May 2016 – Worldwide Organization for Women

[[{“fid”:”145″,”view_mode”:”default”,”type”:”media”,”attributes”:{“height”:360,”width”:480,”class”:”media-element file-default”},”link_text”:null}]]In November 2015 we went to Kenya with Teaching Self-Government LLC and taught many religious leaders, teachers, social workers, family advocates, and parents how to teach self-government in Kenya. It was the first time we did a training like this out of the United States and we left with a prayer in our hearts that the wonderful Kenyan TSG mentors would be able to have the impact they desired to have.

Kenyan families have a rich heritage and strong family bonds, but over time, just like everywhere else in the world, the Kenyan families have been negatively influenced by media and moral and political corruption. Their families are struggling with similar issues as those facing families in the United States.

So many of you selflessly donated generous gifts so that we could go do this humanitarian project. It was a project like none I have been involved in before and it was tremendously successful. Here is a great peek into some of the success the Kenyan mentors are having.

This video shows two mentors of the many all over Kenya. I love hearing from them and about how their teachings are going.

I hope you will see the very positive impact the training is having half a world away.

Thank you again everyone!

The whole idea of motherhood is an implication of hope. Her business is about raising the next generation as she keeps an eye toward the future and the possibilities for her posterity, which fills her heart and mind with all sorts of ideals. Wouldn’t it then be strange, that mother in keeping to her duty would shun any idealizing of her own role with her being a causal agent in the child’s life? It is only my broad observation, but there appears to exist in the younger generation a sort of intellectual snobbery toward an ideal. An ideal is simply a vision of possibility. I guarantee my life circumstances in so many areas, like most on the planet, have fallen short of an ideal clung to, but it has been the very vision of the ideal that has fueled a hope within, which in turn has moved me to better action, especially as Mom. I’ve always liked the title of President Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope. It implies to me a boldness of expectation in achievement of an ideal others might otherwise scoff at, but let them scoff. I am grateful my faith affirms an ideal for motherhood. A word like noble reminds me that although motherhood is universal, it is for no common purpose. Innately it stands dignified and principal. This truth transforms my monotonous and sometimes difficult tasks, though reality means not necessarily in the moment. Noble work doesn’t have to feel noble, and feeling one way or another does not diminish the reality of its importance. Angelic is another word that is often associated with the work of mothers. Why not when the work of angels is to minister, proclaim truth and stand in the trenches as warriors. I need these ideals. They audaciously sustain my hope in me as a Mom, because when circumstances feel or truly are less than ideal, I know motherhood never is, never was and never will be.

Kenyan Self-Government Teaching Report

The Hopeful Mother