My being easygoing does not mean
I am stupid, gullible, naive, or unaware.
It means I'm willing to allow you to be you,
even if that you is an unpleasant person.
My not calling you out on your lies
doesn't mean you've conned me.
It means I'm giving you the opportunity
to tell the truth on your own.
My not forcing you to follow the rules
doesn't mean I am weak.
It means I'm giving you the opportunity
to show me if you're really an adult.
My allowing you in my life doesn't mean
I approve of or ignore your behavior.
It means I'm giving you a chance.
Whether I continue to allow you in my life,
and to what degree I allow you in my life,
depends on you.
My being easygoing doesn't mean I won't
eventually set some firm boundaries,
even if it means excluding you from my life.

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We may have very good plans to fix our nation.
But if we have not REPENTED of the EVIL
we have ALLOWED in our nation,
if we have not surrendered our wills
to the will of Yahweh,
all our plans will be for NOTHING.
It is Yahweh who raises up leaders
and brings them down.
It is Yahweh who gives us the leaders
we DESERVE.
Do we have evil leaders?
It is because we have EARNED them.
We DESERVE them because
we have lived for ourselves.
We have turned to our own ways
and forsaken His ways.
Fight for the good of our nation!
But make sure we're fighting WITH God
and NOT against God!
WE need to be on HIS side.

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Yeshua/Jesus is coming again.
He may be coming soon.
He may not come for a long time.
But He is definitely coming.
He's coming for everyone at the end.
He's coming for individuals in the meantime.
The real concern is not
when He is coming for everyone.
The real concern is
when He is coming for you.
Are ready to meet Him?
You better make sure.

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YHWH, oh how I long for the quiet
so I can better hear Your voice.
I lift up my heart to You
to worship You and praise You.
You are worthy of all praise and all love,
all adoration and all honor,
all glory and all obedience.
I can never love You or honor You
as You deserve.
My flesh is strong and my spirit is weak.
Yet, I will choose to praise You
and serve you, no matter what.
I will choose to seek hard after You
in every circumstance.
I will cling to You and never let You go.
You are my Abba/Father,
perfect in every way.
You never leave me or forsake me.
Help me to stay faithful,
even unto death.

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Never ask what my heart is telling me
about a particular situation.
My heart is a lying deceiver.
It will give me a million and one reasons
to not do what I know I should
and to do what I know I shouldn't.
No! Ask me what
the Spirit of Creator,
YHWH of the Bible,
is telling me.
For He will never lie to me,
never deceive me,
never steer me wrong.
Then it comes down to--
what choice will I make?

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When people use others,
it says more about them
than it does about the
people they used.

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Someone who chooses to live
surrounded by filth is
either mentally ill and/or
filled with self-hatred.

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The actions of others towards me say more
about them than they do about me.
Like everyone else on the planet,
I am a flawed human being.
I have my own wounds and brokenness
I am trying to work through and heal from.
Just like everyone else.
So when someone treats me poorly,
I choose to look at it through the lens of them
acting out their own woundedness and brokenness.
I believe, if they weren't so wounded and broken,
they would be able to see the better parts of me that
help to balance out the very imperfect parts of me.
It's the way I try to see others and
the way I hope others will try to see me.

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I don't write to offend.
I don't write to send sideways messages.
I write what's on my mind and my heart.
I write my observations on life,
observations from my experiences,
both past and present.
If what I write happens to sting you,
or rub you the wrong way,
you need to ask yourself why that is.
Because I'm not writing to or about you and
I will not hold back my thoughts simply
because someone might take it personally.
I own and work through my stuff.
If my thoughts happen to hit your stuff,
then own it and work through it in your own life.
Let's all get free together.

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Our lives will have sudden upheavals.
The key to upheavals isn't avoiding them.
It's learning how to navigate through them
and come out the other end of them.
Although they can create some temporary chaos,
we don't have to let it be permanent.
Although they might rock us to our core,
we don't have to let them destroy us.
After every upheaval, we have the opportunity
to come out stronger than ever,
refined like pure gold.
We are made in the image of Creator and
upheavals can refine us into reflecting
that image more and more.

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