“I’ll guess that you will read this without crying, because emotion is a land you keep inside.”

I’m a baby boomer.

I’m one of 9 siblings.

I’m surrounded by at least 75 nieces and nephews.

I’m an Illinois farm girl until I hit age 22 - then I became a USA girl on the move living in multiple cities in 10 states, multiple roommates numbering in the fifties…..

I’m a God-chaser whose parents raised me in the Swedish Mission Covenant Church, then I moved in and around the Evangelical Free Church, Congregational Church, Presbyterian Church, Episcopal Church, Interdenominational churches, non-denominational churches, seeker sensitive movement churches, reformed Jewish synagogue, charismatic churches…

I’ve been exposed to the thinking of multiple seminaries, found employment in the government for 15 crazy years, health club management happened along, tripped out with the fashion industry in Hollywood, moonlighting in Beverly Hills, basket selling on the side, full-time Christian ministry keeps finding me, and that college degree, master’s degree, ……

I’m a girl on fire for God.

Who and what does that make me -

AN ARTIST FIRST

go figure

I’ve been called the oldest millennial. Though the truth of such words could only be challenged by my birth certificate, which has been changed actually to reflect my first name change.

I am a young lady at heart and in some mannerisms. Definitely in fashion! Yet my body knows better. I challenge it daily though to keep up with the times.

I extend an open hand to you to explore these pages not to know about me, but to know about you. Because within these images and words lie the corner of truth I have been given about God, the creator and Lord of my life. He loves to tell you why He created you and what you can look forward to daily.

I love to be loved by Him.

I love His mysterious ways.

I agonize over his 11th hour mysteries though.

Yet, He keeps me sane and wholly holy - sometimes with ridiculous laughter and often too many laments.

But here I am. And here you are. High five and hugs.

“You Are an Artist First.”
Anya Johnson

Retake/Remake popped into my spirit one Saturday morning in Los Angeles California as I readied myself for another sunny day there. I love to dye clothes - to take the mundane and make something better. I have dreamed often of being a fashion consultant, a clothes designer, retaking lives and remaking lives of people into who they were created to be.

well, at least that has been one of my zillion dreams I have puttered away at. Once upon a time I made a sad, but true statement that I felt I had dreamed 1,000 dreams and watched 10,000 of them die.

Today I live 1,000 dreams and watch 10,000 of them come alive. Because this journey of a life I have had took me back and forth across the United States since I stepped foot out of the college life. From Illinois to Minnesota to Tennessee to California to Illinois to Virginia to Missouri to Washington to Virginia to North Carolina to Tennessee to Virginia to California to Georgia to California and finally to this day - Washington, DC.

I fully expected to live one of my 1,000 dreams in this political sphere by employment in the arts arena. I know - strange choice for the nation’s capital. Yet what you need to fully grasp is that I’m a Jesus follower. I do hear God’s voice. I do believe He grasps me fully in love beyond my imagination.

However, to my astonishment, I have found myself volunteering full-time at not one, not two, but three churches to the delight of my beating heart. Yes, this older single rambunctious gal that I am has fallen in love with the church wherein I lead prayer ministry, prophetic ministry, train, and mentor.

as a result, one of the pastors challenged me to raise support so as to support what God had blown open the doors on.

thus this website and its renderings of who I am, who God is, and what I am watching happen with astonishing eyes.