The following set of blog posts are an invitation to you, my friend and fellow-saint, into the perfectly wonderful and mightily mysterious ways Jesus has specifically invited our flock into a new and not-yet-known opportunity of “drop-your-jaw” goodness. In the past I have only shared publicly after coming into His gift of understanding for us so please bear with me in this additional unknown, that of writing while still “in it” the other unknown.
I have journeyed in set-apart ways with Jesus many times. By set-apart I mean intentional and different. Often these times involve a type of fasting or that of increasing my seeking of Jesus through different practices. From what I remember these different set-apart times have ranged from 3 to 65 days, most of them being 40 days. It all starts by His Spirit within me bringing my awareness to an offer, an invitation from Him. He brings the invitation in such a gentle yet strong fashion it really and truly makes it easy for me to say “yes.” I must not ignore sharing there is also within me a healthy bit of trepidation, we’ve done these enough I know “what I know” is usually not “where we camp” and new learning and new leaning opportunities are yet to be. Even so, Jesus, being The Source of my life, my ever present Counselor and my Preparer, perfectly knows my tendencies to ponder and to dream, to wonder and to worry so I am able to commence this new journey while fully trusting Him with my exposedness and my vulnerability. Over the years He has used these times to bring me into a necessary practice of mental stayness and stillness, they have also been times when He clears my head of the world's sticky cobwebs which may have accumulated and through them all, they have been beautiful times when He sets my heart to His, this being the safest and sweetest place to be.
Today is day 28 of 40.
This certain and set-apart time has us experiencing a mix of emotions because we know to stay humbly confident in that which He has said. The world is full of unknowns (always has been but for some this is real for the first time) and now in addition, our little world has a surprising amount of new unknowns. It’s in, and out of this, I get to share with you. Are you with me, with us…? I’ve got at least 12 more days to go...
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