What did you plan to be when you were young vs. what you turned out to be?

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I don't understand all of that, but definitely interested in hearing/learning more. It sounds really cool! I could use some massage therapy myself dealing with these preschoolers this week. LOL.

It is cool you should talk about saltwater aquariums. I like to write haikus and blurbs and stuff and one I had was "dolphin shadows in the night, swam up the wall to the ceiling, into the light." Something like that. Kinda sounds like a dream or intro for a new story. :D I don't know where this stuff comes from. Just a gift I guess.
Nice. God gifts in mysterious ways. Keep following where he leads and you may witness wonderful prosperity and joy.:)
 
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Bless you, Mantis. I saw Easy Rider when it came out in the theatres.
I'm a hippy, guitar-playing, worship leader trained by the Vineyard.
Thanks to faithful Yeshua, I haven't touched a needle in 17 years.
Thanks to faithful Yeshua, after being declared dead at the hospital, my heart started beating again.
Thanks to faithful Yeshua, Caleb and Joshua have been restored to my life, along with their children.
Thanks to faithful Yeshua, Mathew is no longer a drug kingpin.
Thanks to faithful Yeshua, I have, and continue, to overcome by the blood of the Lamb, the word of my testimony, and I do not love my life to the death.
Thank You, Jesus, for loving me and mine!

WOW. Thank you Jesus :)
 
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I'm so tired. Hadn't slept well lately, but I'll have to read this thread a little closer tomorrow. I think this is really cool thread, Fluff :)
 

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Bless you, Mantis. I saw Easy Rider when it came out in the theatres.
I'm a hippy, guitar-playing, worship leader trained by the Vineyard.
Thanks to faithful Yeshua, I haven't touched a needle in 17 years.
Thanks to faithful Yeshua, after being declared dead at the hospital, my heart started beating again.
Thanks to faithful Yeshua, Caleb and Joshua have been restored to my life, along with their children.
Thanks to faithful Yeshua, Mathew is no longer a drug kingpin.
Thanks to faithful Yeshua, I have, and continue, to overcome by the blood of the Lamb, the word of my testimony, and I do not love my life to the death.
Thank You, Jesus, for loving me and mine!

Reminds me of something I saw on tv. She was a woman hippie. She had a leather outfit and long white hair that went to her hips and like this triangular medallion around her neck. She played the guitar and was singing. Had these boots on with the cute little brown cotton balls attached to them. I didn't really like the boots. LOL. Idk how to describe it. There was smoke around her on the stage, but she was a worship leader. I guess there are some still today praising and worshipping God. I didn't know WHAT that was. I know she was standing in my place though. LOL. I'm the same way. I love to sing. But your testimony is inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
 
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Reminds me of something I saw on tv. She was a woman hippie. She had a leather outfit and long white hair that went to her hips and like this triangular medallion around her neck. She played the guitar and was singing. Had these boots on with the cute little brown cotton balls attached to them. I didn't really like the boots. LOL. Idk how to describe it.

Whoa, this sounds like the Fairy Queen I'm looking for!
 
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Okay that is actually the dream... that's pretty cool!



YOU WENT TO MY DREAM SCHOOL!? NO WAY! :D

I always think "in Seattle" and not "of" and I think that's because I think "it's in Seattle." I fixed it because I realized that's actually the whole title and I never think about it being a whole title. I was so anxious and I had notebooks and notebooks of illustrations of designs of things that I would never wear now because I became near-Mennonite.

I wonder if we would have gone around the same time? I would have gone about 2005-2006. After I couldn't go, I signed up for DeVry for computer engineering and dropped out instead.



ONow I'm "homeschooling myself" (you know what I don't need in my life? student debt for something I can learn for free) for something and I am not doing a good job at paying attention, at all, because I am sitting here spending days at a time sewing full length dresses in pretty pastels by hand instead. And I sit there thinking, "Wow, I'm really wasting my life" and then I look at the collar and I think, "No, just look at that blind stitch. It's perfect."



@Tone, you gotta check this out sometime. I see it a little bit in between the things I hear about your ministry and your nomadic explorations. This video was a big comfort to me when I first lost my home.



Yeah, it is! I'm too old to see 40 as too old. I could literally and likely will at some point become a grandmother within the next three years. Seriously
I graduated from the art institute in 1998 I think. I just got done paying the school loans off a few years ago. Your lucky you don’t have a mountain of art school debt!
 

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I wanted to be 3 things.... a mom, an artist, and a veterinarian.

I was always very artistic, and yet after my father burned a lot of my artwork when I was 14, that part of me went dormant and has never fully re-emerged except when I sketched something for my husband after we were married (the profile of a baby in between a man's praying hands). And several years later, I sketched a logo for his business cards. Several years later, I sketched a toddler girl sitting in Jesus's lap. I sure wish I knew where that was. I taught Highschool Art when my children were in school.

I loved animals and had a knack for taming feral cats when I was growing up. I had cats, dogs, rabbits, hamsters, parakeets, etc. I often felt alone and that my animals were the only ones who loved me. So naturally, I wanted to care for animals.

I also loved babies, and from a young age, was often placed in charge of caring for babies and the younger children in my family. But I remember caring for a baby boy named Derek when I was about 10 yrs old, and wishing in my heart and making it a life goal to take in all the hurting, abused, and abandoned babies and children in the world.

Soooo .... those were my wishes and what I wanted to be when I grew up.

I am just getting caught up. I love animals and love being s mom. It is hard though. Sorry about your art. That toddler on Jesus lap...that would be a beautiful one to see
 
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I'm the Green Knight...

Metaphorically speaking...

I had to look that up. Why does he judge and test knights? I guess some can't handle being one? Sounds cool. Sounds like that gatekeeper for Thor.
 

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I turned out to be a brown duck when all I wanted was to be a panel beater. It's a blessing in disguise because I could have been a turkey!

Well you are an eagle in Jesus name. :) My pastor tells us this all the time at church.

“How can we picture God’s kingdom? What kind of story can we use? It’s like a pine nut. When it lands on the ground it is quite small as seeds go, yet once it is planted it grows into a huge pine tree with thick branches. Eagles nest in it.”
Mark 4:30‭-‬32 MSG

Could be a beautiful swan too mistaken as quack. :)
 
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Reminds me of something I saw on tv. She was a woman hippie. She had a leather outfit and long white hair that went to her hips and like this triangular medallion around her neck. She played the guitar and was singing. Had these boots on with the cute little brown cotton balls attached to them. I didn't really like the boots. LOL. Idk how to describe it. There was smoke around her on the stage, but she was a worship leader. I guess there are some still today praising and worshipping God. I didn't know WHAT that was. I know she was standing in my place though. LOL. I'm the same way. I love to sing. But your testimony is inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
Hippy...trippy...dippy! lol Bless her heart. I see
godly significance in some of what she does. I grew up with hippies. Though I don't look like one today. As I looked at myself in the mirror the other day, I reminded myself of a guy who made a 10 tribes of Israel video. He's Jewish.
I was in worship/intercession, aka, "in deep," last week, and in the Spirit; the Lord detached me from Ephra'im and reattached me to Judah.
It was the first time I'd ever heard of such a thing.
After not being part of an online group for 6 weeks, He led me to a messianic Jewish group.
I applied, saying, "I'm a Christian/Ephra'imite/Levite. I was in deep with the Lord when He detached me from Ephra'im and reattached me to Judah. Am I at the right place?" Lol Ten minutes later I was approved. I thought they might've block me.
You're not going to block me, are you? Lol
So, I guess, a Levite who is attached to Judah is called, "a Jew." I never knew I'd be called a Jew. I feel a new and real connection to them.
Though God calls me a Levite.
My ancestry having come through Scandinavia, through Dan or Naphtali, according to Hebrew Nations, would account for the "Viking Jew" handle.
A gentleman lockdown protester I ran into a few weeks ago could not believe I was a Levite descended from Vikings.
"A Viking Jew, no way."
He then told me that he was actually a blue parrot. He then informed me that Jews were from Mars. I knew men were from Mars, I just didn't know they were Jewish. A green Jew...sounds like me, though I've never been to Mars. That I can recall. I may have been to Vulcan...Alberta. Lol
BTW The house of Israel (2 Kings 17) is today referred to as, "Ephra'im," an attempt, I believe, to not ruffle Jewish feathers unnecessarily.
The Tribes Of The Lord - Psalm 122:4
The tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord.
The tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, to praise the name, the name of the Lord.
The tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, to praise the name, the name of the Lord.
To praise the name, the name of the Lord. - Truman the Levite

A few have offered to record me, so, in time and if the good Lord is willing, I'll be posting some better quality videos...and some new stuff that puts me in front of our Father's throne. :)
 
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I wanted to be a choir director and a singer ever since I was little. I got to college as a music ed major and was sort of disappointed to learn I didn't want to be that. Then didn't know what I wanted to do!!! Choir director is a lot more "math" minded then you think. I just like to sing...children's ministry is my passion and love working at a faith based preschool. Has the best of both worlds of music too. Sing all the time to them.

No joke on this. I really did want to be a choir director. Music theory is super hard though, but I still like it/know some. It is pretty amazing. Music is so interconnected.
 
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Hippy...trippy...dippy! lol Bless her heart. I see
godly significance in some of what she does. I grew up with hippies. Though I don't look like one today. As I looked at myself in the mirror the other day, I reminded myself of a guy who made a 10 tribes of Israel video. He's Jewish.
I was in worship/intercession, aka, "in deep," last week, and in the Spirit; the Lord detached me from Ephra'im and reattached me to Judah.
It was the first time I'd ever heard of such a thing.
After not being part of an online group for 6 weeks, He led me to a messianic Jewish group.
I applied, saying, "I'm a Christian/Ephra'imite/Levite. I was in deep with the Lord when He detached me from Ephra'im and reattached me to Judah. Am I at the right place?" Lol Ten minutes later I was approved. I thought they might've block me.
You're not going to block me, are you? Lol
So, I guess, a Levite who is attached to Judah is called, "a Jew." I never knew I'd be called a Jew. I feel a new and real connection to them.
Though God calls me a Levite.
My ancestry having come through Scandinavia, through Dan or Naphtali, according to Hebrew Nations, would account for the "Viking Jew" handle.
A gentleman lockdown protester I ran into a few weeks ago could not believe I was a Levite descended from Vikings.
"A Viking Jew, no way."
He then told me that he was actually a blue parrot. He then informed me that Jews were from Mars. I knew men were from Mars, I just didn't know they were Jewish. A green Jew...sounds like me, though I've never been to Mars. That I can recall. I may have been to Vulcan...Alberta. Lol
BTW The house of Israel (2 Kings 17) is today referred to as, "Ephra'im," an attempt, I believe, to not ruffle Jewish feathers unnecessarily.
The Tribes Of The Lord - Psalm 122:4
The tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord.
The tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, to praise the name, the name of the Lord.
The tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, to praise the name, the name of the Lord.
To praise the name, the name of the Lord. - Truman the Levite

A few have offered to record me, so, in time and if the good Lord is willing, I'll be posting some better quality videos...and some new stuff that puts me in front of our Father's throne. :)

Reminds me of this story idea I had. Glad this is a fellowship thread. I'm just all talk today. LOL!!!! I imagine this ship with oars but looked like a pirate ship. It was flying through the night sky under glittering stars. It was coming fast. Sounds like pirates of the caribbean or something. But vikings might be more accurate. Don't know much about that.

My sister married into a Jewish family. Sadly they divorced, but I learned a lot about Judaism. She gave me a couple books. I need to read them.
 
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Reminds me of this story idea I had. Glad this is a fellowship thread. I'm just all talk today. LOL!!!! I imagine this ship with oars but looked like a pirate ship. It was flying through the night sky under glittering stars. It was coming fast. Sounds like pirates of the caribbean or something. But vikings might be more accurate. Don't know much about that.

My sister married into a Jewish family. Sadly they divorced, but I learned a lot about Judaism. She gave me a couple books. I need to read them.
Yesterday, for the first time, I connected Vikings and pirates in my head. There may be a lot of myth about Vikings. I hear that they never had horns on their heads. They did, however, worship other gods, which is why our ancestors were kicked out of Israel in the first place.
My paternal grandfather, all of my uncles, but not my dad, were members of the Orange order, a secret society that I understand was started by the Freemasons, who, at the highest levels, worship Lucifer as god. Unfortunately, I seem to come from a long line of devil worshippers.
According to Hebrew Nations, God is starting to wake up descendants of the exiled ten tribes, beginning by waking up descendants of their Levites.
I don't know if I told you, but during 1996, I was a worship leader at the Brantford Vineyard. We were in the midst of a powerful move of God where the Father's heart was being revealed to some, including myself.
Because of it, I've never turned away from Him again. I've stumbled, but I haven't turned my heart away from Him. This is my fruit.
One Sunday morning, after leading worship, I was walking to the back of the room. God said in a louder than audible voice to me, "You are a Levite." The next two Sundays I led, He said the exact same thing to me as I was walking in the same place. At the time, I didn't know what He meant.
It was 23 years before He showed me the connection between my family tree, Normandy, Scandinavia, central Europe, the Ukraine, Crimea, the Caucuses mountains, Assyria, and ancient Samaria, found in northern Israel.
I was alone and at times, unsure of my sanity, for a year and a half until I recently found others like myself in Australia and Florida. I was so relieved. I believe God is waking others up, at least in part, through me, in my hometown.
Messianic Israel Alliance is a Facebook page that considers themselves, "Ephra'im." They don't seem intent of making a denomination out of this. I had the Spirit's witness when I found them.
Perhaps your imagination was inspired, because they are coming fast. Scripture says that they will return, be reunited with the house of Judah (Ezekiel 37), and then Messiah Jesus will set up His 1,000 year reign.
The enemy is pulling out all the stops to prevent this, though He will, of course, fail.
Yesterday was the Jewish Remembrance day. I have trepidations that we may see Holocaust part 2. But this time on a global scale. I hope I'm wrong. The main Hebrew nations are Great Britain, Canada, America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
According to scripture - Yair Davidiy, orthodox Jew scholar at Hebrew Nations. :)
 
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Yesterday, for the first time, I connected Vikings and pirates in my head. There may be a lot of myth about Vikings. I hear that they never had horns on their heads. They did, however, worship other gods, which is why our ancestors were kicked out of Israel in the first place.
My paternal grandfather, all of my uncles, but not my dad, were members of the Orange order, a secret society that I understand was started by the Freemasons, who, at the highest levels, worship Lucifer as god. Unfortunately, I seem to come from a long line of devil worshippers.
According to Hebrew Nations, God is starting to wake up descendants of the exiled ten tribes, beginning by waking up descendants of their Levites.
I don't know if I told you, but during 1996, I was a worship leader at the Brantford Vineyard. We were in the midst of a powerful move of God where the Father's heart was being revealed to some, including myself.
Because of it, I've never turned away from Him again. I've stumbled, but I haven't turned my heart away from Him. This is my fruit.
One Sunday morning, after leading worship, I was walking to the back of the room. God said in a louder than audible voice to me, "You are a Levite." The next two Sundays I led, He said the exact same thing to me as I was walking in the same place. At the time, I didn't know what He meant.
It was 23 years before He showed me the connection between my family tree, Normandy, Scandinavia, central Europe, the Ukraine, Crimea, the Caucuses mountains, Assyria, and ancient Samaria, found in northern Israel.
I was alone and at times, unsure of my sanity, for a year and a half until I recently found others like myself in Australia and Florida. I was so relieved. I believe God is waking others up, at least in part, through me, in my hometown.
Messianic Israel Alliance is a Facebook page that considers themselves, "Ephra'im." They don't seem intent of making a denomination out of this. I had the Spirit's witness when I found them.
Perhaps your imagination was inspired, because they are coming fast. Scripture says that they will return, be reunited with the house of Judah (Ezekiel 37), and then Messiah Jesus will set up His 1,000 year reign.
The enemy is pulling out all the stops to prevent this, though He will, of course, fail.
Yesterday was the Jewish Remembrance day. I have trepidations that we may see Holocaust part 2. But this time on a global scale. I hope I'm wrong. The main Hebrew nations are Great Britain, Canada, America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
According to scripture - Yair Davidiy, orthodox Jew scholar at Hebrew Nations. :)

Fun overload!!! Was reading about the hidden norse language. Icelandic. Pretty cool. Doesn't seem like they shared in plain language.
 
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We're gonna take music therapy to the street

We're gonna invite the poor to the feast

And the lowliest one will have the best seat
 
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I may sing too much sometimes, but I love the Lord with all my heart.

I feel like a train wreck today. Please pray I get some good rest. My mind doesn't turn off easy and then my 9 month old was hungry. He usually isn't at night. I can't nap with these two. LOL
 
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