{"id":108,"date":"2010-01-18T09:20:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2010-01-18T09:24:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:24:35","slug":"he-was-on-fire-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"He was on FIRE with…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart”
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Yesterday my daughter’s pastor was literally on fire with Passion, Gratitude, and Wonder.\u00a0 I’ve been attending her church once a month for the past 8 years and this was the most alive I have ever heard this man.\u00a0 Here’s why:<\/p>\n

He shared a story that was 99% identical to events that occurred with our Team, in relation to the Tsunami in Asia several years ago.\u00a0 I had goosebumps.\u00a0 The gist:<\/p>\n

Six months ago their church purchased 20 acres on the coast of Haiti and opened an orphanage.\u00a0 One of the families from the church…people our daughter babysat for ….sold their belongings and moved to Haiti to run the orphanage.\u00a0\u00a0 People from the church donated a satellite phone so they could keep in touch with family in US…and food.. and medical supplies.. and a generator… and children’s clothes.. and a 4 wheel drive pickup and more.\u00a0 So when the earthquake hit they were able to be first on the scene to offer aid.\u00a0 And within hours<\/span> of of them communicating back home – a phone tree started and because they operate outside of government – they were able to arrange for 7 planes to be donated, 7 volunteer pilots, 10’s of thousands of pounds of food medical supplies, clothing and temporary buildings to be flown in…to a private airstrip…and the Canadian govt….someone on their phone tree….offered to build a permanent hospital and water filtration plant on their land.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He then went on to provide answers to the questions some people are asking; Did God do this?\u00a0 Is our God a vengeful God or a Loving God?\u00a0 Why do bad things\u00a0happen to good people?\u00a0 His answer;\u00a0 He doesn’t know Why.\u00a0 We may never know why.\u00a0 What matters is what we DO about it, and what we DO about the injustices we witness.\u00a0 He ended with a quote from a dear friend of mine – W. Mitchell.\u00a0 (wmitchell.com).<\/p>\n

“It’s NEVER what happens to you – it’s ALWAYS What you DO about it” <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 –Ralph Waldo Emerson Yesterday my daughter’s pastor was literally on fire with Passion, Gratitude, and Wonder.\u00a0 I’ve been attending her church once … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}