I’ve been blessed to be born and raised in a region
where I’ve gotten to experience the four seasons (winter, spring, summer and
fall), in ways that not everyone does.
One of the things my daughter in Honduras missed last year was the turning of the leaves and cool breezes, which autumn brings. But someone from her school came to the States for a visit and brought back fall leaves as a gift of home to her and others. How sweet.
One of the things my daughter in Honduras missed last year was the turning of the leaves and cool breezes, which autumn brings. But someone from her school came to the States for a visit and brought back fall leaves as a gift of home to her and others. How sweet.
We can easily equate one of the four seasons as a spiritual
season of life, but they don’t necessarily coincide with the actual season of
the time. It can be summer with high temps and high humidity in the natural,
but spiritually we could be experiencing winter. This is why I’m so excited,
because it’s spring all around me in the natural and supernatural too.
Today I want to share what is going on in my life and
prayerfully not only will someone be encouraged, but you will also be excited
for me and keep me in your prayers.
Right now is the first time I don’t have to put others
before myself. Let me explain. Of course I must put the welfare and well-being
of others before me if I am truly a Christ follower, but for once I am not
responsible for anyone but myself. I’ve been a single mom nonstop for 42
years. My two girls are 18 years apart and just when I was on my way to being
done—I found myself starting all over. My youngest turned 23, last week and
lives and teaches in Honduras. I’m free!
During those 42 years, I had to give up dreams and put many
hopes for tomorrow on hold. But now at 63, there is a new spring season in my
life.
Currently I am taking a writing certification course to help
me in launching a new venture, which I can do from anywhere around the world as
long as I have internet service.
Come July, my first E-book should be published with Amazon,
and also the launching of a second blog encouraging homeschool moms through
laughter and self-care. But it doesn’t stop there.
There seems to be the possibility I might be able to spend
some substantial time in Honduras with my youngest daughter. All things have
not come together yet, but I will more than likely go back with her after her
Christmas break.
I am also looking at traveling to Israel for a month. And if
I do go to Honduras, we more than likely may come home via Puerto Rico, or my
daughter just might go to Israel with me.
Believe it or not, I do not have a passport. I just recently
received my birth certificate with both my parents name on it. (They no longer
accept the ones with just our name on it.) In a couple of hours I will be
heading out to the Post Office to get my picture taken and submit my application.
Everything seems so new and fresh—and exciting!
Only God knows for sure how all the loose ends and maybes are
going to come together. But since the bible tells us that, “All good and
perfect gifts come from God,” I’m looking forward to whatever He has in store
for me.
Of course, everything is never all unicorns and rainbows. I’m
preparing to have major work done on my mouth. In fact, I will be losing all my
teeth due to gum disease. I must confess, I did cry about it some and I was
fearful of the surgery I will be encountering, but it was only for a moment. I
had to spend some time mourning the loss and facing my fears.
That’s the bad news. The good news is—I will have a mouth
full of pearly whites and be healthier.
I am also working on losing 50 pounds. There is no time
frame or limit. If it takes a year, 18 months or 2 years, that’s okay with me. This
is my time!
It is time for me to focus on me. It is time for me to
change the things I can and time to embrace those which I can’t.
Once I get to Israel and back, I have a sketched out plan to
travel around the United States. There are so many things in this country I have
yet to see and experience. But mostly I want to meet and spend time with some
of you wonderful women I have met and befriended through this blog, virtual
groups and Facebook. Some of you are as close as New York City, and others I
must go through the mid-west, Texas and up and down the west coast. I also have
a special invite to the United Kingdom.
My life has not been an easy one and at times I felt as
though God had forgotten me. But as the years passed and I grew in Him, I came
to realize—we are always on His mind.
It’s just now my time for change and new beginnings.
Sisters, I want to encourage you to not give up hope or
dreams unless God says, “Let go.” And He will if it no longer suits His plan or
timing. But it only means better is to come.
Please don’t think you are too old or even too young to do
things you never thought you could or would be able to do. In Christ, we can do
all things if it is God’s will for us.
It has taken a lot of years to get to where I am today. But
the truth is—I wouldn’t change a thing. Because good and bad, God has worked it
All together for my good and His
purpose. So, to think about things being different, kinda of says, “God didn’t
work it right.”
I ask that you keep me in your prayers, especially
concerning my mouth surgery. I found the cutest mouth masks on Amazon. I don’t
want to be stuck in the house for the next couple of months, but I don’t want
to have to talk to people without teeth either. LOL! I love to walk and talk to
my neighbors, so the masks are my way of being comfortable doing that.
Life is full of changes and we do learn how to deal with
them—good or bad. But it's nice to be able to be in a spring season of life
the same time, it's spring in the natural.
Be encouraged my dear sisters, in Christ the sky is the limit!
Until next week...
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