A Doodle With Meaning
If you think back to your school days, I imagine you could remember a few ways you occupied yourself while the teacher droned on about the square root of 6,392 or went into excruciating detail about Napoleon Bonaparte and his shoe collecting compulstion. I know. I was there. Some of us perfected the art of sleeping with our eyes open. Others thought about nothing but lunch, and even cafeteria food was better than thinking about algebra.
Me, I was a doodler. The pages of my high school and college notebooks were always graced with a variety of geometrical shapes, stick figures (because I couldn't draw), snippets of the lecture and sometimes agonized pleas for escape. That was during the math classes.
For the most part the doodles were meaningless. Ocasionally, if my emotions were stirring over some bigger topic than math, I would jot down bits and pieces of whatever I was pondering. However, there was one doodle that appeared again and again, and it was hardly meaningless.
I remember several times when this particular doodle would bubble up and as I penciled it, I would be drawn into a feeling that would invigorate and inspire me. Most of the time when I finished, I would stare at it for a while and just think about what it meant. "Thinking about it" being loosely defined, of course, because I really had no idea what it meant to me. I just knew it meant something.
In the years since, I have tried to recreate where it came from, and I cannot. It has no beginning. I don't know where I got the idea or the words. It just came from inside.
It wasn't until years later, after I became associated with Plumbline Ministries, that I finally understood the significance of what I had been drawing all my life. It was a statement of my spirit, an expression of a deep, abiding drive that my Creator God placed within me long before I had words to describe what it was. But it was there, alive and active, in spite of my ignorance.
This core piece of my design is what pushes me consistently to go beyond what most people settle for. In my own personal walk, this manifests in an insatiable hunger to grow, to continually learn, and to apply truth that unlocks the depths of my design. I long to meet my Father in the place that exists beyond the rim of the world we see. On that side of the horizon are mysteries made more marvelous by their complexity and a relationship with the Father that defies my powers of description.
It is in this framework that I look for ways to grow, and in that process to share what I have learned with others. Each of us has a different set of Divine fingerprints that define our life, but in common we have many of the same truths to learn and to live.
As we each walk out our individual pilgrimage, we have boundless opportunities to be life giving to our communities, our nations and the land that God has given us to steward. It is my desire that this website be a tool for my King Jesus Christ to use in growing His sons and daughters into maturity of design and purpose.
In all these things we pray: "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven."
Megan Caldecourt currently lives in Fullerton, California. She is Vice President of Sapphire Leadership Group, Inc. in Anaheim. Megan was born and raised in Michigan, and doesn't miss winter at all (except for Christmas!). She is deeply committed to the work being done by Sapphire, as well as continuing to develop her own design. Megan has taught classes and seminars around the world, sharing truths she has incarnated and life giving experiences she has gained.