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I couldn\u2019t be here in Austin without a tale from my youngest grandson, Bryson. He introduced me to my new grand-guineas. At first sight, I thought they were white turkeys. Four of them. They were a gift from a friend to the family. Is \u201cgift\u201d the operative word? I\u2019m not sure. Because the guineas are loud noise makers and don\u2019t seem to have good manners. I asked Bryson, \u201cWhy would God make guineas then.” To which he replied: \u201cThey were God\u2019s \u2018rough draft’! He didn\u2019t see any usefulness in them so he was about to renege when Gabriel saved their lives and here they are!\u201d Oh me! That boy. My joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I determined to find out if they had any potential for having been created for something significant. Sure enough, Google says: “Like turkeys, guineas are another chicken-like bird. Ask those who keep guineas why they have them and you’ll get a different answer every time. Chicken and turkey farmers keep them to ward off predators. Ranchers turn them loose to discourage snakes. Country dwellers like the way they gobble down disease-carrying ticks. Orchardists use them to drive off marauding birds. Farmers put them to work patrolling for crop pests. Their eggs are delicious and if you\u2019re really hungry, you can cook ’em up for a yummy meal. So, there you go! Finding out again about God’s Mastermind in creation AND us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunday night, my two grandsons asked if I would take them to their \u201cCity Youth\u201d youth night. And big brother, Brennan, asked if I would stay and come in to watch all that happens. I told their mom and she said, \u201cWell, they never asked me to come watch!\u201d I felt honored. I could see why they wanted to go \u2013 fun outdoor and indoor activities for a while before the church service started. Then I watched them with their hands lifted praising God, followed by a beautiful talk by Cassie, their youth pastor. Oh my! I was so blessed by her message that ties right into those noisy, but filled-with-potential guineas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She started her talk with affirmations to all the youth: \u201cGod called me to you students. You brought healing to me. I had suicidal thoughts and depression and then God called me here. Think about the disciples. Jesus called them. Think fishermen. God chose them. He saw them as world changers with potential. 1 Peter 2:9 says \u201cHe chose YOU!\u201d Okay, everyone sit up straight and raise your hands as high as you can. You can raise them higher. Great! Now go one-inch higher.\u201d And those kids did. Cassie continued: \u201cThat is what is in you. You did it. You have more potential than you thought you did.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, now I share Cassie\u2019s message and the guineas\u2019 message to you today. Potential \u2013 you are full of it. Do you think you\u2019re just \u201cGod\u2019s rough draft\u201d? You are NOT! You were planned to the nth degree \u2013 your eyes, nose, ears, hair-color, size, and features that are the exterior of the potential that is inside you.
Time to stretch another inch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I couldn\u2019t be here in Austin without a tale from my youngest grandson, Bryson. He introduced me to my new grand-guineas. At first sight, I thought they were white turkeys. Four of them. They were a gift from a friend to the family. Is \u201cgift\u201d the operative word? I\u2019m not sure. Because the guineas are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19103,19102,14338,1],"tags":[19099,8779,2053,19100,19098,19097,19096,19095,19094,7760,19101,13732,7601],"class_list":["post-13447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gods-mastermind","category-guinea","category-potential","category-uncategorized","tag-1-peter-29","tag-affirmations","tag-chicken","tag-chosen-by-god","tag-city-reach","tag-city-youth","tag-gods-mastermind","tag-gods-rough-draft-2","tag-guineas","tag-potential","tag-stretch-another-inch","tag-turkeys","tag-world-changers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13462,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13447\/revisions\/13462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}