Holiday Time!

I wanted to encourage you ladies for just a second.  This is not going to be long, simply short and sweet! 

Holiday time can be very emotional for many of us.  I simply want to encourage you beautiful ladies to draw close to your Heavenly Father during this holiday time because it can and will at times pull you down.  Your Heavenly Father has surrounded you with strong friendships for a reason - LEAN on them!!  Don't ever feel like a burden to your girlfriends because God has blessed you with them!

Two Simply Tips!

My first tip is...Don't Don't Don't walk through these next few weeks alone!  You have a Heavenly Father who is with you but He also knows you need physical interaction as well!  Reach out to your girlfriends, sister, brother, mom, dad, Aunt, Uncle...who ever God has given you to be that amazing supporter!  This time of year can get overwhelming, stressful and emotional all at the same time.  Don't try to carry it all by yourself - it CAN NOT be done.  It does not mean you are weak...it means we are strong!

My other tip is...don't feel obligated to do everything!  Yes we are women who feel we can do everything...guess what we can't!!  Let your husband or teenagers or boyfriend or best friend - whoever your HELP ME person is - step in for you.  Let them help with the baking, wrapping, shopping (yes I said shopping - they can buy gifts too.  This is hard for me because I am a control freak!), cooking, addressing envelops, dropping packages off at the USPS or UPS, cleaning the house....do you get what I'm saying!  We CAN NOT do it all!  It is hard to let go of control but in the end it will still turn out just fine!  

Beautiful ladies listen up...we are not meant to walk through this life alone!  Stay connect with your Heavenly Father and lean on the ones who love you the most!

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas! 

Where did that storm come from!

How many of us have been on or are in a path (storm) that you absolutely can not figure out how you got there?  If you could see me I am raising both hands right now!  How does life take such a left hand turn sometimes has been my main thought the last month.  I am not going to lie to you ladies, but my families path (storm) right now - it's hard and it sucks!  Today has been a day of tears for some odd reason (we will get back to this comment).  My family and I have been in this storm for a little over a month and ladies its just getting started!  I just can't see the end and I want to!  Is anyone else out there fighting a storm - you are not alone!!  For me and my husband our storm is our girls right now.  If I am being honest, I think the tears today are just God's simply reminder that he keeps telling me that He's got this!  He has them!  He is with them!  He loves them!  He is for them!  He is I AM!!! 

Ladies when we are caught in a storm and are trying to figure out how it began, we begin to focus on the wrong things.  We start rethinking decisions or choices we made.  We start just simply second guessing life in general and we loose site of what is clearly right in front of us...God!  Some of our storms CAN NOT be fixed by us.  Sometimes we MUST take a hug step back and say "Okay God, I don't know where this storm is going or how it even began or how long it is going to last but I MUST give it to you and let you lead"!  I know you don't have to tell me this - it's to hard to do this!  But honestly I think that is the point of my continue down pour of tears today, God is lifting this storm from my shoulders and placing it on HIS!

God is far more interested in teaching us to hear His voice

than making our plans unfold flawlessly.

"My Story"

Big Daddy Weave

If I told you my story
You would hear Hope that wouldn't let go
And if I told you my story
You would hear Love that never gave up
And if I told you my story
You would hear Life, but it wasn't mine

If I should speak then let it be
Of the grace that is greater than all my sin
Of when justice was served and where mercy wins
Of the kindness of Jesus that draws me in
Oh to tell you my story is to tell of Him

If I told you my story
You would hear victory over the enemy
And if I told you my story
You would hear freedom that was won for me
And if I told you my story
You would hear Life overcome the grave

If I should speak then let it be
Of the grace that is greater than all my sin
Of when justice was served and where mercy wins
Of the kindness of Jesus that draws me in
Oh to tell you my story is to tell of Him

This is my story, this is my song
Praising my savior all the day long
This is my story, this is my song
Praising my savior all the day long

For the grace that is greater than all my sin
Of when justice was served and where mercy wins
Of the kindness of Jesus that draws me in
Oh to tell you my story is to tell
For the grace that is greater than all my sin
Of when justice was served and where mercy wins
Of the kindness of Jesus that draws me in
Oh to tell you my story is to tell of Him
Oh to tell you my story is to tell of Him

This is my story, this is my song
Praising my savior all the day long