Heavy Burdens

One of the things I am passionate about is helping people remove the heavy burdens they carry in life.  I believe part of living life abundantly, passionately, and fully has a lot to do with the amount of weight we carry in our backpack.

I spent 24 hours from Friday night at 7pm to Saturday night at 8pm doing just that.  We had a 24 hour prayer and worship room with reflective stations set up, music playing sometimes live and sometimes on a CD player, people ready to talk and pray, journals everywhere.  People came in heavy and left free and light!  I think that's what God is all about.  He is the great exchanger.  We give him our heavy burdens and he offers us his yoke which is easy and light.  Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, self control, trust, confidence, forgiveness - these are things he gives us in return.  He is even willing to work them out through His very Spirit within us.  I learn to flow in His power and life gets a whole lot easier.  In His Presence is fullness of JOY!

I ran the foot washing station, which I do quite often.  I love this place, kneeling at the feet of people who are worn, weary, lonely, afraid, heavy and speaking life and hope into them, calling out their beauty and the goodness and potential in them and what God sees and washing their feet as a symbol of washing away the dirt.  It was especially amazing yesterday as one sweet Asian woman asked if she could wash my feet.  I think I have never felt so honored, been so encouraged, and felt so much life and truth and light pour into me as when she was praying and washing my feet.  I only hope that is how people experience this beautiful act of foot-washing when the sit before me.

We start our week of teaching at the school tomorrow.  I'm looking forward to calling students out from under burdens into LIFE!  It's what we're made for!!!