What is it like to be a Beginner?
The definition of a beginner is:
: an inexperienced person
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beginner
How does this strike you? Doesn’t everyone start out inexperienced at something, sometime? What is the big deal? Or does this statement strike a chord of shame?
We love new beginnings, the excitement, the wonder. Being a Beginner has a different feeling.
This Beginner Business can be Terrifying.
As a living POEMA, God is taking our hand each day to go deeper and deeper with Him, in Him. This is a wonderful creative pursuit we may have only seen in our dreams.
As a living Poema, this beginner business can be terrifying. Is God asking us to go deeper WITH HIM and IN HIM, taking us on rocky, jagged paths through foggy covered forests?
As a living Poema, each day is a new beginning. The adventure can be wonderful or terrifying as we go deeper with and in God.
Each day can be a delight as we take God’s hand and begin what we have always longed for.
A Beginner is not shameful.
Is being a beginner a shameful feeling for you? As I prepared for the small group I am leading, I came upon a chapter, and it yelled, “Sandi this is you”. Here is a quote from ‘BE A BEGINNER https://sandiaackerman.com/how-important-is-it-to-be-present/
A new beginning! Right on. But me, a beginner? No thank you. I’m not sure where the shame of being a beginner originates. And maybe for you this isn’t an issue, I know for me, though I don’t like feeling like a beginner even when it’s true.
Emily P. Freeman THE NEXT RIGHT THINGhttps://nextrightthingbook.com/ p. 67
Please be honest as you are always a beginner each day you wake up. Each day has its own agenda. You are equipped to write your story, paint the canvas, draw, but are you willing to live the creative experience God has for you to engage in? . This can be wonderful and terrifying.
If you do not have the answer to the exciting adventure God has in store for you stop, breathe in God’s love and admit you need help.
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Help in your Beginnings
To help, challenge and encourage is a gift I offer to you. . What are various ways you we can grow in and through our new beginnings.?
- Community
- Share, grow and learn.
- Be honest with others and ask for prayer.
- Create
- Be honest with yourself, and allow yourself to create.
- No barriers out of fear
- If there is fear, be honest and go to the community.
- Contemplation
- God is the first ONE to go to. Quiet time to see how He names you, describes you and loves you.
- Create out of the Heart and Art God gives you.
We are all Beginners at something.
We are all beginners at one thing , something, at sometime. Each day is a fresh beginning to the life God is sharing with you. Feel free to share what God is sharing with you. 🙂
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