WHEN ENGLISH IS NOT ENOUGH

A Meditation

                                                         FAR  FROM  THE  CIVILIZED    WORLD

     7/2014         

                                                                    M MEDITATIONS  

     

                                                          AS A CITIZEN  OF  HEAVEN   

               

   

present I struggle with two Spiritual realities. The one, is my nature to do for myself what I  please  as I please. I understand the power of free expression and that driving need  that seeks to make itself known, and to be understood  and know,  I know my ego needs and  ambitions.  They do not require translation into any foreign language, as this nature is shared by all  mankind . 

Every face nears it's own humanity with hope and disappointment , joys , triumphs and pain. The human condition. 

Of the struggle then is the reality we are spiritual and there is certainly the truisms  we submit too,  convinced    Or otherwise, So we have our human nature , then we have a spiritual nature enlivened by the Spirit of God  Who  is bringing light toour minds through the Bible. Consider, the Scripture  , "... Our foolish minds were darkened"

So where is the conflict?

I like it in the setting of a Theatre. As I see it, we act out and involve, and are persuaded of our engagements first by out minds, the mind  is us,  what  we think becomes who we are and what we do and react too, in essence what we 

Dwell upon". 

Let's not leave it  there. The struggle  is a collision with the  Will. 

We all have one.  Can we consider who rules who? 

Does the Mind rule the Will?

Does the Will  indeed rule the Mind?

It appears to me from study we must submit our Will to the reinforced and enlightened Mind changed and made alive to God by His Light , see  John 10 Jesus is THE light. 

If I have the wealth of this world or a modest representation of it, why  yet does conflict redid hamper  my why  with their shadows of discontent?

As I increase in learning, why yet does  the  insatiable desire for more  leave me wanton and beggarly?? 

I seek to know wisdom, but is spend countless hours on acquiring knowledge. 

In the summation of this  inquiry, 

I will submit to the reading of the bible  as an appropriate   Act of Wisdom and submission. 

For this moment of Time, the struggle of the Will becomes  quieted as a nursed child. 

Shonda Davis 

Viva la Church du Vietnam

Our visit here with friends among the many has been very sweet. Tremendous fruit. 

I was able to teach immediately The information I have studied in my IPad library and since I need to commit  most  information to memory was thrilling to see it so received. 

 This information was the dynamic communication styles men and women use in the expression  of 

Themselves, , the dynamics of their language and the analysis of "the argument " and steps to  diffusing and  resolving  them. 

This was during our Marriage and Family sessions.  

There have been numerous  expressions of faith and trust, which   Are necessary to remain untold   at this posting.   

Photos of gathering is withheld at this time. 

 This is representative  of the many   beautiful buildings in architecture taken from the French Influence  here for many years. 

A fill report will be posted later. 

Father and Son

This is a great photo of our son Ben and his son wyatt. Ben is a doting father as you can see here. 

We are anxious to get home and spend time with them. 

Beautiful family faces

We are so excited to be home again with family. While away, 

  their absence feels even greater.  I can be called romantasis ,  our family really is our lifeline. 

 What a great  smile and little wyatt has  filled my heart with joy 

We surely look forward to seeing them soon. Xx

Chimes Over Mandalay

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 Still  under military  control, this  nation is waking up  to  their  cell  phones  chiming constantly. 

  This  modest and unassuming  Country is electrified with  chimes of progress. 

Albeit cautious in a too quickly growing economy,   shops, taxis. Private  homes  and last but not least, the Bible School where Jim taught the 3rd  Inductive   seminar chimed with frequent calls.  

To his credit he didn't miss a beat and seems to roll with the punches. 

Some afternoons were smouldering with the heat of the "ill tempered sun" and yet he finished his  job well.  

He passed the baton and  taught  them the necessary tools to  understand the Word  of  God  via  verse by vverse, using the 5 interrogative friends, so to speak, and be able to teach it  as  to be understood and applied by the hearers.  

The 2images of the dorms are used by the male students in the photo. 

As you can see from these previous  posts  his students  range from different ages and economic and educational status.  

As I finish this post, we are presently on flight to Saigon, Vietnam  to begin again the well received Training. 

To keep things simple and basic, we do our laundry by hand and  gratefully enjoy the most basic of needs met . 

This is my beloved, relaxed and happy after we have finished our time here in Mandalay. 

I am very proud of him. 

Joy with the Tribes

This photo taken with   A Kachin  couple who   Wanted  to ne photographed in their ethnic clothes were part of the participants in the first Inductive Seminar  in Northern Myanmar. 

He is a Pastor and he and his wife are presently caring for 10 orphans who  were homeless.  

These children were vulnerable having no place to be cared for and showed up  in  their Village. 

We  presented them with a monetary gift from our support. 

 

Aungbom , Myanmar 

 this was the place of the 2nd Inductive Seminar. 

Jim taught them with such passion. 

 Below is a home church of Chin believers.  It  was wonderful fellowship.  They sang familiar  hymns  and we joined in in our language. 

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is a predominately  Buddhist   Country. Yet  the True Light of The Gospel  shines in the darkness and  leads many out, to Jesus.