Author: JaimeHope

Violin teacher and endurance rider living in a rural mountain county - one of the least population dense and without a single stoplight.

Journal 4/3/24 — Vision

The author reflects on feeling uncertain about her direction in life. She turns to Yahweh for clarity and guidance. Through an impression of a bright but unclear futures, she is reminded to embrace the present tasks and challenges, as they are part of the journey- finding solace in taking hopeful steps forward amidst life’s uncertainties and responsibilities.

Journal 1/31/24

I want to sow a field of trust in God for what he is going to bring out of the ground. I want to take the seeds God is handing me and throw them into the ground without having to know what they are in advance. I want to be a woman who sows those seeds and knows with confidence that in the appointed time (Kairos) the harvest will come!

Messy

I think God wants to enlarge our territory and calls us to expand into bigger spaces – not because we need to be important, or have influence, or matter more, but because He has limited children willing to say YES to his potentially messy plans, and it’s how he’s able to bless the world!

A fresh take on advent

Today, I considered a new layer of Advent! Not only celebrating preparing ourselves figuratively for the celebration of the birth of Christ, but a preparation and time of clearing out my own heart to offer a birth place for not only the savior who does live in us, but with him comes the dreams that God has in mind for me to give birth to. 

What we fear

Fear is everywhere, but those people I see living a passionate life and burning with the fire of the spirit of the son of the living God in their eyes- what they fear is not persecution, or being misunderstood, or not having basic needs met, or even death… they fear losing the connected presence of God in their lives and the intimacy they have said yes to.

Obedient or responsive?

I don’t just want to learn a job, I don’t just want to be obedient to what I know I’m supposed to do… I don’t want to stay a slave longer than I need to… Jesus desires friendship for us all, intimacy and deeper connection. I want to be a friend of God.