Did you know that darkness is just the void of light?  In other words, where light fills a room, darkness can't invade it and overcome it.  Where light exists, darkness cannot stay.  Even the smallest amount of light has removed darkness.  As a believer, we are filled with the Light of the World. 

Have you ever experienced a time where the Lord felt far away, or all you felt was heaviness and darkness around you?  How is it possible to have the Light of the World in you, and yet feel far away and only see darkness?

The verse above has held special meaning to me as I have often applied it to my own being.  I know what it feels like to be walking around as if I am a pile of dry bones. I may be functioning, but there is no life within me that I can grasp onto. Has anyone else felt this way at some time in their life?

These last few weeks have seen me fine-tuning my purpose and artistic medium with Father God. At the end of June I felt exhausted from learning, striving, pushing forward into new creative territory, so much so that I began to have doubts about whether fine art was really my “Gift” like I had thought.

Father is so, so good: no matter what we ask, so long as we ask Him, He’ll answer.
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Identity is a tricky thing. The world grabs us every. single. day. and yanks us around with messages about who we are, what we should be doing, how we should be thinking. If we aren’t spending enough time with Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, it is easy to find ourselves lost in the weeds.

I've had an old worship song stuck in my head all day,
"He who began a good work in you, will be faithful to complete it.  Will be faithful to complete it.  He who started a work will be faithful to complete it in you."

Have you been there lately?  Looking at your circumstances and they don't quite match up with what you know God has promised you, or what you know to be true?  I have too. 

Many of us have heard the phrase, “Patience is a virtue”. But have we really stopped to think what exactly it means to be patient and why it should be a virtue for us all? While the scriptures often emphasizes the importance of patience, we now have quickly forgotten the very idea and the reason we have to tolerate seasons in our lives to realize incredible fruits of blessings.  
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Advancements in technology have brought us many good things. But, one entity it has also brought forth from the depths is this nasty character of impatience. We live in a generation of the instant; where we all need things done as soon as we begin them. We expect to have things in our hands right after we order them, we expect a perfect relationship with our partner without putting in the effort or expect growth in our businesses just as we set them up. While these are rather simple examples of impatience, we realize a similar pattern through our journey of life.