[coffee. thank you JESUS]
The people I have talked with have been uplifting, challenging and loving.
Bottom line: I love the people on my squad.
Workman and I at the "narrowest street in Europe"
[cheesy laughter picture]
And on Thursday I had 3 conversations with 3 very different women I admire greatly. I started my morning with Betsy our squad coach, continued it with breakfast with Tiffany one of our alumni squad leaders and ended the trio of awesome-ness with Kelly– another alumni squad leader.
[kelly: pure beauty]
It was in those conversations, those moments that I realized something resounding in my spirit.
I am different.
It hit me like a ton of bricks.
You see I've been working on this concept for a blog.
Going from Meghan to Meg.
No one on the race calls me Meghan. It's actually kind of weird when they do. When a "Meghan" slips out of their mouth.
I'm Meg. I've been Meg since day one of training camp because my FB profile name was Meg Reeve. People on the race don't call me Meghan.
I'm slowly realizing that God has given me a new name in Meg.
He's showing me that the things that made up Meghan are the reason why Meg is so strong.
He's told me I need a new name because the lies that held "Meghan" down no longer hold Meg down. I learned so much in the first almost 28 years of my life. All of the things I have gone through, been through, been told have brought me to here. And as I pass into a new season, a new time I realize I need a new name.
MEG
And of course it made me think of the reasons He gave Saul the new name of Paul.
Saul was to NO LONGER be bound by the crap that he did.
And I am sure that it took some convincing to those who knew him.
And a lot of convincing to himself.
People seeing his newness and speaking it out.
On a tea and popcorn date with my lovely Julie Morsfield late one night she stared me in the eyes and said a bold two word sentence.
"You're different"
And it's true.
I believe it.
In the way I walk, speak, look, act, claim truth over others.
And begining to claim truth over myself.
It's a heavy moment for me.
To, for once in my life, claim to believe what other people tell me about myself.
To actually KNOW and RECIEVE that I am woman who is lovely, who speaks truth, who is prohpetic, who is wise.
Choosing to believe that I am a woman who is powerful because I WALK in CHRIST'S perfect POWER.
[me and my sweet Jolene]
So one night during squad worship Kelly called us to DECLARE things over ourself.
So in my change from Meghan to Meg. In my walking as a confident, clear-headed, lovely woman of God I chose to declare the following things over myself
I declare that I am UNSHAKEABLE
I declare that I will BELIEVE THE TRUTHS OTHERS SPEAK OVER ME
I declare that I WILL NOT STAND IN GAPS I DON'T NEED TO STAND IN.
And one I didn't say but I will say now: I declare that I ,Meg, am BEAUTIFUL.
And you know it's now going to be easy to walk in this daily. It's going to be a struggle. But I am stepping into the newness that Christ has called me too. I am choosing to step into Meg and the truths that I have been told.
And all of these things, this new name, this new victory causes me to strive even moreso to look like Christ.
And it's going to be good.
It IS good.
So hello, my name is Meg. I'm going into Month 5 of my world race
And I am starting over.
This is MEGHAN [being a hipster]
and this is MEG [being a hipster]
And it's awesome.
[teaser for my next blog about the ways God is growing me and the new challenges ahead. spoiler alert: I will no longer be my team finance person]
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LOVE!
