COLOR SPEAK is a platform where we share stories of the glory of our God—it's a place to highlight His signs and wonders and miraculous healings; where we can be encouraged in all seasons to be all we were designed to be.

But here’s the disclaimer. To claim what is ours requires courage. And a desire to pursue truth. This is inherent in our quest to bring the Kingdom to greater light here on earth.

 With the way things are in the world, there has never been a better time to address the element of bravery in our call to destiny. We were made for such a time as this!

Since our first episode aired in December of 2020, the world has changed a little bit. Actually, it seems it has tilted off its axis.

But we are called to participate in this great time of transformation and renewal bravely and joyfully and I know of  no better way to kick off this third season than to hear from our guest today.

Tanin (that isn't her real name) was an Iranian Muslim who endured great suffering and hardship on her path to truth. She  was born and raised in the southern part of Iran to a middle-class family who provided her many advantages but couldn’t shield her, or themselves, from the ravages of war.

Tanin was just nine years old when bombs began to fall on her neighborhood and her family was forced to abandon their belongings and flee their home. It was then that Tanin was catapulted into a new world that included poverty and horror along a path littered with the bodies of her neighbors.

At the age of 18, she witnessed the execution of her best friend for a faith that wasn’t Islam, as well as many other friends and friends' children who met the same fate on the gallows.

Even so, that didn’t keep Tanin from speaking out.

She was jailed twice for being rebellious to the government.

She survived.

As she survived being handed over to an older man—an American citizen—by her grandfather in an arranged marriage.
 
After years of abuse, she found herself standing on a bridge in downtown Kansas City one night to take her own life. She didn’t jump. She ended up in a Christian church.

Today we will hear the story of the bravest woman I know.

We would all do well to follow Tanin's example of courage. As she so aptly puts it, inaction is action.

Xoxo

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J.M. Huxley (Janet Huxley) is an award-winning author and broadcast news anchor. Currently, she is a morning news anchor for conservative radio; formerly,  an airborne traffic and news reporter and the operations director for the San Diego and Kansas City offices of Westwood One’s Metro Networks.  Her memoir, MILK AND HONEY LAND: A Story of Grief, Grace, and Goats , won the 2019 Author Academy Award for Best Memoir, and the 2021 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner in the Christian - Non-Fiction genre. Her children’s book, RAINBOW LAND , encourages children to see God in the rainbow.

J.M. Huxley (Janet Huxley) is an award-winning author and broadcast news anchor. Currently, she is a morning news anchor for conservative radio; formerly, an airborne traffic and news reporter and the operations director for the San Diego and Kansas City offices of Westwood One’s Metro Networks. Her memoir, MILK AND HONEY LAND: A Story of Grief, Grace, and Goats , won the 2019 Author Academy Award for Best Memoir, and the 2021 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner in the Christian - Non-Fiction genre. Her children’s book, RAINBOW LAND , encourages children to see God in the rainbow.

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