Catherine

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The Origin of my given Name Catherine Ellen:CATHERINE is associated with the Greek adjective katheros meaning ~ PURE and UNSULLIEDELLEN is a variant form ELEANOR, from the Greek name HELLEN, meaning ~ LIGHT or from the Anglo-Saxon, meaning ~ FRUITFULBy putting my name together it means 'Purelight' or 'Purefruitful~light'. Christ is The PURE~LIGHT and I point to HIM!My parents may not have seen the prophetic nature of the name they gave me, but the Lord did. And He sees the same for you...you are here for His Purpose, you are needed. Before you were formed in your mother's womb I KNEW YOU Jeremiah 1:5God's Awakening is here! This trumpet is sounding! Awaken O' Sleepers! Awaken from your slumber!Here's some of my testimony: Grew up in an Air Force family traveling the world and moving every 2-3 years. Some parts of that experience were awesome; met so many great people and some parts were lonely. I often wonder whatever happened to my childhood friends. Missed out on the hometown experience. After I graduated High School and moved to Maine, I met and married my wonderful husband. We married in 1977:)Went through the 60's and 70's hippie scene and found myself still empty to some extent. Did the drug scene, delved into eastern religions, lived in a commune, rebelled against all forms of organization and government. I know it is part of growing up, expression of independance and trying to find oneself. And then we grow up and the generations before us are not all that different anymore:) We really are the same generation - a generation of people seeking completeness.Really didn't have a relationship with God during the first half of my life. Except for one time when I was about 8 or 9. I was in a church building looking at the pictures of Jesus. The kind that show Him going through the stages of His crucifixion. At that moment I heard His voice speak to me and call me to His side. This was a moment I've never forgotten; it was very real and not a figment of my imagination. As my parents weren't believers (only religious)I didn't know what to do, so I went along 'MY WAY'. Then Sept. 29,1985, He spoke to my very core again and this time I answered Yes!!! I haven't looked back or wanted to - no need to search for myself because I am found:) I am complete in Him:)This has been an ongoing adventure with my Lord and I learn from Him everyday.Let's be honest, I know I don't always shine. Just know that I am growing from glory to glory. I haven't arrived, but I am enjoying the journey with Him.A hope and prayer for us all is that we would come to know Him intimately, through His beloved Son, Jesus Christ. To be filled with His Holy Spirit, to walk in Him and live in Him. I'm not talking about 'religion', being 'religious' or 'traditions of men-like church'; I don't even relate to nor like those terms. I am speaking of the real place of His Presence. We can't find it through methods, works, traditions, rituals, religious activities; we find Him in the quietness of ourselves. It's when we come to the end of ourselves and He fills us with His Presence. He washes away all that has kept us from Him with the atoning blood of His Son. He is found on a personal basis.My dear friends there is a difference between intimacy and being religious.A prayer for us all is: That we may really come to know [practically, through experience for ourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that we may be filled [through all of our being] unto all the fullness of God [may we have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself!]When we keep looking back at the doors that have been shut in our lives; we can not look forward and see the ones that are open. Doors are opened and doors shut; just like the seasons. The seasons come and go, we see it in nature. So is it with our life's journey. Doors are open for a season and then they are shut; some with pain, some with tears, some with glorious moments, but they still come and go. When we keep trying to re-open a door that has been shut, we are unable to see the open ones before us. So today, let us each let go of the doorknob to a shut door, turn around and step through the threshold of the open one before us. When something ends and we didn't think it should have and we become sad or angry or upset; we tend to try to reopen that which is now closed. We'll throw a fit or question why? or become bitter or angry. You see in Truth our Heavenly Father has a better plan - His Eternal Plan. Move with Him and watch His Hand at work in your life. We only see in part, but He has the whole picture and it is His Eternal Picture. Folks it really isn't just about us:)Let's let go of what lies behind and press on to what lies ahead! New surprises, new awakenings, new lessons, new people, new challenges, new experiences, new adventures await!