The Next Faithful Step?
I generally move through my life as if it is like a series of stone pavers that I am walking. Each step onto a new paver.
Over the years of dialing in more closely to Holy Spirit guidance, it is as if those pavers have elevated over time to be higher and higher from the "ground."
The pavers are where the Holy Spirit wants me to step.
In the past, it was easy to step off the pavers onto the regular ground and muck around doing whatever and then come back to my own true pathway.
The higher the calling, the higher up the pavers go, and therefore the harder or more treacherous it is to stray off them.
This was where hopeful obedience kicked in. And the more obedient I was to God's instruction, the higher up my path went.
This had all the benefits one might assume, but it also came with the perils that this metaphor implies.
This is also what I speak about with the inner desire, craving, and requirement to cleave only to God and to that energy line of accuracy I feel he pierces through all of creation.
In recent years, the elevation for me became hundreds, then thousands of feet high. After May 25th, when I began my Life with Jesus in full (see my full testimony here), it became as if there is no ground below at all, like a pathway above the clouds.
At times this means I can't move forward because the next paver isn't there yet.
Even if I can see the future pavers, if the next one isn't there, I have to stay in place.
It can be very frustrating! LOL.
I would be lying if I said this hasn't caused discomfort!
My MIND, my brain, reallllllyyyy wants to see resolution of some local issues. No clear pathway exists yet for them.
The brain despises ambiguity and will do just about anything to resolve it, even if that means a bad outcome, so developing the strength to withstand ambiguity (this is what underlies emotional maturity in various research areas btw) is a muscle I've purposely developed during my entire life and am so grateful to have and be able to call upon with intention.
The gifted brain is like wrestling an 800 pound gorilla when it decides it wants to take charge of a situation.
Skillfulness with it is an ABSOLUTE necessity for us to walk faithfully with Jesus, to have the patience and the wisdom to receive and embody his discipleship.
Being born with a gifted brain didn't happen by chance. God entrusted you with this special cognitive potential in order for you to further his Glory and walk with him in particular ways.
It is your stewardship opportunity and burden to figure this out: both for your own quality of life and for your role with others.
This is where my service comes in: helping you to steward this God-given ability for a greater purpose based on your own discernment of that in your own faith journey.
Unlike most of the world's enabling of you becoming whoever you choose to become in some nihilistic or hedonistic fashion, I assist you to become what you truly and uniquely actually are...
Become who God designed you to become.
You have a destiny to fulfill.
That ever elusive "true potential" is what God made you for and to which you have an actual obligation to pursue with everything you've got.
I bring you my own proven expertise in:
- gifted cognition
- mentoring
- purpose development
- high-capacity thinking
- pattern recognition
- helping gifted adults flourish
Along with the comfort of walking with someone who shares your love of Jesus, I now invite you into the question of:
What does faithful stewardship of giftedness look like?
I can give you the tools you need and the support in faith to hone your process of discerning the pavers on your path and the easiest ways to expand your awareness and ability to implement them as Holy Spirit reveals them to you.