I've discovered that people do read this blog, and I have not posted for almost two months.
Over the next few weeks I’m going to make an effort to start
writing here again. I believe writing is healthy for processing life and for the
soul. My journey has not stopped just because I’m living in Alberta again. So
continue to check back here for stories from my time in Uganda, for thoughts
and opinions and my journey back into life in Canada.
Home : (noun) a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household. :www.dictionary.com
Home : (noun) Canada, homes filled with love that contain my family, Christ and grandma’s supper with real butter and borscht. A place where I live that I return to often and am blessed to be able to live with my family and friends. :tasha
Praise Jesus.
I am home safe, and just settling into life back in Canada.
Hope to share my experiences and stories with y'all soon.
Since being in Africa we have buried 6 babies, 6 precious
creations of God. Painstakingly we cover and wrap the baby with a white sheet. We sing it is well with our soul and in a wooden
coffin no longer than two feet; people of different cultures pay their respect.
Recently Baby Raymond breathed his last and with it completely
surrendered to God’s plan. And then angels welcomed him into heaven.
White is a common color in the book of Revelation. It’s a
symbol of blessedness and purity and a description of the redeemed. Heaven is
not just filled with white but marvelous color.
A wise woman once told me, ‘There is a rainbow of
opportunity open to me. I just need to go past the black and pick a color.’ Burdens, fear and pain all stop us from fully
living. What is fascinating is that even though the black can come and go the
rainbow never fades. It is always there.
Often the black in our lives blurs the rainbow.
Sometimes we are given the gift of seeing the rainbow
more clearly but we just can’t seem to step past the crippling black.
We need to continually raise our white flags, immerse ourselves
in them as an act of surrendering. As individuals, as communities, as
generations, as families of believers together RAISE our white flags as we RISE
UP.
White Flag (noun/verb) : an all-white banner or piece of
cloth, used as a symbol of surrender or truce. To give up; weaken; yield.
Surrender (verb) : to yield, to give oneself up, abandon
or relinquish power and to submit.
We do have moments where we are inspired, moved, and
changed.
These are gifts
from God.
In that moment when the rainbow is clear, when we raise our
white flags are the moments where God is tangible and when you can take a breath
and the Holy Spirit fills you. Those moments where you decide to run to his
arms and let him walk. The beautiful moment where the rainbow has never been
clearer and you can taste the hope. These are the moments that make us excited and ready for the days where we
will be able to feel the rainbows. Be immersed in the rainbows; to be surrounded
by the Glory of God and the majestic colors of Heaven.
When we raise our white flag with finality and realize we
are finished is a moment we may fear but death is the ultimate fulfillment and the
ultimate act of surrender. Heaven. Nothing is greater. And I praise
Jesus His kingdom has gained 6 smart looking black babies who have restored and
complete strength, whose bodies have been perfected, whose tubes have been
removed, whose lives have been transformed and perfected more than human hands
could ever perform.
My limited understanding leads me into fear. If there is
one thing I have learnt it’s that
Your fear MUST NOT be bigger than your faith.
When this happen the rainbow blurs.
RISE UP. Fear has
no power in your life and death has no sting; if you choose to believe. The black
in your life, it’s just one step
away from the rainbow. There is always hope. Come awake! He has overcome the world, the war is won but a battle
is at hand.
Will we choose victory??
He willfight for us, he willdefend us: we can overcome because he overcame the grave.
Through Jesus HE has given us the victory.
