Understanding Sin & Its Causes

In February and March 2019 Jesus and Mary presented the fourth group in the Divine Truth – Education in Love Assistance Group Series in Noosaville, Queensland Australia.

These are personal audio recordings made whilst attending in February.

The Understanding Sin & Its Causes presentation outlines, PowerPoints and diagrams for this event can be found here, along with some of the original high quality audio and video recordings produced by the Divine Truth Production Team.

Jesus has mentioned in several presentations since, that final editing and publishing of this event may not be completed due to recording quality.

I post these “bootleg” recordings here for others to enjoy as the material presented is invaluable.

The previous Assistance Group presentations in this series; Developing My Will to Love, Developing My Loving Self, and Understanding God’s Loving Laws, are available to view on the Divine Truth Youtube channel.

If you enjoy this material and would like to help fund future events, donations to Jesus and Mary can be made via this link.

Psychology of the Human Soul

The following is derived from an excerpt of an audio recording of a discussion Jesus and Mary had with a group of participants at a God’s Way – Humility in Practice Education Day in Wilkesdale, QLD, Australia.

Jesus explains the psychology of the human soul as part of a discussion on how to connect with God, and our emotional blocks to developing that relationship and receiving God’s love.

20231014 Humility in Practice Education Day Australia

[2:41:29] Receiving God’s Love creates Sensitivity

If you receive some of God’s love you will feel happy that day probably, and maybe for a few days afterwards. But then if you don’t act in harmony with it, you will have all sorts of guilts and other feelings start coming up as a result. That is the net result of saying, this is the penalty of not acting in harmony with love. It is the penalty that was already there that you just weren’t sensitive to before – God’s love has made you sensitive to it now.

Before you were closed down to it, shutdown to it and weren’t really noticing how bad it was, but now that you have received some of God’s love, you are more open to seeing how bad it is when you shutdown now. Before you could shutdown for a month at a time and not even worry about it, or think about it or be concerned at all – just be on your merry way in your life, barely even notice, just feel “something is wrong but I don’t know what it is” and off you go.

But now that you have received some of God’s love, when you are insensitive to it there is a penalty. And the penalty is, you are more sensitive now. God’s love has caused your heart to be more sensitive now, so naturally you are going to notice when things are not good, now. Things that you didn’t notice before you will start noticing now. You have the choice to shut it down, but that is going to hurt more than it did before. Because you now notice how much it hurts to shutdown, and before you didn’t notice.

You could say it is a reward rather than a penalty really, because what it is saying is, the more sensitive you become the better this is. But for most of us we go, the more sensitive I become the worse it is! Because we are not humble. We are not willing to have the cries we need to have.

If you could see there is a benefit you would go, “I need to just let myself have another cry, I feel real low today after receiving God’s love yesterday or the day before, I just need to have a good cry about that”. Let the feelings out that have come up – just let them flow. Let yourself have them. Let yourself go through them. Don’t shut them down because every time you shut them down, now that you have received a bit more of the love, it is going to be harder to shut it down and is not advisable.

God wants you to be more sensitive, because if you are not more sensitive you won’t know what love would do in any situation. The reason why you know what love would do is because you are more sensitive to love and therefore you know what it would do, better. It is important that you become sensitive to what love would do. It is important that you become worried or discombobulated or disturbed when you are not acting in harmony with it.

As you receive some of God’s love, what happens is God’s love in you helps you feel “disturbed” when you act out of harmony with the love. This is good because it means you are now becoming sensitive to what love should do. What you will find is that when you act in harmony with the love, the joys of it are also compounding, because you see the difference between how you used to act and feel vs the positive results of now acting in harmony with love. You are more sensitive to seeing now the negative result of acting out of harmony with love, and the positive result for being loving.

For the most part we are refusing to act in harmony with the love we receive because we don’t want to feel something. And because we don’t want to feel something, we create a whole heap of lies, which are the foundation of our fears. And the denial and suppression of our fears are the foundation of our addictions. And our addictions not getting met is the foundation of our anger and rage – all of that is happening because I am just not choosing to feel.

You must first deal with your refusal to grieve, and to choose fear over your grief. You need to see that you chose fear over your grief, and why did you do that? What grief was coming up that you chose to tell yourself lies about? What grief came up that you chose to make the decision to lie to yourself about it so that you felt fear instead, and then felt justified to act in the fear instead?

If you do that, now you are able to feel the grief. When you feel the grief it will become natural for you to act in harmony with the love. You won’t have to try to act in harmony with the love, it will just be natural because there is no fear preventing you from acting in harmony with the love anymore. Your refusal to feel the grief shuts down the process of acting in harmony with the love.

If we receive some love and we are now feeling worse, it is because we are acting out of harmony with the love we have received. Nobody feels worse feeling love. You can only feel worse if you shutdown your grief. You will get to the point where it is relieving to feel your grief, and so you won’t be so disturbed about feeling it. But up until that point you have obviously got beliefs about your grief that are false, otherwise you would be feeling it.

So what are the beliefs about your grief that are false, that comes up in the moment, now that you have received a bit more love, you will start feeling your fears about acting in harmony with that love. And those fears will be the lies you tell yourself – not truths – they are the lies you tell yourself to avoid your grief of acting in harmony with love.

Anger and fear are not real emotions – you just need to feel some grief.

[2:49:56] Truth of Human Psychology

When you understand the truth of your psychology – which is very different to what psychologist’s tell you the truth of your psychology is – it is fundamentally this.

Anything you refuse to grieve, you will lie to yourself about, to make distance between yourself and your grief. 

In lying to yourself you create a fear – a false emotion appearing real. And in creating a fear, you now must have an addiction to compensate for the fear, because fear is an unpleasant emotion, so you must create an addiction. 

And every time you have an addiction that gets met, you will be “happy”, though it’s not real happiness, and every time it doesn’t get met, you will be angry. 

All of that could have been avoided if you stop lying to yourself about your grief and just felt it.

So if I receive some of God’s love, it will expose in me all the places where I am being unloving on that point. There will be grief associated with those places I am being unloving, or where I have been unloving, or others have been unloving to me – there will be grief there. If I refuse to feel the grief, I will be very inclined to create a whole series of lies to avoid the grief. Those lies become the foundation of my fear. And now my fear is going to dictate my action.

The truth of your feelings are that you have a grief in you, that you are unwilling to process emotionally. You’re unwilling to deal with it emotionally, and you’d rather tell yourself a lie, than actually process it emotionally. The purpose of the lie is to distance yourself from the grief.

The trouble with lies is that they are false, that you want to appear real. They are the false expectations appearing real, or the false emotions appearing real, and they are fears. As a result of those fears, now you are going to justify avoiding them. You are going to justify avoiding the fears because they’re lies you told yourself to avoid the grief. Then you have addictions to avoid your fears, and then you get angry when you don’t get your addictions met. So they are all the results of the choice you made right back in the beginning to not feel your grief.

And every bit of love you receive from God makes you more sensitive to what’s unloving. So therefore it makes you more sensitive to the grief that’s in you, because the grief would only be there if something unloving happened. The grief can only be in your soul if something unloving occurred.

So the more sensitive you become to love, the more the grief is exposed. The more the grief is exposed, what do you do? If you are fighting your grief, you create more lies to avoid it, and therefore you create more fears, and more addictions, and more anger.

But if you feel your sadness, your grief, and you recognise the truth that comes with the love you received, then what will happen is you’ll have nothing upon which to build fear – nothing upon which to build a lie. You have now accepted the truth in your heart that the event was unloving and you’ve processed through it.

The grief is the pain. You are willing to lie to yourself – there are so many areas where we have substantial grief and we like to lie to ourselves about it to avoid feeling it. In lying we are creating a fear. And then by justifying the fear’s existence, we need addictions to live in that place. Everybody who has fears prefers fears than sadness. Why? Because you don’t have to act. You don’t have to do. You don’t have to cry. You don’t have to be humble. Your fear says, “I’m too afraid to do that”.

You are stuck in your creation of lies, either of yours or the ones your parents created in you. But you are stuck in them – you are stuck in the lie. That is what fear is, being stuck in the lie. The purpose of it is to distance myself from all the unloving things others and I have done in my past. If I can distance myself from all of that and stay in my fears then I don’t have to act lovingly anymore. I don’t have to do the challenging thing anymore. I can just do a whole heap of things that meet what the fear dictates. And by meeting my fears I create my addictions. My addictions are for the purpose of supporting my fears never being exposed. So the more layers you can put on top of your grief, the more distant you become from it.

Anger is your guide to your addictions;

Addictions are your guide to your fears;

Fear is your friend – Fears are your guide to the lies you tell yourself about your grief and what you need to cry about.

All the lies we tell ourselves, about our past or our future and things we do in order to “protect” our real grief are what cause our unhappiness and our choice to not act in harmony with love, and the love we may have received from God.

2024 Divine Truth World Tour

I wish to express my heart felt gratitude firstly to Jesus and Mary for the gift of their love; time and resources, as they are currently travelling the world, providing opportunities for us to attend in person to hear God’s Truth, discover how to feel God in our lives and most importantly, encouraging us to become humble and awaken to our to sin; in order to build and foster a real, personal, relationship with God, if that is what we desire.

Secondly I wish to express my gratitude to my brothers and sisters in the northern hemisphere who have had the courage to attend the presentations overseas, for without your desire to learn about God and be confronted with Truth, these discussions would not have been available for the rest of us to also learn from. Thank you also to all those who donated, and contributed to make this tour possible.

Thirdly, I wish to express my thanks to those individuals in attendance who have made personal audio and video recordings of the presentations, and uploaded them for others to access and share. They are an answered prayer.

I repost them here so that others may also find inspiration and courage toward giving up “the fight with God” and discovering God’s Standard of Love

Divine Truth World Living Room Tour events July – November 2024

Donations to assist, support and thank Jesus and Mary can be made here

Audio podcasts of the Tour

Audio files recorded by Emma and Video recorded by various attendees are also available on Mia’s YouTube channel

Projects & Plans – Kenya

There are a number of projects we are aiming towards implementing in Kenya, all of which have come about through either the expressed desire of our friends in Kenya to learn practical applications of God’s Principles and Laws, or our desire to gift resources when a physical or spiritual need has been recognised. Denise and Wayne, Kerry and I have been in discussions for several months primarily with Esther and Rose, trying to establish how best we can help them meet their basic physical needs of food, water and shelter, whilst also responding to their spiritual learning requests.

Food Water Shelter

All living things have been created in order to bring love to the system. A human’s soul condition (sum total of our beliefs, thoughts, feelings and actions) directly impacts their environment, and the environment constantly reflects back the presence, or lack, of love in the system. Every living organism, including Humans, has three basic requirements for survival.

If one of these three elements is missing, abundance is not possible – all three of these basic elements need to be present for life to survive, let alone grow, reproduce and prosper. Any living creature that does not have sufficient amounts of water, food or shelter will struggle to survive. Much more work is required to obtain the three basic elements – particularly if they are not in proximity to each other.

Since humans have direct control over the food, water and shelter supplied to the ecosystem, we must come to understand the relationship and the role specific organisms have in recovery and bringing love back to into the ecosystem.

“If we understand that every little imbalance within the system is the result of the human’s unloving condition, and we understand that everything that is caused by this result of imbalance is the result of the human’s condition not being addressed; then we will attempt to address the human condition as a part of growing an ecosystem that is loving.”               (Jesus, 2.6 Creating Loving Ecosystems)

Therefore, balancing physical needs with spiritual growth and learning opportunities is an important consideration in the planning process of assisting people who live in less affluent countries.  It is very difficult to learn about God, or spend time self-reflecting on principles of Love and Truth, when your entire day is focused on meeting these three basic requirements.

We have been assisting Esther and Rose, who are caring for Esther’s mother-in-law, Esther’s younger four children, Rose’s six young children and ten orphans. We anticipate that there will be others we meet during our next visit that may be included in this part of the project – potentially the children being supported by Bernard and his community members in the Kuria region. We have established a policy amongst ourselves that any donated funds will not be given until we have personally met and verified the circumstances of the recipients – we feel that is the responsibility of a good steward.

Food

Gifts related to food have included funds for staples – beans, rice, corn or maize. Plus fruit and vegetables. Currently they grow greens such as Khale, and have two well established avocado trees, that bear fruit the size of mangoes – yum!

Khale greens

Projects we would like to implement include;

• Waterless vegetable gardens
• Sourcing and building up a stock of heirloom produce seeds that can be propagated over time and shared with people in their community
• Fruit trees
• Purchase or creation of cooking utensils and sustainable cooking methods suitable for feeding 20-30 people.
• Sourcing and Purchase of Composting worms
• Worm farm set up and Education
• Composting organic material – clothes, food scraps, human poo
• Food funds in the event harvests are inadequate

Water

Access to clean, safe, drinking water is a basic life sustaining requirement that is sadly not available to many millions of people across the globe. Water is not on tap in rural Kenya – for many villagers, its collection involves daily trips back and forth, walking some distance to a natural water course, carrying buckets or containers on their heads or backs.

Projects include:

• Catchment and storage of rain water
• Maintenance free water filtration system – Wayne has created a filter prototype currently being tested that he plans to make accessible for others to build out of local low cost materials. The details of this creation can be viewed on Wayne’s blog.

Shelter

Shelter includes assisting with things like building mud rendered housing; beds, mattresses, and blankets; clothes and shoes.

Down the track we’d like to set up solar lighting & power.

Currently Esther has three small buildings on her property. Four girls, Esther and Rose sleep in one house (21ft x 18ft ) which also has a small sitting room, six boys sleep on the floor in another house (14ft x 17ft), Esther’s mother-in-law and ten girls sleep in the kitchen house (15ft x 13ft) which has two single beds.

At the time of publishing this post, six additional children have joined Esther and Rose at their home. The kids come from two families, whose parents have passed due to HIV/AIDS. It was already a tight squeeze with 23 people to feed, clothe and shelter, now with the new kids, building a 40ft x 35ft, 65 iron sheet house has become a priority for us. It will cost approximately 113700 Ksh ($1600 AUD), based on the quote we received today.

Farming God’s Way

In April 2019 Esther and Rose were offered the lease on a two acre plot of land 300m from their compound, by one of their neighbours. He wanted to raise funds to send his son to higher education, so offered the girls a four year lease on this parcel of land.  This was an opportunity we had been praying for, as we had discussed ways of being able to assist the girls to be able to provide food for themselves, whilst potentially gaining some income from any excess harvest.  A venture like this also opened up the opportunity to share principles that govern creating loving ecosystems, soil building and land repair, using human waste (faeces & urine) and weeds as soil conditioners and fertilisers, fertility trenches filled with household organic material, food scraps and the like, all within a farming frame work. It was a practical way to learn about God and demonstrate over time the benefits that come from farming in harmony with His Laws.

Traditionally, cropping and farming in Kenya is very labour intensive. The soils are depleted, ploughed by oxen, and heavy rainfall often washes away topsoil. Chemical fertilisers are applied in the seed hole to boost growth, and very little microbial life is present in the soil. Weeds are routinely removed by hand, and seen as being in competition for the scarce nutrients available. Hybrid seed has to be purchased each year, along with expensive chemical fertilisers, plus paid labour for weeding and ploughing.

Typically they have two planting and harvesting seasons per year; April – August and September – February.

“During harvesting we harvest using our hands, cutting the combs for the case of corn and removing the outer cover and then carry home using bags or buckets to dry and store in sacks. For beans which mature earlier and are about to be harvested we uproot the bean plants with the pods and carry home. At home we dry on the sun which makes the seeds to come out quickly when hitting using a stick or peeling using the hand. Here mostly cows feed on the corn stalks and the green matter after harvest.”  Rose July 2019

Through our discussions we could see that farming this way was not sustainable, or cost effective – particularly for this family who did not have a regular income. So we proposed a few ideas based on the principles governing creating loving ecosystems that we had learned over the years that we implement in our own produce garden, hoping that they would translate well to a larger scale plot.

“For anything to flourish, love must be present in the system…God is constantly trying to recover the system…attempting to bring more and more love into the system…Every single living organism ever created has been created to bring more love into the system.”          (Jesus, 6.12.2012)

We have introduced concepts related to the Life Principle; the purpose of weeds and sourcing seeds that are able to be propagated, and applying organic matter in the bucket load to cover exposed soil, add structure to the soil, retain water and attract intelligent organisms in to the soil. The initial aim being to utilise waste that is generated daily by twenty-three people, and convert it into free resources for their home vegetable garden and cropping plot.

Cow Manure

Fertility pit with food scraps, human poo, wood ash and straw

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The most urgent need right now is the building up of our food-producing soils. We should be pouring into this land green manures, barnyard manures — every type of organic material that will decay in a reasonable time. The method of getting this stuff into the soil and getting it at work will vary with almost every locality. No set rule can be given that will apply to all sections — except that the materials should be poured into the land as fast as conditions will permit, and that we should keep pouring them in until the sponge is there.”                      Weeds Guardians of the Soil – p93

So rather than uprooting the crop and taking it home to dry, the plant could be chopped off at ground level, leaving the roots in the ground to aerate the soil, provide material that will break down, feed the insect life and absorb water. Seed saving will mean the seed will develop in quality as the soil conditions improve over time, hopefully leading to the generation of a seed stock that can be freely shared and passed down throughout generations.

We also presented and discussed resources that describe the application and results of using human urine and excrement in crop production.

Whilst these ideas were very different to what they are used to, they were keen to learn more and immediately started experimenting.

The decision was made to gift the funds to lease the land, and since the girls wanted to learn how to farm in harmony with God’s Principles and Laws, we assured Esther and Rose that we would support them during the transition phase moving from traditional farming methods to farming God’s Way, should the crops fail or not yield a good harvest in the first few years.  We anticipated the soil quality being very poor; depleted from years of applying commercial fertiliser, ploughing and harvesting, without much life or love being put back into it.  Denise, Wayne, Kerry and I all felt this was an important aspect to consider since they are the ones taking all the risk, and their basic needs are depending on the success of the harvest.

The first crop using these methods is due to be harvested in August. A good harvest is measured by generating one sack of corn per kilo of seed. So we’ll see how things go.

Now that we are actively planning a visit to Magena next year we are keen to learn all we can with regards to working with the laws and principles specifically in relation to farming and food production. As a result of our desire, Jesus and Mary have very generously gifted us a week in their busy schedule to show us the projects related to land repair and farming that they currently have underway. We are really looking forward to discussing these concepts, and developing resources illustrating these concepts that can be replicated and shared with farmers who have an interest in sustainable food production and land repair.  We are also pretty keen to see Corny’s process of converting one person’s annual human waste into half a tonne of enriched Class A soil. Imagine how much soil twenty-three people in a household could produce each year! Thanks guys – we are so grateful.

Beans & Corn

 

 

The following is a summary of the areas of investigation and assistance we hope to provide prior to and during our visit to Kenya next year.

• Soil life
• Organic Fertiliser – Composting human waste and Urine as a liquid feeder
• Composting organic waste materials, cropping waste, food scraps, compost-able household rubbish
• Tools & Farming Equipment
• Heirloom seeds – planting and collection
• The purpose of weeds in soil repair education
• Crop diversity Education
• Water catchment and water retention on cropping land – development of systems to maximise water usage and prevent run off.
• Land lease and possible Land purchase

Education & Schooling Support

Providing opportunities for children to be educated is high on our priority list. Historically there  has been a gender preference for educating boys over girls. Educating girl children is a desire that both Esther and Rose have, they feel that it will help to correct gender inequality, and  create opportunities for all children to break the poverty cycle. Educating girls also encourages them to stay in school longer, meaning they are less likely to be married and bear children in their teenage years.

There are two options for mainstream schooling in Kenya – public government run schools and private schools. The issue we have encountered with public schools is that they are generally sponsored by religious organisations. We have had reports from various people, and from our own personal experiences visiting schools in Kenya, that orphan children are treated quite poorly by staff and teachers – we certainly noticed a difference in the way they were treated, even by people who had taken orphaned children into their care, whilst their physical needs may have been met, in that they had clothes, a dry place to sleep and a meal each day, the emotions projected towards orphaned children were intense – Esther was the exception to this observation.

Since the community has become aware of Esther and Rose’s relationship, they and the kids are being mocked, criticised, and accused of being a bad omen by many who worship the Bible.

Esther and Rose feel the children will be treated more fairly at the local Private schools, namely Nyamisaro Private Primary School (600m) and Emesa Private Secondary School (1km).

The following table indicates the estimated cost for sending twenty children (ages 4 -16) to school. The school year begins in September, so we are working our way toward enrolling the kids ready for Term 1.

Proposed Costs for Education Support:
20 Children – 3 Secondary, 17 Primary		KES	AUD
School Fees:
Primary	6000 Ksh x 3 Terms	18000	$     250.00
Secondary	18500 Ksh x 3 Terms	55500	$     774.00
Uniforms per child		10580	$     150.00
Cost per child per year:
	Primary	28580	$     400.00
	Secondary	66080	$     921.00
To educate all 20 children:
Cost per year		684100	$  9,563.00
Cost per term		228033	$  3,187.00
Cost per month		57008	$     797.00
Average per child per month		2850	$        39.85

Bernard from the Kuria region has requested some assistance with learning materials, so we may be able to help out there also when we find out specifically what is needed.

Sharing Divine Truth Material & Technology

This project is dedicated to gifting time and resources for the purposes of sharing and providing Divine Truth material taught by Jesus and Mary Magdalene to those who express a genuine desire to learn about God and God’s way of living.

• We are keen to engage opportunities to share in person, or through email discussions, answering questions generated by materials we have already recommended.
• Printing DT booklets and Translated Divine Love Prayer for those who lack the resources to care for and manage electronic devices
• USB HDD loaded with the current volume of DT teachings for those who already have access to a laptop or computer.
• mp3 audio listening devices
• portable solar panels for recharging electronic devices gifted, portable solar battery banks, Bluetooth waterproof, dust proof portable speakers
• Samsung smart phone, SIM and monthly data packages for ease of communication and access to online Divine Truth material
• Creating weatherproof universal language instructional charts for teaching God’s Principles as they relate to environmental recovery, farming and personal relationship with God.
• Translation of key DT principles for those who do not understand English
• Development of DT teaching resources for school children
• Demonstration of God’s Principles as applied to aspects of daily living

We will be having more discussions about how to best implement these ideas, when we meet up with Jesus, Mary, Wayne and Denise at the end of July.  We are super excited about what we are learning as we prepare and plan – the growth opportunities for ourselves personally by engaging projects such as these are a gift, and we feel hopeful for the potential change these projects could make in the lives of our Kenyan friends and their communities.

Note:

A record of Donation and Expenditure Summaries can be viewed on the Financial Records page under Kenya Projects. We feel it is important to collate this data and make it publicly available so that others may gain insight into the preparation and costs involved should they be inspired or desire to assist people and give gifts in other parts of the world.

Kerry and I, and more recently, Wayne and Denise have been funding these projects, research and future plans with our own personal resources, and we are very happy to do so. If you would like to become involved, or wish to donate to any of these projects, details of how to contact us are available on the Donations & Gifts page.

Author: Paige Willoughby

Friends From Kenya

Introducing our Kenyan Sisters & Brothers

Since our 2013 visit to Kenya to share Divine Truth we have kept in contact with some of the people we spent time with, and also got to know some new friends who we hope to meet in person next year during our return visit to the Kenyan Western District in 2020.

 

Esther is a widow from Magena that we spent time with during our last visit. Esther’s husband died of malaria, leaving her to care for their five children, mother-in-law and manage their small plot of farm land near the Massai – Mara border which provided food (corn, maize and beans) and annual income. At the time we met Esther she was also caring for a number of children who have followed her home from church over the years.  Donated funds assisted to purchase bedding, blankets, clothes and school uniforms for the fifteen extra children she had under her roof in 2013.

Esther purchasing food staples

On occasion since our visit we have assisted Esther financially with funds for food, clothes and bedding supplies as the number of children in her care grow.  Last year the plot of land was forcibly taken over, impacting Esther’s ability to fund living expenses, and school fees for the fourteen children in her care.

Esther does not speak or read English, but with the help of her friend Oigo translating her questions and our responses, we have been sharing material with Esther intermittently over the years. Last year Esther began emailing us herself in Kiswahali. Google translate was sufficient initially for basic communication, however when translating Divine Truth text or answering specific questions related to God and God’s principles, we found Google translate to be only 80% accurate. We felt it was important that the information being shared was as accurate in original meaning as possible, so we prayed to find a woman who Esther trusted, that had good English skills, who could help her have access to more Divine Truth teachings, and communicate with us openly without potential gender based influence on her words. We thought this was a long shot, as not many girls or women have the opportunity to be educated, let alone learn English. To our surprise, Esther introduced us to Rose, her friend who lived a few kilometres further down the road.

Esther & Rose

Rose is 30 years old, with six children aged 6-12, she has been divorced from her husband for five years – whom she left because he is an alcoholic and he beat her and the children regularly. Unfortunately a very common, often daily occurrence for rural Kenyan women and children.

Rose attended school until Year 10, and she is passionate about teaching her community about gender equality and wants girls to have the same opportunities for education as the boy children.  For income Rose use to do laundry for travelling professionals, however the sexual advances, abuse and poor treatment she received from male customers lead her to seek employment else where. More recently she has been selling produce by the side of the road, making 100 Ksh per day ($1.43 AUD).

 

Over the past six months we have learned that Esther and Rose are in a relationship, which is still very much taboo in Kenya, in fact Kenya is one of the 33 out of 54 African countries that still criminalise same-sex conduct, under the penal code first imposed by British colonisers in 1897.  Even though Britain has de-criminalised these anti-homosexuality laws in the UK, their colonial legacy continues to impact the basic human rights of thousands of people across Africa.

This is a perfect example of how the perpetuation of our individual beliefs and unresolved emotions (sin) out of harmony with God’s Principles and Laws influence society, cultural customs and man-made laws, that restrict and impose harm upon millions of lives. Discovering that the High Court in Kenya recently upheld these laws made me reflect on the myriad of ways that I have contributed harm to others across the globe in ways I never before considered. By holding onto my own false beliefs, continuing to seek pleasure over pain, staying silent and choosing to remain in denial of the motivations behind my daily life choices means I will never wake up and see the sin, nor the fall out my choices have and continue to have on myself and others. (If you want learn about understanding Sin and its causes, check out the latest Education in Love Assistance Group material which will be available here once posted by Jesus)

Esther and Rose did not tell us themselves, fearing that we may treat them as many local Christian’s do, with judgement, rejection, and withdrawal of support. Their friends Nicolas and Oigo both informed us of the poor treatment they were receiving from family members, school educators and their community. People are refusing to give them work because they don’t want to be associated with them or the shame people feel they bring to the community, making it very difficult for them to feed their families and the children they care for.

Over the last six months we have been having many discussions with the girls about their desires for the future, and how we would like to help them become self sustainable. We explained how aligning their desires in harmony with God’s Principles will mean they are supported by every Law governing the universe, and that there is great potential for a lot of change in peoples’ hearts by their demonstration and sharing what they learn – if they want too. A prospect that we ourselves are experimenting with and working towards in our own life.

We are inspired by the courage these women have already demonstrated. They are discovering confidence in standing up for truth, and beginning to see for themselves the benefits of addressing issues of love and truth within themselves, and with others.

Through the interactions with Esther and Rose we have also met Oigo and Nicolas.

Oigo, is a school teacher who runs his own school, with five teachers and one hundred students in the Kuria region near the border to Tanzania, about 35km from Magena. Oigo was friends with Esther’s late husband and has been helping her financially when he can. He is excited about the prospect of us visiting next year and has asked us to come and share more Divine Truth with his staff and students.  In March we sent over a box of Divine Truth booklets covering various topics to be shared amongst his staff and students, although mail is not very reliable in Kenya due to the rampant corruption, so it is another reason why we are going to visit in person, as we are still waiting to see if it arrives in tact.

Nicolas lives down the road from Esther with his wife Ruth and their five children. Nicolas works away from home for the government as a land surveyor and land dispute agent in Narok County, Moita area.  Nicolas is also an official for an educational group called Eden Go Vegan, where he and his colleagues hold information sessions and workshops on the health benefits of a plant-based diet. As they travel the country for work, they teach people about the damage that is caused by eating meat, eggs and dairy – particularly in the tribal areas of the Maasai Mara where the predominant diet is meat, milk and blood. Their focus had been primarily on the physical health related issues of an animal based diet, until we shared with him the relationship between God’s principles, the human soul and making food choices that will either benefit the environment and be supported by God’s Laws or damage the environment, by working against God’s Laws, the physical body being part of that environment.

The group teach people how to grow vegetables and food bearing trees, unfortunately they were also advocating the use of fertilisers, herbicides and weeding. We shared the concepts and principles of creating loving ecosystems; encouraging life into the soil and working with the weeds and intelligent organisms, rather than against them. Nicolas has become quite eager to learn more about the relationship between God’s Principles, our choices and the resultant effects in daily life.  He is very much enjoying the practical application of Divine Truth principles and has shared these concepts with the other officials in the Eden Go Vegan organisation, as he feels it better explains why a plant-based diet is the healthier choice and better for all living things.

Nicolas has been allowing Esther and Rose to email us from his laptop when he is visiting his home. He has also assisted them with some funds to buy food when they have been unable to forage food or find employment.

Nicolas recently introduced us to Bernard, and Bernard to Divine Truth when was searching for land to rent in the Massai. Nicolas told him about Jesus and Mary teaching, encouraged him to investigate the website and passed on our contact details.

Bernard lives with his wife Nchama and their four children in the Suba -Kuria region, Migori County, near the Tanzania border, in a village known as Kobomuamu. Bernard grew up with a relative in Nakuru town, who sent him to primary and secondary school. He is interested in farming and helping the needy. Bernard and his wife took in children from two sub-communities near them that suffered parental losses due to fighting that arose from cattle rustling and theft. Kuria is a very poor tribal region in Kenya. Other people in their community were inspired by their vision and wanted to help care for the children so they formed a small self help group where they pooled their farm land to grow tobacco to financially support the involved families and the orphaned children they care for. Each of the twenty-three members (Tanzanian and Kenyan) donates 10% of their earnings towards food, clothing and education. Bernard and his community members are from tribal backgrounds, living by their traditions and customs. They are not religious and the majority of adults have never attended school and are unable to speak English.

The self help group began a primary school for the kids because the near by government primary school teachers and children used to abuse and mistreat the orphans (Esther and Rose have made similar comment about the government run educators in their village also).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the Indian men they sold tobacco to saw their efforts to help the kids and start a school, so he donated to them an interlocking brick making machine which assisted them to build a school house. After the tobacco market fell and the factories closed, they were themselves left in poverty, causing seven members to withdraw from the self help group in 2018. Supporting the orphans became difficult but they worked hard to at least provide one meal a day for the twenty-six orphans under their care.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They have managed to keep the children and the school running up to now because the majority of their members are renting land in the Kuria and Massai to grow corn, beans and cassava, so they can continue to support both their families and donate to the orphanage.

The school has grown in numbers to 85 students, accommodating orphans and children of very poor families in three learning classes – baby class, nursery and class one. They have one paid qualified teacher and two untrained teachers. They have a shortage of learning text books, exercise books, learning charts and playing balls.

The following is an excerpt from one of Bernard’s emails:

“To me I view girls as equal to boys and all of them have equal rights for education and family inheritance. Many people here treat girls poorly and I agree with what you saw in the year 2013 when you visited. In our next neighbours here, the republic of Tanzania, women kneel down when in front of men, when greeting a man a woman or girl must kneel down as a form of respect. In a family setup a woman has no right to express her feelings or opinions, a man can sell land, cow or chicken without seeking advice from the woman. A woman is there to give birth and breastfeed, nothing beyond that! In many homes women are caned and tortured and offering some teachings to the community and too teaching the children about equality to all people is our prime target. We target that through our group and the school under our care to reach many people, especially men and boys to respect others irrespective of gender and sexual orientations.”

Bernard has mentioned on several occasions his concern about religious groups and cited examples of the discrepancy between what they claim and their conflicting actions and behaviour he witnesses towards others in his community. Bernard has since been watching, listening and translating for his community the Divine Truth material he has been learning about.  He says many in his community are showing interest and like the fact that the material is logical, practical and truth based – no mysterious notions. We told him that is what we loved about Divine Truth when we first heard it also. To Bernard’s delight he discovered Mamma Joys Rap songs and has been sharing God’s Principles via these lyrics with the kids, as they love to sing and make up their own melodies.

We are excited to include a visit to Kobomuamu next year, and help out where we can.  

The Opportunity

On occasions during the years since we visited we have been answering questions and sharing Divine Truth material with Esther and Oigo, and then the Thanks Church group that Esther and Rose regularly gather with. Via email Esther, Rose and their friends have been asking questions about God’s view on issues that impact their daily lives.  They are hungry for the truth and are keen about sharing what they learn with others. Their access to technology is very limited, meaning that they travel an hour each way on the back of a motorbike to the “local” cyber-cafe, to email questions and Rose hand writes answers on paper to take back and share at their next gathering.

Questions about gender equality, marriage and multiple wives, contraception, the difference between the dead and the living person, discipline and caning of women and children, forgiveness and repentance, soul mates, and homosexuality.

They have raised questions about the Bible; asking many questions about christian doctrine and bible “laws”. Is the ritual of baptism important? Must they worship and celebrate the sabbath? Does God require there to be a Minister of the people?

They wanted to know the truth about receiving communion, Jesus blood and Jesus’ thoughts on lies. Observation of other people’s religious practices and rituals has prompted them to ask, what does God really want for them?

Most recently they have been asking about farming and how to respond to and deal with abuse, mockery, ridicule and ostracism, as they share Divine Truth and begin to put into practice God’s way of living.  The principles and processes the girls are trying to implement in their homes and farms are challenging many in their community – both christian and cultural beliefs are being questioned and exposed. Some are curious and ask why they are doing things differently, others mock, abuse, and exclude.  We admire their courage to continue learning, experimenting, and sharing with those who genuinely ask and desire change.

While this email exchange has been a wonderful learning experience, we realise it is limited and frustrating at times, as it is so much harder to describe in great detail concepts that would have a greater power if we could share them in person. We realised in February this year, that we were probably going to be making another trip over to Kenya. Once I got over the shock of that realisation (because six years ago I vowed I would never go back – unresolved emotions really do cripple desire), things have evolved and opportunities are presenting themselves, left, right and centre. Which we are both very excited about. So we have decided to visit again in 2020, with loads of projects to implement and concepts to demonstrate. This time Denise and Wayne Shaw will be joining us in what is shaping up to be a fantastic opportunity to get to know the ins and outs of Kenyan life; to gain some faith and trust in God’s way of living in the world, and to give love, resources and knowledge to our brothers and sisters in Kenya.

Details of the projects we would like to implement can be found here.

Kerry & Paige

What The Health

Great news! Kip Andersen and his crew, the makers of Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret have completed their follow up project, What The Health.

Kip researches and discovers important links between chronic disease and leading dietary causes.

I enjoy Kip’s investigative, self-reflective approach as he courageously and logically attempts to discuss the impact of dietary choices, and the recommendations the corporations involved in the health care sector are making.

I found it interesting to see the emotional responses people had to Kip presenting truth.  It highlighted again for me, the need to develop the quality of humility personally.  I forget sometimes that my lack of humility not only affects me, but the wider community.  The flow on effect of each individual on the planet choosing to not develop humility means we find ourselves living in a society where those people elected into decision or policy making positions,  can quite literally make the difference between life and death, growth or destruction.

It is easy to blame the corporations or a few individuals, but honestly where is the self-responsibility in that.  The corporations and the health industry we have today is a product of OUR choices.  Our individual state of health is a direct result of our choices.

What The Health certainly encouraged to re-examine my choices. Thanks Kip.

Stream or download What The Health via Vimeo.

Man Up

A doco is currently being aired Tuesday evenings on ABC exploring suicide in Aussie men, what it means to be an Aussie man and society ‘rules’ guys and gals feel men should follow.

Gus is a radio presenter who lost his best mate to suicide. The experience has prompted him to explore why the highest rate of suicide in Australia occurs with men, and why asking for help, talking about and expressing emotion is so taboo amongst men.

The two episodes aired so far are beginning a conversation that needs to be had.

I am finding it valuable, as insight into how men feel about things; the projections and false beliefs that they contend, with particularly from women.

It is really inspiring me to reflect on how I view men, how I treat men and have treated men. How I behave around men, and become more sensitive to how men respond around me and reflect on why – what is in me, and why have I basically ignored and raged at half of the population most of my life, without considering the damage it creates.

For personal reflection or not, it’s an eye-opener, and possibly even a heart-opener.

ABC Man Up Tuesday 8.30pm
Or watch episodes on ABC iview.

Also there is a Doco-drama called Men’s Group that explores similar themes.

Preliminary Results Are In – Feeling Your Feelings Reduces Pain!

The scientific evidence is beginning to come together, feeling your feelings really does reduce and alleviate physical pain.

More to the point, denying emotions, avoiding and refusing to feel CAUSES us more pain! I can certainly vouch for that one being true – Dang it! (The experimental process continues😊)
If you’d like to know more check out Luli’s preliminary findings for the ongoing research project investigating the correlation between emotions, feelings and physical pain.

Thanks Luli for sharing the data thus far.

 

The Greatest Thing in All the World

Never give up…Never cease trying.

Bodywork Basics in Kentucky NSW

Kerry & I are on the road again, after spending a few months in warm sunny QLD, this time heading back to Victoria, to rent for 12 months or so. Two and a half years traveling and living out of boxes has us yearning for a base and a place to call ‘home’, at least for a little while.
Whilst on our way south, we will be stopping in to visit our friends @ Kyabra Station. As we have received requests recently for personal bodywork sessions and expressed interest in us offering a Bodywork Basics Workshop, while in the area, the Lytton-Hitchins family have kindly offered their Orange room as a venue for us to utilize during our stay. Thank You guys, we really appreciate your heart-felt generosity and hospitality.

The low down, if you’re interested is as follows:

Workshop: You, Your Body & God- an introduction to Self Bodywork
Date: Saturday 26th April 2014 (to be confirmed)
Time: 10.30am – 2pm
Venue: Orange Room, Kyabra Station, Kentucky NSW

Workshop Outline:

1. Breathing
2. Water & Salt
3. Whole foods & Body cycles
4. Bodywork
– Emotional storage ‘hotspots’
– Pain & Feedback
– Ear Stimulation
– Meridian Massage
– Neurolymphatic Stimulation
5. Stretching & Release Exercises

Kerry & I are passionate about learning all we can about the Human Soul and it’s reflection and influence on our physical and spiritual bodies. We enjoy spending time, and sharing with those who also desire to learn about who they are, how they tick and why?
It’s like an exciting treasure hunt; discovering all the pieces of truth, experimenting with how they fit together, and getting a taste of the creative genius that designed the whole kit and kaboodle!

We are relatively young in this endeavor, examining and experimenting, but are enthusiastic all the same.
The aim of the workshop being to share with you, or in some cases, remind you, of some basic concepts that have been designed to support us, that we so often take for granted or de-tune from. To share tools and bodywork techniques that we personally have discovered to be beneficial, that you, if you choose to, can do for yourself, on yourself, that may assist you to become more body-soul aware, proactive and self responsible, along your journey to health, healing, happiness and Love.

Please note, while this workshop is partially “hands on” and experiential, it is not about assisting you to ‘get into emotions’ within a group setting. Rather, it is about sharing things that may be useful to you, to apply when you are desiring to love yourself, and get to know yourself, in a private self reflective setting.

If you would like to come along and play with us, please register your interest at pegznkezz@gmail.com, by providing us with your full name, address and contact details, including a phone number. There will be limited spaces available.

Personal Bodywork Sessions:

Since opportunity has knocked, Paige will be making herself available for sessions between April 15 & April 26, either in Uralla or at Kyabra Station. Once again, please register your interest via pegznkezz@gmail.com