A New Path
Joe Killian • September 3, 2014
It has been a long time since I sent out my weekly Our Journey Together With God. Or has it been? In fact, the last email went out nearly a year ago. To me it seems like a really long time. I guess that depends on your perspective.
In that time I have experienced a lot. One of the most significant things is that I left my job as a Director of Religious Education. After more than ten years it seemed that God was calling me out on a new adventure. I am now working independently in a ministry called, Our Journey With God.
I have a few clients and am working on a website of the same name. A book, God willing, may be in my future as well. I am really enjoying the process of developing the website; although it hasn't progressed as quickly as I had planned. I had been searching for months for the right "journey" photo for the homepage and nothing seemed to be just right. The moment I inserted this one I knew...
My hope is that I will be sending out my weekly email again very soon. In the meantime email me and let me know what your "Godly" perspective is about this photo.
Blessings,
Joe
The story continues...I'm still working on the pondless waterfall in our front yard. I shared this project with you two weeks ago in Playin' In the Dirt. Since then I've had to rework sections of the stream three different times because we were losing too much water. I am now an expert on evaporation rates and excessive splash, two causes of water loss. This morning I tore the whole thing apart and I'm starting over.
Have you ever watched DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda? I stumbled across it recently and thoroughly enjoyed Jack Black's performance as a bumbling, noodle selling, kung fu enthusiast, giant panda named P o. Set in ancient China, it is more than a humorous slapstick comedy. The core message of the story jumped out at me as I have been focusing recently on the concept of being. Po is shockingly identified as the Dragon Warrior and he reluctantly enters training. The goal of the training is to receive the Dragon Scroll, which is believed to hold the secret to limitless power. Now I don't want to spoil the big reveal but I will say that what Po realizes is the same as what I speak to in the concept of being and authentic identity. So, where do we find the secret to our "power?" I praise You, because I am wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works! My very self You know. Psalm 139:14 God knows it; and we must seek Him with all of our hearts in order to find it. As it was in the movie, the answer is stunningly simple. Our authentic identity is already within us. The challenge for Po in the movie was in seeing himself accurately and not the way others saw him. Even his teacher scoffed at the idea that Po was anything more than an underachieving dreamer who overate when he was anxious. Po's problems are rooted in the fact that he believes the lie of his false identity much more than he does his authentic one. Is it possible that you do the same? Who could have imagined that beneath all of Po's girth lived the Dragon Warrior? What's hidden from view in you? Seek God for understanding as to who He created you to be. Spoiler Alert: the secret of your limitless power is already in you. God placed it there and He wants you to be who He authentically created you to be.
Maria and I have been playing in the dirt a lot recently. First we replaced our French drain and then we embarked on a creative project intended to change the entire look of our front yard. My brother Jeffrey and I installed a new front step.
