When I was in my first semester of Seminary, I would find myself in conversations with a dear friend who, in almost every conversation, told me, “Matt, you know what? Stop putting paint on what God is creating in your life; you’ve got to learn to be a blank canvas!” This has stuck with me for more than a decade now, and I find myself repeating that myself and to others. I don’t remember the specifics of each conversation, but if I take time to reflect on where I was at that particular point, I was somewhat in an identity shift. I was a new father and grad student, no longer Youth and Summer Camp Director. I was unpacking news about the origins of my birth and unpacking decades’ worth of family secrets. I was literally trying to figure out who I was. You see, God was beginning to change my identity and shift the artwork of my testimony from what others said I was to who God was calling me to be. Although I didn’t know it then and couldn’t see it, my friend could see it. I hope this blog will help those looking to become a blank canvas, deconstruct what others have said about or done to you, and live into the fearfully and wonderfully made masterpiece of God that you are.
Be Blessed!
-Matt
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