I have had it on my heart for years and years to have a compound on a large plot of land where communal living and growth could go on. When I got saved that vision grew from simply a safe and seperate environment to raise children to a working ranch to rescue and heal people who were broken by the world. I have never seen anything like this place I dream, and though I have heard of people who take in children or families it was never as comprehensive as my vision. In my dream I leave my ranch for international relief work but as I had no experience in either field I just chalked it up to wishful thinking.
A few weeks ago I was looking at jobs and decided on a whim to see what was offered by the red cross. Among the jobs offered is a mobilization manager who is basically out of work until a disaster occures at which point they are dispatched to that location to mobilize all allocated assets and volunteers. This to me, sounds like the perfect job but alas I have no ranch or knowledge of the ministry that this job would be the cherry on.
Tonight during our feedback session Jenny talked about her home. The home she lives in is communal, they have open doors to anyone who needs a home, stray singles, abused women and children, young struggling couples. They are the center of their community and hold celebrations for all of the Jewish high holidays, they have sabbath dinner and invite people in to share with them. Jenny is also our squad leader on the world race, she will be out with us until Africa and then go back stateside coming back to check on us a few times. She travels to various countires for varied amounts of time for ministry and then goes back home for ministry. She has the impossible life I thought I had to invent from scratch, she has the life I came on the world race to gain an inkling of the knowledge of how to live.
As she spoke tears welled up in my eyes. She was telling me my own heart lived out and fullfilled. Her words unimpossibled the impossible and made real the unreal. I felt a hot rush of awe and confirmation, He had called me to that moment as He called me to the race, and He was calling out my dream and vision and pronouncing victory for me. I don’t want a life any more ordinary than everything I have on my heart. I am His daughter and He has written His word of promise on my heart and all there is for me to do is claim it.
