Welcome! Come on in, I just refilled the creamer and set out several different coffees for the pod so each of us can have our own flavors today. (Christmas toy found at the after sale at our JcP Outlet)
This week has been a stretching to grow one for me. At our small Bible study on Tuesdays we asked God last week to help us stretch and to grow us as we experience new things. Be careful what you pray for…God surely filled his role!
I am a web content writer and a ghostwriter from home for several clients. We homeschool our sixth grader, and I’m still “new” in town and at our church, having moved a year ago November. All this to say, this week God got me moving to use this hospitality I’ve been hesitant to use in the new town.
First our neighbor who has three little boys and I were able to have more time together to chat as I helped out a couple of times unexpectedly when she needed to make a school run for problems at the local Kindergarten. How good to have a new adult friend who is so fun! Later in the week we shared time together as she brought warm pretzels she had made and the boys to come see me. Not expected, but oh so welcome, we enjoyed the boys in our space and the adult conversations. Later in the week a Sunday school classmate asked me to lunch with her grown daughter to discuss the career dilemmas she’s facing…..oh how I know that one, trained as a teacher, but doing so many things that are also possible careers, how does one decide? I know in my own experience, God has put me exactly where I am at home and in business…for I came kicking and screaming home from a public school/university classroom!
Meanwhile, it seems I’ve had to have a refresher course on God’s opinion of me . I get so caught up sometimes in having to prove this or that to myself, that I end up spending a lot of energy doing more than I need to be doing to meet my husband’s desires for my life, or my family’s needs to be handled. In other words….I often seem to seek “status” by doing work to somehow prove I am worthwhile. Yuck. Its a lesson I have to repeat regular, that I am enough simply by being who God made me to be. Thankfully being in the special education class for God’s teaching is a tender experience most of the time.
I had hoped to be at a blogging conference this weekend near by. A friend is speaking there and I was so hoping to go, but all did not work together for that to be a possibility today. You’ll be happy to know the tears which are rare for me (for I had planned for 9 weeks to go, and I rarely attempt to go do “fun” for me for a whole weekend) ended soon after I found out the event was sold out and somehow I was not registered. Good thing too, for I would have missed your visit!
This week God is starting a new thing in my writing. A site change eventually will allow the places I write to be all part of one inclusive site. I am excited about what God has lined up on this situation, though totally under water with the details of what I am being asked to do. Meanwhile, we’ve planned an impromptu Valentine card making party for tomorrow with some school attending friends of Madison’s so we can have a fun reason to create a party to enjoy entertaining them! About six girls will arrive tomorrow morning and we’ll play until noon making cards, putting together Valentine’s presents for their families, and having a girlified good time!
Thanks so much for coming by today! I am so thankful for each of you!
Whew! You packed it in this week, didn’t you!! How fun to find a new friendship, to be stretched (maybe not so fun), and to keep working in those areas that God is leading you. I know that God will take your writing to places that you want to go…you’re a faithful follower to Him and that shines through.
I liked your suggestion about the “work at home” uniform. I don’t know if jeans and a tshirt count, but that’s my uniform. I try and keep the real ratty stuff packed away. Working at home with my husband motivates me to at least look nice for him. It’s harder for him to get mad at me that way 🙂
It sounds like you’ve got a lot going on!!
I too have been working on this lately: “I often seem to seek “status” by doing work to somehow prove I am worthwhile.” I think the tendencies are related to being a perfectionist (another thing I am reading about and learning to change). Thanks for the little reminder!
Sounds like you’ve had a busy week. I love the idea of making Valentine’s Day cards – you’ll have to share pictures next week of your finished product! Have a blessed weekend.
Wow…your life seems very complicated compared to mine…a ghostwriter! What is a ghostwriter anyways? :0)
The Valetine card making party sounds fun. Have a great weekend!