30 Days of GREEN HOPE Series
(Day 5) When 10 minutes Makes the Connection
Day 5 30 Days of Green Hope
Ten minutes in person- royal connection!
Every once in a while everything works out just right for a special connection. Driving from Ohio to Texas, we drove right by the office of the Woodward Oklahoma News office where one of my mastermind girlfriends work. Staff writer Dawnita Fogelman.
I joined this mastermind group of entreprenuerial women to help get support and encouragment as I grow GREEN HOPE COACHING. But due to the restrictions of the last couple of years, I have never met any of the beautiful women in person- only over zoom!
But today I got to give a real hug to one of the QUEENS - Dawnita. We only had 10 minutes together but it was so good to see her in person for the first time.
This was truly a life giving, green hope moment. Can't wait till the group can all join in-person together.
So who do you need to spend some face to face time with?
(Day 4) This is the Sound of Surviving
When a song you've heard many times before suddenly speaks life into you for the first time again.
#30daysofgreenhope Day 4 #imstillhere #nicolenordeman #soundofsurviving
What song is speaking hope to you today?
Listen to SOUND OF SURVIVING, by Nichole Nordeman
(Day 3) When HOPE is a SOMEONE!
Listen to the DAY 3 Video to hear how God used some SOMEONEs to show HOPE to me today. Then read below about a SOMEONE I’d like to introduce you to at an event August 28th.
I’d love to hear your comments below about how HOPE shows up for you today
When Ren and I got married, SOMEONE gave me a book called Creative Counterpart : Becoming the Woman, Wife, and Mother You Have Longed To Be. (Hmmm? I should probably go back and read that book again)
Anyway, the author was SOMEONE by the name of Linda Dillow and her writing connected deeply with me. So as her other books came out, I was quick to pick them up and share them with others.
Over the years, I had opportunities to meet Linda, then sit and chat with her after a speaking event, then correspond via email in a mentoring relationship. Our family even got to housesit for Linda and her husband, Jody while they were traveling for a season. Even though we only had a brief time with them directly, living in their home taught me much about this SOMEONE that I knew God had brought into my life for a reason.
Kathy and Linda at Kiev conference 2002
In the fall of 2002, I was invited to lead a worship team from our Ohio church for a women’s conference in Kiev, Ukraine. Little did I know, the speaker for the event was SOMEONE named Linda Dillow. She was in the middle of writing her book “Satisfy My Thirsty Soul”. Our time together in preparations for the retreat turned out to be life-changing for me as a woman and a worshiper. I was and am eternally grateful for the role she has played in my life.
Linda and Kathy at Surprised by the Healer Conference 2015.
She’s holding the manuscript of my book.
It was no surprise when I was looking for SOMEONE to write the foreward for my book Lovely Traces of Hope, that Linda would be my first choice. (You can read what she wrote here.) As you read the pages of my book, there are many times when Linda’s words to me are being channeled to you- either from her books, her emails, our conversations. There are times when I give her credit. There are times when I didn’t even realize that Linda was the one that first introduced me to the thoughts or the scriptures. So here’s me saying ‘thank you’ publically once again for the amazing ways God has used this woman in my life.
The exciting thing for me is …that same SOMEONE, Linda Dillow is making another appearance. And we are inviting you to join us.
Linda and her daughter, Jessa Dillow Crisp will be speaking at the Community Bibile Church in Omaha, Nebraska
on Saturday, AUGUST 28th.
The topic is HOPE!
Since not all of us can travel to Nebraska, the women of our church in Ottawa, Ohio and the GREEN HOPE COACHING community are co-sponsoring a live-streamed event locally for women in the area.
If you live nearby you can come too. If you live in Omaha- you can go there. OR you can even arrange to live stream the event to your own personal device.
You can find out more about all of that - and save your spot to join us -
by clicking here. <—
If you are reading this, you have to be amazed how God used SOMEONE
to buy me a book as a young bride
to write books that change lives
to plan the conferences
to invite the friends
to mentor women
to be a ‘bringer of HOPE’
Could you be that SOMEONE for SOMEONE?
Check out the details- Save your spot for the
FIND HOPE CONFERENCE
for women
www.ottawamissionarychurch.org/hope-a-conference-for-women
(Day 2) All you need is the Green Light from a Firefly
(Day 1) Join me for 30 DAYS OF GREEN HOPE
Day 1 of 30 DAYS OF GREEN HOPE series
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On August 16th, it will be 15 years since our daughter Leisha ran off to heaven. I have been ‘celedreading’ this year for 15 years. The anniversary that marks that she had lived as long as she has been gone.
From past experience, I know that anniversaries and birthdays can throw a grieving momma for a loop. I can go into the depths of the grief tunnel all over again if I’m not careful. Now I know that I will always be a greiving momma! I can’t NOT be a grieving momma just because she was my baby and I will always feel the loss of her different than anyone else in my life. It doesn’t make my loss more or ‘righter’ -
it is just my own.
This year, I really want…