Potential

She was dressed in a hot pink tent dress while the hostesses surprised her wearing all white. Rebecka called them her angels. Gudrun, Rebecka's mom and I were in New York this weekend for a baby shower for Rebecka, my son Tom's wife (due late July). Actually Gudrun had been there since Wednesday helping them move into their new apt...I just got to come for the weekend for fun! The girls at the shower were all darling and it was fun to be with her friends, but there was one that I must write about. Katie. She was average height, soft spoken, gentle spirited, blond, shoulder length hair cut in layers, and was wearing a pretty flowing long cotton dress in a floral print. I give you this description for a reason...Hang on.

I was visiting with her and asking about her family and where she was from etc. She is from Friendswood, Texas. And the next thing I knew, I think it was Rebecka who told me, was that she had the lead part in the Broadway play Wicked. She was the good witch. How could someone so soft spoken, and gentle spirited and humble in her way be a lead presence on stage. I wanted to see this first hand. Rebecka and I had seen the play years ago but Tom and Gudrun had not, so on Sunday, after church, Tom and Rebecka went to a birthday party for one of their friend's babies, and Gudrunn and I set out on a mission. Get matinee tickets for the sold out Sunday afternoon performance that very afternoon.

We first tried out for the lottery. Come to find out, from Katie, that at most theaters in NY have a lottery 2 and a half hours prior to performance. This particular theater put names in a large bingo type cage and drew thirteen names. You could request up to two tickets for each name. The tickets were one fourth of the original ticket price and were on the front row. If you were blessed enough to win..you got a deal!!!!! We didn't... and then we made out way to the line for returned tickets, and landed four seats together in the orchestra section, Row M. We were over our heads thrilled with God's answer to our prayers. And believe me all four of us were in tandem on the request to the Lord.

It was an unbelievable performance...and truly I had to see it with my own eyes to believe that she could be transformed as she was. She was a spotlighted presence of delight, confidence, power, beauty, and fun on stage. "Glenda" had a beautiful voice that had great range from high notes to low, an athletic ability that showed that she was truly in great shape, a beauty in her face and expression, and dramatic movement and choreography in her whole body that kept an audience completely engaged. She was delightful; funny, charming, graceful, a little devious, and in the end as true to the story line, a delight of goodness. And to top the experience off, her dresser came and got us afterward and took us to Katie for a backstage tour.

I tell you this story because it was such a picture of potential. We all have potential and talents that are untapped and unrecognized and God, if we let him can take our ordinary and transform us to his extraordinary. We probably won't end up on a Broadway stage but the stage that each of us is given is one for the world to see and witness.Our stage may be our home, where we are raising children, or our workplace where we are using the gifts that we have been given for supporting our families and our own livelihood. Our stage may be the volunteer platform that we have chosen to serve in, or just our daily jaunts in routine errands. Whatever it is, we are given an opportunity each day to perform according to God's will and his way. We do have potential to make a difference in the lives of others. We do have the potential to be transformed into a blessing on this earth that God can and will use for his glory. We just have to be willing to let what is within us be trained and dressed for what is before us.

WE are all filled with promise and potentiality...but so many times we don't allow that potential that is within us to get out. We make excuses because we don't want to try something new, and other times we are scared of failure. I think we are packed with so many abundant gifts that lay dormant within us. But how do we release something that we don't even know exists..we ask God. Ask God to help you identify them for you and then ask him to give you the courage to pursue them.

This is a children's song that my children grew up with...I wonder if they would even remember it. It was one of my favorites.
There is nothing that God can not do....when we allow his the reigns of our lives.


I Am A Promise
by Gaither Music Group
Romans 4:20-21 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.

I am a promise
I am a possibility
I am a promise with a capital "P"
I am a great big bundle of potentiality
And I am learnin' to hear God's voice
And I am tryin' to make the right choice
I am a promise to be anything God wants me to be.

I can go anywhere that He wants me to go
I can be anything He wants me to be
I can climb the high mountains
I can cross the wide sea
I'm a great big promise you see!

I am a promise
I am a possibility
I am a promise with a capital "P"
I am a great big bundle of potentiality
And I am learnin' to hear God's voice
And I am tryin' to make the right choice
I'm a promise to be anything God wants me to be
Anything God wants me to be!

Praise God wherever you are and whatever situation He has allowed you to be in . . . His glory will shine through!