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20/20 Challenge for February

Shutterstock_2318122Are you ready for the next 20/20 challenge? For February the two prongs of the challenge are:




1. Spend 20 minutes of God-talk/God-time every day. This is so important. To begin seeing your spiritual, physical, and emotional life experience alignment with God, it takes a commitment to engage God’s presence. So take 10 minutes at the start of your day to align your heart with God’s…to let Him know you are available for whatever He impresses upon your heart during the day. Read the verse of the day here on my blog, and ask God to begin showing you who He really is through the Scriptures you read. Then ask Him to impress upon you the who: what: where: when and why of the second prong of the 20/20 challenge.

2. Show 20 random acts of kindness during the month! These can be anything:

*Roll your neighbors garbage cans back in for them.
*Buy the coffee for the next person in line at your favorite coffee hangout
*Give up up your place in line at the grocery store
*Run an errand for someone in need
*Take care of a friend’s children so they can have a date night
*Give away a grocery store gift card
*Smile!

OK, your turn, post some of your ideas for people on this blog entry and also post on here what things you are doing to get the creative juices flowing!!  Remember 20 random acts of kindness during February, that about 1 a day!!

On your mark, get set….get salty!

Illuminate Deo
Monty

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African Art

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I saw these oil painting in Nairobi…click to enlarge and let your eyes drink in the textures…

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People You Meet On The Way

No matter where you go, where you find yourself, what back alley or back road you decide to take in life…the people you meet along the way are not accidental tourists in your life. Everything has meaning when you are In Christ, and are following Him!

At the Amsterdam airport there was a young woman who came to sit with us, her name is KY (pronouned like sky but with no s :-)…I asked Ky what her story was, and she began to unfold a journey about helping people. For KY, her concern for others began in school when she was studying the atrocities committed against the Jews by the Nazi’s. She didn’t understand why no one stood up sooner, why the US waited so long to engage…

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Later, after school, she worked with victims of domestic violence, still trying to give voice to those who needed help…On this journey, KY is traveling to Rwanda, where she is going to work with the U.N for about a year, to do her part in the genocide that is happening there.

Her heart pored out as she spoke about the plight of the people, that other nations hadn’t responded because the countries only resources seemed to be "people." No financial gain, or political leverage…so no involvement.

KY longs to make a difference at the U.N making it easier for groups like us to get in and take care of the most precious resource on the planet…people.

Pray for KY…pray for us too!

I love the people God places in your journey for perspective, spice, and thought…

Illuminate Deo,
Monty

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People You Meet On The Way

No matter where you go, where you find yourself, what back alley or back road you decide to take in life…the people you meet along the way are not accidental tourists in your life. Everything has meaning when you are In Christ, and are following Him!

At the Amsterdam airport there was a young woman who came to sit with us, her name is KY (pronouned like sky but with no s :-)…I asked Ky what her story was, and she began to unfold a journey about helping people. For KY, her concern for others began in school when she was studying the atrocities committed against the Jews by the Nazi’s. She didn’t understand why no one stood up sooner, why the US waited so long to engage…

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Later, after school, she worked with victims of domestic violence, still trying to give voice to those who needed help…On this journey, KY is traveling to Rwanda, where she is going to work with the U.N for about a year, to do her part in the genocide that is happening there.

Her heart pored out as she spoke about the plight of the people, that other nations hadn’t responded because the countries only resources seemed to be "people." No financial gain, or political leverage…so no involvement.

KY longs to make a difference at the U.N making it easier for groups like us to get in and take care of the most precious resource on the planet…people.

Pray for KY…pray for us too!

I love the people God places in your journey for perspective, spice, and thought…

Illuminate Deo,
Monty