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it came rolling in the support to buy pads and undergarments for the girls came generous hearts responded when we prayed with gratitude and asked god for guidance he sent us to mentors for their thoughts wholeheartedly they confirmed our thoughts we should use the money given to carry a whole generation of girls in this community through the tender years of private needs and enable these girls to get their education grow up become influential ladies someday and then they the young girls all grown could become the mentors for the next generations it would enable these wounded girls to become warrior ladies who knew the need and could deliver the final blows to the lusty users on the mountain side and the plan was set in place by the one who heard their cries for help it s why we go to the mountain side the kenyan ladies mentor these dear girls week after week and month after month when we are here we join in and encourage them all it s beautiful really beautiful kenyan ladies helping kenyan girls rise above what would have smothered their future sunday i shared psalm 25 with these precious girls the church was packed but the girls sat so still they listened to every word given them their numbers have grown they re calmer than they were 2 years ago when this all began they smile more they are being fed in ways life on the mountain would have left them starved and dying 5 kenyan mommas allow us to come alongside them as they grow up a new generation of girls on sunday i was allowed to offer them jesus in their heart as their hands were filled with what they needed their hearts were filled with the answer so many wanted to accept jesus as their savior they raised their hands and prayed aloud and i know the kenyan mommas leading this group will disciple them week after week in the ways of christ we didn t count how many prayed but we know that the one who loves them dearly held the number to his great heart and smiled they are saved they are being rescued he knows the plans he has for them the girl child holding her girl child i got to talk with her that day she could speak no english that means she has been unable to go to school as much as she needed monthlies keep girls out of school when they have no pad to stop the flow she is was one of the casualties of the mountain she is the living proof of what had been happening a friend had recently invited her to come to the church to meet the ladies who are helping the girls that friend helped translate for me it was the young momma s first time to come to the gathering and she was so happy to be received by the group and helped by the kenyan momma mentors no judging allowed it s just such a beautiful picture of the faithful way god moves in an unfaithful world he never gives up he does not turn away when we fall down he is ever ready to respond to the one who says help me lord psalm 91 15 he is the one who rides across the heaven s to help us deuteronomy 33 26 she left the church with more lines added to her story good lines love lines she carried a baby girl in her arms when she arrived that day she left with her baby girl in her arms supplies for her monthlies in her hands and jesus in her heart and love s arrival on the side of that muddy mountain could not be stopped posted by donna taylor at 6 10 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday july 31 2019 the odds are actually against us but he isn t when something happens in our lives or something is about to happen when we step into the places of meta cognition and actually slow down enough to think about what we re thinking about when someone says something to us or sometimes even worse when they should have but they didn t at almost every juncture of human interaction it can happen in the blink of an eye we form a view we develop an idea of what we think they meant by what they said or did we adopt an internal view that can compel our response or we may stay silent and keep it to ourselves they too are forming their own view of the situation hopefully both views are positive we can hope the heart and mind of both individuals is upright and well intentioned if so it s the best chance the interaction will land in good places but here s the craziness of human interactions even when both participating parties are good hearted and well meaning so often something that should have glided through smoothly inadvertently turns sideways a clog up forms and one or both people can walk away a bit quirked on the inside good grief it happens quicker than lightening and always the thunder boom comes afterwards sometimes in the far distance sometimes close enough to rattle a heart the thunder moment comes when we realize the odds have worked out against us it s terribly important we realize that when lightening strikes it always causes damage every time when we hear the thunder roll it is telling us that somewhere something just got whammed with upwards of one billion volts if the thunder roll is far away we know the impact was miles away but when the thunder rumbles our own chest we know the volts did damage up close lightening is much more clear than human interactions here s the skinny of it when we have a conversation whether through verbal words or body language we must remember two thought clouds are coming near one another and if they collide emotional lightening will be produced emotional thunder lets us know damage occurred for some people the lightening s damage shows up quickly the sanguine and choleric but for some the damage that occurred will show up in more distant thunder phlegmatic and melancholy but the impact happened the damage is there and the wise among us are cautious on the front side and quick to care in the aftermath hang in here with me for the real dilly of it as if lightening and thunder isn t big enough when communicating with one another there is usually something of importance to convey whether it s the list of items needed at the market the information needed to complete a task or the way we feel concerning a previous interaction what we need to hear from another needs to be heard in right ways what they need to convey needs to be said in right ways and right there at the birth of the conveyance we can see four ways it can go two are positive it was said accurately and it was heard accurately two are negative it was said wrongly and it was heard wrongly then consider the crazy that comes when perhaps it was said right but heard wrong add in the timing tone facial expressions of the speaker and then timing mood and previous interactions of the day for the listener and you have more levels of multiple options for negative or positive understanding bottom line reality is there is one right way to communicate and one right way to hear and if either of these is off then clouds come close and collision is likely some might want to click delete now i totally get that the thinking that says good grief it s just too hard and i m already tired from all life s other pressures there s no way i can win why even try but oh let s reign in that runaway horse and remind it of who is in the saddle the phrase there s no way i can win is a big reveal and we must keep it exposed and defeated winning isn t wonderful when alone is attached to it and if someone else had to endure the emotional lightening of about a billion volts they re not going to want to keep standing close to the one who keeps delivering the impact winning matters in war and the olympics one wins all others lose winning in relational interactions can only be accomplished with two or more winners no losers are allowed on the field every divorce i ve ever heard of meant that one had demanded they had to win or that one was exhausted from being forced to lose that s when marriage looks more like war than love and even if the one thinks they ve finally found a way to win in the end there s so much rumbling thunder in the skies the damage done will take years to repair if reparation is even possible sometimes winning is the worst thing that can happen winning and losing is the wrong goal in relationship it s right for a world war but wrong in a home and communication is the key that turns the lock one way or the other it will either unlock what had been locked up tight or it will lock up what had previously been open communication is so important in 1967 dr albert mehrabian and susan ferris conducted 2 studies of 30 females trying to determine the correlation between verbal and non verbal communication they wanted to determine which weighs in heavier which carries less impact the results of their study have been widely shared and wrongly communicated interesting a study on communication being w r o n g l y communicated gotta grin don t we he s famous much to his chagrin for the 7 38 55 theory broken down the study implied 93 of communication is non verbal his theory proposed the breakdown as 7 being verbal 38 vocal tone and 55 visual expression but wait all this could come from two studies with 30 females and yet can we remove the numbers and percentages and look at the realities they expose we might walk away with gold in hand how someone says what they say is much more impactful than the actual words they use don t we already know this i can say i love you with a hawk look in my eye and it can become a scary string of words or i can say i love you with gentle eyes leaning forward arms uncrossed and it becomes a safe kind string of words add to the words the prior actions that validate the words and the communication can land without complications as long as the runway is clear of debris because the receiver either has or does not have the ability to hear and believe no matter how expertly a pilot is able to land the plane if the runway has been bombed and boulders cover it the plane can not land so communication requires both the giver and the receiver to allow goodness and kindness and what is upright to land between them what is upright will bring a rightness to the space between them no voltage no winners or losers just both parties bringing the desire for good to fill the space it s not easy it s actually immensely difficult add in the reality that there is an enemy that wants healthy relationships to fail that enemy wants to isolate and separate and make people feel alone so what am i driving at relationships are pre determined to struggle there are at least a billion ways it can go wrong as each bolt of lightening can deliver that many volts so each string of words can bring lethal damage if not carefully handled therefore to know the seriousness of each communication to think about how we think about communication to begin the work of crafting our words gestures facial expressions and actions as if we re intentionally painting our own private sistine chapel every stroke of michelangelo s brush was intentional he never once could allow a messy careless slinging of paint intentionality so what is created is beautiful intentionality because what could be lost would cause all to lose intentionality in word gesture facial expression action and motive intentionality since all the world is aching to see goodness actually win intentional to remember that everyone who catches a glimpse of the authentic beautiful might be willing to try and carefully put paint to brush on their own relationship canvas for this to actually happen we must lean away from the wild card ways and careless words flung around in this limping world and remember the one who created us knows the best way through the landmine of communication in relationships he said be kind be gentle be patient consider the interest of others love one another it s sprinkled all in god s holy words and isn t jesus the ultimate example of intentional living wow 30 years of waiting 3 years of ministry knowing his death and resurrection would be needed he was is and will always be the way the truth considering the reality that there are about a billion ways communication can fall short it compels me all the more to hold tight to his robe walk at his pace do what he says and speak carefully using words when needed we must face the reality that the odds are against us but there is one who is forever faithfully for us run your race speak carefully hold the robe imagine this is what flooded through my heart before my feet touched the floor this morning no wonder i grab coffee and his word before the sun slides over the horizon posted by donna taylor at 9 04 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday march 11 2019 dwell in the shelter of the most high rest in the shadow of the almighty dwelling in your shelter resting in your shadow is it real is it possible or are those just words printed on ancient pages spoken long ago by a clever king he who dwells in the shelter of the most high will rest in the shadow of the almighty psalm 91 1 when the hard days roll round we ve got to have something we hold on to so i say to myself donna where are you dwelling it s a simple hugely important question where are you dwelling mentally i ve learned that where i m dwelling physically doesn t matter nearly as much as where i m dwelling mentally spiritually emotionally took me years to get that piece settled in my bones truth is where i m dwelling physically can even end up being a distraction from where i need to be dwelling mentally remove all the wonderfulness of being in a comfortable place go through the personal fire of letting go of all that you thought mattered so much lay down the house the stuff the familiar wonderfulness of all you ve nested up around you lay it all down and go to an uncomfortable unfamiliar place and if we let him he will show us himself in ways we might never have seen him in that nest of comfortable that laying down can happen in about a million different ways no one way is more powerful or important than the other what s important is that we allow it to come to us look around you and you ll find so many souls who have refused to lay down their life they will not consider it because maybe it makes absolutely no sense to them that s only because they haven t yet let themselves feel the touch of his hand or heard his still small voice saying come away with me it s ok it s not that they are bad or even selfish it s mostly that they don t know how to get from where they are to the place he can take them it s that they don t know how and they haven t been brought to the place where they let go and let him do what only he can do and maybe they re wildly afraid of even considering it i wasted so many years pointing my fingers at others if you re one of those dear souls i pointed at you likely never knew it i was a closet pointer pointing at others with a criticalness that only reflected my own ugly heart of frustration towards myself i knew i couldn t get from where i was dwelling to where i 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