Wonderful world. Beautiful people. I pray
you are enjoying a marvelous weekend. I’m thinking of you and wanted to write
you a letter. Again. I realize the ton of material I’ve written to bless
humanity cannot just wait dormant. I’ve got to share it and tell it and write
it and say it and speak it and let the seeds germinate. While I wait,
expectantly, for a publisher to discover the gem in my work and sign me on to
write marvelous books. While I wait, for that Network executive to realize there
is an audience for faith-based inspirational content, prompting them to place orders
for scripts. While I wait, for the day I will sign on the dotted line on a
contract to bring unique motivation to your television screen and deliver awesome
programming. While I wait, best of all, to someday own a communications station
broadcasting globally, catering especially to my African people, who need all
the upliftment and empowerment they could get. Ahh… my friend. One day my heavenly
father, the impeccable Creator, will blow my mind and these “big big” dreams he has placed in me will become loud reality. I promise to share with you then as I’m
doing now. Me and You in this thing for the duration.
Meanwhile, I keep publishing
on this HIBlog to bring a ray of sunshine to your space. Never mind I will have
to “go there” sometimes. Talk about things you’d like to hear about. Talk about
things you’d rather not know about. Push you to discover the better version of
yourself—the version found in Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Glory! The
version that sin often sneaks in to harass and then shade you afterwards. Whatever
the topic, I’ll always publish something for you. Know beyond a shadow of a
doubt I love you with a sisterly love. My wish is for you to live the abundantly
happy life Christ has made possible for you.
My greatest joy comes from making others
happy. If my writing can change your countenance every so often, then gladly
will I always deliver, free of charge, reading material to the beautiful people
of the world. God said we are to love, share and be one another’s keeper. Besides,
it’s like my heavenly father has drilled a bottomless well in my spirit and
filled it deeply. The more I write the more I want to write. The more I determine
ways to capture creatively the message of the Jesus-gospel the more the Holy
Spirits teaches me expressions—things to say and ways to say it, etcetera, etcetera.
Hallelujah!
The article below was written one mid-morning in 2014 while the troubles of this world thought it could frustrate me. As always, I felt joyful and
blessed to see another day. I recall it was then two weeks before I would finally
lose my gorgeous home. Medical issues had brought on disability for
several years and disrupted my livelihood. All negotiations and other efforts
had failed and I would soon have to give up the house to the Bank. If I may note
here, the complex, crazy-laborious procedures of Loan Modification exhausted me
and I had had it up to my wit's end. That process was something else to endure...
the main people who benefited from that “for the most part 419 scheme” was the
fax machines. What! That’s a whole different story for another day. All said
and done, I wasn’t looking forward to the coming weeks. Who wants to be “technically”
homeless! Lord have mercy. Anyway! All this is long since behind me. Glory!
Glory! But this one thing I knew: Heaven and earth may pass away but my God shall
see me through. Jesus would make a way, of that I was certain. Somehow. And by
golly! God did it. I am still here. Aren’t I? Certainly. Hallelujah!
Let me
tell you another juice from the losing-my-home saga. On the day of turning over
the keys to the Bank’s realtor, I won a soul to rededicate her life to Christ. Here’s
how it happened. I asked the lady if she’d like to join me in prayer. She
timidly said okay. I began to pray and profusely thank God again for giving me
the chance to live in a house many could only dream of. I prayed for the next owner
who would occupy that gorgeous residence. I prayed that the realtor would
quickly sell it so she could get the commission. (She’d earlier shared with
me being unable to sell properties in her real estate portfolio and was in financial
straits from lack of commission income.) I praised and glorified the Lord for every
circumstance that had brought me to that stage in my life. The prayer ended. I
had no crying left in me that day, but the realtor cried her eyes out. She said
tearfully to me, “I have never met anyone like you. How can you be losing so
much and still pray to God like this? I've never seen this before. Where do you get such strong faith?” She
continued, “I believed in the Lord as a child, but I've stopped. You have made
me return to trusting God.”
Did you hear what I just narrated to you? My
friend. My heart somersaulted. Hallelujah! Now you tell me was it a winning
situation or what? Dare I say. JESUS. Yessss!!!
Okay, let me get back to the main
story. My two passions in life are prayer and helping hurting people. It is my constant
prayer that God would use me daily to always help make someone feel better and
let in a ray of bright light during the many seasons of life. An old Christian chorus
we sang at Revival in Liberia goes like this: “Let Jesus fix it for you, for he
knows just what to do; And when you pray, let him have his way; Let Jesus fix
it for you.” Amen.
My friend, we feed off one another. I
know the times are dreary for most people. I know it can be tiresome staying
indoors as day and night weave in and out. Do me a favor, stay strong. Be well,
remain calm and watch this nightmare end. You will soon return to the normal
way of life. Or you will return to the new normal God has in store for you. In
closing, be reminded the article below was written during one of the worst periods
of my life. My song refused to die then or now and my God is forever glorified.
I wish you same. Oh how I wish you the same ever living song! ~Hortense *
*Writing includes local African vernacular
A SUNNY KIND OF SHINE THIS AUGUST MORNING
Good morning, My Friend. What a joyous morning. I
looked out to find that flawless stream of light is the sun shining brightly
through the window! I looked up at the gorgeous blue sky flawlessly speckled
with the most breathtaking white clouds. I revel in my belief that I am gazing
at the flowing bottom of God’s long white robe billowing down from the majestic
heavenly Throne where my Heavenly Father is seated. The Throne from where my
father, The King of Heaven and Earth, sits timelessly to watch and rule and
orchestrate the events of my life. And your life, too.
I get excited that my Father knows all about me. And
you, too. I get super-excited that I am in such exceptional, perfect hands. Oh!
I feel an adrenaline rush that the merry sunshine was released this morning to
brighten my day and keep me warm. And you, too! I do not have to shudder from
the events of life; regardless what today plans for me. I am not fazed by
whatever life have in store for me today. I’ve got Jesus! I am enveloped by The
Lord and surrounded by the splendor of God’s handiwork—creation. And you are,
too! I am thrilled when I consider that my Father, the Almighty God, has put me
in charge of everything He created in this earth. And you are, too. Oh! I am
excited about today. I excitedly look forward to today. What about you?
I walked away from the window and began my Prayer Time
and Devotion. My Bible reading was from the Book of the prophet Jeremiah. A
particular Scripture verse kept standing out. I want to share it with you. My
friend, you truly have no cares. Be committed to God. When you wake up in the
morning, pledge to be excited about Jesus. Before the day even presents its
agenda for you choose that your answer will be, “Yes Lord, I say Yes to Your
Name.” You are the reason for everything God does. God does it all so that you
would reflect HIS GLORY. God sets life in motion so that you would be made
perfect for Him. God permits life events to come your way so that you would
sift through it and shed “your flesh” to focus on living forever, in eternity,
with Him. God allows life to happen to you so that you would grow under His
bright love. Just like a sunflower. God allows life to happen around you so
that you would recall Just Who Your Father Is. So that you would respect that God
is Jehovah Sabaoth. That same God is Jehovah Shalom.
You must stand firm in this life. God put you in
control of everything He made. God made life. You are in charge of everything
God created. And God created everything. The Lord has authority over everything.
Speak to life. Tell life “In the Name of Jesus! My friend, just a little while
longer and you would be where the sun rays originate from. You would not need
to gaze at the clouds. You would be standing in the very presence of Him who
sits on The Throne! You would be warm forever by The SON rays that never stop
beaming.
Here is God’s WORD:
“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you
compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the
thickets by the Jordan?” (Jeremiah 12:5 Holy Bible NIV)
I say to you, “In the name of Jesus go out and face life
today!"
~HortenseInspiration
(DO IT FOR CHRIST)
Blessings and Peace,
Hortense Duarma
Grimes
Servant of the
Living God
Founder, Do It
For Christ Ministries
Creator,
HortenseInspiration Media
Dreambearer &
Dreamcarrier, Solace Africa
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