I am a fan of dance. Often I am the first on the dance floor and last to get off, but that does not make me a dancer. Actually I am not even close to being a dancer, I am wiggler at best. However, I can appreciate a beautiful work of dance. So you THink you can Dance is a brilliant show because all these AMAZING dancers put their dancing on the line to challenge themselves and to show the world, there true Love in life. As a lover of Christ this show reveals to me the gifts that our papa wants to bestow upon us, but also how he longs for us to indulge in those gifts and have him romance us in our true loves.
A struggle of mine these past couple weeks is being reassured i have a purpose. I have never been the most talented at anything really. When i try things I am not terrible but it's never my niche. I often wish our papa would have blessed me with a natural talent for dancing so i could feel as those dancers do.
It's monsoon season here in Flag and its warm yet the rain is falling like mad. The rain was falling very fiercely today and in the midst of that i felt the need to go and dance in the rain. I had my cheesy movie moment with no shoes, tore up jean shorts and ratty t-shirt, twirling in the rain worshiping our Heavenly Papa. In that moment I knew my niche- to be loved and cherish by our heavenly papa and thats enough for him and quite frankly for me.
The world tells us we should find something we love and excel at it, so that we can make money and live comfortably. THe things is our papa loves us regardless if we know how to dance or paint or are a super genius or know what our purpose is. We are each given a niche and I believe he wants us to honor him in that and in honoring him we create this life that when others witness it, it is as if they are watching a beautiful dance.
He wants you to know you are beautifully made.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
A Beautiful Mess
I can go days on end without picking up clothes or putting clean ones away. When I am lazy I let my dirty dishes stay in my room-NASTY! My bathroom...that's a black hole in itself. Needless to say I am a very messy person. The times when my room or bathroom or car are a complete disaster, I do not feel very beautiful or worthy of anything. The mess in those places are reminders of my laziness, inadequacy, and disorganization and it leaves me feeling YUCKY! However, when i have days devoted to cleaning and really disinfecting every room well, I feel a new sense about me. It feels great to have stuff clean.
I had a cleaning day yesterday and in that our Heavenly Papa revealed to me the importance of acknowledging messes and not just the room messes, but the spiritual messes as well. I couldn't see the floor in my room yesterday and it took me 4 hours to clean it-YIKES! The longer we ignore a mess, the longer it will take to clean. Maybe our mess is finances or an unhealthy relationship or anger towards parents. The longer we ignore the mess the longer it will stay a mess.
King David is known for being a man after God's own heart, but he had his fair share of messes, one being the beautiful Bathsheba. David had an affair with Bathsheba, another man's wife, that man was in fact one of Davids most faithful soldiers. What a mess! To further that mess Bathesheba got pregnant, so David tried to trick her husband into sleeping with her to play off the pregnancy. Being a loyal soldier Uriah (The husbands name) never did. Because of this David ordered Uriah to be in the lines of battle that would be sure to have him killed. A filthy mess. Nathan the prophet revealed to David this mess he created. Upon hearing this David mourned and fasted and begged the Lord for forgiveness. David's mess needed to cleaned and he acknowledge that. Through the cleansing of his self created mess David became closer to the Lord.
The messes in our lives are not present so we can continue being messy or to make us feel inadequate and ugly, they are present to make us aware of our need for a saviour and a cleansing. A mess is not beautiful, however the cleaning and the end result is pure brilliance! Messes are to be cleaned up and reveal to us we are beautifully made!
I had a cleaning day yesterday and in that our Heavenly Papa revealed to me the importance of acknowledging messes and not just the room messes, but the spiritual messes as well. I couldn't see the floor in my room yesterday and it took me 4 hours to clean it-YIKES! The longer we ignore a mess, the longer it will take to clean. Maybe our mess is finances or an unhealthy relationship or anger towards parents. The longer we ignore the mess the longer it will stay a mess.
King David is known for being a man after God's own heart, but he had his fair share of messes, one being the beautiful Bathsheba. David had an affair with Bathsheba, another man's wife, that man was in fact one of Davids most faithful soldiers. What a mess! To further that mess Bathesheba got pregnant, so David tried to trick her husband into sleeping with her to play off the pregnancy. Being a loyal soldier Uriah (The husbands name) never did. Because of this David ordered Uriah to be in the lines of battle that would be sure to have him killed. A filthy mess. Nathan the prophet revealed to David this mess he created. Upon hearing this David mourned and fasted and begged the Lord for forgiveness. David's mess needed to cleaned and he acknowledge that. Through the cleansing of his self created mess David became closer to the Lord.
The messes in our lives are not present so we can continue being messy or to make us feel inadequate and ugly, they are present to make us aware of our need for a saviour and a cleansing. A mess is not beautiful, however the cleaning and the end result is pure brilliance! Messes are to be cleaned up and reveal to us we are beautifully made!
Sunday, July 10, 2011
You're Beautiful!
You are BEAUTIFUL!
Regardless of gender or stage of life, you are beautiful.
I am blessed with the oppurtunity to serve middle school girls and recently we went to camp for one week. The overwhelming theme that came up during the week, was Beauty. As leaders we felt the calling to reassure our girls that we are fearfully and wonderfully made in the eyes of our creator and we do not have to impress him with glamour or glitz, he already thinks we are GORGEOUS. We even went to the extent of hiding each girls make-up and boy was it alot! After a week of reminding girls that it's our hearts that makes us beautiful and not our bodys or faces, I found myself falling victim to the insecurities we tried to destroy. Looking in the mirror all I could see was the results of not running anymore, the excessive amount of pimples and the lions mane I call my hair. I did not feel Beautiful. It was hard for me to believe that Lord relishes in my beauty. I thought, " If I am so Beautiful...Why am I single?"All I could hear was the world's beauty whispering in my ear.
In the midst of my insecurities I heard a stern loving voice say, "I made that."
To the prophet Jeremiah the Lord said " I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb. Before you were born I set you apart as my spokesman to the world." Our heavenly Papa made us and he knew us before anyone else. He has a purpose for us and he made us so that the world could see his beauty. In knowing his beauty we find ours. Our insecurities and doubts come from this world.
You were Beautifully Made.
Regardless of gender or stage of life, you are beautiful.
I am blessed with the oppurtunity to serve middle school girls and recently we went to camp for one week. The overwhelming theme that came up during the week, was Beauty. As leaders we felt the calling to reassure our girls that we are fearfully and wonderfully made in the eyes of our creator and we do not have to impress him with glamour or glitz, he already thinks we are GORGEOUS. We even went to the extent of hiding each girls make-up and boy was it alot! After a week of reminding girls that it's our hearts that makes us beautiful and not our bodys or faces, I found myself falling victim to the insecurities we tried to destroy. Looking in the mirror all I could see was the results of not running anymore, the excessive amount of pimples and the lions mane I call my hair. I did not feel Beautiful. It was hard for me to believe that Lord relishes in my beauty. I thought, " If I am so Beautiful...Why am I single?"All I could hear was the world's beauty whispering in my ear.
In the midst of my insecurities I heard a stern loving voice say, "I made that."
To the prophet Jeremiah the Lord said " I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb. Before you were born I set you apart as my spokesman to the world." Our heavenly Papa made us and he knew us before anyone else. He has a purpose for us and he made us so that the world could see his beauty. In knowing his beauty we find ours. Our insecurities and doubts come from this world.
You were Beautifully Made.
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