Revive Me, Oh Lord

I have been blessed with the opportunity to go back to school completely free. All I have to pay for is text books. I am currently enrolled in 2 Bible classes, Wisdom Literature and Acts. The other classes are Ethics and Microeconomics. So I am technically a full time student again. While in these classes the Lord is really laying a lot on my heart. In Wisdom Lit we are talking about Job. How do I attend this class and not get my faith shaken. I know I should be striving to live for Christ, I know I need to be working harder and I feel these classes are showing me that even more. I am reading the Bible more and more, I have to for class. This is helping me read the Bible a little more too. These classes are making me want to learn more. The professors are helping as well. I feel God is using all of this to REVIVE ME. This I am so excited about. I feel like God is actually saying, "Are you ready to take that leap yet." I feel like taking classes was the leap I needed to take for now but I have to keep listening to God. I want to keep my ears open, I don't want to miss out on what God is trying to tell me. So I am really excited to see what comes next! For the first time I am actually excited to be living in Grayson again!

This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 
--Job 1:2

Zumba

Just did my first day of Zumba. It is tough but I am hoping I can stick with it. Not really trying to loose weight just trying to get more active!!

My prayer

I can hear her saying,

“Lead me with strong hands
Stand up when I can't
Don't leave me hungry for love
Chasing dreams, what about us?

Show me you're willing to fight
That I'm still the love of your life
I know we call this our home
But I still feel alone”

My husband absolutely loves this song and I find it quite ironic. This is exactly what I am crying out to him. I feel so lonely. I have incredible friends and he is a great husband but I feel he is just going on through life with the cruse control on. Just getting by with what he has to do but not doing the extra stuff. I know I am guilty of the same with my relationship with God but I feel I need Josh to be my spiritual leader as well. I feel I am missing that. I am missing something and not sure what to do with this knowledge. I can only encourage him so much, I can't make him do anything. I am just stuck. All I can do is pray I guess. I guess I just need God to take over from here. Why didn't I think of this before. Why didn't I think to involve God in all of this.

Dear Lord,
I want to pray right now for my husband. I pray you can lead him to be a strong leader for this family. I pray you can make him spiritually fit. Help him grow closer to you and to just simply read your word everyday. This itself will help him tremendously. Help him find out what he needs to do to get closer to you. Thank you for putting him in my life but now I need your help, I need you help so much!
I love you Lord.

New Catalog

I just received my new Thirty-One catalogs today and I am super excited about where things are going to go from here. Last month I had an awesome month. I almost made $1,000 in parties making my paycheck just shy of $200. Not too bad for havin' girls' nights and showing off purses. The new products are beautiful. I love the new patterns and I love the new specials we have coming up. I have 4 parties to do next month and I possible have 2 new recruits. I am so excited about my business. It has been a slow start but I can feel it is going to begin to flourish. I am praying God continues to use me to bless other women and to use this business as a ministry for Him!!

Ready, set, wait... where do I go?

My husband and I have been really stuggling with where God want us to go. We feel like we are being pushed. We are supposed to find a new job or just a new place to live in general. My mother-in-law said she felt the push for 2 years before God actually called her to go. She said we should start going through all of our stuff and figure out what we can get rid of and start giving it away or something. We need to be ready to move if God calls us tomorrow to move. So that is what I have been doing. I have gone through mostly everything and we have quite a collection of stuff outside waiting for people to come a buy it. We have a carport type area where everything is sitting with price tags and such waiting to find a good home. I am praying that everything will be gone this weekend. I will be at a conference and I hope when I return it will be gone.

My verse of the day is from Klove... Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you. --1 Peter 5:7

Wednesday

I have been busy cleanng the kids' rooms again. It seems like a never ending job. I dont know why I ever think these kids need more stuff. The other day I saw the cutest outfit for Eli and, Josh said, "does he really need more clothes?" I thought yah he really doesnt have much. Well I now know that he doesn't need more clothes after cleaning his room. I was trying to figure out when I could book a party for a friend. She wanted it to be on a weekend and I was looking through my calendar and I am almost completely booked from now until the end of October! Praise God right! I cannot believe I have that many bookings already. I would really like to have two - three parties a week but I know I have to work my way up and get the word out about my amazing company! My new goal is to not focus n the money but to focus on havin a fun girl's night for women to just relax and enjoy no kids! I am SUPER excited about life right now!! God is good!

Conference Call

I had the privilege to hear Michael Bernoff speak last night in a conference call. One thing he said that really stood out was you have to grow yourself before you can begin to grow your company. So I thought about this... What can I begin to grow in my life that can benefit my business. So I decided I am going to begin learning how to become a better public speaker. That is my first goal. After that who knows what, but that is first. I really want this business to work not really to make money, that would always be a benefit but I also want to use this company to help grow not only my current relationships but also to create new ones as well. This is the beginning of my journey and I can't wait to share it with all of you!