The Gospel — According to Eli
This transformative project seeks to witness God’s unparalleled wisdom, unimaginable power, and unfathomable love while preserving the personhood that was given just to eli. This is where the twain shall meet.
The Awakening
She comes face-to-face with the truth about herself…
…as God burns off false beliefs, heals old wounds, and teaches her the way of love.
We begin on another ordinary day in a progressively meaningless, autopilot-type of life.
As night begins to fall, Elisabeth calls 911, suddenly unable to breathe. In a trance-like state, she walks out of her Portlandia home, slippers trudging through the mud puddles, in search of help. It’s strangely dark, and growing darker still, as she desperately searches for the light. An encounter with God ends with a flash-boom as she takes what feels like the first breath of her life. She reemerges as a brand new creation, proclaiming, “I want to live!” Right about then, the police arrive.
Faced with a choice to continue her same old life or to follow God into the
unknown, she chooses God, who renames her Eli. A new life unfolds, but first, a plummet into the abyss.
Eli leaves everything she’s ever known (she takes the dog!) and is sent off in a Sprinter van on a mission of God to discover what she’s forgotten after having settled into her subtle-as-sin, comfortably numb life. She comes face-to-face with the truth about herself as God burns off false beliefs, heals old wounds, and teaches her the way of love. Eli’s life is a mission revealing that love, indeed, makes all things possible. ❤
Trust in the Lord with all your heart; lean not on your own understanding. Acknowledge Him in all your ways, and He shall direct your path.
-Proverbs 3:5-6
Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu god of new beginnings kept showing upon the departure of my old life. God will always meet you where you’re at. And Lord Ganesha was something I understood well: the remover of obstacles. Thank you, God.
May 2022.
This was my last week in Portland, Oregon. I hadn’t known that I was gearing up to accept God’s invitation to follow him across the country. When you commit to do the next right thing, you do it with your whole being and trust that God knows what He’s doing.
All of the worldly possessions I took from my old house, much of which I gave away to the hotel staff upon leaving Portland.
Mission: Love Possible 