Revival Mode

Words of Wisdom, originally uploaded by Boy_Wonder.

"We'll never have new fabric in our lives until things unravel. Allow those broken heart strings to be re-spun for greater things." 

The story below arrived in my inbox this weekend from local legend Simon Guillebaud. With this note I salute the designer, as I crawl back to the circle: 

This man was born in a gypsy tent, of humble origins, and yet ended up being invited to the White House by two presidents. Rodney ‘Gypsy’ Smith came into the world in 1860 in Epping Forest, just outside London. Forty five times he crossed the Atlantic to preach the gospel to millions of people on both sides. His passion was almost unparalleled, and there was great fruit in what he did. What was his secret? Private prayer. His praying was even more powerful than his preaching.

A delegation once came to him to enquire how they might experience personal and mass revival as he had. They wanted to be used the way Gypsy was. Without hesitating, he said:

“Go home. Lock yourself in your room. Kneel down in the middle of the floor, and with a piece of chalk draw a circle round yourself. There, on your knees, pray fervently and brokenly that God would start a revival within that chalk circle.”