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7th Well Fact Sheet

Posted by Jenna B. Johnson on December 17, 2017

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Hello.

Lover of words. Believer in the goodness of God. Recently-discovered extrovert who’s always down for a dance party, a second cup of coffee, and listening to stories so I can probably write them into a book one day. Also a big fan of running, graphic design, photo, video, and the Oxford comma.

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A prayer for BREAKTHROUGH. New blog link in the profile. "I find that my best prayers with God lately happen on the floor of the shower. Yes, just me sitting under the water and talking to Him. I’ve prayed for more intimate moments with God, to know Him more deeply and understand His character in my day-to-day life, and I had the thought tonight, after many nights of praying on the shower floor, 'God even sees me in the shower.' I don’t know what gets more exposed, vulnerable, and intimate than that."

Every second of today felt like my soul was being quenched. I was driving today and thought, “I’m looking for an encounter with God.” Most of the trip was spent in silence and talking with Jesus, and it’s funny, I didn’t know how much I needed that time because I feel like we’ve been talking a lot lately. We stopped at this river all the time on the way to Asheville when I was a kid, so I knew taking a detour would feel special and nostalgic. Getting away from home is sometimes good though because we get the reminder that home is in Him, and yes, He’s a God who wants to lead us beside quiet waters, but sometimes He reminds us of that when we stand next to the loudest waters. Today felt sacred.

Takes your breath away a little, right? • Sent off this gallery today and DANG it was the dreamiest afternoon with these two in Downtown Woodstock.

I ended up on the front page of my website while I was in the middle of writing and changing and rearranging. And it was cool to have those words I wrote quite a while ago remind me of why I started the writing and the photo and the video in the first place. It was always for the story, for the being seen and known and undone. “If I could, I would put a bright, yellow neon sign that reads ‘IMPORTANT’ on this front page because you’re entering into some space I hold very near and dear to my heart. These things are written everywhere: passenger seats, staff meetings, in the middle of a senior seminar class, a bar in a coffee shop, and my parents’ kitchen table. I love a lot of things, like videos that make you cry, a specific sort of coffee I’ve only ever found at Earth Fare, and that feeling you get from hearing people read words out loud, but I love storytelling the most. I love what it does to people. This is the best job, even on the worst days: there’s something about honest writing that turns people to mush and makes their eyes into windows you can see straight through to really deep parts of their hearts. Truth wins every time, and that’s something I’m only starting to learn. Truth undoes the stories in each of us, stories we’ve kept hidden or waited to tell or been quiet about when we hope people will ask us more so we can stand up and scream the truth from rooftops.” 📸: @kendal.patterson

Today she said, “You can’t light a fire, walk away, come back, and wonder why the house burnt down,” and it hit me hard in ways that I didn’t know I needed to process. If you know Nicole, you know about her pursuit of people. This friend is a powerhouse of wisdom and light and one of those people that works tirelessly behind the scenes to make sure people know they are seen and known and valued. She is constantly seeking to know the Lord better and to reflect that to all the people she gets to interact with, and because of that, I can tangibly sense the presence of the Holy Spirit in our conversations. Today I’m extra grateful for her, and her pursuit of people, to say, “Hey, get in my car we’re going to Starbucks.” P.S. Low quality pic, but a super high quality person.

“And You comfort us in our greatest unraveling.” I heard those words sung over a room of students last night and didn’t realize how much I needed to hear them, how much God’s Love doesn’t make sense and how we really may not ever understand it. And the unraveling might not look pretty or what we expected it to look like, but it’s everything we never knew that God had in mind for us. He meets us in that unraveling. And this morning, I’m reminded that these are the words spoken over me, and they’re words spoken over you too. 📸: @kendal.patterson

I think this is a good space for transparency because vulnerability cultivates a space for openness, and maybe even empathy on a good day. Maybe this week you needed to see someone else say, “Hey, mentally and emotionally, I’ve had a hard week and it’s only Tuesday.” It’s okay if that’s true for you too. The only consistent thing has been an early morning with Jesus making my way through the Old Testament and microwaving my coffee more than a couple times. And it’s good and rich and powerful, to protect a space for God’s voice to be heard louder than the usual voice of condemnation rolling over and over again in your mind when you operate on autopilot. I’ve listened to a sermon before where the pastor said, “I think for Peter, he does what a lot of us in here do. He just goes to work and gets busy. And I meet a lot of people that the way they wall out the shame from bad choices they made in the past or tragic things that happened to them in the past, is they just pinball between busyness and distraction. So let me get into my work, and it may be good, redemptive work, but you just get into the work. Why? To prove you are somebody? To try to silence the voice of condemnation in your head?” If that hit you, it was for a purpose, and I think you ought to listen to it and dig deep, even when it’s hard. So sit still and protect a space to cultivate a deeper intimacy with Jesus, to get to a place where the voice of God is so much more overwhelming than a voice of condemnation or perfection or “work harder.” I have to believe that God wants more than this for you and for me.

Kendal was singing about queso and margs, and she made me feel like a FREAKIN babe. Get people like @kendal.patterson in your corner who show you that you’re seen and so loved.

Hi, I made a new friend today and his name is Judah Vore. I love this one’s mama and the way she loves Jesus and teaches those around her to do the same. (Swipe to see how I felt internally)

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