Creativity. Sometimes it is hard to manage it all. Some things have to sit on the sidelines for other things to grow and produce fruit.
As a young adult, I found it necessary to set aside art so I could focus on music and family. I am thankful for the direction and leadership God has provided over my lifetime. He knew I needed music during that season of my life more than I needed art.
As God's children, He plants within each of us His creative nature and with His help, our gifts, talents and true identity can emerge as God directs. It can take a while, in fact, my experience is that it can take a lifetime to fully uncover your true self…the person God designed for His purposes and plans.
Here I am, once again at a major creative turn in my life and while my creative focus has been on art for a few years now, another gift that has been slowly coming to the surface is writing.
With excitement, I am so happy to announce that I have said “Yes” once again to God to step out in faith into a new project. No, it is not another album, in fact, it is not something I have ever truly dreamed about doing but I cannot deny the ongoing thoughts and compulsion that is driving me to write. I have given God my “Yes” to write a discipleship handbook for women.
Oh, and that’s not all. I am going to be illustrating it with my original art plus creating a disc-style journal and an interactive website to go along with it.
Resources are already being compiled, paintings have begun, illustrating software is installed, and domains are purchased. I’ve begun working on the overall designs and have begun creating the website. It is a huge learning curve but I am already enjoying the journey.
The vision is very clear…help women creatively grow into joy-filled happy disciples of Jesus…not just followers out of duty, although that is a very good reason to follow Jesus, but women made fully alive by the creative power of the Holy Spirit and the love they find in an intimate journey with God.
Here’s a sneak peek of the website…
It is going to be fun. It is going to be colorful. It is going to be creative. It will take collaboration with other gifted mentors and sisters in Christ and it will take me way far out of my comfort zone so I know I will also be learning along with any ladies who join in with me.
My biggest prayer is that it will bring glory to Jesus and will help women grow into influential disciples of His.
This project will probably take a while, but I am “all in”. It will stretch me like I have not been stretched in a long time and I will post updates when I can. I hope you will check back soon to see how things are going. I could certainly use a few prayer partners along this journey.
Thanks for reading through this post. Until next time, keep your chin up, your eyes on Jesus and know…
You are loved!
Becky
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