Color Me Yellow
Finding Your Voice in the Tension Between God’s Promises and Their Fulfillment
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You hold a powerful voice inside of you. A voice that adds color to God’s canvas on Earth.
God is a master artisan painting a beautiful canvas filled with vibrant colors. We are those colors. We see the beauty of the canvas when we find our colors. Those colors release their fullest expression when we communicate with our God-designed voice.
Our lives can be an adventurous journey of self-discovery. God - the master artisan - has uniquely designed each of us and invites us to know our authentic design. And not simply to know it, but God desires for us to speak through our authentic design.
In a world where we constantly consume the voices of others, it can be tempting to mimic the voices we hear. We can easily dilute the unique color that God designed within us, when we allow other voices to become our voices. Our voices can become distorted when we allow ourselves to become parrots who repeat what we’ve heard, instead of speaking from what’s deep inside us.
Finding our voice is first about uncovering what’s inside. It’s about uncovering those essential pigments that when, added together, reflect our God-design. We are not the echoes of other people’s voices. We are not parrots who repeat others. We are not anyone else’s color. We are uniquely designed colors and we can uncover that design inside of us. Together, we can begin to add our color to God’s masterpiece.
In the journey ahead, I want to support you in finding your color - your God-designed voice. Think of me as a coach, mentor, cheerleader, guide, or close friend who will stand alongside you as you find your color. God wants to use your color to continue to paint a beautiful canvas in you through you for others. I’m honored and excited to be on the journey with you.
Our journey is divided into three parts:
Part 1: Finding Your Voice
Part 2: In the Tension
Part 3: Between God’s Promises and Their Fulfillment
Let me say at the outset, the adventure of self-discovery lasts a lifetime. One of the most exciting parts of finding our voices is that it’s a journey of coming home to our most authentic selves and of becoming our most authentic selves. Each part of our journey will teach us how to find our voice and throughout our lives we’ll find ourselves coming back to these parts.
In Part 1, we will learn to uncover our voice and establish a foundation.
In Part 2, we will learn to refine our voice through our challenges, obstacles, victories, and failures.
In Part 3, we will learn to strengthen our voice to impact and inspire others.
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You hold a powerful voice inside of you.
A voice that adds color to God’s canvas on earth.
God is a master artisan painting a beautiful canvas filled with vibrant colors. We are those colors. We see the beauty of the canvas when we find our colors. Those colors release their fullest expression when we communicate with our God-designed voice.
In a world where we constantly consume the voices of others, it can be tempting to mimic the voices we hear. When we allow other voices to become our voices, we can easily dilute the unique color that God designed within us.
But we are not the echoes of other people’s voices. We are uniquely designed colors. Together, we can begin to add our color to God’s masterpiece.
About the Author
Sarah Raquel Gautier has devoted her life to building up people into their God-designed selves. She grew up in ministry serving alongside her family, but never imagined she would become a Pastor. Sarah majored in English Literature and minored in Violin Performance at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. She received her Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.
Sarah stayed in Boston working with minority-owned small businesses as a transactional attorney. For a decade, she served as the youth pastor at Congregación León de Judá. She worked in nonprofit leadership at a local organization supporting first generation college students.
When she’s not skydiving or skateboarding, Sarah is seizing her newest adventure: serving as the Lead Pastor of Living Stones in Boston, a spiritual house where everyone comes alive in Christ.
Throughout every experience, Sarah has supported folks on the journey to find their voices - their God designed colors. Her prayer is that you find and add your color to God’s canvas.