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A Year in Review: October 2022
- Jenna Jackson
- Dec 30, 2022
- 3 min read
TRANSFORMATION CONFERENCE: V02
Did that have to be in all caps?? Yes, yes it did... lol!
What can I even say about Transformation Conference V02... that hasn't on some level already been said? It was wonderful, beautiful, unexpected - dare I say... transformative? 😅 😅 The theme for the conference was OVERFLOW and it centered around God pouring out onto us so that we, from that overflow, can pour out onto other people. 😀😃😀
At first, I wasn't sure if I was going.. My first thought was... why? I hadn't been to a conference of this size in years, not since probably college. And even though I very much felt like TC had become my church through the pandemic, why would I fly over 2,000 miles to a city and state I would never think to come to (Tulsa, OK??) to be with other people I don't even know? Who does that? Apparently, I and 2,999 other folks do - because I was 1 of 3,000 who got a ticket (when they sold out in 7 minutes) to go and hear what God would have to say to me during this experience.
First the fun stuff - it was LIT from the jump! 🔥🔥🔥 I mean, when you start with Tasha Cobbs Leonard and literally waterfall raining from the ceiling while they singing about overflow... 👀 And also... churches can be so extra on the theatrics sometimes.... lol. It was also so BLACK - like let's play all the Kirk Franklin and Fred Hammond songs we can find, have a "shout" contest, "choir battles" from across the arena, praise breaks, line dancing while we're waiting in line, and the singing!? I felt like I was back in an old Baptist Pentecostal church. All they needed was a front row with some church mothers on one side (hats & white gloves included) and the usher/deacon board on the other to complete the look. It was three days of singing, shouting, worshipping, listening, processing, crying, running to quickly eat, be on team "fasting/no eat," community, praying, reflecting, laughing, late nights, early mornings, waiting on ubers, almost late, wake up early, go to bed, no sleep, no pillowcase, Jesus was there to help me, we couldn't go night night cause of all the adrenaline fueled days *said in my Kevin Hart voice* There is nothing like being in spaces where your culture and identity is affirmed... by community and by God.
My key takeaways:
Transitions aren't always about doing a new, big, different thing or receiving a new or prophetic word, sometimes it's just a reaffirming/confirming, reconnection to who you are and what you're already doing (or what you need to start doing again because you've stopped).
Real community helps reaffirm who I am
Crying is a way of releasing, it pushes the gunk out, shifts things around, stretches me so I have more space and capacity. I probably need to do it more often than I think I do.
I didn't know how dry I was until the water started pouring in.
I am learning how to sit in the hard feelings. and learning the options on how to manage them.
Change happens in obscurity first, in the day-to-day practice and process. People see the end goal or result of consistency, not the process that I have to stay committed to in order to get there. That's okay, keep showing up, be consistent.
Consistency - that's a word that showed up even before this conference, but I feel like since, it's been reappearing and flexing whenever it gets a chance. The question for me isn't where do I need to be consistent? It's where am I working to keep promises that I made to myself? I'm good and try really hard to keep promises and show up for other people - but how do I do that for myself? And how do I do that for myself first? It's why you're even able to read this entry...
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