Forty Plus Miles

            Hot, hotter; and I'm looking at the how. Hot, hotter; and I'm taking smaller steps. Still, I'm taking steps. Looking past the hard roads of heat that seek to wreck me. Past the circumstances that try to dictate my hope; here I hope.             Hot, hotter; listening in the humidity. Hot, hotter; and I'm wondering how to express. Still, I'm writing something; in small steps I'm writing. Looking past the grandiose results and embracing those little moments, even in the heat, where I look at an old road near some old store and wonder what I could create in words from what I know nothing of.  Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support! 

 Minutes moving. Movements made. Moments multiplying. Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support! 

          Where to begin as I looked for a way. Where to go as I saw the numbers of white against a green bordered sign nearby. Then I saw the faded sign, with ghostly numbers that remained faintly. I looked closely as a black and white marvel of God's creativity flew in, then landed on a nearby landing pad; whether plant life or post supporting the ghostly digits I remember not. Either way it was a beautiful sign from Jesus, so I listened and entered, receiving the blessing that I wasn't alone, the reminder I would be okay.            It was there I made way and finished work for the day.  It was there amid the heat that I laughed in grateful surprise, telling God "Thank you.". It was there I found a creative grace upon everyday work, one that refuses to leave me easily; something I'm truly grateful for.  Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something ...

       In fire I rise, not because of anything I've done, but because of who Jesus is: faithful. I will not bow to fear, shame, or the demonic armies working against me. In fire I rise, because Jesus is mighty, working in me; I will remain in Him. Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support! 

In hope I will rise.  Not in circumstances, but in Jesus.  In faith I continue, of good to come.  In hope I will rise.  I trust of good here, in Jesus, even now.  I believe redemption is happening; I will not be dismayed.  In hope I will rise.  Not in circumstances, but in Jesus. Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support! 

         Save the low hum of an appliance nearby it is quiet; a stillness that shocks me. This is the still of a hot morning day before I enter a traditional workday. This is a quiet house before running is undertaken, and I know not how to respond to it.          This is where it changes as writing and life shift, as creativity and expression shift. This is where weird words of weird origins are found and plugged in somewhere, somehow.            We walk together around the lake of imagination, creativity and I, dreaming together; little by little we talk and express ideas as we seek expression through internal release of words written here amid a loud and busy world. Note About The Above Piece: The above piece is derived from a need to express and find a constructive release. It's from a piece (the first paragraph) in my notes of my phone I never finished, and later put it together here, combining it with ...

Processing again. On a hard day I struggle.  Where something changes. Entering a new grace here.  Remembering reflection. Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support! 

I'll pause and play for a while. Eat while I eat from my paws. I wonder why they keep looking at me. At least they aren't attacking me I guess. Eat while I eat from my paws. Running at breakneck speeds I laugh. At least they aren't attacking me I guess. So I continue on and enjoy the day. Running at breakneck speeds I laugh. Jumping from limp to limp I make it a game. So I continue on and enjoy the day.  Running, eating, and laughing some more. Jumping from limp to limp I make it a game. I wonder why they keep looking at me. Running, eating, and laughing some more. I'll pause and play for a while. Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support! 

       Powerful! Powerful are You Jesus! Wisdom that knows no bounds in Yours! Kind and abundant are You! For compassion and provisions endless are in You! You stoop low to pick us up, to carry us, those those who hope in You, who reach out to You!        You are faithful always, forgiving us of sins and shortcomings! Be exalted Jesus; be exalted! Inspired by Isaiah 40. Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support! 

          I am an island, a tiny island, in a sea of humanity. I am not insignificant, but I am also not highly impressive. I quietly live, making myself known amongst the noise of living.  Here it is easy to be drowned out, over-looked, even forgotten; sometimes I feel this way.            I am not abandoned though. On heavy days I am not overcome; just refined. On tougher paths I am not defined by the path; I am remade IN INSPITE OF IT. Here I walk; not arrogantly, but confidently in Jesus. I am made whole IN HIM, for He has redeemed me! Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support! 

             When the only way is through, you let it wash over you, the feeling of hurt and struggle, you acknowledge it's awful; but you don't stop walking. When the only way is through, you admit it's not easy, you even let the valley you're walking through become you to learn how to overcome; you must name your struggle to defeat it. When the only way is through, it's not a welcomed thing, but it can be a healing thing, where you grow stronger in the struggle, learn how to grow and thrive, remembering Jesus never left you alone, He just empowered you to have victory IN HIM as you went through what you thought would defeat you. Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support! 

           Praise! Praise! Speak highly, higher than before; exalting even! Praise the Goodness of our Righteous Jesus! Lift up His Holy name! name: Remember His benefits, His blessings, His love found in Him!             He works good, making crooked ways straight. Lift Him high! Worship Him! Never forget His love for you.  Inspired by Psalm 103. Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support!

       Hope dear soul, hope! Hope in the Lord Jesus, the Great Shepherd! Hope dear soul, hope in He who never changes, the Friend of Sinners! Remember His promises, His love, His power in His presence! Hope dear soul, hope in Jesus as you wait; hope!.  Inspired by Psalm 27 and 103.  Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support!

       I see their constraints and I feel it: the weight of limitation. Two eyes of two animals (sometimes three), staring back at me. Behind metal fenced borders they look; one engaging, one pleading. Two eyes of two animals and I see there isn't lack completely, just an opportunity to be prayerful and strategic with each "metal fenced border" I may counter.          I'm looking Jesus; help me to see how to follow You, even in the environments of challenge. Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support!

       What "food" am I "eating"? What is my daily "diet" in my soul? Do I seek the bread of circumstance; setting the eyes of my heart and mind on what I literally see? Do I take, and chew on, limited provisions that can change if not good? What is my daily "portion" for my soul? Hopelessness, fear, shame, selfishness, bitterness, unhealthy appetites of my fallen nature that Jesus has redeemed me from?          I am no longer slave to these bad habits. I am redeemed, free to follow Jesus! I am human, free to be me in Jesus; for He restores, and His power is made perfect and my weakness! I am redeemed! Let this be my "daily diet" ! Let this truth, promise, encourage me and Jesus! Let this restore the broken parts in me!  Inspired by Daniel chapter 1 Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free ...

Trials taking time. On busy days, pressure known. Daring to try now. Another word written here. Yielding sentences there.  Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support!

               A kids drawing named and thrown away; wondering what happened; hoping it wasn't out of apathy. I look for a second in my going and wonder what happened there. Should I care? Part of me does. Hoping the child isn't forgotten the same way the picture was. I walk through the heaviness that comes with such a discovery.                Processing the seconds, looking at the moments that try to rush away. How do I cultivate depth, when too much becomes too much? How do I explain a struggling mind that longs to find meaning in a fast-paced population, a world busy with being busy? I am no better, lost in the going as we all are lately; so I look somewhere else. I wander the between times of busy, listening for Heaven's inspiration as I walk and think. I look about me, seeing tired lives and heads down, still they try, try to cross roads to some "better" the way turtles I've seen lately have. They hope...

       I'll not write about the rain, but the rainbow left in the oil of going from some vehicle and life somewhere.        I'll not write about the place, but the colorful learning and expression seen on a driveway in children's chalk talk. Seeing art in what others may call ordinary. Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support!

Warm and bright this day. Clear and open in summer;  even in busy.  Still, I press on through the heat. Still, I hope, even this time. Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support!