It’s Better to Have Tried and Failed

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Than never tried at all right?  Ok, I’m trying Flylady AGAIN!  Yes, I say again because I’ve tried before.  I have tried the whole shining my sink, dressing to my shoes, zoning thing before and I failed.  Miserably.  But I am going to try again.  I must get a handle on my housekeeping, even though I know and admit I’m not a good housekeeper I can at least try to be a better one than I presently am.

It all comes down to balance.  This morning I was reading something from Joyce Meyers and she validated my own thoughts about this, it has a lot to do with my mindset.  My mind is constantly telling me I can’t balance it all, truly it is the devil telling me these things not wanting me to do it.  Not wanting me to accomplish what’s God’s will for me, which makes me want to do it even more.

So, will you help me?  By help I mean check in here see how I’m doing, cheer me on? Or maybe even join me?  I know there has got to be other people out there besides me struggling with this.  Why not do this together?  Make 2010 the year to make it happen.

Find out more about Flylady here.  Plus this gives me another reason to blog here again.

In the Center of His Will

For those of you who don’t know, I’m going back to school.  It wasn’t that long ago that I had been in school for something like 17 straight years.  Yes, literally.  I had been going to school since preschool.  Scary I know.  Just the other day a friend of mine (who is also in school) and I  were talking and she said, “we’re going to be some overeducated women.”  That may well be true, but for me it is something I KNOW I’m suppose to do. 

For me, finishing seminary is about fulfilling God’s call on my life.  He called me to serve, he called me to ministry, he called me to seminary and in order to be obedient I must do this.  So, as I just opened a huge box of books for my upcoming classes online through Liberty University, my heart skipped a beat and things felt, well right, because I am doing what HE told me to do. There is nothing better than “knowing” that you’re in the center of God’s will.

I don’t want this feeling to end.  I hope to stay here.  It is a good place to be.

It also excites me.  Call me weird but I LOVE school. I love to learn especially about things I”m interested in and to me the Bible is interesting.  I’ll be taking Old Testament this semester, and ministry is interesting, I”m also taking Ministry of Teaching, and Christian Leadership.  It should be…. a challenge.  Pray for me!

Christian Writers, Speakers & Bloggers, Oh My!

She Speaks, was a conference for Christian Writers, Speakers and Bloggers, oh my! The worst part, feeling torn between all three. I have for a long time called myself a Christian speaker, for a shorter time however I have began to dub myself a Christian writer and blogger. Though, I have had a love for writing a long time and been a faithful blogger as well, I just didn’t realize that I really WAS ONE! Does that even make sense? But now, looking back on the conference I realize, I am …. really… ALL 3. Which is awesome, but challenging at the same time.

As I chose for the conference to go as a speaker, I chose to take the Speaker’s Track and mostly take speaker related workshops with a few exceptions here were my choices: Blogging: What Works and What Doesn’t, The Power of a Story, Marketing for More Bookings, Teaching By The Book and Balancing Marriage & Ministry.

I feel like God placed me in each of those specifically for a reason. The blogging one helped me, in addition to Friday’s blogging reception to connect with those ladies online who I only knew by face and words. It was amazing to meet someone whose blog you’ve read and pictures you’ve seen 1000 times. I told my husband it felt so weird because I felt like I knew them already in “real life” though I really did not, but now can say that I do.

The other workshops were amazing, I learned too much to even possibly post. And, in addition I participated in Shari Braendel’s Speaker Evaluation Group which was the most nerve racking of all the things I did this weekend. You see, I’ve been a “speaker” for 3 whole years. I have had no shortage of speaking opportunities, no matter how small to me, I felt I was prepared. So, why did I suddenly become nervous when I strangely never got nervous before about speaking?

Well, normally the 11 other ladies in the room aren’t “evaluating” me. I think that was the key. However, these sweet sisters, were very honest, yet critical, but just what I needed and Sunday afternoon I walked away with an even greater confirmation that I am a “Christian speaker”. I can do this with God’s Grace!!! Ironically one of the themes of the weekend was “grace, grace, grace”, the other, “Setting my agenda aside, for God’s Will to be done.” Something I want, now, more than ever, “for God’s will to be done in my life”.

I was blown away when Shari shared with me during my speaker evaluation session that I should write my “speech” into an article and submit it for publication in a Christian teen magazine. This confirming that I am a “Christian writer”.

And, as I sit her “blogging” this morning, I know, I am a “Christian blogger”. So, I guess God has only confirmed in me what I thought I knew, but now know for sure! Amazing, and as I said yesterday I am truly BLESSED!

Though I know for many of my readers it seems like I am going on on and on….there is more… so stay tuned.