A long time ago someone wrote a song about a girl named “Anne Elise, spinning in red skates, and a red coat, singing red songs to the moon.” The song talked about a girl who said, “Mr. Moon, I’d like to meet a boy with a wool sweater, glasses and almond eyes.”

A year or so later, another friend of  said girl was singing choir songs in Latin with lyrics “Oh Nata Lux.” He laughed and started calling his friend “Nata Lux” which quickly became “Luxe.” She liked it because it meant “light.”

She used to be Anne Elise, who had an idea of what she wanted in a relationship, what she wanted in life… she had it all mapped out in her  cursive scribbling exactly what seemed best. And in her efforts, she ended up meeting a lot of people and circumstances that looked like the right recipe but turned out burned or not exactly the perfect combination of ingredients or flavor. Anne Elise thought she knew what she wanted, but nothing ever turned out right.

Until one day, God asked Anne Elise to give up those ideas, to erase the plans, the person she had in her mind’s eye so that he could work with a blank page. He did that by showing her a picture:

“Let go of your own ideas, Anne Elise.  Let them go and I will take you higher, ever upward toward my plans which are far better than you can understand. Because I DO have good plans for you. I really do. And if you believed that, you’d offer me your hopes and keep your hands open so you can receive what I have for you instead. If you believed that you could walk deeper into who I made you to be, my love… a light. So wear my love and become my light –  my Luxe.”

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