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from mourning to mission favorite links our baby our love our loss book website beth moore living proof ministries share pregnancy and infant loss support first candle sudden infant death alliance mommies enduring neonatal death wheatmark publishing company check out these books the shack wild goose chase in a pit with a lion on a snowy day if you want to walk on water you have to get out of the boat our baby our love our loss blog archive 2010 12 july 1 the team is safely home june 1 may 3 april 1 march 2 february 2 january 2 2009 26 november 2 october 3 september 2 august 3 june 1 may 2 april 3 february 2 january 8 my blog list link www twittermoms com google blog search contributors h mark evans kathi created 4 art fhockeymom followers facebook badge kathi evans s profile create your badge saturday july 31 2010 the team is safely home just don t give up trying to do what you want to do where there is love and inspiration i don t think you can go wrong ella fitzgerald the kenyan mission team arrived home safe and sound on friday afternoon however i don t think that i am risking exaggeration by saying that a part of our hearts are still in kenya some of the team members did become ill during the mission but except for an exhaustion that often accompanies hard work done well everyone recovered before departing for home this was a special team and we felt god s presence throughout the mission in a special and even intimate way we all feel that we received so much more than we gave now we must process all that we experienced and seek god s leading for the future as we do that in the coming weeks and months i will be sharing some of the amazing stories from our trip on behalf of the entire team i want to express our heart felt appreciation for the many prayers that covered our every step with your prayers came a confident peace as we reached out to the precious kenyans that god brought to us each day god is opening doors in kenya for touching lives and as he does it is my joy to pass on all that he has planned for us with each of you who are supporting our ministry i am certain that i will be sharing opportunities for you to become actively involved in what god is doing through tlm both here in the united states and in kenya i do want to thank my clever husband for keeping everyone updated through this news blog he took the little bit of information i could text to him each day and turned it into a full update thank you sweetheart and i want to thank each of you for coming along with us on this blessed journey fasten your seat belts the adventure is just beginning posted by kathi at 6 45 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday june 15 2010 tired of or challenged by if we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility henry wadsworth longfellow i recently had an eye opening discussion with someone who has it all at least by the world s standards as i listened i heard concern fear frustration anger and helplessness in regard to the state of our world but what captured me was that i saw each of those things in his eyes i could almost touch the hopeless resignation before me and my heart broke it was recently pointed out to me through the vehicle of mark batterson s new book primal that jesus admonition to love the lord your god with all your heart and with all your sould and with all your mind and with all you strength mark 12 30 begins with the heart jesus does not instruction us to love him with our mind first no that is called science he asks us to love him first with our heart that s called compassion and so i am faced with the next step in my journey to love like jesus loves and like so often in the past i am confronted by questions am i going to continue to look around or through the people i see every day or am i going to begin to see them with eyes of compassion am i tired of or challenged by their struggles fears and failures am i going to love like jesus loves am i posted by kathi at 8 18 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday may 27 2010 one of the hard to love by faith the harlot rahab did not perish with those who did not believe hebrews 11 31 i am rahab the harlot it s not fair but that is how i m known or maybe it is fair at any rate it s certainly is not accurate anymore it just seems that some titles are hard to shake off actually i ve gotten used to it and it even makes me smile but forgive me i m getting a little ahead of myself let me tell you my story and hopefully it will make you smile too i live in the town of jericho it s a very small town made up of only ten acres of land but it is important to joshua the israelite partially because it s the home of a wonderful perennial spring flowing with life giving water it also controls the northern road in the jordan valley that leads to the popular trade city of beth san oh but the most important thing about jericho is that the god of abraham isaac and jacob promised to give this city to his children the israelites everyone in jericho had heard many stories about joshua s god and in time it became obvious to me that this god loves outrageously get this he even loves me i m not sure i ll ever understand it but it has changed me i left my former career and began to follow this god that they call yahweh then one day i opened my door to two young men they told me that joshua sent them to jericho to spy out the land that they were preparing to take over and they needed refuge i couldn t believe what i was hearing god had sent them to me he not only loves me he trusts me really me the only thing i could say was i am willing the young men at my door however did not share my enthusiasm over the lord s choice of accommodations for them but that was only natural they didn t know me like god knows me although i did win them over when i hid them on my roof under piles of flax and told the king s soldiers that my jewish visitors had already left jericho i suggested that if they hurried they might be able to catch the two foreigners my guests were so impressed with my willingness to protect them that before they left my home in the opposite direction of the soldiers of course they promised to do the same for me and my entire family when they returned and they were true to their word so you see i am rahab the harlot no actually i am rahab the loved and forgiven harlot and that makes me smile posted by kathi at 11 28 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday may 9 2010 a day for all moms motherhood is priced of god at price no man may dare to lessen or misunderstand helen hunt jackson whether your baby is young or old on earth or in heaven a child you bore or that of another or a child waiting for the day of their arrival on earth my prayer for this day is that you and your child would have a renewed awareness and celebration of the precious and eternal gift that is motherhood posted by kathi at 1 45 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday may 6 2010 the act like it phase turn your eyes upon jesus look full in his wonderful face and the things of earth will go strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace my last break through lesson in love was that god loves me his love is unconditional safe and permanent the resulting challenge god loves to challenge and stretch his kids was that i should live and love as though i am the recipient of the literally outrageous love of the creator of the universe this is the lab part of my love 101 course this is where i apply what i ve learned practically i like to call it the act like it phase of my learning the interesting thing is that in this lab i am studying myself as much as i am studying love what s that you want to know what i ve learned i was really afraid you were going to ask well the short version is that i ve learned that i am a wimp i am short sighted i am easily distracted and i am self focused hey come on you asked but i am also learning over and over on a daily basis that i have an incredible abba daddy who is always willing to forgive and never willing to give up on me and although i am not setting any world s records in regard to how quickly i m learning i am finding that when i become distracted by my own fragile ego it is taking less time to re focus and hear the holy spirit s still small voice and his voice always says focus on me my daughter remember that i love you always and i will help you see those you are struggling with through my eyes sweetheart i love them like i love you and i want you to love them the way i do do i need to be loved by the people i love yes the plain truth is that i do need some of them to love me we all do and i don t think there is anything wrong with that that is the way god wired us but because of the safety and security in jesus love for me i can love people who don t love me back some days when my focus is more on myself than jesus it can feel brutal at other times i am filled with a longing a literal ache for the hard to love people in my life to realize and embrace the intensity of god s love for them on those days god s spirit whispers to my spirit now you are learning what real love looks like still the prayer i had prayed nearly every day for over a decade remained jesus let me love with your love and see with your eyes show me what it means to be the expression of your heart to those around me because i knew more than ever that his love did indeed have a face mine michelle perry from love has a face posted by kathi at 8 42 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday april 1 2010 the heart of the matter trust in the lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding psalm 3 5 so i took the concept of loving people especially those who are not particularly interested in me or my love with an eternal perspective to heart and tried to put it into practice and it worked for about five minutes that s about how long it took for those old feelings of hurt and bitterness to sneak back up to the surface oh i would refocus on god and his love for them only to find myself saying hey what about me what about you my daughter i want to be loved too i want love to be safe i do love you you are safe with me i know do you really do you value my love do you trust my love well yes of course i do then you are safe now i m asking you to live and love like you believe it ouch loving the hard to love is more about me and god than it is the person i m trying to love i know that i can trust him and his love for me he saw me through the loss of my precious baby peanut and even turned my tragedy into triumph and that s just one example of his tender love for me he and i have history god has proven to me that i can trust him ok i ll try again and again but god why is it so hard shouldn t loving others be easier why does it sometimes feel like well suffering unfortunately my dear one that is the only way you will learn obedience not just in loving others but in everything you do and my son modeled that for you though he was a son yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered hebrews 5 8 so loving others is really about trusting and obeying you father author of my faith please help me to trust you more posted by kathi at 7 53 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday march 20 2010 touching lives is on the move jesus said to them again peace to you as the father has sent me i also send you john 20 21 all my bags are packed i m ready to go well not yet but god is asking me to take these love lessons on the road specifically he s sending me with over 20 others to ahero and wachara kenya this july two of the board members for touching lives ministry are joining with a medical mission team to participate in medical camps while keeping the eyes and ears of our souls open to the leading of the holy spirit we at tlm believe that god may be sending us to this region to open our first medical clinic we ask that anyone visiting this blog would partner with us in praying that god would reveal his perfect will for us during our mission it is exciting to realize that god has provided for us to be vehicles of physical and spiritual healing through this trip whether we end up in ahero full time or not that is so god we do have some prayer requests to pass on wisdom for the mission leaders as we prepare to go safety and health for the team and loved ones of team members while we re gone discernment for tlm leaders to hear god s call provision of a portable ultra sound machine for tlm in time for the mission that lives would be touched and changed that god will be glorified and magnified in all we do the trip dates are july 17 29 i look forward to sharing all that god does during that trip with each of you who are partnering with us now may the god of peace make you complete in every good work to do his will working in you what is well pleasing in his sight through jesus christ to whom be glory forever and ever amen hebrews 13 20a 21 posted by kathi at 9 03 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom 99 days of love the lone sparrow arts butterfly studios c j darlington 112 christian authors and publishing professionals share their best advice for novelists 13 years ago christian writer reader connection in celebration 6 years ago from the eye of the storm just dropping in for a visit 12 years ago the lone sparrow forecasting weather map worksheet 1 key a comprehensive guide 3 years ago