This weekend can be summed up in the title of this post….BLESSED.  Yesterday without knowing I’d receive this card from the foot of a cross that the ladies of Proverbs 31 had set up at the conference I had written about the blessings I felt i had received throughout the weekend.  Then, I went to the closing session and was told to pick up a card from the foot of the cross.  On the card would be a verse and behind the verse in lighter print was a word for us. My word…..BLESSED. 

Girls, tell me something I don’t already know!  I am truly blessed.  Not only from attending She Speaks this weekend, but in everything I am blessed. It’s hard to know what else to say right now, as my mind whizzes back and forth, I have so much information from She Speaks I want to use and apply, but for now…. I’m VBS director for the next 5 days so I must go get dressed, whiz myself and my 2 kiddos off to church and then rush to a dr.’s appt. to assure that baby  #3 is doing what he’s suppose to be doing.  He is due in exactly 3 weeks. So I leave you with the verse that was on the card…

“I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints and his incomparably great power for us who believe.”

Ephesians 1:18-19

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As I lay here in bed still this morning, this last day of “She Speaks” so many questions fill my head.  Ok what do I do about??  When do I do?  What does God want from this?  How do I apply that?  How can I really do that?  Am I really a blogger, a speaker, a writer?

Wow the questions that are whizzing through my head faster than I can even type, and I type fast.

This conference has been absolutely amazing. Better than I ever dreamed.  Something only God could orchestrate.  I have met bloggers, speakers. writers, leaders, women, all called, called out by God, and I am one of them.  Never before have I felt so much like I fit.  I’m not sure you’ll understand but I think some of the ladies whom I have met here will certainly agree.

Though many of them I have NEVER met before, while others I may have read their blogs are chatted with on Twitter, we all seem to have this special connection.  The connection I have always known as a “divine connection”.  The connection I have felt before but not often, because God only allows it to happen just a certain number of times in our lives.  This is one of those times.

So, whether or not I am leaving here with questions, it’s ok.  Because what is awesome is that I know GOD can answer all those questions, and I know that over time, he will.  So, just as I anticipated and looked forward to She Speaks for the divine appointments and possibilities it held.

I now look forward to going home, to experience the divine appointments and possibilities that God has….. so much to look forward to, besides just seeing God provide the answers for the questions he’s placed on my heart while I am here, but also to see him work in my daily life, as over the next few weeks. I have so very much to look forward to, so many blessings to experience.  As I lie here thinking about them, I can’t help but be overwhelmed with joy at the honor he bestows upon me by putting those blessings into my life.

Blessings like being able to minister to children in VBS tomorrow morning  (Monday) bright and early after I arrive home from She Speaks, blessings like birthing my 3rd child, whenever God sees fit (hopefully sooner than later), as he’s due July 14, and blessings that will come sooner, like this afternoon when I get to kiss my 2 precious babies that I am longing to hold right now as momma has been away for 3 days now……….

Thank you LORD for those blessings, even if they are sometimes questions that are whirling through my mind.

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Yes, it’s all real. Sometimes people ask, “How real are you on your blog?” or “Are you the same person in real life as in online /blog life?” To which I must answer a resounding “YES”. This is me, the real me. My life is an open book. I am not hiding anything, not running from anything, not trying to escape anything when I blog. I blog because I love it. It is fun, it allows me to write without having to worry about grammatical errors or being right or wrong or if it sounds right, it’s just my thoughts that is all it is.

I also continue to blog because I LOVE the blogging community. Never before have I made so many connections with so many people. Moms, momprenuers, WAHMs, SAHMS, others, all who blog and have this as our sometimes only connection but its amazing to see. I’ve met moms who are Christian but I’ve also met some who claim to have no religion yet I still connect with them. It’s awesome and I love it.

I feel it’s a great way to share and you know what every single testimony I share and blessing that I tell about is real. God is working in my life just like I’m telling you. I am struggling with the issues I blog about I am not making them up. I do set the goals I set, I don’t just put those up here to look good. This is real and I am loving every minute of being real with you.

How about you, is your blog real, do you love blogging, do you enjoy the mom blog and other blog communities you are a part of, is the online world as much a part of your life as the offline…. how do you feel? Tell me about it here or blog about it and return here to post the link in the comments. I want to hear from you!

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Yes, that is the only word that could in anyway describe me at this point.  You see my church’s Vacation Bible School is in 2 weeks.  The VBS Director has resigned 2 weeks prior to VBS.  I served as VBS Director not last year, but the three years prior to last year, as a part of my position as youth/children’s director.  So, I felt like I needed to help out my pastor in some way when this came up at the last minute.  A friend of mine and I went to talk with him last night and together we are taking over Vacation Bible School.

This might not seem so crazy, but if you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time you know that I have a lot going on right now.  Not only am I 34 almost 35 weeks pregnant, but I am also running a ministry and writing business from home, taking care of a 4 year old and a 14 month old, and attending the She Speaks Conference in North Carolina the 4 days prior to VBS.

Needless to say the next 2 weeks will be nuts.  I covet your prayers.  The odd thing is, normally I’d be anxious and uptight about all of this, but i have a strange sense of peace.  It is as if God is saying, “you do your part and I”ll do mine.”  I know He’s going to bless this.  I just can’t wait to see how!  AMEN??

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