Reframe, For A Full-Circle Blessing
Things have happened over the past week and weekend, that have brought important parts of my life “full circle”. I will write more about what happened later.
First, I want to touch on why it happened. I want to talk about why these “full circle” moments were even possible. They were made possible because they were given space to take place - because long ago I chose to never make a big decision with an unwell soul. Rather, I stayed my course, resisting “change for the sake of change”.
The Spirit had given me a certain perspective. It was up to me to then choose it. I obeyed it.
Perspective frames the whole story we are telling ourselves about ourselves and about others closest to us. Perspective is the lever that either moves mountains, or the catapult that crushes what would otherwise have been possibility.
Perspective is a choice. It is a function of the heart, and it guides the whole of the art that is our life.
Some time back, in what seems like another lifetime, though not that long ago, the Preacher had a conversation with a couple who were making big decisions from an unwell soul. He tried valiantly to offer another perspective, and to convince them to choose it. Instead, the husband replied in smooth, measured, cool tones, “Well. You always said someone’s perspective is their reality. My perspective is my reality”, basically using my husband’s own words against him. (The Pharisees did this to Jesus all the time.)
Immediately, I felt such pain for them. Because I heard Holy Spirit say, “They have chosen.” I knew, right then, this person’s perspective would in fact become their reality. It did not have to be so. We are given a gift called “repentance”. And it simply means we are always invited to choose a better story. Another perspective.
Reframe!
Oh, reframe!
My New Creative Writing and Art Course Goes Live Today
My next course, my third in collaboration with Jeanne Oliver’s creative network, is titled:
Playing With Fire: Poetry and Paint As Kindling
To celebrate the launch, I designed a new offering, and it is up and available, in my shop, RIGHT NOW.
The image of the point of an arrow becoming the nib of a pen…it came to me in a flash last year, and quite simply, I was never the same.
I was inspired by the ultimate badass poet: King David in the Bible. I was also deeply impacted by the movement and momentum created in my life over the entire year 2018, when I took up journaling as if my life depended on it. I wrote down every word I heard the Lord say to me! (No exaggeration.)
It. was. game-changing.
And He proved every word true…all the way down to things I wrote down and dated, noting to myself that I sensed the Lord telling me it would come to pass “within the year”…and one year to the day later (June 28, 2019, in case anyone is curious) it was deeply, clearly brought to pass.
Take your words and make them arrows that you use to target your big, beautiful outcome. Let my new class (and maybe this shirt) remind and motivate you.