Comments on: Fingerprints http://mosaic.org/2007/01/21/fingerprints/ A community of Faith, Hope and Love Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:53:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Gavin http://mosaic.org/2007/01/21/fingerprints/#comment-4343 Gavin Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:26:18 +0000 http://mosaic.org/2007/01/21/fingerprints/#comment-4343 Is it not strange how viewing ones fingerprint makes almost no sense when viewed up-close. But once you draw your hand back it all fit into a picture far greater that you thought. I have had exactly this experience and believe the impact of a fingerprint is to identify certain aspects of ones life. I have come to realize that the finger print God leaves on us is far bigger than ourselves. It sometimes only comes to light a bit later when you can stand back and see the “ once unresolved lines in your life” making up the fingerprint of God using you to touch the lives of people around you. So many times we get all worked up that things don’t work out the way we want them to, not realizing that if we just for a second put our selfish intents aside, we will see God move in a way never thought possible. Even in the burning, He will find you, and His fingerprints will be all over you….. the fingerprints of a Savior. Thank you for a very deep and impactful message in my life. Is it not strange how viewing ones fingerprint makes almost no sense when viewed up-close. But once you draw your hand back it all fit into a picture far greater that you thought.

I have had exactly this experience and believe the impact of a fingerprint is to identify certain aspects of ones life. I have come to realize that the finger print God leaves on us is far bigger than ourselves. It sometimes only comes to light a bit later when you can stand back and see the “ once unresolved lines in your life” making up the fingerprint of God using you to touch the lives of people around you.

So many times we get all worked up that things don’t work out the way we want them to, not realizing that if we just for a second put our selfish intents aside, we will see God move in a way never thought possible.

Even in the burning, He will find you, and His fingerprints will be all over you….. the fingerprints of a Savior.

Thank you for a very deep and impactful message in my life.

]]> By: Stephanie http://mosaic.org/2007/01/21/fingerprints/#comment-4331 Stephanie Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:06:57 +0000 http://mosaic.org/2007/01/21/fingerprints/#comment-4331 Wow. Tears. Just... tears. What an amazing message and an amazing charge all rolled into on. Thank you. Wow. Tears. Just… tears. What an amazing message and an amazing charge all rolled into on. Thank you.

]]> By: Dan http://mosaic.org/2007/01/21/fingerprints/#comment-4318 Dan Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:55:12 +0000 http://mosaic.org/2007/01/21/fingerprints/#comment-4318 Thank you so much for sharing your church with everyone. I can testify your teaching has impacted a life in the midwest. God Bless you. Thank you so much for sharing your church with everyone. I can testify your teaching has impacted a life in the midwest. God Bless you.

]]> By: Chris http://mosaic.org/2007/01/21/fingerprints/#comment-4248 Chris Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:24:53 +0000 http://mosaic.org/2007/01/21/fingerprints/#comment-4248 I think Erwin had a cold. I think Erwin had a cold.

]]> By: kathleen http://mosaic.org/2007/01/21/fingerprints/#comment-4220 kathleen Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:38:37 +0000 http://mosaic.org/2007/01/21/fingerprints/#comment-4220 Wow. I'm having quite the fingerprint experience these last 24 hours; I was especially touched by Erwin's message today because last night I awake unaccountably to write this: ** This moment is earth in your hands. Press your palms together until your life-lines show in its surface, giving your sweat to give it shape until your fingers make thoughtful furrows with their touch. Take this moment, hold it up to the sun and sculpt it until it is perfect in the light. Make this moment more than untouched soil – press it to your chest, roll it, hand to belly, until it is shaped into a perfect universe. With the heat of from your skin it will change, add to it, take something away keeping it balanced , always measuring, juggling its lightness, its weight. Hold this moment only to find that you are its clay, shifting with each change. Feel the comforting presence of palms, fingers surrounding you, guiding you to new form, giving you yourself in this moment. *** Hmmm... The only thing I don't get is Erwin's dissatisfaction with his voice! But seriously, we all need to be reminded we are not meant to be alone in a crowd - thanks. Wow. I’m having quite the fingerprint experience these last 24 hours; I was especially touched by Erwin’s message today because last night I awake unaccountably to write this:
**

This moment is earth in your hands.
Press your palms together until your life-lines show in its surface,
giving your sweat to give it shape
until your fingers make thoughtful furrows with their touch.

Take this moment, hold it up to the sun
and sculpt it until it is perfect in the light.
Make this moment more than untouched soil –
press it to your chest, roll it, hand to belly,
until it is shaped into a perfect universe.
With the heat of from your skin it will change,
add to it, take something away
keeping it balanced ,
always measuring, juggling its lightness, its weight.

Hold this moment only to find that you are its clay,
shifting with each change.
Feel the comforting presence of palms, fingers
surrounding you, guiding you to new form,
giving you yourself in this moment.

***

Hmmm…
The only thing I don’t get is Erwin’s dissatisfaction with his voice! But seriously, we all need to be reminded we are not meant to be alone in a crowd - thanks.

]]> By: Ashley http://mosaic.org/2007/01/21/fingerprints/#comment-4191 Ashley Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:13:01 +0000 http://mosaic.org/2007/01/21/fingerprints/#comment-4191 About a month ago I was up all night being sick and in the middle of my pain that night I started talking to the Lord. You know how it is when you start making deals with Him, just so the pain will subside. But then I began to think of all the people who live in pain on a daily basis and just asking Him why He allowed it. And clear as day He said to me that I was to be His hands and feet to those people in pain. That we as believers are in fact the body of Christ and although we may not heal them the way He could, we can hold them, love them, dignify them, yet we wait for someone else to do it. I was reminded of this through "finger prints", that we not only see but act. Thank you. About a month ago I was up all night being sick and in the middle of my pain that night I started talking to the Lord. You know how it is when you start making deals with Him, just so the pain will subside. But then I began to think of all the people who live in pain on a daily basis and just asking Him why He allowed it. And clear as day He said to me that I was to be His hands and feet to those people in pain. That we as believers are in fact the body of Christ and although we may not heal them the way He could, we can hold them, love them, dignify them, yet we wait for someone else to do it. I was reminded of this through “finger prints”, that we not only see but act. Thank you.

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