Seasick?
Feels like nothing could have prepared me for this season. All I know is I’m going somewhere, but like a sailor in fog, I can’t even see the horizon. I’m not filled with fear, possibly a little seasick at times, but just having trouble finding my barrings by sight, so it’s times like these, I must just go by intuition– some might call it faith. I’ve done this so many times… I know all is alright. It’s in these times that faith must become a kneejerk response. It must be what lies at your core.. it is the product of a mind renewed with Truth.
I joke I should write a book on, “What to do with life after Bethel.” I guess I must write every page as I walk through every day. At this moment it is collage. I process through the array of cuttings and clippings on the floor in my living room. As Josh Garrells plays, desire arise, dreams emerge, the realization that I am not lost at sea, but on an adventure into the unkown.. into the unknown of my hometown tour…. Here I am.. this is what is in front of me. Calgary, laughter, Africa, black and white, the ocean, reflection, adventure, waves, imagination, movement, momentum, bikes, and faded warm colors.
This is where I am for now… I’m going somewhere.. and It’s not hard to get there.. just gonna raise my sails and catch the wind.
6 days and counting…
It has been such a journey preparing this trip to Costa! It feels like sometimes when you are put in a new position of leadership the grace or anointing for that role also comes. I suddenly feel equipped to do something that I couldn’t have done before. I have had tremendous faith for my teammates to get their money in. It felt like really just wouldn’t be an issue, I felt like there would just be extra floating around for extra expenses as well.
While you may have faith for something, it really is a whole other matter to see the money actually come in! Such cool stories of a homegroup taking up a kingdom offering in San Fran, then giving it to one member on my team. From simple friends and family believing in what we are doing on this trip in the effect it will have on our lives. From people wanting to just give to Lighthouse missions, not even knowing such a thing existed! Such a grand journey!
I covet your prayers! More updates coming soon!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE
–me
photo from our Not For Sale event we put on.. I got to speak a bit!
Good Society
Last night we had our Lighthouse meeting, as we do every week. Lighthouse is pretty much my family down here in Redding, we just do life together, it’s pretty stinkin beautiful. Anyways, I loved what we talked about so much I had to share. Joel was reading all these scriptures about the last days. Normally when people talk about the last days it’s doom and gloom. Funny thing is when you read about it… there is some amazing stuff in there. It was so encouraging, why hadn’t someone told me all this before!?
One of my dreams is to have some sort of media that just reports good news–the amazing things that are happening all over the world. We become like, what we focus on. So this goes along with that dream and I am reason why I’m sharing. One of my favorite ones was Micah 4:1. That the mountain of the house of the Lord will be established as chief of the mountains… many nations will come… they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, never again will nations train for war. No more war? That’s a good plan right there. I just finished A Long Way Gone – memoirs of a child soldier and I think no war would be a good thing. Yay Jesus!
Good things are happening and ahead!
Here is my friends Jeans Co. He has vision of a good society! www.goodsociety.org
Tension in Dreams
I have had two main dreams, since I guess I started considering dreams. When I was really young it was to be an Olympic athlete, which is probably 90% of the dreams of my teammates as well. I was swimming competitively at the time and I would take nothing less than the top. Now, I find I have two main passions in life– surfing and international sustainable development. Generally what I studied at the U of C (Calgary not Cali…)… now I’m at BSSM learning to put those two together, with power and built on the foundation love.
We talk in school about mission, vision, destiny, calling, plans, goals, steps…. Right now, I feel like the next step is finding the right place and building the right family of people. I will go nowhere alone. I’m leading intercession for the team for Costa. Sometimes, I listen more than I speak, and I felt the Lord tell me Costa Rica is going to be a destiny filled trip. We shall see what happens…
As I share with you my journey feel free to be empowered to dream… and think of one thing you could do everyday towards that dream, to develop it/yourself…. talk to God a bit… share a bit… and don’t forget.. enjoy the ride!
Beautiful tension
So Ecuador opened up a whole new world to me — like a world inside of me. Dreams forgotten were breathed to life, and desires began to pulse with passion and longing to be fulfilled. For example, I realized how much the nations are inside of me, I so desire to touch them, speak life. Jesus said my words are life and they are spirit (except He probably said it in Hebrew). When He spoke, His words changed worlds, people were never the same. Those He built into over the span of 3 years, turned the world upside down when He was GONE. I desire to build into leaders and influence the influential. Yet what do I have to give? The tension of time needed for building, growing, learning, becoming. Everyday I take a little risk. It’s a beautiful wait, yet everyday I walk in my destiny and pursue the more available, and everyday, I change my world, so that I touch a person, who touches a nation, who touches a continent, who touches the world. What are your dreams? What needs to be awakened? How can you walk in your destiny today? Think, share, contemplate… more tomorrow.. all my love.
Jen Has Sunshine 
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