Day One
Ok girls – HI!!!
I can’t believe that we get to do the first month of 2022 together. You have connected from quite literally all around the world. Southern Hemisphere and Northern Hemisphere. I see this community like the cheer squad that intentionally positions themselves at the beginning of the marathon, and some of us may remain all the way through the year together.
Some of you may be starting with a fresh wind, others of you may be crawling, but let’s all pace ourselves.. There is deep compassion for how you have shown up to the threshold of 2022.
When God spoke to Moses and then spoke to Joshua, He also knew that a group of girls were being prepared to be part of this story of new ground and bold steps. He saw them in the future of this narrative.
And that future is right here and now.
That future is today.
That future is the very next step you are going to take.
And Moses swore that day, surely the land on which your feet have walked shall be an inheritance to you and your children always because you have wholly followed the Lord
Joshua 14:9
‘....where your feet have walked ... ‘
We are going to walk on land over this month that we would never have entered if we didn’t set aside the focused time. You are going to walk with a sure footing.
So maybe you should go buy yourself a new pair of shoes today to symbolize the places you are going to go (you didn’t really need permission did you??)
Or go and put paint all over your foot and step out your feet over a blank piece of paper …(when we gathered to do this last year some of our sisterhood in Mexico joined in and sent me their pictures of their footprints - it was so profound!)
Or jump in a puddle with bare feet. Or if you’re in the throws of winter like we are in Montreal I wouldn’t advise the bare foot thing! If you are in the Southern Hemisphere, tag us on the beach .. we will choose to celebrate and not be envious.
Let me bless these next twenty one days ..
A blessing for your travel
Every time you leave home,
Another road takes you
Into a world you were never in.
New strangers on other paths await.
New places that have never seen you
Will startle a little at your entry….
When you travel, you find yourself
Alone in a different way,
More attentive now to the self you bring along…
You unexpectedly attune to your voice
Opening conversations
And a new silence also goes with you
And if you listen you will hear
What your heart would love to say.
A journey can become a sacred thing;
Make sure, before you go,
To take the time
To bless your going forth,
To free your heart of ballast
So that the compass of your soul
Might direct you toward
The territories of spirit
Where you will discover more of your hidden life
And the urgencies that deserve to claim you.
May you travel in an awakened way,
Gathered wisely into your inner ground;
That you may not waste the invitations
Which wait along the way to transform you.
John Odonohue
Let's travel awakened today .
With you in the new terrain
Vanessa
PS if you’re praying and fasting join us over on the FB group and post what you are believing for, and where you sense God is taking your steps!