Especially, In the Midst Of...

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Especially, In the Midst Of...

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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

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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

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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 

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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

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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

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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…”