Jay is one of my electric guitar
player at church. He is really exceptional at finding worship tones, yet guitar
is not his main passion. Jay works a job in the DC area, yet his job is not
what gets him out of bed in the morning. His passion is something that we all
talk about every day! Its where we go when a conversation has bogged down and
has slowly entered the "ok its kinda awkward now' phase. We always go
there. As either a conversation starter or a conversation killer we inquire
within said conversation "how about this weather?!" Only for Jay this
is not a byline or a cultural pleasantry used to exit uncomfortable situations.
Its his passion. Holly Syswerda
Grate noticed it shortly after we moved here. It seems that Holly
has a passion for weather too. When Jay and Holly are in the same band at
church it seems to be all that they talk about. All weekend. Constantly. Holly
inherited this passion from her amazing father John. He will call at least
three or four times a week. To talk about the weather and to remind me to go
out into the pasture next to our house and get a load of cow poo for our
garden. It seems that these two things are extremely important to him.
Holly noticed Jay's passion for
weather and said in passing one Sunday morning...
(please say this next line in
Holly voice)
"I am totally going to go home right now and start you a
weather page on Facebook"
Now you have to understand
something about Holly. Her suggestions or things that she says in passing are
not pleasantries or conversation fillers. They are law. Yet she doesn't always
communicate well so I have had to create in my mind and marriage a code
breaking machine to understand the nature of what her comments mean.
Example- "Wow, the weeds are
really growing fast"
Translation- "Get your butt outside and take
care of the weeds"
Example- "Wow, gas prices
are low"
Translation- "Go fill up my car with gas"
Its a secret language that I
sometimes understand and I sometimes don't. My point is that when Holly says
that she is going to do something, she does it. When she asks you to do
something, and you say yes, she expects you to do it. She is a mover and a
shaker. I have never seen Holly do anything with half her heart. Its just not
in her. So when she says to Jay, I am going to start you a weather page on
Facebook, and its going to be huge, both of those things are going to be true.
She started Jays page I believe
around three years ago, and the page now has almost 13 thousand followers.
13,000!!!!! Actually I think its more like 12,501 but 13,000 followers sounds
so much more dramatic and I always round up:) Its amazing. Jay uses words I
don't understand in his forecast. His knowledge of meteorology is profound, and
this one thing I do know- He is almost always right. His followers are
FANATICAL! As they should be. The comments are hilarious. "I will be
traveling down I-81 next friday at 7:00pm. Should I allow for more time or
cancel the trip all together?" "I have family flying in from Spain,
they already bought tickets but should I tell them to cancel?"
Groupies,
followers, fanatics, and disciples follow Jay and hang on his every word. If
you live in Loudoun County and you want to know the weather, you look to Jay.
It all began in the green room in
between service with a sassy blonde saying "I am going to start a Facebook
page for you." Then she followed up on what she said that she was going to
do. A movement was born.
All of us, no matter what stage
of life that we are in have that one thing that is stuck in the back of our
head that we dream about accomplishing. For whatever reason we have put it off
for years. Wether it be a fear of failure or being terrified of ridicule we
continue to suppress whatever it is that could potentially be a movement. A
world changing missions organization, a mountain we have always wanted to
climb, a race we have always wanted to run, an event we have always wanted to
have, or a ministry we have always wanted to begin, just continues to lay
dormant just beyond our reach.
I have found that when it comes
to fulfilling these divine callings, the most difficult thing to do is start.
When looking from the outside the task seems so unachievable that we are
overwhelmed and don't have the courage to take that first step and just do it.
So whatever it is that is burning in your heart, START. BEGIN. I promise you
that you don't want to be looking back on your life 30 years from now with the
weight of an unfulfilled dream on your shoulders.
Sometimes....you have to be the
first one on the dance floor....And sometimes, that courageous first step is
all it takes to start a movement
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