This Heart doesn't share Answers, sharing a Heart Perspective

And 

This share is an experience on God's Movement in my Life

A Relationship with God
learning more daily in intentional scheduled "devotional time"
A Relationship, which for this heart is much more than a Religion
A Relationship to Share Life With God, and to "Be Still" Intentionally while Receiving Back.
Asking questions, sharing life's challenges, tears, concerns, as well as all the great things
going on, the celebrations, including the anticipated and hopeful days ahead
​
A Relationship

​​I am a Christian
I believe In the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
I'm walking out this journey just like you
and
I have learned so much about God
Which includes Asking the Questions
Being Led, being Guided to the Answers at times
Including
Silent Times with No Answers to my Questions
Some that present day 'still linger' 
The Why
The When

There is a Gift of
Experienced Moments of Peace Within
Especially in the Midst Of...


I’ve traveled some miles now in this Relationship with God
And 
There are so many Layers


There is a Quiet Assurance
A Surrender to being aware "intentionally" knowing that I'm not in Control
Leaning On God
Trusting Him
A Loving God 
God whom has no "Respecter of Person"

The same I found
Is the same available to you
and
even more if you choose 
Your Own Relationship


When I fall short
When I make a mess 
When I say things I shouldn’t have
Take Actions that were completely the opposite of what I want my life to reflect

Suspecting there will be more times
It is called a Journey

With all this
A relationship
A Relationship with God My Creator
Who already Knows
And 
Without Judgment filled with Love
Arms opened wide
Especially when I fall short
I'm So Grateful


GOD WHO KNOWS

A God Who is Not Unapproachable
Doesn't deliver condemnation
Doesn't have a list of disappointments
or
A Pointed finger with a list of Wrongs
​
Even when sharing correction it is with Love
Doesn't always feel the best in those moments
but
Correction Is Love and Represents Caring
Represents Love


GOD IS LOVE

This Share was placed on my Heart to Give to You
To Someone who may need to hear it "right now"
Tomorrow, or Somewhere along the Way

My Truth is on all that is Shared


It's God Business
Where it Lands
Where it will be Delivered


Again, 
This Share is Not Answers
Not my Interpretation of what you should take from it
It is my Experience 
If you feel led to after or during this

​I recommend to purchase the Book 
Wherever books are sold

I started to read it that day and a few days throughout that week
It has been at least 7 or 8 years ago now


What I remember
I was clueless what this book was about
It didn't grab my attention on the first few pages

And

I really felt I couldn't relate what was being shared
Clueless
Unrelatable

No Idea of
The Direction the Author was going


I continued to attempt to read the first chapter
and
I Just couldn't connect


Since I didn't really get what the Author was sharing
I decided to stick the book in my dresser drawer
and
Maybe one day revisit it 

​
​In the Dresser Drawer it Went
And 
I Just Forgot About It

My husband was killed on September 7th, 2016
If you want to know more, the share, is found under "Life Shifts"

But 
That has its own Journey

GOD KNOWS

And Suddenly

A Tragic Experience of an Immediate Loss of his presence in our Life
As a Husband, a Friend and Father for our two wonderful sons

There was a lot to handle
In An Instant
With Minimal Time to Think 
A Season of Just Do
And 
God's Grace, carried, even as I share this, I can't even share all that happened
During that time and space

But

​God carried the boys and I through 
With many chapters to be shared and was written between that moment and Now

There were many things to be packed up during that season
To go through things, and decide what and where it needed to go

I came across this Book
Located in my dresser drawer
This Book called "Why?"

From the First Page
Until the Last Page
Tears rolled
It was filled with Hugs and Understanding

And 
​
It Spoke with such a Connection
Like a Dart on a Bullseye Target


GOD KNOWS
Every Page was like having a Retreat with Jesus
It was a Heaven Sent
It was reading My Mail
It was Sharing to a Grieving Heart

Delivered by someone who just seemed to Know

This Experience is one that I will never Forget
A Cherished Appointment with God

The Book called... Why?
In that Dresser Drawer?!

As a Woman of Faith, 
This Heart has
Traveled a few miles now 


This Heart has experienced 
Mountain Tops, God’s Favor  
Joyful Moments beyond measure 
Great times, beyond the words to really express the exhilaration 
Experiences that 
“Only” and “But God” 

And

The Journey, the travel has included Valleys
Disappointing, Very Dark Unimaginable places
Places filled with Tears, and Disappointments
Moments with a consistent firing round of what now?!

Moments that for this heart the only choice presented was
At least for this Heart to
Press Forward and Pray through
Refusing to retreat and give up
Not An Option
A choice, 
I did not say easy, I said a Choice

Allow me to repeat 
I did not say easy, I said said a Choice

It is a choice every day on what to embrace
What emotion to allow to be in the driver’s seat
A decision to decide 
Every Single Day
How to Respond or React to moments presented

No One has it all Figured Out
Not One
But
We All have a Choice
Of 
What to Allow
What Emotion will drive and determine 
The View 
The Direction
The Possibilities

Including Moments Filled with
 
Why God?
God When?

This is being Shared for the Heart 
Who is always quietly Observing
Who is always wondering or assumes other lives are lived seamless 
Based on the Posts or the Photos of celebration

This is to share if you’re in the Midst Of Challenges
You are not alone

My summarization “to date” is that 
Even in the Most Painful Places
The Most Lonely
The Most Confused or Disappointed Places
God is With Us

In Fact the longer I live
I'm realizing 
That God takes those Hard Places 
And 
Uses them to Move Us to Higher Ground of Perspective
An adjustment to all that we do have


And for this Heart

Especially “In the Midst Of…”
God Shows Up
God Knows 
God is always present
God can see over the Mountain
He Knows what tomorrow Holds
Which allows This Heart to Trust God More
This Heart is Traveling Through
Just like you 

—--
My name is Yvette “Donyale”
Allow me to officially welcome our first time visitiors
Helping Build Bridges Across
You are a visitor, an observer the first time
The second time, you are a Villager


This Village
This Heart 
Is not a Place to find Answers
This Village will not offer a How To
If Only…If only it was that easy

This village does not have 5 Steps to this
Or
10 Ways to that
This is a Heart Sharing a Perspective
From my own road traveled to this day

There is plenty of weighted places, and negative conversations
This Village will not and does not offer that
Considering, 
Who needs to add to that environment
There is plenty to find

This Village is 
Sharing what Inspires, Encourages and Reminds 
This Heart, Your Heart to reflect on what really matters

My Expression is sharing with others
Words and Images
It Brings comfort to this Heart
And
Grateful for the opportunity to share with the Hearts of others

Sharing for us to Consider
To Reflect
Sharing in this Village a Buffet Table
Allowing you to Sample and Decide from what is shared 
Taking what Inspires, encourages, offers joy and smiles

Thank you for Supporting the Work
In However
Your Heart is Led To
Lets Go and Lets Make the most of this road being travel

Especially “In the Midst Of…”

Did I say…
Especially “In the Midst Of…”

This share is to say
I don’t know what tomorrow holds
This Heart is Trusting God “through” this day
This Moment
And 
That Includes all the hopeful days before Us


This share is for the Observer
For the eyes watching assuming a smile means no burdens or challenges
Who sees the photos of celebrations
Who reads the posts of those "over the moon" moments

Not realizing it is a few minutes out of someone’s day
Which is good, it is great

But
That Includes…
We don’t know what took place before that photo 
And
What is being faced after
We don’t Know the story behind a smile

We all face challenges
Consider
We live in a world that seems to being getting darker
Some people who no longer care about there neighbor
There community
No longer have empathy or consideration of anyone else


Consider
As much as you love, care, show kindness, and have hopeful days
Someone feels the same fullness of the very “opposite” of every word mentioned
Someone hates, cares less, shows anger, and hopes for the worst
We are not all sharing the same journey

Especially “In the Midst Of…”

Allow me to share
This Heart knows of a flowing river
A Living God 
One that we can carry our burdens and joys to 


God is a Loving God
Who listens
Who comforts
Who walks and most often carries us through
Who shares what to do 
When being still, when listening intently

We can bring our tears, our concerns, our hopes
To a God Who Knows
We can share the good things
The Hopes To
The Desires and Dreams

God shines a light in dark places
Even 
With flowing tears, with questions of Why
God Whispers and shows us that comforting light

A Presence of Calmness even in a storm
With Whispers of the Next step or next moves to make

This Share 
Especially “In the Midst Of…”

This is an Audio Journaling Experience

Grab Your Favorite Beverage, your favorite Note Taking App, Notebook or Journal
and
Lets Begin this Experience Together. 

We Live, We Learn, We Share Along Life's Journey ~HS

Hugs, 
Yvette "Donyale"

"Making Gratitude Contagious"

Someone shared this...

I thought it offered a great point with a sad mention

There was someone 
Who had recently learned to fly a private aircraft

It was emphasized in there course
To always 
"Trust the Aircraft Instruments"

This story mentioned 
How the Pilot
In a moment
Depended on there feelings
While Flying at night
It appeared that they were climbing Altitude

But

They were actually flying downward to the ground
It looked and felt like the sky
But
When Flying especially at Night
Without using the Instruments

The Sky and the Ground
Looked the Same
The Pilot and Passenger Died

The Share
This True Story offered an Analogy 
God's Word is an Instrument
And
Even Though
You Feel This or Feel That
Surrounded By This or That
Including Moments of Darkness
When you can't see clearly

You follow the Instrument
For those who Trust God
We Follow the Truth
We Follow
The Word of God

We Follow the Truth 
Of
The Word of God
Above How We Feel
No Matter What it Seems Like or Not

We Follow the Instrument
We Follow the Word of God 
Our Trust is in God

I found a way to "slow down" time...

I know you're thinking, what in the world is this share about?!  Slowing Down Time?!

This Heart's Favorite is Images, and Words, learning to Listen more, to appreciate Observing More. 

Beautiful surrounds our life and many times "for some" it takes "rough terrain" a loss, a challenge, an overwhelming moment along life's journey to locate "BEAUTIFUL".

​Which this heart knows firsthand, and my hand is up first, I believe I'm included in this category. 

This is not a blanket statement, and Not always, there is never "all", I'm sure there are some who exercise living intentional, and exercise locating beautiful, they can see it, they can hear it, and they search it out every single day. Intentional, in that it didn't require a moment, a shift to recognize how important it is to live in this way. 

This image, shares the sentiment of so many moments that for this heart is fleeting, time that does and will continue to whisk by, and more often than not it's hard to catch a glimpse, if not intentional.

This heart observes that so many are always moving, never engaged, never embracing what is in there hands right now, always on the next page, always "running" to get to tomorrow's agenda, to get to the next thing, and very few take time to enjoy the conversations with those they know, and those they don't in brief encounters along the day. 

It is an Exercise, it is Intentional, to locate "beautiful" and to appreciate moments "this day"

In closing, 
This Heart doesn't share answers, sharing a perspective. Sharing words, and images that "intentionally", I now consider, each and every single day. 

The perspective on this share, is that "No One Promised Us that Tomorrow" will look the same as today, and only we can choose, if we engage, embrace, find beautiful "in this new day"

A New Day which in itself is a blessing by God, a privilege that's beautiful. 

When life changes,
We will all dance with those emotions for whatever the occasion may bring, but for those who locate Beautiful every single day, who intentionally exercise in that dance, recognize the road behind us left a trail of lessons, and offers us precious moments that are now packed away, will continue, to travel alongside for the road before us.


Consider,
Beautiful Has a Language