"When He speaks, He creates!” Bill Johnson
Those words hang in my little Whitehouse as a reminder of the tangible expression of my creations that arise from my relationship with God.
One day, as I was at my bench, hammering and texturing metal, a cosmic pattern began to form on the metal. The sudden thought, “before it all began” crossed my mind and catapulted me into deep thought. I found myself attempting to imagine the space of time from where I was in that moment to back to “before it all began”— before the world was formed and I was but a thought.
“I love you to the moon and back” is a sweet phrase— one I have used many times. It expresses a vastness of feeling, but a measurable one at that. At it’s closest approach, the moon is 225,623 miles away, thereby making “to the moon and back” 451,246 miles. My point? It’s measurable. While it is an incredible distance, I can imagine it. I am shocked and awed by the distance yet able to wrap my head around real numbers and known distances. That space in time “before it all began”? I strain to comprehend the vastness of this concept, yet want to absorb it, allowing it to sink in deep and become “foundational” to how I live.
Scripture speaks that before the foundations of the world were laid, I was fully seen, known and loved by my Heavenly Father. I was created in His image with purpose and a hopeful future— to know Him and be known by Him. This knowledge and these promises take time, faith and intention to nurture. This collection was intended to draw the wearer into the journey of activating the mind and heart— allowing you to meditate, absorb and soak in being known and loved. When you wear a piece from this collection, I encourage you to purposefully attempt to imagine that time before the beginning. That there, in the darkness, before the earth took form and before there was light, I was fully seen in the heart of God. I find it incomprehensible but astoundingly comforting. I long to meditate on it, allowing it to sink deep inside of my soul: I am SEEN. I am KNOWN. I am LOVED. FOUNDATIONS is your invitation to meditate on your foundation in Him. I hope each wearer of this jewelry will feel the great expanse of His love. WE have been loved longer than our imagination can fathom. Each of our days fully seen by our Heavenly Father. We were created for this EXACT moment in time to live loved. We have the full focus of heaven on our every breath! May we all be blessed by these truths.
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