BEAUTY BECKONS

I know little of such wonders that await me in this journey to come. I have neither the imagination nor the vocabulary to understand this world of mystery, but I can hear it calling my name. 

With each day passing I'm getting closer and closer..4 days from now I will be on my way to Training Camp. I have read blog after blog of what to expect, and I have learned to just throw my expectations out the window, and just be really flexible. I am learning I need to posture my heart into a position of being vulnerable before the Lord, and before these people I will soon call family. "Starfish" ( Read Stephanie's blog about this) http://stephanielouisemay.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/training-camp-wisdom-near-death-experiences/ 

Since my last blog post money has poured into my account without me really feeling like I lifted a finger to make it happen. Your hearts responding in such a way is making this a reality. I am so honored and so happy to say I am now at $7,428 .. I am pretty much at the halfway mark of being fully funded towards the total $15,500! Thank you  for your support friends, family.. thank you for your love and compassion. For walking with me in this, sharing the journey, celebrating the beauty..

Some Of My Daily Reads These Days..

Some of my favorite songs these days

Eyes- Rouge Wave

We Move Lightly- Dustin O Halloran

Fragile N.4 -Dustin O' Halloran

Impossible-Figurine

Blood- The Middle East

Cosmic Love- Florence + The Machine

Life is crazy.. it's as simple as that... Life is crazy right now, all the transition all the change in seasons, in the journey of my thoughts and heart..It's certainly not for the faint of heart and yet while hard, it's beautiful. I'm beginning to learn how to face the reality of leaving. Just scratching at the surface of this reality, but I am facing it head on rather then trying to wait till launch to deal with the emotion that comes with leaving. As scary as it is it's taking "a physical journey to complete a spiritual one". I'm learning that going away from all the familiar is making my heart a place where God can work, much like a garden. A place where faith will sustain me. 

Jer: 17:7- 

"But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, 

    whose confidence is in Him. 

They will be like a tree planted by water 

    that sends out its roots by the stream.

It does not fear when heat comes;

    It's leaves are always green.

It has no worries in a year of drought

And never fails to bear fruit."

Change and transition are never easy but with the changing of seasons there is promise of new life. Promise of new beautiful moments, beautiful encounters. "You can recognize truth by it's beauty and simplicity". 

You and I, each and every one of us without exception, can be defined as an aching need for the infinite. You see this in longing as we listen to symphonies in their elegant and harmonious unity of dozens of instruments and thousands upon thousands of notes producing dazzling melodies..or the beautiful mystery of seeing how jet planes need runways or two or more miles to take off and land, and yet birds can land successfully on a twig one quarter inch in diameter. Many birds can jump and turn 180 degrees in a split second, an amazing accomplishment in itself. "The point is every human is drawn to beauty". A night sky can thrill, an exquisite orchid, a Mozart concerto, a lovely face...Beauty beckons

I am jumping head on into this. This adventure, this journey. It's my leap of faith. My dive into beauty.

I am looking upon the upcoming horizons with eager excitement, and all the while enjoying the sunset views from right where I stand here and now.. I'm content and I'm happy.. 

Thanks for listening to my thoughts and wondering's.. 

Live A Great Story- Dev