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A Blessing Over You All

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logan and sarah mae

Allume this weekend….

Can I just say, “WOW!”

There is a lot to decompress, but I wanted to share something with all of you that was spoken over the entire conference last night.  To seal things up and to encourage along the way home.  The vision that Sarah Mae began…and the one that the Lord is now revealing to me… that we will continue to implement together moving forward, is to call you all into a space and a place where we use our whole lives and the spaces we have online for the glory of our King.  So until we have slept and can piece together more cohesive thoughts, we speak again over ALL of you in this community (whether you were with us or not), what David Walker shared in worship on our last night:

May the blessings released through your hands cause the windows to open in darkened minds.

May the suffering your calling brings
Be but winter before the spring.

May the companionship of your doubt restore what your beliefs leave out.

May the secret hungers of your heart harvest from emptiness it’s sacred fruit.

May your solitude be a voyage into the wilderness and Wonder of God.

May your words have the prophetic edge to enable the heart to hear itself.

May the silence where your calling dwells foster your freedom in all you do and feel.

May you find words full of divine to find warmth to clothe the dying in the language of dawn.

May the slow light of Christ’s Communion be a sure shelter around your future.

Amen.

We love you all and are humbled to have shared this weekend with you!

Logan and Sarah Mae

Comments

  1. I wasn’t in the room when he delivered this and I’m so glad you shared it here. Feeling God’s spirit in it and read it to my husband this morning. Thank you Logan for being more about loving Jesus than promoting a conference or yourself. Your humility and genuineness resonate and that is beautiful scaffolding to build a ministry upon.

    • Thank you Shelly. The Lord just moved in and swirled around so many lives. I am truly humbled to be conduit in this way.

  2. Logan, Sarah Mae, Nazreen, and all those who made Allume the life-transformer that it was (organizers, facilitators, hotel staff, and participants), I can’t begin to quantify the breadth and depth of what Allume meant to me. I have *never* attended a conference like it. In fact, I was telling someone that *conference* isn’t really an adequate word to descrbe the inspiration, healing, and vision which lit up the wide-and-wild open spaces of our souls. It’s nearly impossible to articulate its impact on our lives and, by associaiton, of all those lives whom our words and our love will touch. Ann Voskamp’s picture was so perfect about our being stars lighting the world’s dark night for Christ, our bright and morning Star. I am reminded of the true and precious story of the nineteenth-century author, Robert Louis Stevenson. Daylight was fading and even shadows were draping the earth in night’s dark mantle. Little Robert leaned into the cold windowpane of his nursert, his nose pressed to the glass and the all-encompassing darkness. As he peered out from behind the cloaking curtains, he became fascinated by an old lamplighter, slowly wending his way down the cobblestone street, lighting the gas street lamps. “Look,” he cried out in excitement to his nanny, “there’s a man coming down the street punching holes in the darkness.” This is what Ann was saying. This is what you ALL were saying. This is what we were praying and uttering and breathing forth. We, through our words, our love, our transparency–even our angst, our doubt–but always through our ultimate victory in Christ–are the bright-shining lumninaries lighting the world’s dark night. We are punching holes in the darkness with every word punched out on a keyboard. We “alluminaries” are the coruscating constellations that flash and sparkle and blaze with the beauty and truth of Christ. And Allume was the torch that keeps lighting the fire and the hearth-of-the heart that lets us blaze together in a safe and inspiring place. I don’t blog, but I want to thank you from my heart for what you have ignited in me. And as a quick aside, thanks, too, for all your HARD work on this. Having organized events in my career past, I know there are multitudinous details that matter, and you covered them beautifully. What *didn’t* you do?! You guys are the best!
    Love
    Lynn

    • Lynn, yes…just yes! And I love the story you just shared. We do burn so much brighter together don’t we?! Blessed by your words!

  3. Oh, and Logan, I’d meant to say, too, that I find it signifcant that you all should have chosen the present tense, allume, of the French verb allumer, by which to name your ministry. What you all are doing and calling us to is present-tense power in ministry. There’s nothing static or stagnant about it! Blessings on all you do!
    Lynn

  5. Being a writer, let me give this my best shot: Wow wow wow. It’s all I have left after this weekend just filled me to overflowing and wrung me right out. The most amazing thing I have ever been a part of. There. Even managed to end an incomplete sentence with a preposition. 🙂 Thank you, thank you!!

  6. Miss Logan, at the risk of wearing out my welcome here, I love this verse from Ps. 68:12 (NASB) “Kings of armies flee, they flee, And she who remains at home will divide the spoil!” I know that I am really loosely translating this, but it speaks to me that sometimes armies flee the enemy; but in keeping with one of your themes this past weekend—women warriors—when we stay and fight the Enemy of our souls on the homefront from our computers with “word weapons,” ultimately we will divide the spoils, so to speak. And what are those?…the riches of those lost in darkness being brought into God’s Kingdom of light! Glory!
    Standing firmly with you from my homefront,
    Lynn

  7. Oh my goodness!! What a weekend! And I had to leave on Sunday morning first thing because I got a very bad sore throat and raging headache and was afraid to infect God’s sisters. 🙂 But what I experienced Thursday – Saturday was beyond amazing!

    I have to say that the underlying theme of Allume was what touched me the most. We all write for an audience of one: our Jesus. Our Facebook friends (or lack of them) or Twitter followers (or lack of them) or blog visits (or lack of them) do not really matter. What really matters is Christ and Him glorified. < Ann's message really resonated with me as well – we are all stars … Esther stars … for such a time as this. And we can do so much more for Him together than we ever could apart.

    Thank you so much, Logan, Sara Mae and the entire Allume team/organizers/sponsors!! Blessings on each one of you! <

    P.S. Thank you as well for the massive amounts of SWAG!! I may need to go see my chiropractor this week after carrying all of it!! 🙂 SIMPLY LOVE IT AND EACH ONE OF YOU!

    • Thank you Lara for sharing the space and time with us! Proud to link arms with you sister!!!

  9. How does thank you cover all I feel. It can’t. I so appreciated your leadership that was evident in all areas of Allume. As one of the older or maybe the oldest blogger there my heart was moved by what God is accomplishing in this next generation of Godly women. Your dedication and energy thrilled me and made me wish that “blogging” was around 15 or 20 years before. Since it was not available I jumped in this arena reluctantly not sure what I was doing, only that I needed to do this. I was blessed by the conference, stirred by keynote speakers willing to be used by God and added to my circle a host of Godly sister’s by another mother. Thank you for taking on this responsibility. I look forward to exciting things and next years conference.

  10. There is not a comment box wide enough or words expressive enough to unpack Allume. Thank you for diving in to God and being His hands and feet and creating a place for His heart. Much love <3

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