Richmond Leather Weekender

I found this fantastic vintage leather weekender!  She’s a cleaver little bag as she unzips like a suitcase.  She’ll be up for grabs after I get her polished up.  Anyone intrested???  Stay tuned…

Here is the difficult dilemma I find myself in often: I’m a dreamer…But right now I’m a dreamer without clear focus or direction.  Its very arresting.  Perhaps artists who are without $$$ understand me.  You need paint, or canvas, but you have no means to buy it with.  Or you’re a performer, and have no audience to hear or see what you have to give.  But like that artist, who starts to dig for other materials and begins using cardboard as canvas and scraps as paintbrush…I begin looking for answers in what I have.

As I’m looking for answers, I finally figure that maybe, just maybe, the Bible might have some. (eh-hem, yes, its been a while for this “casual christian”). I find myself in 1 Kings 4 and 5; reading about Solomon, the richest and wisest ever.  I’m immediately irritated with this since I am in need of wisdom and riches, but I read on…He begins his kingship by establishing peace [treaty with Hiram], and then begins to take an inventory, then gather resources [people and materials] to build a great temple to honor his GOD. All this before building his own [royal house as king].

I know what I’d like to “build”, what I’d like to become…but the resources are limited…OR are they? (…is what I’m suppose to ask myself after a literary lesson from Solomon)

So I’m beginning my list of what I have, what I’ve gained, what makes me rich.

I am blessed.
I have never been without love or support.
I have always been favored.
I have the ability to communicate effectively and the heart to connect people with one another.
I have an outlet to express myself and a healthy understanding of it.
I have a desire to further my craft. I have a craft to further.
I have a wide range of emotions and that makes me both a compassionate fighter and a fierce philanthropist.
I have been a dare-devil with my dreams and even still, have no regrets, even when my leaps that ended in tumbles.
I always jump because I know His safety net is right below me.
I am and have always been blessed with special people who hold me close.
I am joyful.
I have been preserved from so much in the past to be blessed today.
I aim to make the people around me happy.
I sometimes make them laugh.
I have been able to experience various environments; people and places.
I have been able to explore my gifts and talents freely.
I have been allowed to dream.
I have been allowed to fight.
I see the world differently.
I see people differently.
I have time on my side
I have God-given gifts that bring me to sit and work wiht people of influence, and will continue to do so.
I am a part of a growing ‘labor-force’ of artists and creatives.
I am here on purpose.
I am more mature than I’ve ever been.
I have a hunger for innovation.
I have a thirst for including the mistfit, the overlooked and the underdog.
I look to discover and uncover new things, people, foods, sounds, cultures, possibilities.
I become very passionate about reversing the defered dream.
I am a storyteller.
I am a leader.
I am a servant.
I am a director.
I am an actor.
I am about the cause.
I have focus.
I have tried and failed and am still trying.
I am purposed.
I am annointed.
I have traveled to parts of the world I never thought I’d see….with my grandma.
I have been prophecied to do some things I never thought about.
I have been prophecied to do things I didnt tell anyone I’ve thought about.
I am a daughter. loved one. grandaughter. girlfriend. sister. cousin. bestfriend.
I have a college degree, a good professional background as well as an creative outlook.
I have an education in theatre arts.
I have performed on a broadway stage.
I have people who care and pray for me.
I have great leaders who speak into my life, even when I’m being a butthead.
I always have place to come home to.

(Lord, I begin today. Honoring you wiht my my heart and my time. While I know I haven’t seen the answers for my financal breakthrough yet, I’m realizing your answers are in the other riches around me…)

“…let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth…“

- 1 John 3:18

Consider the phrase:

love in action

What does that look like…TO YOU?, sound like?, taste like?, etc….how does it read/write?..how does it dance?..how does it sing?

I would love for everyone to participate (especially you who were at the last meeting)!! I believe that no matter what you create, the Holy Spirit is going to reveal another side of Himself to you through the process.