"new things"
Isaiah 42:9
When I went on retreat a few months ago, I took pictures of a lot of their decor. My friend, who owns the house, is a talented designer apparently, and had great fun choosing colors and decor for each bedroom. So I took a few pictures to remind me of how lovely everything was.
But this one I took particular note of:
The reason I thought this was so interesting is that that is a pitcher. But it's being used as a vase. Maybe that seems like no big deal to you, but I don't think that would have occurred to me. I'm decoratingly challenged. {I give you Exhibit A: a tablecloth for a curtain. Although, as I've now discovered, all the hip and happenin' people do this, apparently.}
I love the idea of using something in a new and different way. It's even better than filling a need with something unexpected ~ it's making something new out of something. Refusing to believe that something can only be what it was intended to be.
It's a message for a New Year. What lies ahead does not have to be what it seems like it has to be.
Be Unexpected.
Be Re-created.
Think outside the box. Outside 2013. Outside of your perceived limitations. Step out of the pattern ~ or maybe the rut of last year ~ and into who God has for you to be. Grow in ways you never thought about.
And have a God blessed,
joy-filled,
peace-full
New Year
~ "Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now it shall spring forth;
Shall you not know it?" ~
Isaiah 43:19
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