New Roads

I love it when I approach an area that I was previously so familiar only to learn that there is a new road recently completed and I get to drive on the new pavement! This occurred today. It is in these moments that I realize that God truly has my life in His hands. Taking the same path but approaching the new and it having no resemblance to the old is so refreshing! This is what God does with our lives. People who are familiar with us come in contact with us at a later date thinking we are the person they last interacted not realizing the transformation that have and is underway. They are sometimes secretly surprised or even baffled that the freshness of our response or way of being is nothing what they imagined.  It is a sweet fragrance to some and at the same time a stinch to others.  However, the one you are most interested in pleasing is your Heavenly Father. Stay the course and glorify Him even when it requires you to say, "No" to others.

Anything Worth Having is Worth Fighting For...

I sit in the van waiting for my daughter to tie up loose ends regarding her dorm and I am elated! I have diligently been appealing with the administration at my university to allow me to register for both my Education and Psychology Interns for Fall 2012. While this should have been pretty easy to do as registering for the rest of my classes were over the years, it wasn't. Why? Because the education intern requires a clearance which I began May 2012 and improper guidance was given for one of the background checks.  As for the Psychology intern, after attaining approval for serving with Gwinnett County CASA, I was told I didn't have sufficient Psyc classes specificly not including my life coaching one completed. However, my advisor had a different understanding. Nonetheless both classes were very important to me because they mark the end of my undergraduate studies as of December 14, 2012! So, calling, writing and appealing I did with department heads and administration to get special approvals for both! Now, there are some people who would have made comments to the likes of "maybe now is not the time" and putting God in it in a way that makes God out to be some passive person.  I was certain in both what I was supposed to do...does that mean if I didn't get the approvals I was disobedient or something, no.  However, it sure feels good for that to have been the results though!  In both situations, I know I have made a difference with my university and future students will not experience the things I did.  Anything worth having is worth fighting for. Fighting isn't a "bad" or "off" thing, rather an experience many times to see to what degree you say you really want something.  I am not sorry for the experience.  I am better. It showed me that I have matured and that I really do know how to assert myself in a manner that honors God and me.  Today, I am so proud of myself and the challenges that I have overcome.  I still have 2 classes to finish this summer ending on 8/17/2012 before I get to start the Fall classes 8/20/12, so I have in no way "arrived".  Law school looks more in view than it ever has and I'm so glad about it! What is it standing in your way to your achieving the results you are certain you are to have? Before you throw in the towel and discredit yourself for the prize and justify that "now may not be the time for it", have you exhausted your resources and demonstrated it by the energy you were willing to expend for it?  If not, pray and see how you are to proceed.  You never know you may be the difference that the world is waiting for! Who knows?!

P.A.U.S.E.D.

There is something to be said when you cannot pause. I just finished a pretty extensive run of classes. I know it was the Lord that awakened me this morning and I had to get out of bed at 545a on a day that should've been a "down day" due to it being the 4th of July. The short story version is I had not finished my major assignment for my Marriage Coaching class (which was now late) and took the late penalty for the Psychology Research assignment the night before. Unbeknownst to me, I was tired. I had not "paused" to purposefully assess my own behavior which were tell-tale signs first and foremost.  Nonetheless, when you read this research paper, let me tell you, I know God gave me the Abstract which in turn gave me direction.  Yes, I had an idea of what the topic was supposed to be, but nothing else. I was so busy dreading and not doing the work and acting like I had all the time in the world to get it done. This is so out of character for me. Now, with all my work in except the last last research assignment (its in to my professor to review just not on the assignment link), and my real estate work that I met the deadline for, I had a headache but was thinking it was the half cup of coffee I had at about 730am just for taste and warmth. I was still ignoring the signs. After my quiet time, I decided to lay down...its now 3 or 4 hours later and I just awakened realizing now how tired I must have been and the additional things I wanted to get done.  All I can say is that I'm glad I laid down and feeling the headache subsiding as I type this. P.A.U.S.E.D<:

Pray & Purposely
Assess & Adjust
yoU, yoUr, oUr
Situation(s)
Effectively &
Deliberately Decide to obey the call.

Your very life depends on it.

The 4 Letter Word...I Just Found This Post I Never Published from 5/2/12

The 4 letter word I love and hate when I can't get my way and take full advantage of the quality of saying it and doing it. Wonder what it is? REST! (Uh huh...where was your mind?)

So appropriate considering the previous post just published.

Letting Go...Free Up

It's amazing how we pray for things to get lighter, easier, better, less stressful just feel the space of our own beingness if nothing else.  This week is my week to get up early, get the pre-teen and adolescents off the school which involves me previously me driving, then me riding with my oldest to school as her school is just outside the school district where we live and making sure they get on their respective buses. Well, today, to experience my daughter kiss me and tell me she would see me later as she got in the car to drive herself after I took pictures of her in her outfit for Senior Week was very emotional. The joy and sadness of letting go. My goodness, my little girl has grown up.  As we count down to prom, then graduation, and then college (and all things in between), I'm sure this will not be the last time tears will fall.  I thank God in this little corner of the earth I get to experience the life that I once dreamed about.  Although on one hand I am freed to do something else with myself, yet on another I feel out of control.  Freedom is something else.  Today, I saw the Lord! What does "letting go" mean to you? What can you let go of in order to free yourself up even in a small way? Think about that & choose to enjoy your day!

Too Much of Anything...

There was a time that I loved ladybugs. Oh, how I thought they were ssssooooo cute! Well, since having them periodically finding entry into our home via our bedroom bath, I don't love those little insects as much anymore. I have found them even annoying at times and at others making me go ballistic into a cleaning frenzy to rid my presence of theirs. Well, that reminds me of the statement, "Too much of anything is not a good thing." However, there are those things that come to show me areas in my life that I need to work on & grow. I'm so glad the season has officially changed and they have begun migrating back to their normal territory. At some point in the near future, I will enjoy seeing a ladybug or 2, just can they PLEASE stay outside (LOL!)

Sometimes our best teachers....

Sometime our best teachers are those that rub us the "wrong" way or in a manner that makes us uncomfortable. Pray and press through it, is what I am continually learning to do.