Coming Forth...

Late last night, around midnight I was riding my bike thru the empty, wet streets of Herrnhut. Really enjoying the solitude of this tiny village, being able to rule the streets and have my own agenda. I awoke this afternoon and decided to ride my bike thru the streets again. Knowing that I won’t have the freedom like I did last night, but still enjoying the fog slowly descending from the sky and collapsing onto the ground. I was able to stretch out my arms as I rode and let the air brush my cheeks and swiftly surround my whole being.

Man, I was captivated. My whole spirit was alive in the fog, in the wind and the wet streets.

Today I decided I needed to be alone by myself, to truly capture this joy of solitude, to nestle in the comfort of my room and music. To gaze up on the beauty that this day has unleashed, and to admire the Creator of the day, the music and the heart.

Something has been birthed in my spirit and soul these past few months. I felt like there has been eggs planted in me, ready to burst, to come forth and spread a new life inside me. As I remember this day where I felt something was planted in my spirit, I felt like it was in relation to eggs from a Dove.

Now I can begin to start feeling the hatching of those eggs inside me. After I finished my 2nd school in YWAM, School of Intercessory Prayer, I feel that there is more to be released out of me and thru me.

I am now done with that school, and excited to see what will come forth from every seed that was planted in my spirit. What will sprout? When will it? What gifts and experiences will come forth to life? Who will be affected? Where will I go with this new life?

Many questions are forming in my head, but I can only say, and guarantee, that there is something ready to be unleashed in my life. I let go of the reigns of my life some time ago. And everyday I begin to let go of the ropes more and more, in order for me to gain what is needed.

There was a phrase I heard last week that really opened up my eyes :

“When you forget your life, and gaze at Me, there you will find both you and Me.”

Wow. How often do I truly understand this sentence?
I have really learned thru the current school I just finished what it is to give up your life, joyfully, in order to find it in Him. What that means to gaze at Him, and thru gazing, you will find more than the answers to your questions, but the Creator of the answers, the Author of your life.

I know I am being led into becoming more and more of a Teacher. A Teacher to young, aspiring artists in this world who is looking for something more than the average. Who are wanting to find the keys to unlock the power of art, the true meaning of what art can do to one person, to one nation. As I was able to teach for around 45 mins last week, I truly felt that there is way more to come with me and teaching. There is a message that God wants to use me to get across to artists of all kind. The message of inspiration, hope, and true freedom in arts. Creating art side by side with Him, and creating freedom thru art.

This, I believe, has something in relation to the Doves eggs that were planted in me a few weeks ago. They are beginning to crack, but I only feel the surface being scratched as we speak.

A time will come when my spirit will break loose of the shell of comfort and be able to dance with the fearless and with the freedom that this world needs to see.

- Taylor M. Pool