"Today is the first day of the rest of my life." That sounds like something from a poster or worse yet, from a refrigerator magnet. But, and I say that smiling, IT IS TRUE. Today, January 16, IS the first day of the rest of my life. At least I feel like it is. We are embarking on a new journey. How many times have I said that over the past years? Well, I have said it and I have meant it when I said it in the past but this time I truly know it.
We are positioned back in Finland to CREATE not imitate or duplicate. So I am going to be CONSISTENT. Yes I will. Consistency in the form of blogging several times during the week. Consistency in the form of weekly audio You Tube Videos ( which will be short and sweet.) Off we go. Finland is a country that I can't get out of my heart, AND believe me, I have tried. I have tried to do everything I can to not come back here but here I am with an innate sense of peace and great expectation of what will be created this year.
We are turning and changing and moving to create in Rivers of Eden. We call forth creative people to unlock what is in them, that God given spark of creativity that makes one feel alive. It is in me and it flows through me. BUT how often in times past have I tried to BE like all around me - the prophetic movement, the Charismatic chaos, this and that, and this and that. So today being the first day of the rest of my life, I live to be ME, the ME who God created me to be. And I want to challenge those who come alongside us here in Finland and other places to find YOU, the YOU that God intended you to be.
I have lived prior to this - of course I have BUT it seems that time has brought me to this point. God has brought me to this point. All I have walked through. All I have passed through has been to launch out. What will we be launching out into? CHAOS. Yet, we will be launching out into chaos with truth in the person, the reality of Jesus Christ. Yes yes I have said it before. We were all in this state of transition in the past 5 years, intense transition where we followed God yet did not quite know where we were going. Now I know. Do I know everything? No, of course not. But I do know. In the words of that famous song by Frank Sinatra - "I gotta be me!" My journey was to follow God to find ME! And I have crossed some sort of line in the sand. So off I go following God.
Now in order to not sound so nebulous let me say again what all this verbiage is pointing to. Are you with me? We are in Finland. We are going to step out to start a recording studio as directed by God. I have relinquished my right to know and to have all the answers. I follow Him. We are praying through the form this will take for we don't want religion of any form, shape, or size. Our mission is to use the media to sound forth whom God has created us to BE so that includes people near and far able to partake of the message.Then we will also form here in Finland through gathering people from every tribe nation and tongue to come and be part of this journey. Not just Finns but we anticipate with time, others coming. Have you seen the movie Field of Dreams? We are building our passion in Christ. God will bring those to us with like passions to conquer any opposition that tries to get us to conform to anything else but who God calls us to be.
So back to what I said in the beginning. Today IS the first day of the rest of my life. Everything I have gone through has brought me to here, right now. I don't negate the past for it leads me step by step in the present into the future. Jesus Christ is everything to us and He will be glorified in our midst and in our lives and in this ministry.
So more in the days ahead. I will be posting again soon. One step at a time. What else do my refrigerator magnets say? Well behaved women never make history.....perhaps I will write on that one next.
Our purpose: To create not imitate
Our plan: To allow God to create through us
Our mandate: To bring truth in the person of Jesus Christ into the midst of chaos.
Our Passion: Creativity in all its forms - teaching it, living it, loving it. Calling forth all unusual creative people to be mentored in Jesus Christ. You have the reality of creativity in You - to pain, to dance, to sing, etc. etc. That is our purpose in Rivers of Eden. Today. Now.
Enough said. More coming.
Amen.... And as we discussed, the creativity will flow in accordance to God's directions and not in accordance to Man's perceived guidelines!!! I will also declare along with you the "Today is the first day of the rest of my life!"
ReplyDeleteI am so blessed every time I read what God has impressed upon the both of you. Amen to that statement of God's directions and not Man's perceived guidelines! Break that box wide open!
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Thanks both of u. We are going forward. Here started and stopped so many times.mi have wondered about that but I see now that it is God, purging, refining, our motives, message, and flow. So many times we could have moved out and did only to be stopped. We wondered and sought God thinking we had missed it. but I think differently now. Life is not a progressive journey of upward motion but of stops and starts where God shows us how to follow as He leads.
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