind her to the heartbreaking loss of family, friends and loved one’s that you just don’t know if you will truly see the on the other side or not.

I know where I have been, I know where I am going.   I believe in great depth of Jesus Christ and all that is written, all that was and all that is to be.

My beliefs will never make me more or less than anyone else in this world.

But my relationship in Christ, with Christ will absolutely always fill me with the peace and hope that nothing else in this world can.

Common sense and a conscience will always continue to guide my path if I choose to let it.      But even back when I could hear the voice of reason and chose to belief in those unseen for a time and place as that.    Well, it is what it is until it is not.

I do know that my kindness no matter how it was received, used or taken.   Those will always remember their losses if I had to let go and let them make their own way.

Riddles no doubt,   There is, There was, There could be, but none of it mattered without the grasp of Jesus holding the broken pieces together to allow the beauty on the other side for all involved.

Love people for who they are!   Seriously is the hardest thing we will ever learn to do.  We cannot change them be it family, friends or foe.    Only God and their being can.

The best thing I have learned over time is just keep praying for them, always.

There will be so many times in your lifetime that you just cannot figure it out; but do not give up or give in.   Keep pressing forward even if you are left being the flicker of light for the path of hope until you get to the other side.   God is with  you.  When we cannot see it, or feel him or hear anything from him through the beauty of silence, nature, or even that beautiful kaleidoscope tunnel we sometimes get lost in.    He is there just hold on.  Get back up, brush off and keep on keeping on!     Be it dealing with life by taking and painting 1525 square foot house by hand with a brush every weekend for almost 6 months until it was done or rearranging to just feel some sort of comfort all the while you should be in the good book and seeking answers from the Father, spirit and Holy Ghost and not your friends or some quick get fixed scheme.    Perfection takes time!   

Don’t rush it and just keep paying through it all!

Prayers and Wishes for all you are created to be through Jesus Christ.   Healing, and the promise in and of Jesus is all you need because no where are we guaranteed any tomorrows.     Live, Love and always laugh for all that is good, all that is pure, all that is truth!    Even if it hurts…

Trust me as I remember who went first in this family.  Uncle Tom, Uncle Denny, Pops, Big Brother, fur friends even this year at Thanksgiving Aunt Nicki, fur baby poppy.     Suffering no more crossing that rainbow bridge for those left behind so bittersweet.   Watching some grow forward and so happy for them while others are taking their slow self-destructive path to death and you cannot do anything for them.

Treading the ocean’s flow of life will be dependent on the direction you choose.  You can quit and be a statistic of this broken world or just keep fighting forward with hopes of all the best.    I choose Jesus and to never give in, never give up.   No matter what that looks or sounds like.

 

My prayer for everyone I cross paths with spiritually or in the present.   God’s love, strength and guidance lead you to the other side of abundance and you always remember to be thankful for even the ability to get back up.

 

Much, Love, peace, kindness and comfort for all your days left ahead.

And a heartful soul hug of thanks for all who keep lighting the way for me along the way through relationships, music, lessons, or just being who you are!

 

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

Welcome to New Life! Spend your weekend with us! December 7th & 8th Promise Kept

 

Annie Lennox - Walking On Broken Glass (HD/Lyrics)

Sidewalk Prophets - Unbelievable feat. Ben Fuller (Official Lyric Video)

TobyMac - Christmas hits Different (feat. Tasha Layton) Lyrics

Ryan Stevenson – Home For Christmas (Official Lyric Video)

Tenth Avenue North - Invited (Official Music Video)

TobyMac - a lil Church (Lyric Video)

Wednesday-October 16th, 2024-PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe (AlwaysMeKelly)

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

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

 

Psalm 19:14 (International Children’s Bible)

I hope my words and thoughts please you. Lord, you are my Rock, the one who saves me.

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

Man, what a season this has been.   Hurricane Helena, Hurricane Milton.   And not just the destruction and devastation to Florida or Southeast coast but Ashville NC and so many other tragic unexpected changes to this world we are given.

So grateful I am continually reminded to Keep our eyes on Jesus Priscilla Shirer: Keep Your Eyes Fixed on Jesus

I woke up this morning thinking about one of my beautiful cousins back up north.   Going through aggressive chemo and radiation for breast cancer.   This young beautiful mother of five young boys, wife, aunt, sister.      Suffering does not pick favorites.  When it is our time, it is our time.   Be it massive floods, storms, mud slides, cancer or any other illness.

I woke deep in thought this morning wondering how we can cure cancer,  not just that which attacks the body but that which destroys our spirit.   That darkness which robs those beautiful souls of the pure and depth of love only Jesus can give.

It is more than obedience showing up any given day or every day we are given to just breathe.    It is more than tithing and offering whatever we have.

It is the depths of love and faith in all that is unseen and keeping that personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God the Father.

I am not a theologian.  Never have been, never will be.   The depths of all that is in my soul.  From the spiritual seconds of my sweet soul king with my sweet soul king to those messes that I have been able to experience and learn something from.

As a parent, grandparent, aunt, sister, daughter.  I can tell you there is no pain in this living material world that will come that ever comes close to what Jesus Christ went through so we could have life.

And I know I personally have been through things I am left to talk about or write about that no one should have ever seen or been part of and lived to watch what others go through.   To me the most heart-breaking thing is watching those you love feeling hopeless and so alone.

I wonder because I don’t know if my cousin has a relationship with Jesus.   I moved away a long time ago to go do  life for whatever came my way.

I think about another Aunt who has been a faithful follower of Jesus all my life now home in hospice who has suffered beyond anything I wish I knew about.    And wonder the same things many do.     How can bad things happen to good people?

The messages of God are in everything of every day we are given.   Every day we are allowed back up, we are granted so many opportunities within those seconds we are here.     And just like the wind we cannot see but we can see the trees blowing or the destruction of those storms.   Jesus is with us, for us, waiting and wanting us to just start that conversation and build that relationship with him for who He is.    Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

I cannot truly explain the peace and love that Jesus fills us with.  You have to experience this yourself.   But I can tell you once you dive in the deep and daily lean into all of His word no matter what is happening.     When you can go to sleep in a wood framed home with a category 3 hurricane blowing things all around you outside and know no matter what.  You know God is with you.   It leaves you with some truth.   That sure I could have planned to catch a flight out of state, or pack up four animals, four relatives and went out got stuck in hours of traffic to find that safe space.   While risking other potential storms.

Was there a feeling of angst, absolutely.   In every day be it the tormented relationships between family members, storms that we have no control over or even things that happen in your neighborhoods.

Or even me being that, Martha.  Always needing to be busy and being locked down for 2.5 weeks caring for my aging mother as family went to check on their property who she cannot get around, so we just sat in the house doing life.   Emotions, Whew!  

All I could do is wonder, what is it that God wants me to know, to recognize, to share.

That which I will always be the first to say, although I never planned on being single and given so much independence and strength for each day given.    But now I have never been alone, nor will I ever be able to live this life alone.   Without Jesus Christ in my soul, I am nothing, have nothing, and when you have lived that life of nothingness, and find your way to be first you must be last.   You realize what life really means.

I don’t know the outcome of my cousin.  I do Father God lift Tonya up for healing and ask for peace and comfort of her family no matter what the outcome.

I don’t know how much longer my Aunt Nicki will suffer, but I pray God’s will to cover her with all that is needed to make it back home to him.

I don’t know what my own personal family trials will turn out like but more than ever I pray for peace and direction and for them to see the salvation they are given each day, and they turn 110% to Jesus.

None of us are promised tomorrow.   So, no matter what the loss is, no matter what the storm is, no matter what the mudslide takes.   May we always have the courage to call on his mighty name.     Jesus thank you for all the yesterdays any tomorrows I may be given.   Guide, protect and lead me where you say I am supposed to be.   Amen.

 

 

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

New Life Christian Church -Spring Hill  -The Beatitudes (October 12th-13th)

Caleb & John - Somebody Like Me ft. CAIN (Official Lyric Video)

Let It Begin (Lyrics) | Big Daddy Weave

TobyMac - Nothin’ Sweeter vs. The Goodness (MashUp) | Lyric Video

CeCe Winans - That's My King (with lyrics)(2024)

Just As You Are - Ryan Stevenson | Lyric Video

Andrew Ripp - Loves Got A Way (Official Lyric Video)

Thursday-September 19-2024-PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe (AlwaysMeKelly)

 

 

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Thursday, September 19, 2024

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

  Ephesians 4:29 - ICB

²⁹ When you talk, do not say harmful things. But say what people need—words that will help others become stronger. Then what you say will help those who listen to you.

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Ephesians 4:29 in all English translations

 

Allot of desert these days in this crazy world we live.   

Welcome to New Life! Spend your weekend with us! September 14th & 15th

 

You can catch all the series of previous weeks on YouTube and join the live stream this weekend coming for what is next.

 

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

 

We The Kingdom - Child of Love (feat. Maverick City Music) (Live Album Release Concert)

Terrian - Honestly, We Just Need Jesus (Official Music Video)

TobyMac - Nothin’ Sweeter (Official Lyric Video)

Made For More - Josh Baldwin, feat. Jenn Johnson

Ryan Stevenson - Just As You Are (Official Lyric Video)

Whom Shall I Fear [The God of Angel Armies] By Chris Tomlin with Lyrics

 

 

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

Just as you are building that bond and love with Jesus and diving deeper in there will be so many times when things become so raw you will want to run the other way.  Satan has  a way of making us doubt, stress, even harm us making us so weary we think all we have is to give up, give in, quit and either lay down and die or become like that what we ran from to find Jesus in the first place.

 

So many I see suffering even right under my own roof and the worst part is I am tired, and I cannot fix any of them.  Hell, I cannot even heal my own self sometimes

The one thing you clearly see as you get older is right through all the BS many try to feed you.   Yet, depending on who, what, when you tend to just keep praying and hope those you care about will truly be saved by Christ Jesus before too much harm comes to them or others.

 

Sometimes the only way they are saved by His Grace is when Christ Jesus takes them home and stops tolerating the worldly games.   Leaving those left behind toiling in the bittersweet memories of what went wrong or that would, should of could of.   Then we are spiritually slapped back into reality with the reminders we all own our own choices and what we do with those choices made by others that we cannot control or even when we get caught up or are the ones making purposeful bad choices for what we think is our own personal gains.

Nothing in this world without Jesus Christ will ever be enough.    Not the hair, not the clothes, not the cars, or the collections or even the darkness some spawn out on innocence.

 

And if we have Jesus we would never be doing or tolerating evil.

No one deserves anything.  Not me, not you.   Just because we are good people does not mean we deserve anything. We all Need Jesus.

 

No matter what, there is nothing sweeter than HIS pure agape love which is the glue that fills all the voids with so much peace.

No amount of working around the clock

No drinks, No sex, drugs rock and roll will make it all go away. 

 

In fact, what you are running from is that brick wall you crash head on into once you come down

It is and has been a minute since I last wrote.  Just overly consumed with day to day and doing.

Yet the rains come, and the storms man.   I pay someone to really pressure wash the property clean it up and the very same weekend it storms so badly part of the property floods for the first time filling the pool with dirt and dirty water.   All the while the back building has roof issues.

What is that song? Isn’t it Ironic

Thankfully its just not that important.  Does it matter heck yeah.  But then it really does not all the while I am trying to grasp on to the good moments with my kid, and grand kids.  With my elderly mom or even get five minutes with my sister all the while neither of us ever got a chance to have a proper goodbye with our only brother.

What about the excitement of a great grand coming and then mamma got so sick she lost her job and is struggling.    It is what it is until it’s not!

Or that one sister struggling not to be homeless because work is not carrying her, yet they hold her license and she feels trapped and knows not what to do.

If only right!

If only I could go get that massage for my problematic neck without needing chiropractic care or even surgery.

If only I had my own personal gardener so I could enjoy all the blessings of His beauty, being I am always too busy working or going to do!

I was called by name; born in you back to life again Jesus!   Made for so much more through all the storms, tears or even moments of spinning.

As I get to take this next three weeks sabbatical to get the moments with mom.   Reveal to me who you want me to be.

Remove all the stumbling awkward steppingstones that ever keep me from fully looking up to what you need me to see.

Man, Jesus, I have had it all and lost it all ten-fold, yet you get me back up and allow me to see your beauty.

Now show me how I can help them to get back up and hold you tighter than anything ever could be imagined.

I think about all I have gained; all I have lost and there is nothing better than you Jesus!

Not sure if those I truly love will ever get that without finding it and feeling you for themselves.

Father God, if this is all there is, and my tomorrows were today.   Thank you for all of it!

Love them all Jesus and let them know you are even for a minute in time.  Make them know your love.  Every last connection you have ever allowed me.

The good, the bad and all the in-betweens.   Just like the wind that blows the trees; your love your breath is what has allowed me to breathe.

 

Thank you

May all the babies coming to meet you not lose hope when that raw truth shows all that should be.  Give them strength and guide them with all your army angels!

 

Monday-August-12-2024-PrayersThoughts_PiecesofMe (AlwaysMeKelly)

 

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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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