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Freedom Friday – On Becoming Who God Created You to Be

November 21, 2014 by Patti 11 Comments

“Let me give you a hug,” said the 82-year-old Maery, as she bustled out from behind the sales counter.  Then, wrapping me in a hug bigger than expected from such a tiny lady, she proclaimed for all to hear, ” I LOVE you!” 

More later . . .

Welcome to FREEDOM FRIDAY – A new devotional, emotional, spiritual and sometimes hysterical series that I will be sharing on occasional Fridays, in addition to my regular Old Things New posts.

Today is my birthday and I’m bursting at the seams with excitement!  No, I’m not really excited to be 59, hanging on the precipice of 60!!!  I’ve not really minded the change from one decade to another before, but this one seems more intimidating.  Maybe that’s because there have been so many changes in my life this year and I’m feeling a little less secure.  I’m still standing on The Rock though so I’ll wait to see how I feel next year!

What I AM excited about is a birthday present I received this year.  It was an early present that I’ve been just dying (slight exaggeration) to share with you.

Buffet 039Would you like to play the same “What is it?” game we played in the last Freedom Friday?  Let’s not!

Blue Heron 001 Because I want to get right to this gift from my amazing husband who knew, in spite of the price, that this was a treasure that couldn’t be passed up.

He knows well the deep meaning Blue Herons hold for me.

Blue Heron 003Let’s go back to a day, not so many years ago, when I was struggling with depression and despair.  Though I was active in a good church and doing all of the things that good Christians do, I felt as if I wasn’t enough.  I didn’t measure up to all of the “beautiful” Christians around me.
Blue Heron 006It wasn’t their fault that I felt this way.  It was something inside me that was broken . . . a deep sense of shame and feelings of unworthiness.  I had spent a lot of time attempting to build my life into something impressive so I would be deemed worthy of love.  I tried really hard to be “Perfect Patti” and I looked pretty good to others . . . on the outside . . . while on the inside I still believed words of condemnation I’d received early in life and had accepted into the depths of my being.  These words defined me.  Sinner, failure, not enough, reject . . . the list goes on.

Blue Heron 022These words became part of how I defined myself and I wore them as labels.  No one else could see the labels but I knew they were there and sometimes others sensed it too and treated me accordingly.

So back to that day, not so many years ago, when I was at the beginning of my healing journey, surrounded by people who saw the pain within me and began showing me the way to freedom and healing.   I was taking a Bible study by Beth Moore. I don’t remember exactly which one but in her video message she talked about recognizing the way God smiles at us in little ways throughout our days.  I wanted to experience that!  I wanted to know God in a deeper, more intimate way and hear Him speak to me.  I wanted to recognize the smiles He sent my way. So that is what I prayed, sitting on my couch, in the living room of our lake house.  After praying I stood up and went to the window.  Looking out at the lake and down at our dock below I saw a Great Blue Heron standing there.  We saw them occasionally in that house and it was always a treat, but never moreso than this particular day.

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The Great Blue Heron stood on the dock while in the water near the shore a flock of ducks swam circles around each other, quacking excitedly, diving beneath the water and popping up again with seeming glee.  Not to anthropomorphize little duckies but that is what it seemed like to me.  They brought to mind all of the “beautiful” Christian women I knew, energetic, friendly and full of joy.

Blue Heron 012I saw that all of the cute little ducks paddling around were content to be just who they were created to be.

God spoke to my heart that day and He gave me more than just a smile . . .

Blue Heron 027. . . as He showed me something about the Great Blue Heron also.

Blue Heron 019I saw that he was a bit awkward compared to the others and from past experience I knew that he was terribly shy, sometimes flying away as soon as one came to stand near the window.  He was very awkward when he walked, with his funny knocked-knees (something I share in common with him by the way).  Though pretty in color (a nice dresser) he didn’t exhibit a lot of grace standing all alone on my dock.  Then, that Great Blue Heron began to move, taking one slow step after another down the length of the dock.  And in an instant, his wings came up, his feet pushed off and he was in the air, soaring with great grace and beauty.  When he stopped walking and used his wings to rise up and soar . . . he became a magnificent sight to behold!

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Yes, God smiled at me through the antics of the duckies and the magnificence of the Great Blue Heron that day.  It was as if He spoke to my heart personally and said, “You are a Great Blue Heron.  You may feel awkward but you were meant to soar!”

Do you think it odd that I would say that God spoke to me that day?  It wasn’t an audible voice and it wasn’t in the usual way He gets my attention, through Scripture or another person speaking to me, or even that still, small voice.  This was a different type of experience and one I’ve only had a few times in my life.  It was an experience never to be forgotten that began a big shift in my life.

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It wasn’t much longer after that, that we began teaching Freedom Session, to share with others the healing we’d received ourselves.  Then, a couple of years into Freedom Session, another amazing thing happened on a regular old day while I was mopping the floor.  I was suddenly filled with great joy as the thought came into my head,

“I’m not the same person I once was but I’ve become the person God created me to be!”

It was a sudden recognition of how dramatically I’d changed on the inside and the difference it made on the outside.

Through my healing journey and through our own teaching of Freedom Session, old labels were removed and new ones put in place, my cloak of shame was replaced with a robe of righteousness, my fear was replaced with confidence that God would work through me . . . even when I was weak . . .  especially when I was weak.  I realized in that moment the extent of the transformation that had taken place within me.

 Becoming a Christ follower doesn’t mean that everything suddenly becomes perfect.  Some of us have more wounds than others but we all have them and we all need to learn to offer them up to the one who died to take them from us.  He bore in His body all of our sin, our hurts, wounds, abuses, and heartbreaks.  This post today isn’t meant to give you all the answers for how to do that (I wish you could all find a Freedom Session near you, or teach one yourselves!) but it is meant to offer you hope in knowing that with God change is possible.  God has delivered me, he is delivering me and he will deliver me.  It is a process, this working out of our salvation, this being transformed from glory to glory.

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I wonder, does it seem prideful of me, to claim to be like a Great Blue Heron as opposed to a cute little duck?  I don’t mean to give the impression that God was saying I was better than others, just different.  And we are all different.  We are all uniquely endowed with individual gifts and talents.  YOU are special! Are you acting like it?  Are you using the gifts God has blessed you with or are you hiding behind old labels or words that others spoke into your life?  Words that have inhibited you from doing what you should be doing?  If you feel a little tugging at your heart here, that’s God!  Life is so much better when you can stop walking awkward and lift your wings.  Let Him take you soaring.  Let Him take you into the places where you’ve been afraid to journey and allow Him to be your strength . . . because you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you.

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So back to little Maery, who owned the store of “pretties”, where we found The Great Blue Heron.  She is a woman interested in others and she questioned me about my excitement over the Heron.  So I shared, and as I did it became obvious to me that in hearing my story she was moved with some emotion of her own.  She then shared a bit of her story, a story of loss and the pain of being a refugee from her home country.  Her story had the happy ending of God’s provision, restoration and a life well lived.  Isn’t God amazing?  He used my story that day to bless Maery and He used Maery to bless me by lavishing her (and His) love back on me.  This makes me think we should all be sharing our stories a bit more.

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PRAYER:  Dear Lord, We know that you formed us in our mother’s wombs.  You’ve numbered every hair on our heads. You know our beginning and our end.  You created each of us and you have a path for each of us to follow.  Lord, show us your path and then be our strength to walk it out.  Show us how to lean into Your strength and draw from You what we need to push off, to lift up and to soar to new heights.  Not to be great ourselves but to make Your name great with a testimony of Your transforming power.  Please Lord, show everyone who reads this, and feels like they don’t measure up, that there is so much more for them.  Show each one the way to become the person that you created them to be.  Amen.

Blessings,

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Freedom Friday – On Becoming Small

October 24, 2014 by Patti 3 Comments

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If I share with you yet another area of weakness will you judge?  Will you think to yourself that I am a terrible leader of people because I don’t have it all together myself?  Today’s Freedom Friday post is yet another lesson I’m learning during this time of becoming more dependent on God to meet my need for friendship.  This is an honest, from-the-heart post that exposes more of the real me.  I hope that you will read and NOT judge . . .

. . . After all, maybe some of you are a bit like me.

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Welcome to FREEDOM FRIDAY – A new devotional, emotional, spiritual and sometimes hysterical series that I will be sharing on occasional Fridays, in addition to my regular Old Things New posts.

As I mentioned in my first Freedom Friday post I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of Knowing and Being Known.  In that post I shared that I believe God has given me this time of not knowing anyone in our new community so that I will draw closer to Him and spend more time in His Presence . . . knowing and being known by Him.

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Having been Freedom Session Directors for the past four years I can tell you that doing the ministry that God has called one to can be an exciting thing!  Who knew that God would ever be able to use my story to help others?  Life experience brought me low but God intervened and sent people who believed in me, supported me, encouraged me and brought great healing into my life by loving on me without reservation.  In that process I became better, I grew, I changed, and I received such freedom that I wanted to help others.

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In the beginning I could barely stand in front of people with a microphone without shaking in my pretty boots (a feeling that has never fully left me), but in stepping out of my comfort zone, sharing my own story, and offering hope in Christ to others, I’ve been blessed to see many people set free of the shackles that have bound them for years, even as practicing Christians.

When all of the work you pour into a ministry like Freedom Session results in victory in people’s lives it is not only exciting but can be a heady thing!

head·y
ˈhedē/
adjective
 
  1. (of liquor) potent; intoxicating.
    “several bottles of heady local wine”
    synonyms: potent, intoxicating, strong; More

     
       
    • having a strong or exhilarating effect.
      “the heady days of the birth of the women’s movement”
      synonyms: exhilarating, exciting, thrilling, stimulating, invigorating, electrifying,rousing;

      informalmind-blowing
      “the heady days of my youth”

Each year, as we started up a new year in Freedom Session I would pray this prayer,

prayer of jabez

 And God faithfully answered.

I would also often say, “I want to do BIG things for you God!”

Thinking back I’ve been asking myself what the motives were behind those prayers?

I believe they were mostly good but I wonder, now that I am in a place where I’m not known or recognized at all when I walk into a church . . . when I don’t have people deliberately making their way over to me to give me a hug or an encouraging word . . . when I don’t have people thanking me for teaching a particularly important lesson . . . am I okay with not being known?

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I’m not particularly fond of a lot of public praise or having attention drawn to myself.  In fact it can be quite embarrassing.  This stems from a period of negative attention received in the past.

But being known in a positive way was kinda’ nice.

In this new place of BIG churches I am not REALLY known by anyone.  I’m also not doing BIG things for God!  What I am able to do is spend a lot of time GOING DEEPER with God and I’m finding that this season of going deeper is good, REALLY good!

One of my favorite authors, Ann Voskamp says, “All wonder and worship can only grow out of smallness”.

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In this place of smallness, of being unknown, I lean in to God and He does not disappoint as He pours out His lavish love and affection on me.  In this place of being small I can see how big GOD is to meet all my needs.  As I become small before Him He is magnified and I am comforted.

And I realize that I don’t need to do BIG things or GREAT things for God.  He doesn’t need me to make His name great.  He doesn’t need me to do anything for Him at all. because He is the God of all GREATNESS!

Yet . . .  and this is a big YET. . . as Christ followers we are all called to be a part of the greater story . . . His Story.  Each of our lives are meant to be shared with others to encourage and draw them to Christ. Scripture says that we are chosen and appointed to bear fruit! – John 15:16.

As we play our part in God’s story it is important to remember that our stories shouldn’t make US great but should always point to Christ and His greatness!

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What about you?  Maybe you feel lower than low and you can’t even relate to what I’ve said. Maybe you’ve never had the experience of feeling important to anyone.  In that case, if you are a Christ follower, you need to know who Christ says you are in Him:

  You are CHOSEN – Eph. 1:3-8;  You are God’s workmanship – Eph. 2:10;  You are a new creation – II Cor. 5:17;  You are redeemed and forgiven – Col. 1:13-14;  You are free of condemnation – Rom. 8:1-2;  You are complete in Christ – Col. 2:9-10;  You are God’s beloved child – John 1:12.

You are SIGNIFICANT!

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On the other hand, maybe you’ve become impressed with your own importance.  Maybe it’s happened gradually without your even becoming aware of it.  Perhaps you’ve even become consumed by it.  Here is a gentle reminder that Mr. OTN is fond of using,  “There is only one God and you are not Him!”

Prayer:

Papa God – Help me to maintain proper balance in my service to you.  Help me not to become “heady” over the victories.  Help me also not to sink back into the old feelings of being “less than” all of the beautiful Christians around me.  Keep my eyes focused on You and Your GREATNESS!  Keep me in this place of being dependent upon you and daily amazed by YOU!  Continue to guide me as I play my part in the greatest story ever told.  YOUR story!

Finally Lord, my prayer is this . . . that if there is anything at all great about me that it be You IN me!

Now that is a heady thought!

Blessings,

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Feeling Amazed!

June 12, 2014 by Patti 4 Comments

Have you ever been in a situation where everything is falling into place so perfectly that you’re afraid to speak about it and ruin everything?

Gamblers call that stroke of luck being “on a roll”.

I’m not a gambler (I’d rather spend my money junkin’) and today I’m counting my blessings, looking up to the sky and saying, “Isn’t that just like God?”

These are the things I’ve had on my mind:  When will Mr. OTN’s South Carolina licensure go through and when exactly will he start his new job?  How can I get this house ready to sell with Mr. OTN working so much and when we have so many other things on our plates when he is off work?  How can we shop for a new house long distance and know which neighborhood is best for us?  Will we sell in time to purchase a new home?  Will that “dream house” I found on Zillow still be available when we are ready to purchase (come on, it has brick floors in the kitchen!)?  Will we have to rent for awhile and move twice?  What if this?  What if that?

God as at work in amazing ways.  I can’t share the details yet.  Again, maybe I’m afraid to share and mess it all up!

All things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose – Rom. 8:28.  I believe that!  They always have in the past and I know they will in our current situation.

Today, as I see His plan unfolding before my very eyes I’m feeling amazed. All I can do is look up and say, “I KNOW that was you God! THANK YOU!”

Blessings,

My Signature-001P.S. If you don’t know what in the world I’m talking about, late this summer we are moving cross country from Olympia, Washington to Greenville, South Carolina.  Links to two past posts about that can be found HERE (Life Interrupted) and HERE (Shades of Green and a New Thing).

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Shades of Green and a New Thing!

May 13, 2014 by Patti 14 Comments

I have a story to tell and something new to reveal, so come with me on a walk through my neighborhood.

19-Spring Greens 107I begin my walk out the gravel drive of our lakeside home in search of Shades of Green.

As much as I thrill to the riotous color of spring and summer blooms I am soothed by the many shades of green found in nature.

21-Spring Greens 115Green signifies new life, new beginnings.

20-Spring Greens 111Have you ever heard of taking a prayer walk?  I’ve been doing a lot of praying lately as I’ve been seeking God’s will in our lives.

18-Spring Greens 101There are many shades of green along our rutted gravel road, once lined with old fishing cottages . . .

3-Spring Greens & Flowers 022. . . like this tiny log cabin with it’s “living” roof . . .

16-Spring Greens 092. . . or the verdant grass in the yard of this vacant summer cottage.

13-Spring Greens 082Golden greens glowing with sunshine.

05-Spring Greens 028Woodland greenery sprouting up from an old log.

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The shiny leaves of an Oregon Grape.

04-Spring Greens 025Snowballs tumbling over an old fence.

14-Spring Greens 085Then off our “country” road into the paved suburban neighborhood that surrounds us, where my camera finds a beauty less wild.

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10-Spring Greens 047As I walk I talk to God and thank Him for this place He has given me to call home.

08-Spring Greens 040I have loved living beside our peaceful lake.  Our home is not large but it more than I could’ve ever hoped for.

06-Spring Greens 033   If you’ve seen Our Story you’ll know that it is more than we ever deserved.

09-Spring Greens 042Now we’ve been called to a new place which I shared about in my post Life Interrupted. 

OH, you just have to see the pictures!

11-Spring Greens 061We’ve been called to a place far, FAR away!

15-Spring Greens 091I finish my circle through the neighborhood and end up back at my house where I capture the view from the top of my driveway . . . ancient evergreen trees against the backdrop of a misty Mount Rainier.

22-Spring Greens 117My own grass so green (this time of year) as my camera peeks through the side path down to the lake.

4-Spring Yard & Antiques for Sale 009The path to my front door is filled with shades of green, so fresh in morning’s light.

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02-Spring Greens 011Haha!  Even the fountain is beginning to turn a little green!

2-Spring Yard & Antiques for Sale 006I’ve loved this old . . . OLD apple tree which has only once born fruit in the time we’ve been here,

1-Spring Yard & Antiques for Sale 005but has been a haven for the birds that Mr. OTN loves to watch.

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3-Spring Yard & Antiques for Sale 007Green so beautiful after the rain.

1-Spring Greens & Flowers 011Home again, at least for a few more months.  Then the long trek across the country to Greenville, South Carolina.

24-Spring Greens 121Yes, I will be sad to leave this place I’ve called home. But something about the name of the city that will be our new hometown leads me to believe that my camera and I will be spending a lot of time together as we settle in.

Excitement mixed with sadness but no fear of what is in store for us.

“Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it?” – Isaiah 43:18-19

When the Lord asks, “Shall you not know it?” He is saying, “Do you want to open yourself to My new thing? Are you willing to embrace it?” (Link to full article HERE)

What about you?  ARE YOU being called to a new thing?  If so, I’m excited for you too!

Blessings to you,

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Your love, oh Lord . . .

November 17, 2013 by Patti 2 Comments

1-Fall Fog 010-001Sometimes I’m so tired, pulled in so many different directions. 

I feel a great sense of responsibility for things that I have no business feeling responsible for. 

I feel  overwhelmed.

Then I awake to a new day, look out my window at another amazing sunrise . . .  and hear the Voice of the Lord calling,  . . . “Come.”

“But I don’t have time . . . there is so much to do . . .”

I stop.  I find a quiet place and I listen. 

He calms my racing thoughts.  He assures me that all I have to do is “the next right thing”  and He will take care of the rest.

PEACE comes down, flowing from the Heavens and into my soul.

A song arises and with gratefulness I sing:

Your Love, Oh Lord
Reaches to the heavens
Your faithfulness
Stretches to the skies
Your righteousness
Is like the mighty mountain
Your justice flows like the ocean’s tide

I will lift my voice
To worship You my King
And I will find my strength
In the shadow of Your wings

(Song and lyrics by Third Day)

As we enter into the holiday season . . . the busiest, craziest, and most wonderful time of the year . . . my wish for you, my friends, are moments stolen alone with God . . .  times of renewal . . .  where you’ll find true peace.

Blessings to you,

My SignatureP.S. Yes, that is the view from my back deck.  I am grateful every day that God has given me things to enjoy that I don’t deserve, rather than the things I do deserve. He truly is a God of restoration.

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I am Perfectly Imperfect Patti, daughter of the King, wife to the amazing Mr. OTN, mom to two grown daughters, a great son-in-law, and companion to two spoiled dogs. At Old Things New I share DIY’s, budget friendly home transformations, as well as posts about how God transforms our souls. I myself have been made new and I love to share what I’ve learned through WRITING and SPEAKING. To view a short Vimeo of “Our Story” (Mr. OTN and I) please follow the link at the top of the page.

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