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The Long Defeat

February 27th, 2010

I am moved by music with a lyrical story. I love it. I was reading one of my favorite missionary blogs, The Livesay Weblog. I don’t really know these people and they certainly do not know me … but I do enjoy reading about their lives. I was kicking around in their archives and found a post entitled … The Long Defeat, that referenced a song by Sara Groves … by the same title. As I listen to this song, I knew that this composer had walked the same stretch of ground that I had and seen the same sites.

I will post the lyrics at the bottom … but, one line in the song stabbed me in the heart … and I actually commented “wow”, the first time I ever heard it. “I just can’t fight when I think I’ll win”. That truth is so amazing to me … that someone wrapped up a very complex current dilemma in my life with one line of lyric.  Sometimes it gets so frustrating … living the same thing week in and week out … sometimes not seeing any progress in your situation. No solutions. All you get is … “just keep walking in the light, and trusting God.” But God! I need to know where I am going and what the purpose of all this stuff is … it is too heavy. Just keep moving.

Some may read this and totally not get it or miss get it. If you have ever struggled or suffered … you will. Here are the lyrics … find a mp3 and get a listen. Hope it helps you like it did me. — wg

I have joined the long defeat
That falling set in motion
And all my strength and energy
Are raindrops in the ocean

So conditioned for the win
To share in victor’s stories
But in the place of ambition’s din
I have heard of other glories

And i pray for an idea
And a way i cannot see
It’s too heavy to carry
And impossible to leave

I can’t just fight when i think i’ll win
That’s the end of all belief
And nothing has provoked it more
Than a possible defeat

chorus

We walk a while we sit and rest
We lay it on the altar
I won’t pretend to know what’s next
But what i have i’ve offered

And i pray for a vision
And a way i cannot see
It’s too heavy to carry
And impossible to leave

And i pray for inspiration
And a way i cannot see
It’s too heavy to carry
And impossible to leave
It’s too heavy to carry
And i will never leave

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If you say go

February 15th, 2010

In praying this morning, this song came to my heart. I keep asking myself and the Lord … “is it just me that wants to go to Haiti? or is this your will? … then I thought, what a stupid thing to ask after the Lord has given us a mandate to care for those who can not help themselves. Here’s a tip … don’t keep asking the Lord a question that He has already answered. I should know that.

If You say go, we will go
If You say wait, we will wait
If You say step out on the water
And they say it can’t be done
We’ll fix our eyes on You and we will come

Your ways are higher than our ways
And the plans that You have laid
Are good and true
If You call us to the fire
You will not withdraw Your hand
We’ll gaze into the flames and look for You

Since my last post, I have to say, that things are frustrating to me. The NGO’s and ministries that I have been TRYING to get in contact with are pretty much dead end streets. They all say (in their tweets and facebook status) we need you to come, we need you … but most that I have contacted or tried to contact … don’t even respond back. I guess they are too busy. So … I am going … even if I have to go Abraham style … just walk. God never said Go … if you can get support, or approval, or partners … so, that is what I am doing.

I am planning my own media trip for March 2010. My team (me, God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit) will be going to Haiti to see  the possibilities of starting a vocational school for the young people of Haiti. I think I know enough people in the tech field that we can establish mission trips to train Haitian young people how to do a myriad of things … from computer repair, to screen printing, to art, to music. Anyway, that’s what I got.

I will be preparing to get things together in the next few weeks. Shots, and all the stuff the CDC says I need to get ready. I hope to partner up with a local pastor in Haiti to help … but, I don’t even have that yet. But it will happen. It will cost about $1,000 the way I count it. Airfare, transport in PaP. Plus I want to help out these missionaries there that need tools for rebuilding. Hammers, saws, general carpentry hand tools … more about that later when they send me their wish list.

I’m going to put up this donation button that you can do if you want through paypal. It would be appreciated … but it’s not a … if you don’t send the money I can’t go thing … cause, I’m going no matter what. Faith is a funny thing like that.

Haiti Relief Trip – Wayne Gooden

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One million water wells needed

February 1st, 2010

Experts are saying that Africa as a country will need to drill up to a million boreholes to supply them with enough safe and clean drinking water over the next ten years. Estimates for Ethiopia by itself has been said to need 80,000 boreholes for water wells.

This amount of well drilling will supply the country with safe clean drinking water. Just for Ethiopia alone an investment of a billion dollars is said to have to be raised to pay for this over the next decade.

It’s a sad fact that 6000 African’s die each day through drinking dirty unsafe water. The African people have to walk miles and miles to fetch this water in cans or plastic containers, this water if often unclean and not fit for human consumption, but often there are no alternatives.

The average person in this country probably needs to drink about 2 liters per day to maintain life but In Africa the people will need to drink more because of the extreme temperatures.

In the United Kingdom we have little appreciation for our water supply. Just think about how much water is wasted everyday in our daily routine, for example we can use 8 liters per flush of our toilet system although new w/c’s are only permitted to flush 6 liters and when code 4 building regs comes into to place this will then be reduced to 4 liters, leaving the tap running whilst brushing our teeth can use up to 10 liters of wasted water if you clean your teeth properly i.e. brushing for up to two minutes.

The Environment Agency has stated that as an individual every person in the United Kingdom uses an average of 140 liters per day wow! When was the last time you went to the tap and started trying to consume this amount, the most I can drink is about two liters of water a day and that is in tea.

What’s left from what the average individual in the UK drinks is 138 liters, this is probably used up with toilet flushing; cleaning teeth, car washing, leaking taps, broken mains, etc.This list could be endless.

Imagine if you could save half of this wasted water per day and ship it to Africa in a container ship, this would amount to around 70 liters per person per day and would go a long way to combat Africa’s water shortage.

Another way to help this problem would be to donate say £1 per person per year, just from the Untitled Kingdom alone this will be a figure of £60 Million per year and go along way with supplying Africa with drilling rigs to drill their boreholes and also supply them with the necessary training to be able to drill a water well successfully.

We are just average people, living in our own little world in an affluent society carrying out our busy daily routines. When we get 5 minutes to ourselves just sit back and look at how fortunate we are, then compare our lives to the less fortunate and the needy. The ones that have no taps to turn on, the ones that walk miles and miles a day to fetch water.

Remember always, water is a gift of nature; it is just harder for some people to get than others.

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