When I was young my mom put me in art classes, I bombed them
I took art in high school, wasn't my thing.
In college I took a design class, and always used the auto CAD program to do my designs because I never felt comfortable with a pen in hand.
I have always been creative in different ways, but have never been able to put ink or lead to paper and actually draw, in fact whenever I did it was always an epic fail.
Three months ago, at our month 2 debrief in Lima, I had a one-on-one with our squad coach Betsy Garmon. I have been keeping a journal since before leaving for the race, but find that the only time i really take the time to write in it is when I am dealing with an issue and process it through putting it down on paper. She encouraged me to not just use it to write, but to use it as a creative outlet, write down words, glue in memories and little things that I pick up along the way that will remind me of a moment or day, and just doodle in it. And make to it happen on a daily basis, take time every day to sit and relax and just make a mark in it.
Did I mention that I have also been praying and asking The Lord for new gifts, well prayer answered. My conversation with Betsy activated something. Over the last few months I have been taking my journal everywhere, sketching and doodling whenever I have free time. Out of this has come something that I had never in a million years expected.
A couple of weeks ago one of my teammates noticed one of the pictures that I had drawn in my journal and was taken aback. I have never drawn in my life, and so he was a little surprised that I was so good, an to be honest….so am I.
Joey told me that I should start doing prophetic drawings for people, ask The Lord for a word or picture that will build up, encourage, or speak to someone and then draw it. And so I had been….the drawings that follow are ones that I have recently done….
This is a living testimony to the Lord's ability to activate new giftings in us, ones that we never dreamed possible….so keep asking, keep believing, and when He gives it to you….use it.
