Today is the first day with this blog up and running, although everything is not entered in yet. I am basically still in the renovating process but I am excited to place my first post. Hopefully soon, the rest of my pages will be full and this all might make more sense. With this brand new season I have entered into I wanted to start something that documents, shares, and maybe even inspires people with this journey. I am also open to any encouragement along the way, as I hope this encourages you.
One of the major reasons for the birth of "how the lilies grow" is my desire to beat anything that steals a persons worth, confidence, and identity. In Luke 12:27 it reads, "Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28 If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?" How beautiful is this verse... it screams of how much we are worth to the Lord in comparison to flowers and grass. I find it so easy to allow the enemy to steal how I perceive myself based on the opinion of peers, culture, and society.
Which leads me to another major aspect of this blog... My Art. The Lord is so stinking creative it blows my mind. I feel like He has wired me to love that about Him because He too made me an artist. I don't think I have ever been comfortable saying that sentence... "I am an artist." But I believe that is one of the first steps to knowing who you are is speaking who He says you are... duh right. Its so simple that its so profound. He gifts and wires us all differently on purpose, and the world we live in creates this one-size-fits-all box that we are supposed to conform to or are ridiculed if we don't mold correctly. I say "live outside of the box." But not only that... do it confidently with the full knowledge of not only who you are, but also who your God is.
Brandi
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