Another Opening

Welcome back!

Over the past few months, I’ve been back and forth on this thing, this calling in my life.  I’ve stepped away from things I thought I was suppose to be doing.  I’ve struggled with doing other things, just to make an income for myself and my family.  I wonder over and over, do you do something because you can or do you do something because you should.  How do you determine what it is that you’re suppose to be doing?

God has always been my guide, I have always wanted to follow his call on my life, but sometimes this life gets in the way and I get confused.  Do you? Is it just me?

I need to make an income from my family.  There are skills that I have that I feel that God has given me that I use daily to make an income for my family.  In a way this satisfies a need.  In another way, it leaves an opening.  I feel called to ministry and at this time, the only ministry I feel that I have is to my own family.  Is this bad, certainly not.  Does it fulfill my calling, well it can, but I still feel an opening.

I guess I can’t explain it, I feel like there is so much being left undone.  I want to finish seminary I have seven classes left.  I have been working on this degree since 2003. I have felt called to seminary since age 14.  There leaves another opening.

How do I fill the openings and still satisfy my responsibilities in life to myself, my family and my God?

Welcome to the Party

Welcome! I’m participating in the Ultimate Blog Party from 5 Minutes for Moms watch my intro vlog below.

More about me:

For 5 years I have had a ministry to girls and their moms, Beauty by Design Ministries, this started as a speaking ministry, warped into an online ministry that involved a lot of time weekly spent creating content for my site, but recently has returned to just a speaking ministry, as my focus needed to shift back to my family.

Besides ministry, I also do freelancing from home, writing and blogging, both of which I enjoy tremendously. My latest blogging project is a local online magazine / blog for the moms in my community, Delta Hills Moms. This change has allowed me to simplify my life and focus more on my family.

I am blessed with three beautiful children and and amazing husband. We as a family have a wonderful church family and great friends that are truly our extended family. We enjoy spending a ton of time with them on the weekends.

In addition, we have flesh & blood family that live close by as well that we love to be around. We live in a small but fabulous community where it is a joy to raise our children.

This is my “home on the web” and I hope you’ll stick around, read some posts, and share your thoughts with me.

If I were inviting you into my real “home” I’d pour you a Coke, slice you a piece of lemon pie and have you sit down, why not do so “virtually”? Y’all come back now, ya hear?

Oh…. I almost forgot today is my dear ole daddy’s REAL birthday! Why not let him think this party is for him? I love you Daddy! Happy Birthday and thank you for being a strong influence in my life and for making me the determined, strong woman I am today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!

Daddy, Momma & Me {circa 1982}

Can you tell my Daddy Happy Birthday for me? If you know me, tell him what kind of job he did raising me …. if you don’t just give him a shout! Thank you!

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I Set My Mind To . .

Funny how I’ve always been taught, “you can do whatever you set your mind to.” Yet, in doing even the simplest of things, namely taking care of my home, I struggled.  The truth is, my mind nor my heart was in it.  I was focused on other things, good things mind you, mostly ministry and creating an income for my family, but nonetheless my mind was elsewhere, and we all know where are thoughts are there is our heart.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21

I am grateful for how quickly things can change, for the fact that I can set my mind to changing and I can do it. For the fact that I can call on friends to pray, they do so and I feel their prayers. My heart and my mind and my treasure are in a much different place than they were a few weeks ago and for that I am grateful.

Thank you Lord for being a God of second, third and fourth chances and thank you for allowing me to do. . . whatever I set my mind on.

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

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