Greetings, Readers! All 3 of you!
I know that I've been more like a lazy crawly caterpillar in my garden blog than the beautiful butterfly that I would like to be. It's just been toooooo hot to even think about gardening. The beach is the only outside place I've wanted to be all summer. But the cooler days are starting to call me back to the dirt, and I can feel the sap starting to rise in my feet. So, hopefully we can soon do some more cultivating of our little piece of Paradise in the 'hood.
I've also been on Pause in my word-processing endeavors. Even thinking about writing a book is hard work! But that too is beginning to sprout inside my mind, growing its way out to my fingertips. Soon, the vine of my calling will also begin to bud and bloom and bear fruit.
I know that I've been more like a lazy crawly caterpillar in my garden blog than the beautiful butterfly that I would like to be. It's just been toooooo hot to even think about gardening. The beach is the only outside place I've wanted to be all summer. But the cooler days are starting to call me back to the dirt, and I can feel the sap starting to rise in my feet. So, hopefully we can soon do some more cultivating of our little piece of Paradise in the 'hood.
I've also been on Pause in my word-processing endeavors. Even thinking about writing a book is hard work! But that too is beginning to sprout inside my mind, growing its way out to my fingertips. Soon, the vine of my calling will also begin to bud and bloom and bear fruit.
In the meantime, I would like to share an email I wrote to Pastor Sandy back in July. It's not about gardening. It's about ALL of US.
Hi, Pastor,
Just thought I would share this with you.
I couldn't believe it when I saw the disco ball twirling in the corner of the slide during your sermon this Sunday! What a great object lesson! That's one of the first visions God gave me years ago of the Body of Christ and of every one of us being important and necessary. And that it's our different points of view (angles of reflection) that make us each unique and essential to the whole.
My main prayers are always: "God, show me." He showed me that each piece of a mirror-ball reflects at a unique angle in its journey around the room, each trajectory a different unique path, each shining to different unique spots. And every piece has several adjacent pieces that are so close that they're touching. But their paths are not the same, each arc of reflection just a tiny bit different. Very close, very similar, but slightly different. Different enough for all to be essential.
Each angle, each point of view, is vital to the whole. The ones on the total opposite side of the disco ball (those with a totally opposite point of view) are just as essential in order to fill the whole room (or world) with reflections of the Light. God needs us each to be where we are, reflecting God, so that the whole revelation is revealed all over.
Later, God showed me that the disco ball's limitations are that it can only reflect the Light. What the Body of Christ is really like is a huge prism. Same set up, as far as unique angles for each tiny facet. But this time the Light isn't being reflected from without, but is shining through, from within. And not only does each facet need to be exactly where it is to fulfill its unique role, it needs to be clean and transparent (not dark or blocking its light with sin or shame) so that the Light can shine through every angle and make spectrums (baby rainbows!) everywhere!
Hi, Pastor,
Just thought I would share this with you.
I couldn't believe it when I saw the disco ball twirling in the corner of the slide during your sermon this Sunday! What a great object lesson! That's one of the first visions God gave me years ago of the Body of Christ and of every one of us being important and necessary. And that it's our different points of view (angles of reflection) that make us each unique and essential to the whole.
My main prayers are always: "God, show me." He showed me that each piece of a mirror-ball reflects at a unique angle in its journey around the room, each trajectory a different unique path, each shining to different unique spots. And every piece has several adjacent pieces that are so close that they're touching. But their paths are not the same, each arc of reflection just a tiny bit different. Very close, very similar, but slightly different. Different enough for all to be essential.
Each angle, each point of view, is vital to the whole. The ones on the total opposite side of the disco ball (those with a totally opposite point of view) are just as essential in order to fill the whole room (or world) with reflections of the Light. God needs us each to be where we are, reflecting God, so that the whole revelation is revealed all over.
Later, God showed me that the disco ball's limitations are that it can only reflect the Light. What the Body of Christ is really like is a huge prism. Same set up, as far as unique angles for each tiny facet. But this time the Light isn't being reflected from without, but is shining through, from within. And not only does each facet need to be exactly where it is to fulfill its unique role, it needs to be clean and transparent (not dark or blocking its light with sin or shame) so that the Light can shine through every angle and make spectrums (baby rainbows!) everywhere!
I LOVE rainbows! And prisms!
Let there be light! Light made up of the whole spectrum. Light shining God's love in every color of the rainbow of life, to every unique person in the world. We each have our own purpose and position and are every one as essential as any other. That is so amazing to me! God made every person because we need every person right where they are for the Whole to be complete.
That's why I love the disco ball and why I have a rainbow window sticker on my car: CELEBRATE DIVERSITY! God does! We can.
Thanks for letting me share...
That's why I love the disco ball and why I have a rainbow window sticker on my car: CELEBRATE DIVERSITY! God does! We can.
Thanks for letting me share...
Love, Katy
