becca's body art

o.k. don't freak out yet. i am not getting a tattoo. i was inspired last night by a sermon i heard at our national conference. well, really i was inspired by the Holy Spirit, but we can give brett jones some credit for delivering the words. his challenge to us was to examine our body art. people wear tattoos in some sense to show outside a little of who they are inside. the idea was that we all in some way have tattoos, body art, that show on the outside what we are inside. what are those things in life that define me. what do others see as my body art. what other people see may not be what i want them to see, or maybe i know exactly how to show people only what i want them to see. the second part is how do we use who we are, our body art, to contribute to the whole body, the church. so i took the challenge. what does defines my life. who am i, and how do i fit in the church. what do others see as my body art, and is this what i want them to see. so here goes.

^i'm a mom (that is as far as i got last night, i need to branch out a bit more i think)

^i'm a wife, a lover of my husband trying desperately to make him a priority in my busy life. (does that make me a desperate housewife? lol) 

^i am creative, although this gets stifled by the melancholic part of my personality and once again my busy life.

^i am a lover of God. oops this one should be a bit closer to the top eh? just to let you know this is all coming right off the top of my head. i guess it shows a bit of how easy it is to let more seemingly obvious body art creep to the front and overtake what should be the most obvious. i guess this is were the photo comes in. a little unkept, a little dry and colorless, in need of some tlc. this is the kind of art that starts to show when 'lover of God' is at the bottom of my list.

Lord, help me to shift my priorities and put you as the main piece of art in becca's gallery of life. Jesus, be my artist. paint me something new today. begin again the body art that is me. 

Creator, let your creativity flow through me. give me art to give the rest of the body.  

be the center of all i do, the wind in my sails pushing me on, and the fire in my heart keeping me strong. help me to continue to discover what you want me to look like, inside and out. help me to paint life with a joyful heart. amen

1 corinthians 12:12 "the body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. so it is with Christ."

to be continued......