Rainless Rainbows/ Jesus Is Coming Back Again

I drove up to the stop light. It was red. The female driver in front of me kept pointing adamantly out of her window at the sky. Suddenly she began pointing harder and harder and with more determination. So I tried to look in her rear view mirror to see if I knew her and try to figure out why she kept pointing out of her window. Was she trying to get my attention? I didn't recognize her, but with all of my travels I never know who really knows me or might recognize me. So I stuck my head out of the window and looked up at the sky. And low and behold there was a RAINBOW. How could that be? It had not even rained here. A rainless rainbow? So I stuck my head out of the window and hollered at the lady, "IT'S BEAUTIFUL" She looked back at me in surprise as two little heads stood up in her back seat. Ah, now I understand. She was trying to get her daughters to see the rainbow in the sky out of her window. The woman grinned back at me, "YES IT'S BEAUTIFUL!" I responded, "AIN'T GOD GRAND?" The light turned green and we instantly disconnected, pigeon holing ourselves back into our separate lives as we then drove on our separate ways. Never before in my 54 years have I seen a rainbow without it first having rained. This morning I awakened to the vision of thousands of people at stop lights pointing at the sky, when Jesus makes his grand entrance, returning on his horse, coming back again.

YOU SHOULD HAVE MORE CONFIDENCE!!!

Missed you madly on yesterday. But was too exhausted to revisit the day before I went to bed. It was such a roller coaster ride. Started the day feeling "FIGHTILICIOUS". Ready to take on the world. But now I know that I wasn't specific in my fight. Was I intriguing the devil to "BRING IT" and I would take anything he had to challenge me with. Or was I imporing God to "BRING IT!" and let's get it on. But I didn't know for what or for why or for when, for where, or for who. I was just riding to work feeling higher than a kite. But I've been living in that high for a while. Sometimes I think I scare folks like Moses must have when he came down from the mountains bathed in God's Glory. I think as the day progressed I got confused on whose battle I was fighting. Some how the skirmishes of the day evolved in to being all about me. WROOOOOOONG!!!

It took me about 45 minutes to realize that the press release that I'd submitted and that was returned to me draped in red with corrections and changes and inserts had nothing to do about me. I hadn't received a paper like that since my first year at Columbia College in 1973. Golleee, it brought back such feelings of insecurity and inadequacy. (devil talk) Me, a world travelled award winning author, news columnist, playwright and poet. My ego was crushed, demolished, weeping like a baby whose hand had been slapped. Of course no one knew this but God and I. Then I get a memo saying that I should have more confidence. Ain't Beelzebub something? I mean first satan makes you cry then in the same breath says "you oughtta smile more" Get back devil, get back. IN THE NAME OF JESUS, I AIN'T HAVIN' IT!!! Whew, I feel better. How about you? God began to work with me. Settled me down and whispered, "Good, Yolantha, stand My Ground"

So this morning after doing a dashboard agenda of my yesterday in order to improve this day I ask myself.
WHOSE GROUND WILL I STAND ON?
WHAT RIGHT DO I HAVE TO BE HERE?
UNDER WHOSE AUTHORITY DID I WAKE UP THIS MORNING?
WHO GAVE ME PERMISSION TO BEGIN THIS BLOG?
WHOSE BREATH AM I BREATHING?
WHOSE HEARTBEAT OF PASSION WILL I SERVE?
WHOSE CONFIDENCE WILL I BATHE IN?
WHOSE PEOPLE AM I FEEDING?
WHO PICKED ME?
Of course the answers are, GOD'S GROUND, GOD'S AUTHORITY, GOD'S PERMISSION, GOD'S BREATH, GOD'S HEARTBEAT, GOD'S CONFIDENCE, GOD'S PEOPLE AND GOD PICKED ME.
How did you answer the questions???

Come on Glory People. Hunt me down. Come join my blogmunity. I will encourage you and you will encourage me. My blog is not for chickens, whiners and complainers. However bring me your challenges and victories and we will engulf God with our praise as we pray without ceasing petitioning Him on behalf of His Glory, Mercy, Forgiveness, Promises and on behalf of the Precious spilled Blood of His Son.
QUOTE FOR THE MOMENTS AHEAD: The devil is busy, but my Jesus is busier, badder, bolder much more empowered.
Love you madly,
Yolantha

Will the real women please stand up?

Hello. I am just now finding this wonderful project of encouragement. (realwomenrealadvice.com/2009/02/20/learning-to-recognize-psychological-abuse) Hey all you shugahs out there--don't fret, I'm living proof that there is hope. You CAN move on!!! You CAN again rely upon yourself, think for yourself, love your self and love for your self. One thing we have to do as women is stop being "girls". When a man gets his first extracurricular hairs, he and the rest of the world around him, call him a MAN. At what point in a "girls" lifedom, does she cease being a girl and cross over into the title of WOMAN? I am 50 plus now, birth and suckled two children, travelled and fed thousands of people in 3rd world countries, written award winning books, have been penned one of America's Top 100 Literary Divas yet I am still addressed as a "girl" How many breasts and what cup size does it take in order to be treasured as a woman? How many souffles, how many lawns do I have to mow and how may months of breast feeding do I have to log before I am recognized as a woman? How many tampons and diapers must I have changed? How many steaks must I have sauteed? I once challenged another 50 something woman when we were out to lunch and a high school lad came to wait on our table and said, "What would you girls like to drink?" I corrected the lad who turned all shades of purple when I asked him what did I need to do to prove to him that I was a woman. He sniggled uncomfortably and took both of our orders of sweet tea. I asked my friend why did she not speak up in her behalf as being a woman. Her response, "I like being called a girl, it makes me feel young." I guess I'm a one woman revolution. Cause I definitely suggest that if we are gonna win the war on domestic violence. I will need all of the girls to stay home...Yolantha

...that's meeeeeee!!!

Oh my look what I found. Go to (realwomenrealadvice.com/2009/02/20/learning-to-recognize-psychological-abuse) . This is just proof of the pudding that you must always keep your nose clean. Just never know where something you have done or said will show up. This was done way, way, way before youtube was sooooo popular. And way back at the very beginning of my missionary career. Even though it was was posted on youtube February of this year. Hope you can see it, I had to turn my volume up real high. If you want to order my lil' palmette pamplets called HINT, HINT!!! and the other one called GET OUT!!! ( $3.50 a piece or $4.99 for both) email me at yolanthapace@gmail.com I created these to give to friends who are victims and don't even realize or have any HINT that they are in trouble and for my friends that need encouragement and the inspiration to GET OUT of their horrible situations.

I was just doing a random google of my name and clicked on that site. When I opened it I stood straight up and shouted...that's meeeeeeee!!! Alright good night, love you madly, Yolantha

...and God said let there be Yolantha, and there was...Yolantha

If you would have told me that I was gonna one day be a missionary. I would have stood up to you, toe to toe--eye to eye and snarled, "YOU A LIE" and stormed out of the room. But oh my goodness, look at me now. Nine years a missionary to Haiti. One of the first American women and specifically African American women to some of the most remote mountain villages of Ranquitte, Haiti and the surrounding area. If God can use me...then God can certainly use you. And that's definitely "NOT A LIE" So welcome my dear yolanthaiti bloggistas and bloggistos. This blog will consist of the journey, challenges and victories of my life. A life dedicated to serving God. It ain't all purdy, but it ain't all oogly either. Hope to hear from yall. Ask me questions... I don't have all the answers but I'll definitely respond based on the world according to Yolantha. I'll also be sharing some of my award winning writings as one of America's Top 100 Literary Divas in addition to my new works for my up and coming book, KISS AMERICA KISS!!!