Category: Self Help

This Christmas I am determined to hold onto me and what I feel like I am supposed to do for the holidays!! I know some people love shopping and buying lots of little goodies for everyone and baking and all of it. I really don’t, at least I don’t like doing it on demand and maybe it just hasn’t been presented to me correctly just yet!!

It came to me this morning that our family has grown so quickly that I have to find new ways to celebrate and enjoy our holiday. We will soon have 8 grandchildren and this is a wonderful blessing! We have lots of things going on in our lives and have had to learn how to keep things as simple as possible. We have a blended family and so many gatherings that all of our children have to attend.

I decided to have a day 2 weeks before Christmas that is just food, games and spending time together. The gifts are too complicated and some of the people hardly know one another and haven’t got to do life together. So let’s just hang out, see what one another are doing in life and enjoy one another’s company!! That just works for me this year!! It gives me great peace in doing it that way!!

So figure out what works best for YOU!! Figure out what your tradition might be!! No guilt, no expectations just think about what you really feel comfortable with in your gut!! Some people actually stress themselves out so much during this time of year and I really can’t go there. The legacy I would like to leave is to have your own voice and your own identity in life. You were made the way you are for a reason, listen to that!!

I love to give more than the next person, but I don’t like to give under pressure. So my giving will be of myself and my time… that’s what gives me peace and joy!!

Don’t get lost in the Season!!

Just Be You!!

You have a voice and it’s needed!!

No guilt, no pressures!!

It’s the little things!!

See you soon!!❤️

It seems like I have shared this subject before, but it is something that is hard to keep doing. There are always many distractions trying to steal our time and take away from what we need to be doing.

I am so excited to be sharing my book and having a group of ladies walk through the workbook that I’m in the process of designing right now. That is something that I had nothing to do with. and it just came about. Because we are working through this thing I have to keep working on the upcoming chapters for the days ahead. This is making me have to stay focused!! i am so happy for that, because I need it!!

What I am focused on right now is learning new things online to help get this message out to others. People are desperate and hurting and I have been there!! If they can learn the new mindsets then they can have hope!! God told me whenever I started my book that it is starting a movement. I didn’t have lots of confidence at first to tell anyone that, but now that it is happening, I do!! I have experience birthing things through from the beginning. I have done it from a smaller scale before, but this is going to be on a larger scale.

This is exciting!! This is my purpose!! The day that the man held the knife to my throat and I said, “God I will do what ever you want me to do if you let me live!!” I lived and this is it!!! I’m so glad that I stayed focused on this one thing through my life…I had to stay focused that there was a purpose and things that did not line up with that purpose had to go!! I can’t believe that I didn’t give up on that and it has been almost 40 years waiting for it!! Woo Hoo!!!

This isn’t about me, this is about you and what you are supposed to be focused on doing!! What is on your heart to do? How can you change the world and help others? What all has been trying to distract you from doing this? Take some time to ponder these things! You do have something to bring to the Earth!! Don’t be afraid to ask for help getting started!! Be teachable!! Be open! Be willing to see things through a different lense. God thinks way, way bigger than we do!!

You and God got this!!

You can do all things through Him!!

Go for it!!

You are amazing and worth it!!

See you Soon!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just thinking this morning about when I was going through some pretty hard traumatic times. Those are the times when you are closest to the Father!! He shows up in the most amazing little and big ways. Nothing compares!!

It’s a time when we are totally dependent on Him!! Anything that we have comes from Him and has nothing to do with us creating it!! If we breath another day it’s because of Him!! I really love times like that!! I love it when you are experiencing a little heaven on earth! It’s a different realm!!

I’ve been missing Heaven lately!! I have to make myself get close to Him in easier times!! I am making myself get closer!! I miss His blessings and His voice and the amazing little things that He does sometimes to let you know that He loves you!!

Oh they are here, but there’s more!! I want more!! I can’t settle for just playing church, I want more!! Heaven is real and it is so wonderful and full of love and grace and prosperity!!

If we stay close to Him, and stay tuned into His voice we can experience the joys of Heaven right here on earth!! We can have peace, joy and long suffering! We just have to reach out and grab it!

I’m doing it!! I’m getting into His presence I’m surrendering it all to Him!!

He’s so good!! He never leaves!!

When we leave He just waits for us to return!

We need Him!!

Can’t do it alone!!

I think something we all need to get ahold of is that we don’t need to be either joyful or suffering. We can have a deep joy in the midst of hard things and we can have empathy for people in hard times, even when we are full of joy.

I have had enough hard times that I do understand when someone is going through a hard time. I think that’s why we may need to go through a hard time every once in a while just to keep us grounded. I know that doesn’t sound very popular but it’s real easy to take off in our own little positive cloud if we don’t stay grounded.

We do have to learn to walk in the supernatural realm to have peace in the midst of a storm or trial. There are many of them going on in our world…we have to have joy in our soul and in God’s promises not in the things that we see. We can enjoy the things we see for a time but not forever! And it is good to enjoy good things.

We don’t go through wonderful things to take off and leave troubled people behind us in the dust. We go through wonderful things to be able to help bring them up higher also. But, they have to pick it up and run with it themselves, we just can’t do it for them. There is a balance in the whole thing.

We were eating lunch outside yesterday and two homeless people came by at separate times to talk to us… both of them were stuck and full of excuses. There is nothing we can do about what someone wants to think. We can give them a couple of bucks but until they change their thinking, we can’t change their life. We even mentioned to them getting on a bus and going to a place with more opportunities, but no that’s not what they wanted, they wanted $2.00 to make it through the night. I can’t judge that but I can learn from it…I don’t want to be stuck in mindsets that leave me stuck, I want to keep moving forward!! I don’t want to depend on someone else to pull me out!! A slogan I learned in recovery, “If it’s going to be, it’s up to me.” That is a true statement… that’s not to leave out God or Jesus that’s just to say that I can’t make it if I don’t make the choice to grab ahold of opportunities before me.

So happy for wonderful, wonderful days but also so happy that I have learned that when I am weak, HE is strong!! I reached out to His hand and He pulls me out of the pit time and time again!! But I have to keep reaching!!

The JOY of the Lord is my strength!!

He restores my soul!!

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil!!

These things are my reality!!

See you soon!!❤️

The last couple of weeks have been surreal, being tied up in launching a book, my daughter coming to visit and celebrating my mom’s 90th birthday for 2 weekends in a row!!

Lots of things all together at one time, but so nice!! Then after all those things stopped it felt like a couple of little hard things kicked in… not majorly hard, just different. I realized that when you step out there and get completely out of your comfort zone it can literally SHIFT your world to never be the same and it is your new normal!!

So here I am in writing land and designing a workbook now. I looked outside and saw a beautiful fall day and know that all things have to stay in complete balance!! The things that it took to get me here are the things that will keep me here!!! Boundaries, detachment, prayer, forgiveness, being teachable, Recovery, RTF and Father, Son and Holy Spirit!!

So I shall go out and enjoy this beautiful fall day, today and tomorrow, enjoy grandchildren, my life, my friends, my blessings!! God is so good!! Life is so good!! So much to learn!! We need to make every day count!!

Hope you are enjoying your fall❤️

We make a difference everywhere ❤️

Joy is our strength❤️

Blessings along the way❤️

No condemnation❤️

See you soon!!❤️