New identity, new sense of self. These are the words brought to the forefront of my mind as I drove to work this morning. I repeated the words several times in hopes I wouldn’t forget by the time I parked the car in the parking lot and turned the car off. Before those words were …
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Ready for What Comes Next
Here it is Friday morning The rain keeps falling Splashing Crashing On the pavement Down Summertime And Sunshine days I miss your warmth The way you make me smile The weekend Two days I know What is to come On the other side Monday A breather A break I’ve tried I’ve cried To find balance …
Where the Wind Carries You
Much to Learn About Life
Life The older I get The more It seems to make sense And Then it doesn’t My mind at peace When Being outdoors Going for a hike Gardening Taking a shower (to name a few things) Ideas Conversations Wisdom Rolls through my head With grace With fluency Wisdom How can that be? Everything Seems to …
God Has a Way
I’m so grateful my Monday (today), has been a day of great joy! Let me give you an update from my last post called, “I Appreciate You.” Here is the link to the post in case you haven’t had a chance to read what it’s about yet: https://magnificentmeraki.home.blog/2022/04/21/i-appreciate-you/ On Thursday of last week, I was uncertain …
God, Me, A Selfie, Journaling and A Love Letter
In the early morning hours of 2.22.2022 I woke up then fell back to sleep. I woke up again at 5:15 AM and didn’t go back to sleep. I remembered a dream I had before falling back to sleep in the earlier morning hours prior to awakening at this time. God must have felt it …
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Listen to and Follow the Voice With a Peaceful Presence
Have you ever known someone to say, it’s too late in life or they are too old to start something new? Yeah, I get it! They may have worked very hard all their life and now it’s time to slow things down. Or maybe they’ve been putting things off, procrastinating and time had a way …
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So Much to Look Forward to in Life
I am looking forward to Clear skies Sunshine Warm breeze Summer feels I am looking forward to Family time Fun adventures Outdoors Simple pleasures I am looking forward to Getting down Getting dirty Gardening soil So earthly I am looking forward to God leading me Providing for My every need Knock, knock, knock Oh look …
God is With You Every Step of the Way to the Mountain Top
As I walk each day I know That it is He Who Guides my steps He brings forth Messages People Experiences Moments Those things Which are needed Light Love Hope Passion Trust Faith There is no hurry There is no timeline There is no worry There is a mountain This journey Is worth the climb …
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Everything Will Fall Perfectly Into Place According to His Plans
I took a chance On myself Knowing the potential Expecting Something good A big pay off When All the hard work Is through I know God will provide Something That may have seemed So random A thought An idea A spark Has changed my life This day Only God knows The plans He has for …
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Quiet the Mind…Listen…Hear His Voice and Be Open to the Possibilities
Recently I had the opportunity to spend time with my teenage daughter. She is the youngest of three and a junior in high school. Life is much different for kids these days. School looks or feels like nothing I remember from when I was her age. Standards and expectations have been raised, pushing out more …
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May the Passion For the Lord Burn Bright From Within You
Walk in faith God will Delight In your Presence He Will take you Places You have only Dreamed of Be bold Be brave Speak up Speak out That spark Inside you Once ignited Now A burning flame Nothing Can stop you Nothing Can hold you back Keep moving Forward Little by little One step at …
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Put on the Armor of God
The enemy He tries to gather He tries to rally Create worry Installation of fear Know his tactics Know his ways Pray for those Who Come against you Fervently Relentlessly Down in defeat The devil Will go The Armor of God Has power You see
Believe Your Best Days Are Just Ahead of You
Cherish the Moments
(Pictured above is my uncle and I from the summer of 2016. This was the last time I saw him. I thought it was so funny to sit on his lap, pretending to be a kid again from days gone by. This picture makes my soul happy, helping me to smile and remember the good …
What is it You See in Me?
You Have gifted Me Splendidly With writing With photography What is it You Do see? How May I best Honor you? How May I best Serve you? Bring Into focus Help Make clear Posed or candid Help me To know Help me To understand Help me To trust To believe To discern My course This …
God Takes Care of Us
Share Your Story With One Another
The more We share Our hearts Our stories Help others To see Togetherness Community As one In Christ Kindness Spreads Around The world Like wildfire Across the land Over the seas
Whatever He Brought You to, He Will Bring You Through!
Maybe you are mourning the loss of a loved one whose time has come to be with the Lord. Maybe you are mourning in anticipation of the loss of a loved one whose health may be failing. Maybe you are uncertain about job security, financial stability, relationships, family, health. Maybe you feel lost and broken, …
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Lead Me Lord
Writing, Releasing, Letting Go
Experiencing God’s Peace and Love Through Sharing Our Stories With One Another Oh, How my soul Yearned Desired Exclaimed Sit Sit right down Focus On me Take time Let the words Flow From the heart To the paper Say Those things Which need To be said Heaviness Of the heart What is The meaning In …
Come Follow Me
Come Follow me Into The wonders Of The world Come Follow me Into The depth Of The ocean The sea Come Follow me See The truth Face Your fears Come Follow me Take heart I am here
Tough Times
I Make mistakes We all Do learn From them Some big Some small God Helps us Through them all Fighting Crying Finding A way Through So many emotions So many fears To be The one Finding strength Standing up Although It hurts So much I face This day I Must Go On Await Upon the …
Good Things in Life
So much To give thanks for So much To give praise Family Friends Food Shelter Good health Healing His word His voice Oh My soul So appealing
Help Me to Know
Sharing His Word
Goodnight Prayer
Seek Him for He is There
Her soul Cried out God said Come close Talk To Me Get writing Speak What is it On your heart On your mind The burden The weight Too heavy To carry My child I’m here To talk to You know I know She responded I cried out To you With Deep pain Time after time …
With Him Forever We Will Be
God Knew…In Time She Learned Too
Many years Passed by Finally realized Lies Ran deep Devil in disguise Misleading Deception Pulled the blinders Over her eyes Believed She did These lies Became her truths Reality In her own mind Much wisdom These days With God As her Savior Inner strength Spiritual maturity No doubt All things possible Through Him Helping others …
Be Who it is God Calls You to Be
Nobody Expects you To have life All Figured out Discover your interests Do what it is You love Enjoy life Without restraints Find freedom Live Love Laugh Give thanks Gratitude God Seek Him With All of your heart With All of your might He will Guide you Show you Speak to you In ways You …
A New Freedom
She endured Hard times Lived life Held onto The past Memories Once thought To be precious Priceless Purposeful For Present day Future Remain Last Old self Old thoughts Memories On repeat No longer Served A purpose Hoarded Saved up Too much Clutter In the soul In the mind Released Such freedom Authentic self She became
A Love So Deep
She Fell hard She Feel deep In love With a man Selfless love Human compassion With her Beside her Throughout all days During all troubled times For many seasons He did remain He saw The good The bad He come to know Every side of her From the breaths She took To the breaths She …
High-5
On Friday, October 29, 2021, I was witness to one of the greatest moments, one of those proud momma moments, seeing my child achieve. We are early into the season of girls’ high school hockey here in Alaska. The way it’s set up, two schools come together to form one varsity team. The number of …
Give Way to Him
She loved So deep She held on So tight Wanting To be In control Over time The strongholds Gave way To God’s ways His love His light His truth With this She knew Everything Would be Perfectly executed In His timing Her life She found Peace Harmony Solitude Everything will be okay
Angel in Disguise (in the skies :)
Sometimes I look up To The sky Sometimes The sky chooses To Look at me At all times I give All glory All thanks All praise For I know God He has blessed me In So many ways
Once Lost-Now Found
She lived her life A prisoner to the past Every day She showed up Looked at Herself In the mirror Who Was this person She Had become A foreigner Disguise Disgust Was she A woman Or Was she A little girl Someone Who she could trust What happened To her body What happened To her …
Why Rush? Trust.
We want answers We want results We want things We want happiness We want it all We want it now Pretty demanding, Right? Stop Pause Commit Submit yourself To the Lord Isn’t it us Who Are to obey His command Isn’t it us Who Are to wait On Him His timing His ways Have patience …
The Feelings You Get Inside
Nobody Can describe The loss One Feels inside To lose A loved one To lose A best friend To lose Yourself And have Unrest Loneliness Isolation Social awkwardness Who are you? Who am I? Without that someone special Standing Side by side Redefine Rediscover A new sense Of self Acceptance Takes time Mourning Grieving Alone …
Inside of You
Sweet Loving child Of mine Your hurt I feel The pain Inside Disappointed Discouraged Exhausted Insane Doing The hard work Takes patience Time Results What’s yielded God knows He decides Change We can Transform All we need Comes From within Inside Better version Of ourselves Thoughts Feelings Mindsets Takes a toll Plays games Distorts Feeling …
I Want You to Know…
Whatever darkness it is you are going through, I am right here with you. The challenges you are facing. The fears that fill your mind. Constant worry. Heartache. Emotional downpours. Sadness. Pain. These are all temporary emotions, not long-lasting, suffering and agony. Friends I know what it’s like to be held captive in your own …
Come Follow Me
To be more like Him, we must first be still enough to hear His voice, spend time with Him throughout our days. More than anything, He loves when we reach out to Him, asking for guidance, giving up the weight of our burdens and simply trusting in Him. He is the one and only truth …
So Much To Say
Written by and photo courtesy of: Julie Funk (August 16, 2021) I watched him walk away. A single tear rolled down the side of my cheek behind my big sunglasses. The soul-crushing sadness washed over me. He turned around one last time before entering the building and gave me a small, sad smile. My heart …
Pause, Listen, Hear
Dark clouds loom Over The horizon Golden rays Shine through In the midst Of The approaching storm God’s love Rings true Turbulence Once filled The sea Anger Rage Frustration The mind Unsettled too His voice Was heard The world Stood still One moment in time Floodgates opened The words Ran out I’m sorry I love …
I See You From the Inside Out
“You’re acting like a 2-year-old!” Have you ever been told this sometime during your life? I have, but I don’t remember being told this as a child, rather as an adult. You see, there is a child in us all. A part of us longing for connection, someone to see us, hear our soul speak, …
With God I Do Believe
God knows what’s best. Perhaps this is a test, finding out how strong I have become in my faith. Emotions in check. Deep love of Christ. A love, His love and peace I feel inside. He has given me the wisdom and the strength to rise up and find beauty in every circumstance, situation, experience …
Acceptance
In moments of despair and uncertainty I cried out to God. What is it Lord, I should do? My heart is hurting. Emotions, larger than life. A pit of pain running deep into the depths of my soul. Help me with acceptance! My circumstances, let me accept them for what they are. This life, I …
Lead Me Lord
Brave
Brave You are Much more Than I am Growing up Fast Traveling To and from Traveling Near and far On Your own With others God He is Always near He listens He hears you A Shepherd He is His sheep You are
He Fills Me
I am a child Of The light I am a beacon Burning bright Filled with Courage Bravery Hope Much To His Delight I love I serve He unlocks Closed doors Opens windows Gentle breeze Carries me To places Never before Seen Worship Praise Gratitude
Accepting His Love
In light of trying to understand my emotions, the way I look at people, circumstances, thoughts and behaviors, I keep coming back to love and acceptance. Who is it I am? Who is it you called me to be? Your child Your servant Your daughter I know who it is I am Through My Father’s …
On the Inside
Sometimes I speak With grace Poise & eloquence Wisdom That comes From The depth of My soul Other times Frustrated I feel Cry I do Tears Run down My face Emotions At times They Sometimes do Get The best Of Me and you Holding on Staying strong Inside A young child Frightened Scared Wanting Nothing …
God Provides
As many of you may already know and believe, God is a provider. He gives us exactly what we need at precisely the right moment. On a rainy Saturday, morning of May 15th we had our neighborhood garage sale. I wasn’t for certain if the official start time was 8:00 or 8:30 and decided to …
Have Patience-In Time You Will Bloom
He Called Out and Said…
Storms in Life
All in His Timing
Many Blessings
Giving Way to Light
Hear My Voice
This Too Shall Pass
Living a Better Life
You called out to me to be your vessel, to be your scribe, to be your servant. I take pride in the gifts you have given to me. Lives, yes, lives are being changed for the better thanks to your messages of hope, inspiration and healing. Seeking you out, learning to hear your voice, silencing …
One and Only You
Sitting down In Solitude Awaiting Anticipating Your presence Your arrival Your energy Flowing through Your peace Your calm Exactly What Is needed Days Nights Life Home Work School Recreation Health Exercise Strife Non-existent Same Goes for Attitudes Me You Spending time With One another Sharing in A meal Smiles Laughter Yes But of course We …
Wisdom Comes With Time
Here With You
I hear you I see you My voice Inside Of you Be still Find me I LOVE YOU
Circumstances
I Can see Understand How people Become Angry In A pandemic Illness Disease Cancelled plans Delayed dreams Inconveniences Oh, please! Stop What you are Doing Conform to Settle in Adjust To quarantine Life Not doing What You want Mind at Unease Rest assured This all Will …
I Get It!
Throughout My life Struggles Many Were had EVERYTHING (yes I mean everything) Didn’t Come easy Life lessons Learned The hard way God He has always Been A part of My life From childhood Current day Mid-life Never Have I ever Known Him Like I do Today An …
I Am Here At All Times
Be Still
Just Be You
Dream
Dream beyond What The eyes Can see Go places In The mind Imagine Believe Some day Conceived visions Become Real
Life Happens
Our world Our lives Requires patience Requires time Trials Seasons Storms Life happens Is Happening Now Before Our eyes Seeing Not knowing Trusting In Him Let faith Take over Unwind
Dear Daughter…
Dear Daughter, You are a blessed child of mine. Always remember how much you are loved. I am here for you. On good days and on those you struggle with. My love is great for you. In this world, I know many are struggling in their own ways. I hear their cries. I feel their …
There is a Reason
This morning A Different feel The air No worry No fear No anxiousness No stress My dear Tired At peace Calm Sequence of events Woke up Dressed For exercising Perfect way To Start the day Routine My elliptical Machine My steps My distance Didn’t count Wasn’t Working Properly Hmmmm… Weird I thought Kept going ‘til …
Longing
In My heart Buried deep Well Within my soul A hunger A thirst Yearning Something more A need To be satisfied A craving Galore What Was it What Is it Who Is it The need be Someone Something Feelings Emotions The past Days where I tried …
Knowing
Your name Spoken My heart Flutters Goosebumps Chills Oh What a thrill My body My soul My spirit Awakens Gazing Far off In the distance For a moment A drifter Staring out Into Outer space Thinking about You Thinking about Us Thinking about Love Everlasting Only you Touch Understand …
When the Conditions Are Right
You Have got to Make hay While The sun Is shining Rise up Before The dawn God Has blessed Us With A new day Stay busy Stay active Be productive In Your ways Spend time On Fruitful things Being productive Serving Him Pleasing Him Such joy He will Say Make …
What Are Your Thoughts?
This past week, I have read a few things from fellow bloggers which seemed to have set the tone, reminded me of and got to thinking about my own self. What is it that grabbed my attention? Our thoughts and the power of the human mind. I know our mind and the thoughts we create …
Wants and Needs
In life We Don’t always Get The things We want In life It’s not About The wants Rather Life Is about Growing In faith Growing In God Learning To trust His plan If At first You don’t Succeed Try And Try Again What’s meant To happen What’s meant To be …
Trust the Process
Flashback Flash forward Record speed Uncertainty Silence Noise Overjoyed Sadness Healing From trauma Can be Such A messy journey Trust Believe in All You are going through A purpose A plan He has
Prescription For Life
Medicine For life One Needs not Prescription drugs Medicine You see Comes in Many forms God’s prescription His word The Bible Read Follow Live Abide by Understand Do To the best Of Your ability Stand tall In faith Trust
Inheritance
On March 6, 2021, I had a flashback to my younger days. The word “inheritance” came to mind. I’m not sure what really sparked this, maybe thinking about my dad and the upcoming anniversary of his death on March 23rd. Coincidence? Maybe…Perhaps this is something God wants me to explore deeper and find the hidden …
A Story in Us All
God’s Got a story In Us all He Is reaching out Each And Every Day Helping us To discover Helping us To reveal The truths Hidden beneath The surface Our soul Waiting For the right timing Waiting For the right season Waiting For someone to listen For you to be heard
Allow Space For Him
Allow The flow Avoid The fight When our emotions come on strong allow them to come through, see what it is they are teaching you. Stopping the emotions only hinders progress, pushes back the healing process. We need to be able to express our emotions in a healthy way. Speak to the emotion as if …
Inside of You
Even though Our world As We know it Has changed In Many ways We Keep living Don’t stop Accept Embrace Move forward Carry on Feelings Emotions Energy Revealed Do better Reach higher Achieve Great things This moment An opportunity He Shed His blood His life He Did …
How Fast Life Changes
March 2020 New challenges New mentality Returned from Spring Break No kids Back at school Teachers In and out Gathering Student belongs Personal items Everything We possibly could In only 2 hours Packaged Prepared Labeled Bags Placed in The Gymnasium room Ready for Pick up Distribution To families …
Live
Live To learn Learn To live Life Filled with knowledge Forever Serving Him Faith Trust Confidence Believe In the power Of prayer Receive His healing His blessings His miracles Life presents Itself Before us Life A present A gift Presence Make sense?
Alive
A flame Burns bright Do not Extinguish No Burning ban Inside Alive The spirit Lives on Love Desire Passion On fire
You See?
Love blossoms Not only in spring Throughout Many seasons The seasons Of life We change Transform Becoming Something more See life Every Living thing Take to heart Who they are What it is Their spirit Energy Life giving force Vitality See What we want We do Hearts opened …
The Way God Intends
Becoming
How Great Thou Art
In the Moment
Fulfillment
Amazing How One phone call Receiving word Good news Possibilities Of What may become Can change Your Whole attitude Tone In the voice Much lighter More free Excitement Imagery Dream Unable To think About Anything else A Bucket list A Destination place Good News You bring In Your own timing …
Let There Be Light
In A World Filled With Distractions, Be Still
My view While Working out On My elliptical Many things To Get distracted by Stuff One might say Rug Pool table and sticks Kitty litter Metal roasters Fire starters for campfires Barn-farm picture Cow figurine Trash bags and more… Much better Now The room is Than before God Has a way Of Getting me To …
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With Us At All Times
Many times I walked right past These fallen trees God I heard His voice Distinctly There was This sense of Urgency Stop Look My attention He received Obeyed Him I did On Christmas Day On January 2, 2021 My family and I On a hike We went A new location Different Than the one before …
The Climb
Let There Be Hope
The day Has come Arrived Is here 2021 Welcome in The New year Celebrate Know That I am here With you Within Beside Next to In front Behind Look around Look within Everywhere I am found Always near For I love you My dear …
He Has a Way
Will You Let Him In?
I Heard a knock At The front door Who Was it? Who Was there? Unusual I thought I waited I listened Still there I Do see Someone An outline A person For sure Slowly Quietly Cautiously Bravely I Opened The Door A visitor Surprise! …
Beauty Comes From Within
Big emotions Oh How one Does feel Trapped inside Some May wonder What’s the big deal Get over it Let it go Why Are you acting like that Confused Empathic Feeling What others feel Picking up Receiving How does one Explain Help others Understand Believe in What …
Rejoice
Perspective
Some day When You look Back You Will realize Those days Weren’t As bad As You once Did think Those days Have Well prepared You For The road Ahead
Editing Our Life
My story Has gone Through So many Edits 13 To be exact If (You wanted to know) First ones Made After sharing With A trusted A well-respected Friend Offered Suggestions Guidance Direction Advice Edits Were done Were made Needed More support New eyes New perspective Forward Moving on To …
He Will Lead Us Home
Where Ideas Are Born
Forgiveness
Come As You Are
One evening He said to me, Come as you are Follow my lead Take shelter Find comfort I will provide For Your every need Do not be discouraged Do not be afraid Do not fear The path Will be made clear Wisdom Truth Faith Confidence
You Are Enough
I Felt like I Was inadequate He said, You Are enough
With You
What is it I say to you? I am with you At all times I will not Leave you I will not Forsake you I will Be with you ‘til the end of time Until then Fear not Be not afraid I love you Now And the days …
Let’s Face It
Face fear In The eyes Show it God’s love Fear It will Dissipate
Thank You!
Today, I reached An Incredible Milestone! So many People To thank My Heavenly Father Above Wow! 200 Followers How grateful I am! All Glory All Praise To Him I say! His words His wisdom Sharing Of His love 52 Of The Followers Within The last 22 days AMAZING!!!! I Wont ask Why I Wont ask …
Unfailing Love
Because Of you Many gifts I Have received Through darkness I walked Alone I Did Feel Afraid Fearful Uncertain I was Not knowing My fate Awaiting The outcome Believe My soul needed In something In someone In me I cried Loud Ever so Profound Heartfelt Sadness …
Followers
Followers I have many Blessed Am I For My loving Heavenly Father God He Speaks through Me He knows Exactly The right words His children Need To hear Heartfelt Love Compassion Brothers and sisters In Christ We are Believe Become As one Faith Our power To see The …
Beautiful in Time
I know Your Heart Is hurting I cannot Take That pain From You Memories Flashbacks Years Tears cried Overwhelming I know This Must feel In God’s timing With God’s grace You Will come to know The beauty This Does bring
Disparity of Light
On the morning of 11.12.2020, He brought to mind the phrase, “Disparity of Light.” For some reason, He likes to use bigger vocabulary with me when He speaks. I trust His word, however; I need to look up word definitions to ensure the words I have written aligns with messages He is trying to convey. …
His Timing, His Plans
I thought my life would be different Than it is this day in age Going Against the wind Against the tide Against the grain Let me Take a moment To explain There was a time I once felt The need To be in control Of My circumstances Envision Think Plan Dream …
I Heard Your Voice
God Has a way Of Reminding us Of His Unconditional Love Seeing A family member Someone Whom I love Respect Value Trust Am grateful For Having This person In My life The morning Of 11.8.2020 God My Heavenly Father Spoke Through me He Brought to mind The image The name Of A …
Looking Forward
Going With The Flow
The Need to Hear His Words
Magnify the Lord
Today, I received two very important messages. One from a complete stranger, and the other from a family member. As I thought about the messages I received, where one person tagged me in a Facebook post, and the other one was by email, there was no doubt God had the upper hand in bringing these …
His Light
Trust
Possibility of a Miracle
In Her Own Timing
We Are As One
Alive
With Him I Can Become
Autumn in Alaska
Transform into Being Seasons are changing and so am I. At this time, I feel called upon to reflect on this season through photographs and the words He provides me with. I have a deep love and appreciation for nature. My mind’s eye is the lens through which I capture my world, my reality, what …
He Knows Best
Live Life Through Him
Written in Stone
How is it that I failed to notice God was right before me? His name was written in the cement, on the sidewalk where I had walked many times before. There must have been something about that moment. He spoke loud and clear, gaining my attention in a way He hadn’t done before. My vision, …
Trust in Me
Paths to Friendship
New Life
Come From The Heart
His Story Through Me
Eternal Light
God’s Will
Light The Way
Be Brave My Soul
Rising Sun
Unfailing Love
For Whom Do You Write?
When you write, where is your focus? How about your mindset? What is your frame of mind…reference? Getting caught up in mindless chatter, noises heard in the mind, can make it hard to hear (even harder to write), the words in which He is trying to speak. Find a safe space, one that feels warm, …
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