Thursday...
I'm pretty tired to be honest! I've been working at summer madness doing prayer ministry and I'm loving it, God is good...such an opportunity to meet people in their need and to pray on their behalf...what a blessing! It's just been an en=motional week and I think that I am in need of some support, rest and prayer...just time with good friends! I had mt interview for the Queens counselling Diploma and have got a place, now my decision is where to go! I want to go where I feel God is leading and to be able to find a job at the end of it too! The course is more expensive than the Tech one I got in for, but the tutors seem great and the course, very good! I had the mural launch too, it's great to have them finished, to see a community changed for good in some small way...I am blessed to be able to call this work!
I'd texted a lot of people to pray over a few things the last couple of weeks and I just want to say thanks for praying! I really value the prayers and am blessed by you! God has been good and faithful, and I've felt supported by friends and couldn't have done summer madness, interviews, launches and deadlines without you!
I learned a lot on Tuesday night...it was the mural launch and I had about half and hours work to do on the murals...I asked people to pray...just for half an hour of no rain! I got soaked a few times heading out, trying to paint! Anyway, the rain was stopping, this was at 6 ish, the launch was at 8...i was painting away when it began to pour and i stood under my umbrella, desperately painting while clinging onto my little piece of waterproof covering...it's kind of funny now! I'm sure the Monkstown residents were wondering what was going on and if I was crazy! So, I had to abandon the murals, one image of a guy I'd been painting, with his hair dripping and melting black like mascara streams over the face and tee shirt! it looked a bit like he had dreadlocks!
So, I didn't get the work finished, but at 8 o clock, the rain went away and left a fresh evening with atmospheric clouds, with me standing looking outside thinking, @could I run down now,' my last chance, while talking to Paul Loughlan from the Arts Council...
So, I told him what had happened, obviously there was nothing anyone could have done! I really felt and knew God's grace that night as I resolved that it was okay that the murals weren't finished and I stood there vulnerable, waiting for everyone to go down the road to look at the melting mural! I knew at this time that I was accepted, if people didn't like the unfinished look or didn't mind...actually, everyone loved them and paul Loughlan was totally understanding and really pleased with the whole programme and the murals...at this point I knew it was good for me to face being vulnerable, unfinished in my work, but totally safe in God...something of the Father's heart I think! So, I'm glad it rained, I loosened up, let go, let go of any control and accepted that I was chosen and loved by God, that I did my best, did it for God, and this was all I could do...
take the murals, a small offering of me and of thanks and gratitude for who I am and whose I am...
The rain can be a blessing...even amidst the pouring and washing away!!!
Let's see what comes next...***
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Dianne, I love that: you were secure even though the work wasn't done - that's really beautiful. I read somewhere recently about being 'loved unedited' which I thought was a really great way to put things...Anyway, it's always lovely to read your blog...
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