Bright future!

Today is the last day of 2012; I don't know about you, but I am beyond excited about the future!! I am putting the past behind me... all the drama, the anger and bitterness, the disappointments and the hurts.

My goal for 2013 is to be the BEST ME that I can be!!

Things have changed, people have changed & I have changed.  My life is heading in a completely different direction & I cannot wait to see where God is going to take me! :)

 "Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone and
do not be troubled about the future for it is yet to come.
Live in the present and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering."
-Elder Scott Taylor

God Listens.

God Listens.

Max Lucado -The Lucado Inspirational Reader

You can talk to God because God listens. Your voice matters in heaven. He takes you very seriously. When you enter his presence, the attendants turn to you to hear your voice. No need to fear that you will be ignored. Even if you stammer or stumble, even if what you have to say impresses no one, it impresses God—and he listens. He listens to the painful plea of the elderly in the rest home. He listens to the gruff confession of the death-row inmate. When the alcoholic begs for mercy, when the spouse seeks guidance, when the businessman steps off the street into the chapel, God listens.

Intently. Carefully. The prayers are honored as precious jewels. Purified and empowered, the words rise in a delightful fragrance to our Lord. “The smoke from the incense went up from the angel’s hand to God.” Incredible. Your words do not stop until they reach the very throne of God.

Then, the angel “filled the incense pan with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth” (Rev. 8:5). One call and Heaven’s fleet appears. Your prayer on earth activates God’s power in heaven, and “God’s will is done on earth as it is in heaven.”

You are the someone of God’s kingdom. You have access to God’s furnace. Your prayers move God to change the world. You may not understand the mystery of prayer. You don’t need to.
But this much is clear: Actions in heaven begin when someone prays on earth. What an amazing thought!

When you speak, Jesus hears.
And when Jesus hears, thunder falls.
And when thunder falls, the world is changed.
All because someone prayed.

Senioritis

I have senioritis... BAD.  My senior year consists of 3 semesters... I am about to finish one of them.  I CANNOT wait for it to be December 2012! ... the goal is to get a career going BEFORE I graduate.

I was looking back on a post that I began to write on the first day of school and how Power Yoga and Stress Management were going to be my favorite classes of the year... I was wrong about that.  This has been a VERY ROUGH semester!  I was hoping it was going to be amazing, but with all my hours at work getting cut and depression I have struggled so much!

I am ready to not worry about school... for at least a couple of weeks! :D  I am ready to quit the job that I hate!  I am ready to start over!  Spring semester I know is going to be a challenge and at this current moment I am NOT ready for it to start!

I am going to need a LOT of prayers during 2012!!  It is going to be a tough year.  I am not quite prepared for it.  Hoping once Christmas break stars then life will settle down a bit.

Regrets, lessons learned, or hidden opportunities?

God has you where you are for a reason. He has a purpose for you being there.

You've got to take some chances, you've got to be willing to risk losing it all. Sometimes all you can do is close your eyes and leap because it might be worth the fall.I took that leap of faith, but when I hit the ledge, it broke. I gave it all up...a steady job and income... for what I thought was going to be better. In some ways it was better, in others not so much.


But what have I learned from this experience?
I learned what my passion is not.  I'm trying to see this as a way out of what I do not enjoy. It's not how I wished for it happen, but I cannot change that. I have to play the cards I've been dealt and do the best I can.

You only ever grow as a person when you are outside your comfort zone.

This is way outside my comfort zone because I like to be in control and things be steady, but I am currently on a rocky and windy road....

What God is showing me through all of this is...
      Faith and trust in Him for sure!

      And I think He is ready for me to stop running from my fears and begin to face them & start fighting for what I really want!

One way that I have to stop running from my fears is... someone asked me if I could train them! :-o I have no clue what I am doing but it's time to learn. 

*I have enough $ to purchase the study materials for the certification :-o It's freaking me out a little... okay a lot! The program and bundle that I am buying includes an exam voucher good for one-year... so next year this time I will definitely be certified! How exciting! :D

I am ready to change and turn my life around.  I read an article the other that my amazing friend Melanie was interviewed for and it has motivated me to get healthy.  Over the next few months I going to be cleaning the entire house... I'm excited to get to the kitchen part of this cleaning adventure... I'm taking out all the bad and replacing with all the good! :) I'm also in the cooking mood and trying to new foods. (Please share any healthy recipes please!)

It's time to be an example and live the lifestyle I am trying to get others to live as well.

A quote I came across this morning, "Sometimes things in life turn out differently then what we planned, but that is just our path changing because we have changed."

Although things are most definitely not as I had planned.... It is going to turn out way better. It's time to get ready because it's coming fast!

So, do I consider this situation in my life a regret, a lesson learned or a hidden opportunity...

-Well it started out as regret. Up until this afternoon I regretted my decision for leaving TMF.

 -Then it turned into a lesson learned.  The lesson being, don't leave something good, just because you want out for something "better" that you still have an uneasy feeling about... but if I didn't take the new job I would have always wondered what-if...

-And now it has become a hidden opportunity because if I had stayed at TMF, I would have continued to put off getting my certification.