I sit here in a crowded room filled with papers, knick knacks, Christmas decorations, Wedding Planning materials and more sprawled out everywhere. I worked my last day at the corporate distribution center on Friday. Come Monday I'll be starting in a new-to-me building and it's bitter-sweet. I love the old DC, where there were only about 100 corporate employees there, everyone knew everybody personally and you could have personal items displayed on your desk without fear of something happening to them. With this move, I don't think I will be as lucky... Hence all the random items now laid out in my office.
I'm realizing I'm going to need to make a trip down to the storage unit to put away the boxes that came home from the office. But seeing all my packed up wedding items, I've also been thinking I really need to start promoting my wedding/event planning business. I finally received my event planning certificate in the mail on Thursday of this past week and it feels official now, I'm a true event planner. With business becoming more competitive I really need to get out there and promote myself like never before. I sat down to go through my documents, my contracts, vendor checklist, bridal checklists etc and realized it needed some touch ups. I've been working on them here and there today and the love of planning came flowing back into my veins. I remembered why I got into this business in the first place and while it is nice to attend weddings just to enjoy it I feel like somethings missing. I catch myself wanting to help and jumping in. Either that's the planner or control freak inside of me. Or BOTH...
It's nice to have a fresh look at weddings and events. I'm planning on attending some wedding expos here in the future and all through-out this summer, I'm very excited!
Update on Eric and I: We are still married *chuckle*
As with any marriage, we have our ups and our downs. God has blessed us with more ups than downs and I'm learning that what we consider to be downs is actually God working in our lives to bring out the very best in us. We are preparing for our next big adventure in our lives, will you commit to praying for us? It's easy for me to become discouraged and feel like the next chapter is taking too long to get to but I have to remember, I am where I am for a reason. I tell myself to start looking around for that reason. Can I be an encouragement to someone else? Do I know someone struggling/going through life with the same burden I am called to bear? Can I be that someone's good day or smile? We can feel as if life is not going fast enough for us at times, but it's in these moments that I've learned to stop and looking around. If it's taking "FOREVER" there must be a reason. There must be a lesson God wants me to learn, or a take away to be had.
As Eric and I continue to work at our next chapter of life and prepare for it, I am trying to better myself as I already am. I am a christian woman, am I living like it? I am a wife, am I good at it? I am a daughter and sister, am I showing it? Recently I was given the book Power if the Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian for my birthday from a dear friend. Not because she thought I was a terrible wife and NEEDED the book, but because she wanted to encourage me to pray for my husband, every day in every way. I've read this book before and even have multiple copies of it, I loved it! But how easily do we read, take notes, practice for a while and then slowly forget what we've learned? I am so guilty of this. I've jumped back into the copy my friend gave me and am falling in love all over again, with both the book and my husband. I think this book can be such an encouragement for wives to get praying for their husbands. It was easy for me to pray "Lord, bless Eric, keep him safe and help him to have a good day." It was short and sweet but day after day the words felt like they lost meaning. With the Power of the Praying Wife I am able to pick one category a day and pray for my husband. This brings newness to my prayers and probably something I wouldn't have thought of on my own. If you haven't read the book I encourage you to pick up a copy, either buying it or renting from the library because I promise you will not be disappointed. But *spoiler alert* this book wont change your husband, sorry not sorry. No, this book will change YOU. That can be a hard pill to swallow for some. It was for me! What do you mean I can't get my husband to start doing what I want? We can't but God can. Don't go into this thinking God is going to change your husband into a totally different person (although He must certain can) this book is about changing you, changing your heart and helping you become the best wife you can be, a praying one.
Along with this encouragement I got to thinking ok how else can I be a better wife? So off I went to our closing christian bookstore in search of more"self-help" books. I'm not going to mention which copies I picked up just yet because I want to read them first and be able to tell you whether or not they were good finds for edifying. But, I'm feeling really empowered today. I'm ready for the Lord to work on my heart and change me into the person He wants me to be. Both to my husband and my community.
So Lord, while this exact spot is not necessarily where I would like to be right now, it is where you have me and I want to embrace it. I want to become the best me right now so that when we are finally ready to take the next steps we will be more capable. And dear friend, I believe that to be the same for you. Be the very best that you can be right now, even if it's not really where you wish you were. Because the Lord can use you. Open yourself up and embrace the stepping stone on which you are on currently.
For now, this room will just have to be cluttered. The glass jars will remain on the extra bed, the wrapping paper container blocking the closet, the suitcase in the middle of the floor because right now I'm going to go snuggle with my hubby for fear that this peaceful nights will not last forever.
These blog posts where I have nothing to start off with and then go into tangents are my favorite kind to write.
XOXOXO
I'm realizing I'm going to need to make a trip down to the storage unit to put away the boxes that came home from the office. But seeing all my packed up wedding items, I've also been thinking I really need to start promoting my wedding/event planning business. I finally received my event planning certificate in the mail on Thursday of this past week and it feels official now, I'm a true event planner. With business becoming more competitive I really need to get out there and promote myself like never before. I sat down to go through my documents, my contracts, vendor checklist, bridal checklists etc and realized it needed some touch ups. I've been working on them here and there today and the love of planning came flowing back into my veins. I remembered why I got into this business in the first place and while it is nice to attend weddings just to enjoy it I feel like somethings missing. I catch myself wanting to help and jumping in. Either that's the planner or control freak inside of me. Or BOTH...
It's nice to have a fresh look at weddings and events. I'm planning on attending some wedding expos here in the future and all through-out this summer, I'm very excited!
Update on Eric and I: We are still married *chuckle*
As with any marriage, we have our ups and our downs. God has blessed us with more ups than downs and I'm learning that what we consider to be downs is actually God working in our lives to bring out the very best in us. We are preparing for our next big adventure in our lives, will you commit to praying for us? It's easy for me to become discouraged and feel like the next chapter is taking too long to get to but I have to remember, I am where I am for a reason. I tell myself to start looking around for that reason. Can I be an encouragement to someone else? Do I know someone struggling/going through life with the same burden I am called to bear? Can I be that someone's good day or smile? We can feel as if life is not going fast enough for us at times, but it's in these moments that I've learned to stop and looking around. If it's taking "FOREVER" there must be a reason. There must be a lesson God wants me to learn, or a take away to be had.
As Eric and I continue to work at our next chapter of life and prepare for it, I am trying to better myself as I already am. I am a christian woman, am I living like it? I am a wife, am I good at it? I am a daughter and sister, am I showing it? Recently I was given the book Power if the Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian for my birthday from a dear friend. Not because she thought I was a terrible wife and NEEDED the book, but because she wanted to encourage me to pray for my husband, every day in every way. I've read this book before and even have multiple copies of it, I loved it! But how easily do we read, take notes, practice for a while and then slowly forget what we've learned? I am so guilty of this. I've jumped back into the copy my friend gave me and am falling in love all over again, with both the book and my husband. I think this book can be such an encouragement for wives to get praying for their husbands. It was easy for me to pray "Lord, bless Eric, keep him safe and help him to have a good day." It was short and sweet but day after day the words felt like they lost meaning. With the Power of the Praying Wife I am able to pick one category a day and pray for my husband. This brings newness to my prayers and probably something I wouldn't have thought of on my own. If you haven't read the book I encourage you to pick up a copy, either buying it or renting from the library because I promise you will not be disappointed. But *spoiler alert* this book wont change your husband, sorry not sorry. No, this book will change YOU. That can be a hard pill to swallow for some. It was for me! What do you mean I can't get my husband to start doing what I want? We can't but God can. Don't go into this thinking God is going to change your husband into a totally different person (although He must certain can) this book is about changing you, changing your heart and helping you become the best wife you can be, a praying one.
Along with this encouragement I got to thinking ok how else can I be a better wife? So off I went to our closing christian bookstore in search of more"self-help" books. I'm not going to mention which copies I picked up just yet because I want to read them first and be able to tell you whether or not they were good finds for edifying. But, I'm feeling really empowered today. I'm ready for the Lord to work on my heart and change me into the person He wants me to be. Both to my husband and my community.
So Lord, while this exact spot is not necessarily where I would like to be right now, it is where you have me and I want to embrace it. I want to become the best me right now so that when we are finally ready to take the next steps we will be more capable. And dear friend, I believe that to be the same for you. Be the very best that you can be right now, even if it's not really where you wish you were. Because the Lord can use you. Open yourself up and embrace the stepping stone on which you are on currently.
For now, this room will just have to be cluttered. The glass jars will remain on the extra bed, the wrapping paper container blocking the closet, the suitcase in the middle of the floor because right now I'm going to go snuggle with my hubby for fear that this peaceful nights will not last forever.
These blog posts where I have nothing to start off with and then go into tangents are my favorite kind to write.
XOXOXO
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