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Yay! THREE months in a row writing on the 22nd — how funny, heehee!
Wow! I have really made a TON of progress in the past month — which is amazing since at first I thought I was going SOOOOOOO SLOOOOW, but in hindsight I can see now that as soon as I stopped working a ton of hours AND trying to create gardens alone in places where there have never been gardens before — I actually picked up the pace and am now feeling GREAT about my progress — THANK YOU, Lord!! <3
So… I have been noticing that I do a LOT of random writing to God in my own notebooks and such — along with a ton of listing, prioritizing, and planning and such — refusing to overthink what I write/doodle and instead trying to follow the lead of the Spirit. Through this type of exploring or creating a PLAN with the Creator, I have developed a system that seems to work well for me! It is built upon an earlier foundation I discovered through this same type of process, and the whole thing together serves as motivation, direction, accountability, and reward.
Part of my new system is to get myself to write more about my PROCESS of learning and discovery and creating… and to interact with my site on an almost daily basis, thus making it more FRIENDLY and useful to me. Apparently, I have developed a phobia surrounding my OWN WORK, and that is part of the reason I have been feeling depressed for the last year or more, and have wasted soooooooo much time not knowing WHAT to do, cuz I had this huge emotional BLOCK.
However, THAT type of writing does NOT fit the format I have created for THIS part of the site, my “rambles”, my prayer blog. It IS rather blog-like, but I have created a whole new section of my site for this new project. It is my Jo Journey, and it is at FranLaff.com/journey. However, I have only just written my FIRST “step” (posts along the Journey) yesterday, and have not yet created all the links and pages and such… It is a work in progress, as am I. :wink:
Then the angel asked me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see a solid gold lampstand. There are seven lamps on the lampstand, and there is a bowl on top of it. There are seven tubes coming from the bowl. One tube goes to each lamp. The tubes bring the oil in the bowl to each of the lamps. There are two olive trees by the bowl, one on the right side and one on the left side. These trees produce the oil for the lamps.” Then I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “Sir, what do these things mean?” The angel speaking with me said, “Don’t you know what these things are?” “No sir,” I said. He said, “This is the message from the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Your help will not come from your own strength and power. No, your help will come from my Spirit.‘ This is what the LORD All-Powerful says.
Wow! Every time I read those verses, I get goosebumps! That is because during one of my recent sessions of creating a PLAN with the Creator, I was writing about how I need to use HIS STRENGTH to stay focused and stop fabricating excuses and making myself feel weaker and more burned-out than I actually AM. There were too many tiny little exchanges of heart and Word to show you the whole process, but suffice it to say that I SAW and FELT the word picture of the verses above. God not only provides this huge BOWL of His strength (the oil), but even provides the lamps and the tubes that carry the strength (oil) to them… AND right there, on site, He provides the SOURCE of the oil — the olive trees!!
I don’t know if I am doing an adequate job of explaining this — so much of it was emotion and momentary CLARITY that only the Spirit can give… but as I was later reading in Romans chapter 8, the verses above and several other little “puzzle pieces” came together, and it was a life-changing experience for me! I took lots of notes of course, but I feel like only by LIVING my VISION that I FINALLY HAVE, will I be able to ever explain it. I will be doing my best to do that, and to document some bits of the process, in my Jo Journey. THANK YOU, faithful Shepherd! <3
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— Fran Lafferty :O>
