WHAT IF?  

by Jodi Anderson

WHAT IF? What if there was a place to gather in your City, that was open 24 hours a day? What if it was a place to pray and worship. A place to collaborate. A place to receive healing and encouragement. What if there was a place to play music, sing and be artistic. What if creative people could share their talents with one another and get behind each other and promote one another in their vision and calling. What if teams could gather and meet at this place to go out on the streets, healing the sick, raising the dead, street theater, street poets and artisans. What if it was a place to connect with like minded and like hearted people. What if you could pool your resources, time and energy and see communities affected by you being what you were designed to be. What if visionaries could come together and share their dreams and visions with those who have the ability to make things happen. What if you could invest in this place and actually have ownership. What if you all got along and loved each other and knew how to live from unoffendable preferring each other above yourself. What if you could just be in a place and share your thought and ideas even if they were never accomplished. What if it was a place to just have really deep meaningful relationships and this was put above all projects and endeavors. What if you could just be apart of something and it really didn't matter what you did but just being together and sharing your lives with others brought more satisfaction than anything. What if!!!

My friend from Oregon wrote 'What If' and put it on her FB page.  When I read it....my first thought was, 'This is der Garten!'  So I copied it down in my journal because I wanted to keep it.  Later, I read it to Bre and Thilo.  They too said, "That sounds like der Garten!"   

So now I feel more focused and energized to keep on and to expand and grow into the, "What If?" in a fuller way.  What if there were rooms like this all over Berlin?

Above all - let the name of Jesus be glorified in der Garten.  Not our plans, our schemes or even our dreams.  

Let Jesus be glorified.