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Happy Independence Day!
Itās great to be an American.
Itās great to live in the land of the free and home of the brave!
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So thankful to live in the land of the free and home of the brave!!
Point of No Return
Whatever you left because it broke you, donāt return to it when your tears have dried.
It may have been a person. It may have been a pain. It may have been a sin. It may have been a shame.
No matter what or who, never go back simply because the storm is over.
Too many abused return to their abuser.
Too many released will return to their captor.
Too many wounded will return to their accuser.
Why?
Often the comfort of the cage is easier than learning to live in the awkwardness of the new.
Often the known is more welcoming than the challenge of the unknown.
But be convicted to adjust.
Be determined to redirect.
Do not settle for the norm because itās comfortable.
Do not settle for the available simply because it knows you.
Allow yourself to resettle.
Allow yourself to dream again.
Allow yourself to grow.
Youāll be amazed at the new you.
As a dog returns to his own vomit,
So a fool repeats his folly.Proverbs 26:11
Deliver those who are drawn toward death,
And hold back those stumbling to the slaughter.Proverbs 24:11
Itās Not Me. Itās You.
Oh, if we could grasp this reality, what strength we could gather.
When someone wounds you, itās not because you have done something wrong. It is because they have something wrong inside.
This is not to say that you could have possibly prevented it. Maybe. sometimes, we donāt notice warning signs until it is too late. Sometimes, we turn a blind eye because of our own hangups and intimidations.
But when someone wrongs you, particularly when it is repetitive, we have to accept it for what it is: their fatal flaw.
We donāt always need to defend ourselves.
And we donāt really need to retaliate.
But we do always need to walk away.
Step back from their negative blows.
Move out of the course of their mayhem.
Set boundaries and close the doors to their reckless endangerment.
Realize it is not your responsibility nor your burden to bear.
Sometimes, broken people try to break others.
Sometimes, wounded people live to wound others.
Sometimes, twisted people endeavor to twist the lives of others.
But this never means you have to surrender to it.
Remove your heart from their hammer and reclaim your peace.
Itās worth the effort.
You are worth the time.
Do not enter the path of the wicked,
And do not walk in the way of evil.
Avoid it, do not travel on it;
Turn away from it and pass on.
For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall. For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.But the path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.
Proverbs 4:14-19
Keep Writing. Keep Reading.
This statement rings true in so many relationships.
So many are only surface deep.
Never enduring the hard days to witness the true character.
Never persevering the rain to find the rainbow.
How you approach a friendship tells a lot about your character.
How you delicately cherish or nonchalantly cast aside the relationship says more about you than about them.
Some people are only meant to be with you for a moment.
But those who stick around for the duration, they are worthy of the depths of your soul.
Where will your depth take you?
Your affliction is incurable,
Your wound is severe.
There is no one to plead your cause,
That you may be bound up;
You have no healing medicines.
All your lovers have forgotten you;
They do not seek you;
For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquities,
Because your sins have increased.
Why do you cry about your affliction?
Your sorrow is incurable.
Because of the multitude of your iniquities,
Because your sins have increased,
I have done these things to you. āTherefore all those who devour you shall be devoured;
And all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity;
Those who plunder you shall become plunder, and all who prey upon you I will make a prey.
For I will restore health to you
And heal you of your wounds,ā says the Lord, āBecause they called you an outcast saying:
āThis is Zion; No one seeks her.ā āāThus says the Lord:
āBehold, I will bring back the captivity of Jacobās tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places; the city shall be built upon its own mound, and the palace shall remain according to its own plan.
Then out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry; I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.Jeremiah 30:12-19
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How Peaceful Are You?
Men may cry, āPeace, Peace!ā But the war is already on the battlefield.
What you choose to do in times of war will often expose the depth of your character.
Some claim they are strong and powerful me; yet, they turn a blind eye and lower their hands to defeat the enemy.
Some declare peace and love can never be shown through force, and the innocent are left to die in the streets at the hands of wicked men.
But the meek, the humble, and the mighty all join as one to rescue the child, to defend the broken, to defeat the evil when it is in their power to do so.
The strongest and most fierce shelter the fragile and shield the blameless and call out the immoral.
It is never the muscles and brawn that make someone you stalwart and indomitable.
Rather, it is the passionate heart who stands for Truth at all cost.
It is the relentless pursuit for justice the raises up an army for victory.
It is the raging embrace of liberty that fortifies the battlefront.
These are the standards by which the war is won.
If you faint in the day of adversity,
Your strength is small. Deliver those who are drawn toward death, and hold back those stumbling to the slaughter.
If you say, āSurely we did not know this,ā
Does not He who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, does He notknow it? And will He not render to each man according to his deeds?Proverbs 24:10-12
Keep yourself far from a false matter; do not kill the innocent and righteous. For I will not justify the wicked.
Exodus 23:7
The Lionās Silence
In the brush, you canāt see her silhouette as she glides along.
Below the grass, she hovers and waits.
The stalks swaying in the breeze as she pauses to take in the horizon.
Her eyes never leaving her prey as she haunts him with her shadows.
Believing it is only a myth, he grows complacent in the quiet.
Letting down his guard, his head lowers for a rest, never realizing his mistake.
Suddenly, she pounces from the mist and charges his serenity.
He attempts an escape, but the moment has passed.
She has him in her paws, and the pride closes in to bring her added strength.
Fight though he may, the battle is over before it even began.
All because he grew comfortable in the midst of her silence.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
1 Peter 5:8
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