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  David and Dianna Wyles wrote a new blog entry:

  

  Trauma Happens

   
  Trauma Happens.... It can come in a variety of ways
   
  
  Here in Northern California, most especially Butte Co. and surrounding areas, we started our year off under the fear and distress of a possible Dam Spillway Failure. It's easy to say t...

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  • April 30, 2017

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    Sylvia Todd

    Thank you so much for this encouraging and interesting post, Dianna! I thought it was sad that only 30+% of people could score zero on their ACE score. Like apparently most people, I was not at zero either (more like probably 3), but have high resilience

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    Thank you so much for this encouraging and interesting post, Dianna! I thought it was sad that only 30+% of people could score zero on their ACE score. Like apparently most people, I was not at zero either (more like probably 3), but have high resilience and yes, knowing how much God treasures each of us is a critical factor in that! 

     

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    David and Dianna Wyles

    Yes the statisics are staggering! We seem to be a world living in chaos with our eyes focused on all the wrong things... it's so easy to see reality and feel disheartened, to become traumatized by life's bumps and turns, yet God calls us to look past our

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    Yes the statisics are staggering! We seem to be a world living in chaos with our eyes focused on all the wrong things... it's so easy to see reality and feel disheartened, to become traumatized by life's bumps and turns, yet God calls us to look past our reality and see his beauty and blessings. His blessings truly are all around for us to see... On the days I can look past my inner chaos to see all the beauty in his creations alone, well, those are the days I am most at peace. I am blessed to have my camera on days when I need help to focus on a healthier mind-set. My  ACE score is like a 5+... but knowing who I am in God, has made such a difference in my healing and growth. Thanks for your feedback Sylvia God bless

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    • May 3, 2017
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    Cheryl Hepler

    Very good Dianna...So much truth here in subject. Facing and dealing with a biggy in my trauma I found a whole lot in help from Jesus.  Many worked with me.  Close friends in a church I attended during this heavy journey were with me.  Certain things

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    Very good Dianna...So much truth here in subject. Facing and dealing with a biggy in my trauma I found a whole lot in help from Jesus.  Many worked with me.  Close friends in a church I attended during this heavy journey were with me.  Certain things developed like a phone call to  tell me of a special group that deals with things I needed tucked away secretly where other survivors were working with helps of all kinds with a special lady who lead the group. My husband later joined with members husband's to understand the problem and how to understand what we ladies had gone through and what help they could be.  We even met later in the church of the meetings for pot luck dinners.  Surrounded by God and others.  Later in some years again another place I drove to in VA had a special place and plan for individualized Counseling therapy & included voice people who went through same things I could call and talk over how I was feeling in this process.  It dug things up that were put on back burner in my memories I didn't remember. The pain of events goes hidden for our own protection because as a child we can't handle it all.  God it was said made this needed place in us to split off into.  A large trauma can make alters for protection.  Each hidden place alter is dealt with to eventually bring wholeness. When all finished at this helpful place in VA he said Spiritually I was complete and in the physical Spence but will deal emotionally at times.  That is saying triggers can happen and knowing by realizing how I am at a given moment I go through steps to work thru the feelings that came with the trigger. They happen far apart now over years but can happen.  A very big picture of God is so present do to His presence was very real. Words from a song long ago by a local artist say... Lord you know me and You understand and You just how really weak I am .sooo keep me keep me keep me..... Blessings to all you do in helping others in the many ways you do such as books for children written with all heart!!

    
    

     

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    • May 10, 2017
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  Jeffrey Smith wrote a new blog entry:

  

  Pick up your mat

  John 5:4 ?
  
  Look up John 5:4. I will wait...There is no John 5:4 and yet there is a notation below in your bible or bible app that tells us that some manuscripts have the word paralyzed in there with and explanation of what would happen at the pool of B...

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  • April 29, 2016

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    Dion Todd Do you want to get well... we meet so many facing that choice. Great word Jeff. 

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    Lesa M. Merrill I do want t be well. I want to be out from under this cloud that hangs above me.  Please Father, give me healing.  

    • April 30, 2016
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  Jeffrey Smith wrote a new blog entry:

  

  Healing in the shadow

  Acts 5:15-16: As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick ...

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  • March 14, 2016

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    Lorna Smetak So true! Believe:  Matthew 21:22New International Version (NIV)
    If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

    • March 14, 2016
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  Jeffrey Smith wrote a new blog entry:

  

  The Surgeon

  Colossians 1:16: For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.
  
  There are no conferences, no award ...

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  • February 25, 2016

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    Sylvia Todd That is beautiful, Jeff, thank you! I pray that your dad is still recovering well!

    • February 25, 2016
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    Jeffrey Smith Praise God! The Lord truly saved my Dad again from certain death, and I am happy to say that he will be going home from the hospital in a day! Thank you all for the prayers and love. 
     

    • February 25, 2016
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    Sylvia Todd That is wonderful, Jeff, so happy for you and your family, and grateful to the One who brought it about!

    • February 25, 2016
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  Jeffrey Smith wrote a new blog entry:

  

  Go! Trust Him

  Exodus 4:12: Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.
  
  I tell people this all the time, but it is the truth. I have blessed more people on accident then on purpose. I could go out one day with the idea that I am going to pray healin...

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  • February 24, 2016

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  Jeffrey Smith wrote a new blog entry:

  

  Dry Bones Live

  Ezekiel 37:1-3: The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bon...

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  • January 8, 2016

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    Deleted Member Wow, you head to nail on the head, there are so many churches that have dry bones and they don't want to seem to come to life anymore, they just want to lay there and wait and wait and wait, but many times we need to feet on our prayers and on the work...  moreWow, you head to nail on the head, there are so many churches that have dry bones and they don't want to seem to come to life anymore, they just want to lay there and wait and wait and wait, but many times we need to feet on our prayers and on the work that Jesus wants us to do. We shouldn't expect Jesus to hand it to us, we should be a willing vessel to do what He wants us to do, so that He can use us and then we can really true enjoy the blessings that He will flow upon us. We need to pray, fast, spread God's Word, tell others about Jesus, we need to speak to these dry bones, so that life can come back to them. This was an amazing blog, I live in SC and there are churches on every corner almost, and sometimes two or three, but with only a handful of people, or maybe just the Pastor and his family, or maybe just a Pastor, waiting, hoping, praying that someone would come in. But we have to realize that many many people are tired of the churches being so dried up, no moving of God's Spirit, a lot of people are crying out for something, but they are looking to the world to satisfy them, when if we as Christians would get up and do what God has called us to do, those dry bones would no longer be dry, but living, breathing, praising and worshipping Jesus with all their hearts. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. God bless you and your family.  Keep on bringing us The Wonderful Word of God.  less

    • January 9, 2016