Fullerton Piece!

Context: The event was titled, "The Blueprint Conference" 
Scripture verse: 1 Kings 6:12

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I told my parents

That if I were ever to get a tattoo

I would get an anchor on my ankle to represent everything that I find myself rooted in

Placed near my feet because they’re the only parts of me that knows what a foundation truly feels like

I thought that my family was my foundation

But in reality I found that they were the lighthouse in the midst of my

Growing pains looking a little like thick fog

When I came to college I realized that my fathers seminary degree was not my own

That I still had to learn and wrestle with the complexities of who God was

And just because I was deemed a Pastors Kid when his hands reached for his diploma

Did not mean that my foundation would be formed the same way his was

My first level started with a season loneliness

My feet planted in the security of …..in that very moment God was the only one who kept me from falling

My cement to ground me in his words written in red ink, firm and unmoving so that I could not ever confuse it for sinking sand 

Second level….

The knowledge that my purpose in life was not wrapped in the comments or opinions of others

Whose buildings were crumbling beneath them without even blinking once in disbelief

That my words and actions were to create one, straight, forward and then upward path that didn’t retrieve back to my own mouth

Third Level….

Whatever it is we think we are majoring in

We need to remind ourselves that it’s not in the science of how God works

It’s not the psychology of his mind because no textbook could put the definition of EVERYTHING into sufficient words

So our attempt to take notes on the final exam is in no way beneficial

Instead we just need to observe the art we cant explain and appreciate every intricate meaning it portrays

Fourth Level

It’s said that our bodies are temples

A holy place where the divine resides

So why do we carry our burdened black baggage inside of it?

Streaking the marble floor hindering us from seeing the decrees of our Lord

Inscribed in the surfaces and outlines of our temples

How can we fulfill that which we ignore?

Fifth Level

Let God be God in what God does and Only God will understand

He has already paved the road ahead of us

We have the same answers just in different books, said in different ways for different people

The tools are found in every experience that he allows us to face

Tools found in the little places of wisdom that he graciously exposes in unexpected moments

So take all that you have,

Which may not look like much

Imagine the temple he is calling you to be and urging you to build

And blueprint it