I promise this time will be different!![]()
I have fallen, tripped and had the wounds to prove it more than once. This time, it will be different. ![]()
I am taking every part of the fall, before the fall, the wounds, the pain, the lessons and adding them all up. I want a different result this time and so there has to be an armor change.
There is alot of time that goes into putting on an event, but it's not the work it's the emotions that run alongside you as you plan. It is how you dig into hope and pour out your dreams for others to see...
As I took communion this morning with the simple elements of crackers and juice I thought about my faith walk and my journey to Christ. I thought about the idea of broken for better and I was struck with such imagery in those moments as a put the cracker to my lips and heard it breaking nto pieces for my benefit. Broken for me to be better.![]()
As I drank of the bitter juice I was reminded of the blood that was shed for me and gave me access to royalty.![]()
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Sometime ago over the course of my life I envisioned my blood to be a blue stream running through my body, healing flowing through it. In those days I thought it was a healing for me. I believed this so much that the first time I had blood drawn and saw red I was for a moment, dazed. (I won't go in to the science of this moment for several reasons but your welcome to study what I didn't know at that age about blood).![]()
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But today, I want you to know all of this came to light ✨️ today all these broken pieces, all this scattered insight, thoughts, trouble... were for me to better. For me to fall so in love with Jesus. For me to want more, trust more, hope more and for me to have double for my trouble.
Here I am behind again, atleast according to my scheduled plan to do a 52 week study. I have lost two weeks. That is until I opened the book and starting listening todaynand realized I had to go through everything I have been feeling, every moment of hurt, frustration, realization and more that I have felt the last two weeks. So much so that a year long wait of coffee time with a friend finally happened and of course words were exchanged. Words unexpected that poured love on my weary heart and soul. Words that were wrapped up and sealed in prayer. Words that filled my tank and reminded me when I fall, hurt, struggle, love, teach, share, give, take... God keeps me.![]()
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" "I will take hold of your hand" Isaiah 40-44
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Let's have a real raw moment! Although, I think all my moments are opportunities to be real in my good and bad.![]()
So, let me start with a question, is it better to be appreciated amongst your peers or recognized amongst your leaders?![]()
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My answer.. well I had this big speech planned on it depends on your story; what your looking for in life, but then...![]()
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Taking a moment in my funk this morning, I put my ear buds deep in my ear and started my morning in worship. Like a shower, I needed to rinse the funk that had settled on me the last two days. "I will be content in every circumstance... " How much more... how much more.. I had to hear the words over and over until the perfume of them enveloped me and I walked with my head held high. I had to go back to my true why and who works in me and through me. So my answer is really neither the peers or the leaders. Neither hold my future.
Love those Sunday mornings when the objective is to just get to church never knowing why until you get there and it's the refreshing anointing that wraps around you and all the issues of yesterday become simple little things that if you trust the process, God got you.![]()
Let my faith be stronger,![]()
Let my light be the you in me,![]()
Let me rise above... slow to anger,![]()
Let me stand on the Rock and be the change. Let me be better and not bitter.![]()
Let my heart be a reflection of you and my words be the catalyst that help build and unite an uprising of love that can only be a result of the You in me❤️.