A box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get!  :)  I mean really! I’m feeling that way today.  Yesterday, out of the blue I hear from a church I haven’t heard from in 5 weeks about a position.  Here I have made up my mind (so I thought) and BAM!  But, I am going to keep on keeping on.  I will go and talk w/ them, but I’m going to keep pursuing my ministry and my BeautiControl business.  I just don’t want to give up on myself, nor do I want to set myself up for failure.  I also don’t want to close any door God is opening.  So… I will continue until he shows me what to do.  I keep praying that he COMMAND me to do what it is he wants me to do. I need for it to be VERY clear.  I want to be in my “sweet spot” as Max Lucado puts it in his new book “Cure for the Common Life.”  That’s where I’m longing to be.

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I am so proud of myself and how much I got done on Friday, I got off the computer at 9:30 am and I worked hard till 3 pm.  I did everything on my list and more.  I was so proud of myself.  I then went to BeautiU on Saturday and had a great day.

Today was a busy Sunday as usual.  I feel God really touched my life tonight though, I have been working on a friendship with a girl in my church that is in a Southern Gospel quartet.  Well they are having a singing on Memorial Day and I had asked her about contributing a door prize for it from BeautiControl.  SHe asked me to come and set up a table and talk about my busienss and my ministry and everything. I am so excited It will be good for both my BeautiControl busienss and my Beauty by Design Ministry. She also said she would take some flyers of mine and put them on their table when they go to other churches and sing.  THis is definitely God’s divine plan. I am super excited about it.  GOd is amazing!

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I absolutely hate feeling unproductive. I feel like this has been a pretty productive week, but I absolutely hate feeling any other way. I want to feel productive today so  out of the inspiration of reading another person’s blog I’ve decided to clean out my van today, trust me this will not prove to be an easy task. I practically live in my van. SO… it is quite a mess, and we live on a gravel road so it is quite dusty. This should be fun though and its going to be hot outside, so I’m thinking of getting in a bathing suit and getting Baker in his LIttle Swimmers and going at it with the water hose.  I am also planning on finishing up the laundry, and ironing all my capris. Every pair of capris I own has to be ironed, and the weather is going to be in the 90’s for the next week so I”m sure I”ll be needing them.  Tonight Greg and I are going to take Baker to the ballfield to watch some of the kids from church play baseball.    Tomorrow I’m going to BeautiU in Jackson, it’ll prove to be a LONG day.  I’m meeting Jan in Winona at 5:30 AM… yes I said AM! We have errands to run after class so it’ll be 9 pm before I get home.  Greg and Baker are on their own.  Sunday will be a busy day too, we have the Missions Recognition Service at the church the GA’s and RA’s will get their rewards and the YOuth will share about our mission trip to the coast. We made a slideshow of it Wednesday Night. I am excited about showing it.  Well, that’s my weekend plans…Hope everyone has a good one.

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As the old saying goes, “Plan your work, and work your plan.”  That’s exactly what I am planning to do. (no pun intended)  I have a plan for my ministry and for my BeautiControl business and it feels good.  I know if I STICK to it that I can make it work, so I am asking all my online buddies out there to hold me accountable.  July 25 is the day of delivery and I hope that that day I”ll look back and say I did it.  So… please keep lifting me up in your prayers and please encourage me to stick to my plan.  Thanks so much!

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I’ve had a good afternoon and night!  Finally things began to take shape and some of my prayers are beginning to be answered.  I have been thinking and praying all day about my Beauty By Design Ministry and BeautiControl beginning to take shape again.  Today I booked 2 spas and I am talking to one potential recruit who I hope to sign up at her spa on May 27.  Also, my newest Recruit from March signed her DIQ at a Regional meeting in Atlanta tonight! WOWEEE!! I’m so proud of her!

ALso my Beauty By Design Website has had 29 visitors today!! I posted a new blog there go check it out at www.beautybydesignonline.com/.  Thanks for all your prayers today keep them up.  I was reading The Cure for the Common Life tonight.  Here’s a quote from it.  “THe Devil is determined to bump you out of your strengths.”  You’re not bumping me… MR. DEVIL!

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Sigh!  Uncertainty hangeth over me like a black cloud.  I”m so tired of it I could just scream. I want to know without a shadow of a doubt what to do and I just can’t seem to get any peace about it for now!  I have prayed and prayed. I  just don’t know what else to pray!

I wish GOd would come down from the sky and speak to me and tell me what to do. I hate that I”m so wishy washy on my feelings. I cannot make up my mind. I know this doesn’t help the situation any, but I am a woman, so I guess that’s a given.

Someone anyone?? HELP!

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I feel like their is a huge question mark hanging over my life right now.  I have been dealing with my church situation for months now.  I have been debating everything that is involved in that.  I recently composed a letter to give to my deacon body that explained what I would like to see happen in our youth & children’s ministries.  This included the possibility of office hours, asking for a notebook computer, a printer and Internet Access.  The officer hours would mean I would have to get a babysitter or put Baker in daycare.   And currently in all honesty we cannot afford to pay for a baby sitter, so in this letter I mentioned that an increase in my salary would be appreciated.  I’m not sure that I want to do this.  I am so uncertain.  I am still praying about it and so is the chairman of the deacons.   On one hand he wants to do it for me, while he’s chairman until August and on the other hand, he’s not sure that the timeing is correct.  sigh.. so I feel like I”m living under a huge ? mark!

Then, I decided to start back actively working my BeautiControl business.  I love it so much and loved the friendships, fellowship and the extra cash it brought in. I was on my way up in the company making my first month of DIQ in September. Dropping off the map in October when everything began to happen with the church and our pastor.  I felt like such a failure and literally entered one of the hardest times of my life.  I began to have panic attacks and anxiety more than I’ve had in a long time.  I have now been to counseling and I”m coming out of my slump.  I am excited about doing BeautiControl again, but I am determined this time to not get overwhelmed. I am just going to book and hold spas and go after those recruits!

Thanks to any of you who have been praying for me. I sure need it!

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We’re HOME!! WEll we’ve been home a couple days but needed them to recoupearate.  I am not complaining but 2 nights of sleeping on the floor justifies needing more sleep. Considering thursday, Friday and Saturday nights combined I got 14 hrs of sleep.  However, sleeping aside, this was a wonderful trip.  My youth group was awesome and did better than I ever expected. They were real troopers and were very helpful.  Kids showed up for VBS and on SUnday which gave us something to work with.  We were amazed and awed at the situations these families are living in and I myself was humbled.  The people of the Mississippi Gulf Coast have truly experienced devistation, but for them, life still must go on.  We had a great trip and I hope we instilled some hope and fun into the children’s lives that we came in contact with, they should put a smile on our faces.

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We leave for the mission trip to the coast in the morning. Today I have to get money for the trip, pack EVERYTHING in the associational van, well first I have to get the van.  Make sure we have everything, ahhh I keep thinking of things.  I have a million things racing through my head at once.  TOO much to do, TOO little time to do it.  THen, I have a TOMgirls meeting tonight!  OH my goodness.  Thank the LORD for busyness though, I love to be busy, I”m happiest when busy.  What does that say about me?? LOL

I love spending time with my youth group and this will be a fun weekend.  THey are GREAT kids and I love them with all my heart.  Thank the Lord for good kids!  And good parents, that’s the key!  Ok I have to get going!

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