Biding time between classes, catching up on work, tried to make my fingers do what my head saw, but computers and I are not the friendly sort after hours. Someone poked their head in our office today and said "Wow, what a job!" We both laugh and say we love being here, we get to laugh all day, discover great music, design stuff, talk to our extended family, and brainstorm.
It's days like today that I am so grateful that I am surrounded by men and women with vision. My sight lacks so much of the time, I see the here and now and don't have faith for paint color changes or room rearranges. I can't always see past the looming nostalgia I know will be my portion when things change and I'm very good at wishing I was back in Egypt.
But things are sifting and shifting around here and I've signed up for life. Multiple prophetic words over this place in the past few months, confirmation after confirmation that we are in a season of deep vision for great enlargement. These satisfy the lurch in my heart when I think about the changes. I'm not only surrounded by Vision, I'm engulfed in Safety.
And there's blessing in that.
So while a pile of design ideas, bulletins, posters, notecards, web URLs, tutorials, and lists of things-to-do grow and grow, while snippets of conversations and deep visioneering sessions, while we glance over at one another and smile, while we set up extra rows in the back of the sanctuary and run out of visitor packets, while parking becomes a problem, but lack never does--this we remember: we're standing in the path of God, He cannot and will not pass us by.
We won't miss Him. He remembers us. No demographics are too small or too lost to grow a church and a people who love him.
It's days like today that I am so grateful that I am surrounded by men and women with vision. My sight lacks so much of the time, I see the here and now and don't have faith for paint color changes or room rearranges. I can't always see past the looming nostalgia I know will be my portion when things change and I'm very good at wishing I was back in Egypt.
But things are sifting and shifting around here and I've signed up for life. Multiple prophetic words over this place in the past few months, confirmation after confirmation that we are in a season of deep vision for great enlargement. These satisfy the lurch in my heart when I think about the changes. I'm not only surrounded by Vision, I'm engulfed in Safety.
And there's blessing in that.
So while a pile of design ideas, bulletins, posters, notecards, web URLs, tutorials, and lists of things-to-do grow and grow, while snippets of conversations and deep visioneering sessions, while we glance over at one another and smile, while we set up extra rows in the back of the sanctuary and run out of visitor packets, while parking becomes a problem, but lack never does--this we remember: we're standing in the path of God, He cannot and will not pass us by.
We won't miss Him. He remembers us. No demographics are too small or too lost to grow a church and a people who love him.
posted by Lore at 14.5.08
1 Comments:
My how I miss you lor, but am glad for the vision and peace you have from being at home. It can be easier to feel unrest, always look for the next thing and much harder to find the joy in staying put sometimes. I agree with you, there IS blessing to be found when we are surrounded by vision and solid teaching. Clarity can be like a fresh breeze sometimes can it not?
Keep up the good writing dear, I love and miss you more than you know.
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