Life has certainly been busy the last several months that has left a four month gap in my blog posts, but I am thankful for God's peace, safety, strength, healing, and everything in between that has kept me going. I've enjoyed trips and much needed family time. I celebrated reaching year 42 in April, and I have been on a two year weight loss journey (without surgery) and I have lost 150 lbs! This has me enjoying life again such as zip lining and riding all the roller coasters 🎢 at Six Flags, including the upside down ones. I rode my first upside down coaster last Fall at age, 41 and was absolutely terrified and now I love them! I hated coasters as a kid and teenager! They scared me so! When I turned 40, it was like hitting the reset button on my life! I have had some minor health issues over the last several months but God has brought me through each one. I continue to serve God with everything within me at a church I'll soon call "my home for 3 years" in just a couple of weeks! I am so thankful that God brought me into a season of stability with not just my walk with Him but with a church family, and into a season where I am not spinning my wheels in toxicity. I've experienced two Atlanta Braves MLB games this year. The first ever year to attend the games, and they won both games I attended and it was such a fun experience. It's my second year to be a season pass holder at Six Flags, and I am finally enjoying life in a way a truly didn't know I could before turning 40! Over these last several months I have reflected on just how far I have come and grown in God since starting this blog in 2017. I have thanked and praised Him for all the opportunities He has allowed me to have to minister for Him and to enjoy life in the way a Christian should. How He has continued to love me and help me through all of my struggles and times of stubbornness. Knowing that it is also okay for Christians to enjoy life. Good, clean wholesome fun. And, I am learning how to go with the flow during this phase of life and not get upset when plans change or don't go how I think they should. I have had a lot of those tests this year especially with being the women's ministry director at church and learning how to plan or replan events or reschedule when the unexpected happens. Back in May, our Mother's Day paint party had to be pushed back a week due to unexpected storms. That meant having food and a special cake pushed back a week, yet God took care of it. So a recent event that had to be changed from my original plans, I started to crumble and God checked me real quickly and everything worked out for the better.
We have had a very rainy and stormy Summer in the south of the good ole USA. Our recent weekend at Six Flags, in July, brought a lot of unexpected thunderstorms but we made the best of it. I was thinking about how God didn't allow it to rain during the baseball game (in fact the rain that afternoon - while we were inside - cooled the weather off enough that we could enjoy the game) or while we were making our way back to the car from the park and having to load everything into vehicle. I was thinking about how God kept His hand of safely and protection on us, as we waited out heavy rain and thunderstorms with lightening for almost two hours under a cement covering area in a theme park but we were still outside. How the old me would've broke down in tears and crumbled, but the rain kept us from having a heatstroke in 100°+ heat index weather in the south. God knows what He's doing and He is in complete control. It's the small tests that are teaching me how to remain calm in the Lord. God cares about the small things too.
"Avail (allow; make yourself available to be used) yourselves to the work that I desire to do in you and through you. Trust in Me as I strengthen you. Trust in Me as I anoint you as never before. Trust in Me as I stir within you those gifts that I've placed there for My anointing and My ministry for those around you. Trust in Me. Do not doubt My favor. Do not doubt My anointing. Do not doubt the call that I've placed on you and in you to work through you. Trust in Me. I am your God."
That's what God recently spoke to me to share with His children. He spoke this our church family through the gifts and operation of the Holy Spirit. I continue to trust in God and make myself available to be used of Him as He helps me every step of the way. Get out there and be His hands and feet but enjoy life too. He will be with you and help you every step to the way.
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