Have you heard of IF:Gathering?? I had not heard of it until last weekend when it was popping up all over my feeds...instagram, twitter, facebook, you name it. This conference was VIRAL and what a fantastic message to have swarming the interwebs.
I found late Sunday that it had been live streaming all weekend...whoops missed it but luckily it was going to stay posted for a couple days and man did I devour my computer screen. I will say Jennie Allen and Rebekah Lyons spoke straight to my heart through that screen, God put these amazing words in their mouth that I had heard before but not ever really heard...know what I mean?
The message lit something inside me, the message about equipping our generation of women to be free and run our race. To give each other the freedom to be human and to admit our brokenness and our mistakes without judgment but instead with love and understanding. The message that this race that we are running, this calling we feel it looks and feels different for everyone.
Not many people understand my desire to adopt a child of a different race and culture or to travel to these third world countries and love on babies and the poor who live there...you know I don't really get it either it's just there on my heart. You know what's cool? Just because it's on my heart doesn't mean you are less for it not being on your heart. Maybe your calling looks like a homeless shelter in the inner city, maybe it's being a Sunday school or VBS teacher, maybe it's holding book/food/clothing drives, maybe it's advocating for trafficking or maybe it's fighting to end hunger or puppy mills. Whatever your calling is whatever is on your heart GOD put it there. He put it there for a reason don't ignore it, be proud and just live it.
I heard this during one of the sessions and it hit home so hard for me "It doesn't look like stages, books or adoption for everyone." I read a lot of blogs, I watch these women become authors, speakers, humanitarians traveling on blogging trips and I feel totally inadequate to them. I don't have the money to do that, I have 2 small kids who need me at home, I can't put a proper sentence structure together, I have like 2 blog followers. What am I supposed to do?? Where do I belong??
I belong here at home, folding laundry, wiping butts, doing crafts for the valentines day party and filling out a whole freaking lot of paperwork for an adoption that has me shaking in my boots and ready to throw up. My time will come when I can travel more and who knows what God will bring me to in the next 2, 5, 10 years down the road if I just let him work through me. Maybe I will end up on a Sole Hope trip (for now I have a shoe cutting party) maybe I end up leading a mission trip (for now I pray and go when I can)
I know this is all over the place but what I am getting at is this...women lets not judge each other because our hearts look different, our callings are different, lets embrace each other, love each other and encourage each other in our races.
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Wasn't it such a blast? Worship, truth teaching, and empowerment to run our races and not measure ourselves with stupid measuring sticks.
It was such a blessing and I am soo impressed by our generation and saddened at the same time that so many haven't heard of it in this midwestern city.
But, with a digital copy of that, it can change. :)
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