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The Hope Within (poem)- 6/27/21
To think of when
I used to run
though miracles in life
had shown right to
me and like Jo-
nah I took off with strife.
As I “grew up”
yet looked behind
it hadn’t mattered much
what I was saved
from was amazed
but comfortability such
Yet I held to
the church though my
heart was in comforting sin
But with His people
In the steeple
Were ones yet redeemed, lived in.
To have the hope
that none might know
if all ones think is self
As soon as souls
seek the love they’ll know
that love finds your hearts, helps.
So to help ones see
That behind walls seek
That hope is not walls, win.
But to find this kind
of hope remind
that it’s not decor
it’s within.
Updates/Notes?
I have been planning for a little while some stuff for an anniversary for the site. It will be a big milestone!
I don’t know whether I should do these soon or more like November (in my original notes here it says should I do it December or spread them through January, February, and March?)
They will be reviews and stuff. Here are hints of what may be coming (as in I hope and remember to, haha!):
“Vertical Horizon” and other ones I used to listen to growing up (Alanis Morissette) that had albums I only had and still have on cassette (I do not own a player for that anymore).
In my adult life there is one Christian CD that actually disappoints me. . . I might review that one as well. . .
These posts are referring to past articles. Think way back in the beginning (In fact you can find these yourself if you like to see old blog articles from the past). Also enjoy the notes below. I will give you guys some “behind the scenes” stuff this time…! 😀
IDEAS: Cover in review the CD by Vertical H. that I have and buy a different album from them! Buy Alanis’s classic Jagged Little Pill album and review it! Maybe review one I like but is too controlled the self-produced Under Rug Swept.
Then cover the MercyMe CD. Also maybe cover something else, I don’t know…
Ooh idea for MercyMe. Review the movie I Can Only Imagine!
Hope Anew…!
How are you doing, friend. There are going to be some big changes coming, not yet on this blog, but ones where I have to do extra preparations in order for that to happen!
Anyway I don’t like to advertise (maybe that’s my problem, haha. I used to have a big dream to be involved in the world of business but… that’s not as “big” a dream now) so I will say “I digress” and move on!
I hope that you cling to glad hope in something that is greater than yourself. That you show love to your family, your caregiver, whoever in life is love for you may you show that love right back!
These are times for opportunity, times to do things one wouldn’t normally do, like witness, share from something that happened from your life, heck even ask someone to pray for you if you struggle!
There is always a hope in the midst of despair, a love that is greater than we can ever imagine, and a Jesus who paid for everything we think might be impossible.
Have hope.
At least I hope you now have hope “anew” anyway at this very moment!
Jesus, I pray this reader genuinely finds hope that will be new and mercy that is refreshed as well as the day is bright. Thank you Lord!
Something I might want to admit 6/5/21
This is not the end of my story. I want to seek His heart just like He found and changed mine. I sook a future and that lovely person will one day see awesome things that we will do together. I want to know her heart before I get to marry her. God can do things impossible by man’s standards, but they are made possible through Christ!
If you only know “half” the struggle, I will then expose mine.
The person I spoke about in relation to being like King Saul lusting after Bathsheba.
Was Adam Kovic, who was just like me but a little older.
I am on his side as they don’t know how much pornography has a spiritual, evil power on people… but I am “team Adam.”
Happy “love” month.
Update: 500 “what?”
After typing the last post (as of moment this was written 6/3) it turns out this site has reached 500 views! Wow, does the time fly. That is great! And that is only because of you guys.
500. Yay. To help celebrate this milestone something big and fun will be here soon (something I was planning for a little while only because of being on here for so long, sometimes you might need to revamp or as time goes take the next step! Hint hint readers on wordpress, hehe)
Thanks so much for reading! I couldn’t do any of this without you.
More About Humility-6/3/21
Was reading Psalm 91 turned out as a devotion I really needed to read again. “You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,” and also “Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place, No evil shall befall you,
Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling” Thank You Lord…
Ever had an embarrassing moment? Ever wondered: Just _why_ did that happen? That is a part of humility. But we must if we think we should boast, instead search our hearts and seek His in our lives. It is He not us, that do amazing things! We must not be prideful.
Before I accidentally tangent I will tell you I have had many humbling things happen but I will focus today on one moment.
I had to go for a doctor visit. I could have just said I needed my throat examined but no… I had to tell them to check something else.
I’m glad they hadn’t need go through that way, I had a problem in the rear!
Yes. That rear, haha.
I had a hemorrhoid. I asked them to examine it. I wish I hadn’t because I thought they were just gonna peek the “cave” but no, they thought it was a good idea to be a poker player and “go all in…”!
I also thought it was going to be not too bad. Ever had a gynecologist exam?
I felt like I was but at least in those the woman has an experience like the “doc” might take them out for dinner later.. for me, there weren’t even any stirrups!
Put your knees to your belly and look at the wall.
I had seen a few vids online about this: this should never be a medical procedure, as far as I know, haha…!
I was so bothered I had a Christian shirt on, as if to tell the doc, “Hi doc. Please don’t go ‘in’ with bad intentions, I’m with Jesus..!”
Then they lubed me up with this stuff that looked like “poo” and…. yep, they went up there!
Ever gone to a barbecue and saw a spit-roast?
It’s not fun. Believe me!
I almost was scared he was filming it and getting ready to put it on America’s Funniest videos or something! If he had “won” I would have said, “you can take that money and shove it…. wait, never mind.”
Meanwhile have you ever been at a doctor’s office where there is a staff nearby? A place like that where you have a specific medical procedure should be a place where you have dignity. A place that people working there should be mature and not talk about your “business.”
You know what? None of that is true.
You are the talk of the town in front of the fellow workers as they are so amused.
This thing going in your “end” has made their day!
They laughed after I walked out either cuz they knew what happened in there (and “in there” as well) but maybe it was also because I was walkin’ a little funny… either way!
Why did I bring that up?
We all go through so much and sometimes we think we have nothing, even in terms of self-worth.
To the Lord You are so worth it. He loves you so much!
I have a belief that a moment someone seeks God is a moment God blesses so much!
Your “self” worth, is worth everything to God, in fact His Son died just so you would find a worth that is beyond everything you could ever imagine!
Jesus was stripped naked on the cross. Did you know that?
How humiliating. Can you imagine the scoffers, the mockers, the ones embarrassing but also hoping for his death, what He felt and thought?
All He knew was He had a debt to pay, which was to die for all people… not just the robbers, the proud of their money, the deeply evil, the ones who strive on and on thinking there might be no hope, the death-hopers, the life-takers, the lovers of sinning
He died for so much on that cross. He also died for both you and for me…
He then rose again because Jesus would show to all that God in His power would make His Son pay the debt for His cause (the world’s sin) and rose again. That proved that there was power over death as well to live for Jesus.
Today maybe you feel that tugging to know Him. Will you pray?
Father God I am so amazed and confounded by your impenetrable love! This reader might want to know a love deeper than ever, more than they could ever know. If they come to know you I am proud of the amazing works that you will do. Oh Lord You are amazing through the work. Thank you for Jesus! For Him to die on that cross, shedding His blood so that people could one day know the seemingly impossible God is amazing. Thank you so much for Jesus Father God. Amen.
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Maybe today you are proud to know Christ. May you share about Jesus everywhere you go. God bless you!
The Call- 5/31/21
Some people realize there is a need
A need to save but they know not what to do
Many will realize that those people are brave
Braver than they think what love can do
Some think that they just answered a “call”
A call to help their country and follow men (and women)
But others don’t know the vast protection
one group one team can do: fall let those keep risen
When hearing the horrors
Some step up
When heeding the warnings
Some pray and don’t give up
Anyone can be “like” a soldier
It takes though God-filled and something deep in honor to be willing
to answer the call…..
Thank you to all people who ever served and sacrificed so we can continue to live: you are our true essential people who gave the ultimate sacrifice. I pray your bravery will be remembered and live on in us fellow people every day by reading of those stories. And may they never be forgotten by vanity.
Feel 5/15/21
I don’t want to feel
like you aren’t there
even if you seem
far, I’ll run through Air
I don’t like to feel
like Job in the midst
of his counselors reel
he knew the truth of the mist
Your love is breath
like the kiss from an ocean
I can travel deep
there You are instead
Like a knight whose plight
is to save not just me
but all who need You
And I’m like the steed.
As the valleys widen
As the doubts make minds
careen far off places
only to crash to vines
Because when one thinks
there is mercy no matter
how far in space
once one seeks forgiveness there is love finding latter.
Further through the life
As far as can go
though men doubt my thoughts
they still must know-
that the servant’s heart
must seek passion, Christ
Or else there’s deep death
and the pain seeks vice.
But there is a way
God I know with my heart
That my redeemer
lives, life creates a start
God I know to feel
never care of man’s traps
because You know MY HEART
that is on the map.
A hope to feel
Of what seems not there
But you’ve proved me again
And again your grace is flair
I can tell endless tales
can so feel Your presence
no matter what happens to me
is worth all That sentence.
God I want to know
that heart of Jesus
seek Him in the morning
His love as warm as night ceases.
God I don’t want to feel
that Your love doesn’t matter
You brought ones together
as the led ones gather.
God I hope You lead
as I’m lead by You
To take the stage
And say “God I feel You!”
Blog Entry- Dwelling 5/13/21
I am still not a fan of this newer version of WordPress, haha. Maybe I have to adjust. But come on, why can’t some things be the same?
Heading out to work it seemed like time was still yet choatic. I was trying to focus on doing what was needed. Doing what the Lord knows honors Him, not because anything I do of my own effort was great but because God is great! I should take every moment of my life and devote it and set it aside for Him and His glory.
I then knew I had to get to my devotions. I was only focusing on a memory verse from Psalms but instead I because I wanted to do that book for morning devos (hehe) I thought “God lead me to a verse.” It seemed as life in Him sought fit I saw Psalm 91 to read.
It spoke again and again of the dwelling of the “secret place” of the Most High.
Here’s a part I just noticed looking over it now:
“He who dwells… Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” Part of 1st part then whole 2nd part of Psalms 91:1 NKJV
Is there a way here on earth we can see the Almighty as a place of refuge? A place to just rest and meditate on His promises…?
As I stepped outside I was waiting for the bus. It seemed like it wasn’t coming. Growing quickly impatient I started walking back and forth people honked at me like I was being a maniac I guess, haha!
After a while it seemed like the bus wasn’t ready to come yet. I thought I was in my sinful heart patient “enough.” So I prayed the bus would come soon. Then at the right “time.”
Oh man, did He answer that prayer. And in a way I could never expect!
The sky was peppered with clouds giving the sky a beautiful hue. Also the sun was not overbearing but beaming down its spring rays. If it kept up like this I was probably going to lightly burn if the sun kept doing its duty, haha….
I wasn’t used to the sun being this strong. Especially in the springtime because it was my favorite time of the year (fav season! Not too hot like the summer and not too cold like the winter).
But then I shifted my focus from myself to someone else. A person from my church with whom I know his struggles. The poor man seemed stuck in them; like if other people are growing he would ask them repeatedly for little “rays” of sunshine to help make his day! Didn’t he realize he had his own ray too…?
Just because he struggled in alcoholism doesn’t mean he was far way from the hopes and love of Jesus!
So I imagined singing him a song.
In His presence/ There is Comfort/ In His pre-sence/ There is peace/
I didn’t remember the rest of the song (haha!) but I at least hoped in prayer the Lord would touch His heart in the only way I knew how. By His Holy Spirit.
Then I realized that He does that with me too…
…and like a gentle shadow of a shelter dwelling there was a “shade” that covered the beaming sun…
then the bus came. Amen!
Father with a moved heart, I am amazed by Your love and mercy. I hope that so many will know that Your love to know through Christ doesn’t just “convert” people but it does amazing things that only people who have their eyes opened for God understand!
Oh Lord, Father in heaven, Your will be done to your people and also may they be impacted greatly by how amazing You are to the point that they will serve You out of gratitude and not out of grumbling, that they remember that God’s love is for everyone but can impact ones that they witness and minister to…. that God loves us so much that no one…. NO one… should perish.
By the loving blood of Christ who shed His blood for all sin, Amen.
Thank you for reading this. And I hope at the very least this moved you in a way only God can do…. 😀
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