Anchor

I had a funky dream last night. I ended up at a strange hotel and had a good long conversation with Donald Miller. The hotel was strange because it was a "safe space" - imagine this present darkness meets war meets portland or something. Anyway, outside of the fence surrounding this hotel there was demonic activity; oppression and deception, that sort of thing, and the impression I had in my dream was that the goal was to stop the work that went on in the hotel - varying levels of ministry: teaching, encouraging, discipling, mentoring, prayer...

It was all quite interesting to wake up from, as I have been struggling, of late, with 'the demons in my mind' - much like the fence surrounding the hotel, there are spaces I can sense the presence of God in my life and His work... and outside of those I am in a war.

And why Donald Miller? It's all so random, but yet not, as I think the mentoring project is the most wickedly awesome thing to come around the pipe yet. Truly, truly, I long to be in this kind of ministry. I long to encourage, comfort, challenge, and teach. I long to shape and mold.. and I think, occasionally, that when my girls are grown that is what I will do with my time... who knows.

All of this under the Heading - Anchor. What is your anchor?

My anchor is Christ.
My hope and foundation are in Christ, and I love the word of God as it unfolds when I read it. I made a commitment last month that if I plan to read all these other books, and consider writing one, I must read the bible at an equal level. I don't know if I realized how much I read. whew. So I read the bible now, and not much else. I just don't have a lot of time!

I read some of the new testament, because I prefer it, and then decided to jump over to the old testament. I landed on Ezekial and my first thought was, wow, I would love it if God spoke to me like this. Of course, right after that thought I read the part where God uses Ezekial as an example to reveal his plan for Israel (um, I take that back, God!) Ezekial was a man of great faith...

On to continue challenging myself with truth and dealing rightly with the lies...