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Reflecting Back

As I'm sitting here on my small rustic deck, the warm sun shining on my face, cool breeze dancing through my hair, chickens, kitties, and peacock playing in the yard, I am brought back to 10 years ago.

My life flipped upside down, as I was told to get up and pack all my belongings from the hustle and bustle of Minneapolis, Minnesota and start a new lift in rural North Dakota.

“Lord, you want me to move where and do what?!”

After much thought and prayer, I found myself enrolling my daughter and son (freshman and junior) in a much smaller high school, and moving them into a dear friend’s house with her family so they could start school on time.

Fortunately, my oldest Son (24yrs old) wanted to buy my house! Crazy how things fall into place with faith in God! I continued the new adventure through Faith and Love. We bought a 14 acre hobby farm in less than 60 days. There was no heat or duct work, just a pot belly stove to burn wood and coal, no job and not much money left! Because God said “GO!”

There I was in Buchanan, North Dakota, with a population of 73! "I have sent you there to be a Beacon of light and to show people God’s Love and Grace!” God said.

The task that God has set before me was to turn my barn (which was torn down) into a Safe Haven. Not for rich's or gain, but for His Glory, showing people God’s Love and Grace through EXCELLENCE. It will be a small retreat for His hurting and wounded people.

I was concerned about money but He said, “All the details will be taken care of and this is not about you. I'm just using you as a tool to get this task of mine done. This is for my Glory and Purpose!"


Thus started the long endeavor of "The Brown Barn Beacon."

Friday, February 12, 2016

"Hope" February 12, 2016


                              Thought for the day  

                                        Every life has its dark and
                           cheerful hours. Happiness
                         comes from choosing which
                                    to remember.

 Well, I'm not sure what to blog about today, when I went to put something in the title  I clunked my head down on the computer and said " Lord I can't do this today you'll have to write it for me!" suddenly the word "Hope" popped into my mind, ok God?
Dictionary
Hope= A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.
Biblical= (Heb 6:18; Num 23;19)
Instead of wishing or hoping
 for something to happen, a
  believer knows that their
    hope is solid, concrete
     evidence because it is
grounded in the Word of God
     and we know that God cannot lie.
So to me that means my hope is in God not myself! Well HALLELUJAH and Praise the Lord as I know I can't do this Brown Barn Beacon myself, but God Can! What a big relief.

 Please please be in prayer for this task. That He would send the right person to help with.....
 1) Application for the 501c3 (to become a non profit)
 2) Helping hands this spring to go through the pile of the barn wood where the barn use to stand.
 3)That the Lord would go before as I send out the " Go Fund Me" fundraiser.
4) That the gentleman that I feel the Lord has put on my heart to do the developing (architect) will be open to it, considering I have never even met him! giggle I guess that's blind faith.

 Thank you all for your prayers and encouragement in this journey and all the hands on people that have help up to this point!  Again this is not my Barn Project its a task that God is doing and using me as a small tiny tool.
Be Blessed
Michele

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