Don't Stop Trying

Ever notice
When you are
Doing all you can
To stop something...
Like a bad habit,
It just rings and rings
Within your mind?
It makes itself
Even more appetizing
Than it did ever before
But you just have to
Say no, no, no and no!
Prayers and respect
To all those who are trying
To break a habit
That has been destroying them.
It is not easy to change
When we are so use to doing
Something our minds and bodies
Have been doing or using
For so long...
It can be done... it can be changed!
You have to get away
From all that leads
Back to what you once did.
Keep your head up...
Eyes focusing...
Heart geared for good...
And watch it change.

Thoughts Upon Thoughts
Mark Grijalva Peres
Copyright©️MDGP2014

Feeling It

To feel
Is to know
That one
Is still alive...
Even if one feels
As they are living dead...
The process of thoughts
Sent by your body
Are the feelings
That make you part
Of the living world around you.
Another words...
Until there in no breath
Then there is no life.
Life is full of feelings
And many times
Our emotions
Get the best of us,
Leaving us high as the sky
With cheer and satisfaction
Or enraged and saddened...
Filled with disbelief.
We cannot not blame another
For our feelings of joy
Or for our feelings of sorrow...
Just as we choose our choices
On what we will eat from the menu
Of our favorite restaurant...
So it is with the menu
Of feelings within our life...
Yet we are prone to blame another
Shame another...
And victimize our very own self.
If we were just as proactive to see
What was really there in front of us
So many would make different paths
Or would they?
Who can truly explain the feelings
We spiral through?
Regardless of this or that...
You are alive
You are not dead...
Numb at times,
But by choice...
With choice not to
Feel what makes our feelings,
Our emotions twirl into grief...
Which through experience
Leads closer to death
Than the gift of life given to live.

Thoughts Upon Thoughts
Mark Grijalva Peres
Copyright©️MDGP2014

Would You?

Given the chance
Would you take it?
Holding on to hope
By grasping our Lords hand
Through prayer and devotions
Open the voice
Within your heart
As it cries out
To Yeshua whose body and blood
Bring us closer to Him
Each and every time.
Attending Mass
To accept the fullness
Of His will upon your life
Hear the voice
That calls your name
Listen closely
Without no shame
Regardless of those
That may defame
We are His
If we will only take
The chance given
To truly start living
The way He designed
Our perfection.

Mark David Grijalva Peres
Copyright©️✝️2015MDGP

Words

I am at lost for words
As some say...
Words are for the birds...
But words are my friends
They combine the time
Into shape for my thoughts
To comprehend
What bents and burns
This life has churned
Time after time...
Some say I believe lies
Some say I am dumb to cry
They say where I am wrong
And they try to tell me to turn right...
Right?
Their right may fit fine
At their current time
Convienently true
But I am shooting for long term...
Like "eternity."
Only God knows what comes next
Only God knows my heart of hearts
Only God loves me
As I need to be loved
From birth to now...
For this I am thankful...
I am thankful for those
Who have told me to my face
That I am not right
Through the eyes they see life with
But I strive daily to see,
Not with mine own eyes
But those of my Saviour Christ Jesus...
A task for a lifetime... no joke.
But with His example, His guidance
And His love for me...
I know I will be ok...
Regardless of what you may think...
Regardless of my past
Regardless of what you might feel.

Thank you Lord God
Praise be to You, Lord Yeshua
Come Holy Spirit
Blessed Mother Mary embraces me
Saints in heaven pray for me
Family and friends who care...
Pray for me... as I pray for you always.

Amen

Mark David Grijalva Peres
Copyright©️MDGP2016

When You Pray...

Pray without ceasing.     1 Thessalonians 5:17

If you could pray
Pray for that one thing
That would revolutionize
The life lived within
This God less and less of God society,
What would it be?
What words would you combine
With your heart on your sleeve
To offer up unto our God...
God is good... All the time...
Our God is awesome...
God rules...
But what would You ask for,
After thanks and praises...
After lifting up the needs of others...
What would you ask in prayer?
So many wise people have spoken
And it is what I ask for,
Within King David's Psalm 51...
Prayed daily, prayed faithfully...
🎵Create in me a clean heart, oh Lord...
And renew a right spirit within me... 🎶
It begins with changing
The dead man or woman
We carry upon the flesh,
To allow the new man or woman
To rise daily and become
Become the beacons of hope
The light within the darkness
For others to see
God within
For them to find.
When we pray,
What is it that we are asking for?
If we want change,
Let us pray for the change
To start within.
God bless us each
And may He hear our prayers.
Amen

Mark David Grijalva Peres
Copyright©️✝️✡️MDGP2017

How Deep is Your Faith?

The love of God flows
For us all to embrace,
Not to take for granted...
The Bee Gees sang...
🎶How deep is your love...🎵
I ask you all...
How deep is your faith?
There is no race
But one step after the next
On this lonely road of faith...
Because we can all dance
Up and down the isles,
Lifting our hands, shouting loudly...
Or kneel down
To intake our Blessed Saviours Body
To drink of His blood,
Yet, alone is the truest walk
Within our Christian Faith...
As Christ wept blood in the garden
Alone He was... Or was He?
God never leaves us alone
Within the path Yeshua paved
For us to pace upon...
The Holy Spirit within us,
Our Blessed Mother Mary's
Intercessional prayers, as the Saints
Never cease to cheer us with prayers as well...
We are not alone in the dark moments
His angel have charge over us,
But the question remains...
How deep is your faith?
Does it simply frost the cake?
Or is it the complete whole cake?
God is in it for us completely,
Are you?

Mark David Grijalva Peres
Copyright©️✝️MDGP2017

Blessings

Today is not just the beginning
of a brand new day...
But the opportunity to be thankful
For all the past days...
Good or challenging
They have led to today...
Embrace today as a chance
to live differently
Than you did yesterday...
Enjoy each breath
Knowing that God gifted this
To you in order for you
to praise His name...
There are rules
There are guidelines
But to worshipping
And being thankful unto God
There are no limits...
For His love for us had no limits
For His love has no limits for us...
Either way... God has never stopped
And He never will stop loving us...
He made us to His perfection
Embrace this perfection
With each and every thankful breath.
Today is not just another day,
Change your life from all sorrow
Change your life from all addictions
Change your life from all lies believed
Change your life from all scrupulous ways
By trusting God with all your days
From now until that glorious day
When we are blessed to dance, praise and worship
In His holiness.
Happy Monday to all
Blessed be God today and always.

Amen

Mark David Grijalva Peres
Copyright©️✝️MDGP2016