Dear Friends,

Are you aware of what you're feeling inside? What's really fueling your motives? How do you recognize what motivates you? My Holy Mentor the Holy Spirit showed me an ingenious process that reveals our inner motives and brings them to light: Spiritual Situational Awareness®.

The U.S. Coastguard uses Situational Awareness, an integral part of piloting aircraft and boats. It's knowing what's going on around you. Pilots have to be able to identify, process, and understand critical elements of information in order to safely and effectively navigate from one location to the next. This awareness enables them to reach their intended destination securely, protecting passengers and their lives as well as preventing storm related accidents.

Spiritual Situational Awareness® is becoming cognizant of what's going on inside you. It's recognizing issues in your life that need to be addressed. Joy's mentoring helped me safely and effectively navigate my life. Her hindsight was often the forecast that saved me from a lot of turbulent life storms!

There are three essential elements of Spiritual Situational Awareness®:
1. Awareness: Knowing what is going on inside of you. When you feel something inside your heart, it is there for a reason and acknowledge it. Pray and Jesus WILL show you what's up. Be willing to listen.
2. Appraisal: Once you see the issue, ignorance is no longer an option. You have a God given gift to choose how you will respond to the issue you see. Pray for wisdom.
3. Action: Doing is the cement that holds your purpose intact. Pray for grace and strength to do what He wants you to do. God is a debtor to no man and will provide!

"Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." Luke 23:34 I believe Jesus was speaking of our unconsious motives or those sinful areas in our lives yet to be exposed by the Holy Spirit and understood by us. Read more about this divine and phenomenal process in Make A Difference Mentoring Woman To Woman. Spiritual Situational Awareness® gives Holy Spirit inspired revelation fueling strong spiritual growth. Go for it!

Joy and I found a secret that really defined our relationship and made it the lifelong friendship we enjoy to this day.

The greatest gift we gave each other and still share is our unconditional love for each other. No strings attached, no expectations, judgments, pre conceived notions or wants, hidden agendas, what’s in it for me. Not ‘here I am’, but rather ‘there you are’ and ‘I see you’. Just an acceptance of who we are and how God made us. Each person is a child of God, worthy of courtesy and respect.
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So for the sake of Christ, I am well pleased and take pleasure in infirmities, insults, hardships, persecutions, perplexities and distresses; for when I am weak [ in human strength], then am I [truly] strong (able, powerful in divine strength).
2 Corinthians 12:10 Amplified

When I am weak, Jesus is My Strength.
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4In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men.

5And the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it [put it out or absorbed it or appropriated it, and is unreceptive to it]. John 1:4,5

His Life is in His impenetrable Love. The problem is not a lack of love in the world today. The problem is our lack of expressing what is already in us. The solution is to open our hearts and give to each other what we desperately need- His love. God is omnipresent which means we only have to give and receive what is already there. Jesus paid the price and has done it all so we simply need to live His Love out with each other.

The Easter Egg Hunt for the Blind in San Diego is a volunteer effort that really reflects Jesus’ love. My children lead the people right to the egg that is there. They see the egg with their hands, smile and eat the candy. They enjoy each other, look beyond the blindness and receive the love and joy of connecting with each other. Last year, Hannah accompanied Yvette with her Seeing Eye dog to find eggs. This year, we walked into the main room and saw her of course since she could not see us. She heard Hannah’s voice and said, Hannah is that you? After a whole year, she recognized Hannah’s little voice! Yvette’s eyes are so deformed but her love and personality are so beautiful my kids don’t even notice her deformity. They just see her effervescent joy and love. Yvette daily lives 1 Cor 13:12: She clearly sees in Jesus’ love and perfection, His reality and face to face.