{"id":1582,"date":"2013-10-15T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oshetablogs.wordpress.com\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2013-10-15T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T13:48:10","slug":"oshetas-legends-ball-part-one-day-fourteen-of-finding-my-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/shalominthecity\/2013\/10\/oshetas-legends-ball-part-one-day-fourteen-of-finding-my-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Osheta's Legends Ball (Part One): Day Fourteen of Finding My Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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In 2006, Oprah Winfrey gathered sixty women to her home for three days of honoring, loving, thanking and blessing.\u00a0 She called this event, her \u201cLegends Ball\u201d.\u00a0 The weekend was made up of Legends\u2014 African American women such as Diana Ross, Ruby Dee, and Coretta Scott King\u2014women who modeled grace, courage, wisdom, and passion for the next generations of African-American women.\u00a0 Our representatives as the \u201cyoung-uns\u201d at this event were talented and intelligent women such as Alicia Keys, Halle Berry, and Tyra Banks.<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\nAccording to Oprah, heaven took place in her living room.\u00a0 I believe it!\u00a0 When women come together to bless and encourage one another, hearts are healed.<\/p>\nShalom happens.<\/p>\nHeaven touches earth.<\/p>\nThis is what happened when I began to study the women in Jesus\u2019 ministry.\u00a0 These women, my Legends, if you will blessed and encouraged me with their stories.<\/p>\nAs the unwed and pregnant \u201con fire\u201d girl, shame was everywhere except in the pages of their stories and at the feet of our Jesus. Which is why this part of my story belongs my Legends and my Jesus.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nNot the accusers. Not the naysayers who told me that my baby was a mistake. Not even my well-meaning, but na\u00efve friends who treated me like a project and not a person.<\/p>\nThe women whose lives were changed when they met Jesus became my tribe when the tribe of the \u201con fire and anointed\u201d subtly condemned me. Revealing to me that God\u2019s essential character is other-oriented and sacrificially loving, these women\u2019s stories gave me the confidence to run to the cross whenever I felt unloved and unseen. They helped me view God through the lens of Jesus.<\/p>\nWhich leads me to today\u2019s Campfire Conversation, \u201cFriend, who do you see when you see God?<\/p>\nJesus said, \u201cif you\u2019ve seen the father you\u2019ve seen me\u201d, but whenever I imagined God, I didn\u2019t see Jesus.<\/p>\nBefore the Holy Spirit used these women\u2019s stories speak to me, I would describe God as angry, violent, glory mongering, and capricious.<\/p>\nI saw a disappointed father shaking his head\u2014<\/b> <\/b>forced into loving me because he\u2019s the Creator,<\/b> but itching to distance himself from me because he is holy.<\/p>\nI didn\u2019t see Jesus resting his hand on my head saying, \u201cwoman, your sins are forgiven, go and sin no more\u201d<\/b>.\u00a0 I felt the shame of not living up to the expectation of a divine bookkeeper who hovered over me, clutching a checklist with all his requirements to be acceptable, and eventually finding me too far gone to forgive.<\/p>\nI didn\u2019t hear Jesus saying, \u201c<\/b>wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her\u201d<\/b>. I saw God ripping away my calling into to full time ministry the moment the second line came into view on the EPT screen.<\/p>\nI didn\u2019t see Jesus sacrificially loving me as he gave his life on the cross. <\/b>\u00a0I saw God sitting on his throne like an evil villain in silent movie, twirling his mustache, orchestrating heartbreaks and smashing dreams with an unplanned pregnancy.<\/p>\nI didn\u2019t see the cross as God\u2019s greatest act of love for his creation he so desperately wanted to be reconciled to, no, the cross was a tool for God to expend his wrath.<\/b>\u00a0 God is so incredibly angry at the world that he had to torture and punish Jesus in the most excruciating way possible, until he was satisfied.\u00a0 I had this picture of God as a rage-a-holic, not a loving, devoted husband.\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\nWho do you<\/em> see when you think of God?<\/p>\nOn the <a title=\"The Odd Life of Certainty (Part Two): Day Nine of Finding My\u00a0Tribe\" href=\"http:\/\/oshetablogs.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/10\/the-odd-life-of-certainty-part-two-day-nine-of-finding-my-tribe\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">bathroom floor when the fourth set of \u201cpositive\u201d lines came into view<\/a>, I finally admitted that didn\u2019t trust God because I was terrified of him<\/b>. More specifically, I was terrified of the God portrayed in the following verses taken when out of context:<\/p>\n\u201cI will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.\u201d So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.<\/em><\/p>\nRomans 9:15-16<\/em><\/p>\nor<\/p>\nI form light and create darkness,<\/em> \n I make well-being and create calamity,<\/em> \n I am the LORD, who does all these things.<\/em> \n (Isaiah 45:7)<\/em><\/p>\nof<\/p>\n\u201cThe LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.\u201d In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong. . . . \u201cShall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?\u201d In all this Job did not sin with his lips.<\/em> \n (Job 1:21-22; 2:10)<\/em><\/p>\nThe months to follow as I suffered the exclusion and shame of being an \u201con-fire\u201d girl \u201cwith child\u201d, Jesus used the women in his ministry to renew my mind and give me a new picture of God\u2014one that wasn\u2019t terrifying but completely loving. One that was beautiful and accessible. One that was in line with Hebrews 1:3 <a href=\"http:\/\/reknew.org\/2012\/07\/a-reknew-manifesto\/#sthash.MHDODr2K.dpuf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">that Jesus is the one and only perfect revelation of God\u2019s true nature.<\/a><\/p>\nAn interesting thing happened when I accepted this renewed picture of God who looked like Jesus\u2014 I began to look more like Him. \u00a0If it\u2019s true that we become whom we behold, then I was becoming more like Jesus even in my sinful, unwed and pregnant state. 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