(I wrote this to family and friends in 2010 – almost 2 years after the trajectory of my life here on this planet altered).
I appreciate you all for your loving support and prayers…even now I am still a work in progress and every day stronger and better. It has been almost 2 years and I no longer live in a nightmare (Thank you Lord! ) I feel I have an overcoming message to encourage another and hopefully leave another better….a new motto of mine is if you can’t leave another better you better leave….With that in mind I have personally resolved to share some things from my heart for my beloved family.
I personally have gone through a journey of forgiveness…I truly pray for the salvation of the attacker because I don’t want ANYONE to reside in Hell for an eternity…obviously this person this soul has issues that he needs to be delivered from and I pray that he can find the Lord as his personal Savior, redeemer and healer of his life. God forgives us all…I am so in awe when I think about how Jesus died for us because He loves us…people who backbite, who harbor bitterness, who won’t speak to one another, who have caused fractures and dsyfunctional relationships, who have caused a turning of love into hatred, bitterness and sorrow…it’s amazing that our Lord Jesus loves and forgives us…but further it’s mandatory for us to demonstrate this love for Him by in return forgiving all …everyone….ALL persons who have habitually hurt us and harmed us or who have caused a trauma in our life. Even those who irritate us occasionally hahaha we must check our hearts and ask God to purify the intents of our hearts and remove every area of discord, disagreement and disease away and out of it…or it becomes toxic cesspool that festers every day every minute not addressed….I don’t want to live a life thinking I was doing what God commanded and say I am a Christian reading my word, serving in His fellowships, singing His songs, dedicating my life to give to charity, represent Him as a speaker of His good news to all I encounter and yet when I come face to face He says to me DEPART from me you worker of iniquity….the sin of UNFORGIVENESS…the worker…meaning I worked my entire life at keeping that grip of bitterness wrapped around my heart because someone wronged me in my opinion a family member offended me and now I don’t talk to them anymore, a friend mistreated me and now I have an attitude with them, a boss tried to get me fired or succeeded and now I wish them same fate….OH LORD let this not be my testimony and let me not walk in Pride not being HUMBLED enough to reach out to those I have offended and repent…the word shares that Love is not easily offended and doesn’t offend or provoke another as well….I Cor Chapter 13…God commands we love and keep His commands and this love isn’t a passive love or a “lip service” but an action that goes beyond our pride, hurt, bitterness, fears, anger, questions and whys….it really doesn’t matter about all those emotions and baggages that hinders us from being a free flowing loving pure hearted servant of the King of King and the Lord of Lords….if we continue to ignore IGNORE the problems and not address the chasms created from all of our individual and corporate actions and no one is excluded we will find that our end fate will be DEPART for me for an eternity…..I pray for my heart constantly that it is cleansed and purified and that God will bring to my mind every instance in my 45 years of living of creating offenses or situations where I have not lived up to what God desired for me which is His best and according to His scriptures….I can remain silent and I can live like it’s okay to continue to sweep things under the rug…but my God my God my heart hurts and I repent and I cry out for deliverances for healing for help to just let go and be free to love without worry without offense without bitterness without anger without all of the “trappings of excuses why I don’t try any longer to reach out”. I am a recluse yes I have been silent and hidden and hurt and harbored before so much pain and rejection and insecurity and then when the incident occurred that just became the catalyst for the bomb to explode with an impact of a Nuclear Warhead. But my God’s grace is sufficient for me. My God said that wherever I am and whatever state I am found He would find me and be there with me to love me “out of”. So, I thank the Lord to be able to be healed to reclaim my voice again and love without reservation or without the fear of backlash because the bottom line is that I desire my family to be whole ….completely whole. Not fractures and not blaimers either…not finger pointers but EXAMINERS of our own hearts. Because it’s the judgment of our heart that will count…and it’s also the actions that we take that is being looked at and being silent sitting on the fence of lukewarmness is not acceptable.
It’s got to cease and desist the consistent silence amongst us…the lack or apathy to not demonstrate an active love or a pursuit to reconcile…one time just doesn’t do it…Jesus has loved us over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again…we are called to forgive 70×70
I believe the Father can give us the individual grace and mercy to make the effort…here’s my effort to all of you…I am reaching out as a broken individual fully aware of all of my indiscretions, failures, disappointments, etc. Yet, I choose to no longer dwell in that mindset that often has been thrown in my face by my mind and others even in family of how I have messed up and made all the wrong choices and just not measured up. I realize that I have failed…and for that I truly ask forgiveness to all of you who I have caused an ought and provoked to anger, or hurt. With that too I forgive and have forgiven as well…all of the bitter words spoken from childhood to now and all of the emotional batteries that have been sufferred from an assault of negativity and actions that were just so confusing and basically not loving…according to God’s word not mine. So, I pray we all take this opportunity to reach out actively to one another…father to daughters, son to father, sisters to brother, brother to brothers, daughters to father, father to son…etc. Let’s actively look at our own ways (praying we are not looking with shades of pride and stiffneckedness which will prevent a true reconciliation and forgiveness and wholeness and healing and ultimate individual salvation for an eternity).
I truly embrace that our life is but a vapor….we all may not be able to read through this entire email message before our life is cut off so please please please let us really honestly reach out to one another beyond the usual and truly say …I forgive you and never NEVER go back to the same ole same ole way of interacting with one another never again allow battery assaults emotional baggages resentments bitterness that disease which has ruined generations upon generations to continue…we can make the difference and we can truly CHOOSE this day who we are going to serve….As for me and my house we choose to serve the Lord. My God what profit a man if he gain the whole world….but lose his soul….let us wake up to the fact that things aren’t right between all of us and we must we have to fight for forgiveness and ask that the Lord truly clean our hearts towards one another and live the rest of our fleeting earthly life in peace, joy, fulfillment and unity…Psalms 133 says it is good and pleasant for brethren to dwell together in unity…how can we have all these extended families and friendships and our very home and family is in ruin…what kind of foundation and character does that really say about us. I truly love you all so much…I am truly so blessed and honored that God allowed me the opportunity to have you as my family and not kill me at birth and give me a second chance to live again and with this breath I have in my body I share from my heart not as a finger pointer but as an outstretched hand and arms with tears in my eyes crying out for compassion restoration and love to be free flowing amongst all of us no longer to walk in denial. I truly love so much and so hard…and I just want to be pleasing to the Lord. I would be remiss if I never said anything. I have a history of freedom fighters in our family as examples of how to take a stance so this is what I got naturally hahahahhaa (smile). I stand against non communication and bitterness and lack of effort to make a difference…I will be the one who will take the risk and extend my heart because I have died already and nothing else matters to me but to live again in love as God says to.
Shalom,
Miriam
P.S. I truly express my heart with deepest love and admiration for all of my family even if my feeble words can’t express I just really desire before we have any regrets…I don’t want it to be said before another someone dies in our family “I wish I could have done something or said something…” I am now. Peace Love, Miriam
What isC.P.R. + N.O.W.mean to me and anyone who reviews this message?I think humanity is at a code blue status and is about to flatline into a death crisis if we do not pivot so, we need to have a recussitation stat or we will cease to exists!
Isn’t it time for you, me, all of us to live our best lives! Let’s shift it into gear for next-level living where we are actually obtaining the “hoped for good” in our lives. Time for us to achieve the bucket list of goals we once thought were so far off and removed from our grasps. We can and will do this one step at a time, one dream realized at a time, one conversation at a time can spark the fire needed to fuel our promise fulfillment! Amen INDEED!
Let the conversations ensue and the shifting manifest into a tangible reality for our next-level transformation into what we were born to do – live life and that life MORE Abundant here on earth as it is in heaven.
Time to kick that devil to the curb and join the plan Jesus has for us! John 10:10 King James Version The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
The Thankful Revolution rejoices with you and looks forward to continuing to encourage, edify, educate, and inspire as we traverse along our life’s pathway and choices. Enjoy the journey! Shalom to all!
Let’s start living our best life N.O.W. = New-Beginnings is OUR Witness!TRUST God to help you navigate through your life’s journey into a vitalized and healthy destination!
Continue to stay tuned for more on the meaning of LIFE as we explore Biblical Truths one word at a time, one scripture at a time, one moment in time, …let’s eat that daily bread! Selah, Shalom, Amen Indeed Miriam a.k.a. Essence of Myrrh Proverbs 3:5-8 (TIME for a next-level New-Beginning)! We would be honored if you do Subscribe, Bookmark, Save, Share, Comment, Like, and Enjoy how N.O.W. = New-Beginnings is our Witness can be yours today through one daily Myrrhism Word/Message at a time.
Psalm 37:23, “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighted in his way.”
P.S. Remember, to help us navigate through this life and enjoy a new life that one being eternal with God our Father; we have to make a decision N.O.W. = New Beginnings is our Witness. Below provides a prayer that you can ask the Lord to become your Redeemer, Healer, Savior, your everything to help you on your personal life’s journey – even though it may be bitter sometimes with God He always sweetens your steps. Love you always! Miriam aka Essence of Myrrh Proverbs 3:5-8.
HERE I AM LORD, HELP ME TO CHANGE INTO THE PERSON YOU BIRTHED ME INTO EXISTENCE TO BECOME. ALLOW MY PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE (OUTLOOK AND THOUGHTS) BECOME NEW. LET ME KNOW IN MY HEART THAT YOU ARE GOD AND IF I TRULY TRUST YOU THEN I CAN BE LIBERATED – BASICALLY SET FREE TO LIVE A LIFE HERE ON EARTH LIKE YOU DESIRE ME TO EXIST FOR AN ETERNITY WITH YOU IN HEAVEN. HELP ME TO VIEW YOU CLEARLY WITH A STEADFAST FOCUS! I ASK THAT ANY OBSTACLE THAT HAS HINDERED ME BEFORE OR IN MY FUTURE BE REMOVED SO THAT I CAN OBTAIN THE WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE YOU HAVE FOR ME TO LIVE IN PEACE, LOVE, STRENGTH, POWER, AND FEARLESSLY. THANK YOU FOR EQUIPPING ME WITH ALL THAT I NEED (HOLY SPIRIT AND JESUS AS MY SAVIOR) TO SUCCESSFULLY NAVIGATE THIS LIFE’S JOURNEY. I AM GRATEFUL, HUMBLED, AND WILLING TO BE YOUR FAITHFUL SERVANT. I AM HERE AND ASK FOR YOUR HELP EVERY SINGLE DAY. THANK YOU FOR HEARING ME AND PROVIDING ALL THAT I HAVE NEED FOR ACCORDING TO YOUR RICHES IN HEAVEN. AMEN (SO BE IT)!
John 10:10 The Message Version
6-10 Jesus told this simple story, but they had no idea what he was talking about. So he tried again. “I’ll be explicit, then. I am the Gate for the sheep. All those others are up to no good—sheep rustlers, every one of them. But the sheep didn’t listen to them. I am the Gate. Anyone who goes through me will be cared for—will freely go in and out, and find pasture. A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.
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) I feel I have an overcoming message to encourage another and hopefully leave another better….a new motto of mine is if you can’t leave another better you better leave….With that in mind I have personally resolved to share some things from my heart for my beloved family.
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