Helping Haiti

My tradition at the beginning of each year has been to take some time off, specifically 21days to exercise a couple of things .Foremost has been to cut off my supply line of food. This makes so much sense as Christmas is always a season of plenty and this part Christmas wasn't different; more important for me this has always been the time to snuff out the "voices in the land" and to listen to the voice within. Its amazing what focus fasting puts on the mind and the voices that are often ignored which now scream when the body is forced to do what it doesn't want to do. Most important, many of the achievements in my life have been crafted during this time of meditation, prayer and fasting. This time enables me to lay down the priorities in my life: spiritual, financial, material and emotional.

I have come to learn that the busy lives we lead never allow us the time for meditation and we, being the microwave generation, never say no to the desires of the flesh. Today is day 8 and the experience has been rewarding. My body is coming to learn that it cant have everything it wants. My mind is also coming to learn that it cant think its own thoughts and get away with it. It has been amazing how easy it has been to detect the body and mind wanting to go off on a tangent and the effort it has taken to rein them in. The exercise of reining in my body and thoughts has been very rewarding and it has amazed me how normally I (the flesh) would have got off with "murder" but now, i am not letting myself to be conformed to the pattern of this world, rather I am being transformed by the daily and deliberate renewal of my mind an I am becoming more discerning in mind and spirit.

I have set clear milestones of the things i hope to achieve this year. very clear in my mind is that this year, the year 2010 is the year of the Extraordinary in my Life and in the things that concern me. tough choices will have to be made, nothing ever came easily!

This year this time has coincided with one of the worst natural tragedies in my lifetime...he Haiti Earthquake. My heart has been so moved by the tragedy and my days have been filled with literal weeping and fervent prayer every time i sit in front of the TV screen getting an update. I have got such a burden to pray and give towards helping those who stand in need of great help in Haiti. It has been amazing that whilst before i was glued to my screen helpless but i have come to a place of being able to connect and pray and stand in the breach for the quake victims. I know that in my giving and prayer I am reaching out to someone and in putting myself in the shoes of the Haitians i am planting a seed and praying that one day in my day and hour of need that He will send help my way.