Surviving the Season

Well, this week has been... ummm... interesting. Mike's sick again (and I hate it for him, because there is nothing like being sick without knowing the cause, as it makes you feel helpless and vulnerable), and this has been the week of issues. Filed taxes, and we owe. Yay. Makes me so ready to mail a check... NOT! Students are cranky, kids are cranky... Mike and me... CRANKY. So like no other week, today is wonderful if for no other reason than it is FRIDAY.

But I heard something today when I was listening to my TD Jakes podcast that moved me to tears. So, I thought I would share it with you all (if for no other reason than to have someone else to cry with). Dr. Paula White was speaking about how S. Truett Cathy was on the brink of financial downfall, how he was in a hospital, with not enough insurance to cover his medical expenses or much-needed treatment, all while grieving the relatively recent loss of his two brothers to a plane crash (they were all flying in to attend a business meeting with Truett). How it was there in that hospital room, at one of his bleakest hours that the idea for Chick Fil A was born... how it has become one of the largest and most successful businesses in existence -- all during a time when so much was upon this man that he should have been knocked down. Dr. White, summed it up with this: "The conspirators can come to you and they can take a lot in your life... but they can never take your dream! As long as you have a dream you have a destiny!"

That spoke to me. I have so many dreams... don't you? I spent a good part of yesterday feeling sorry for myself... wondering why it was that every time we moved to go forward we get knocked back six paces... and I just wanted to crawl into a hole and wait for it all to pass, even if I knew it wouldn't. I prayed last night to find an answer. This morning, it was on my heart to listen to the podcasts. I prayed again to see the way more clearly, and I listened. I am so glad I did.

You know, there is always going to be some kind of storm. That's the way life is. Maybe for some of us it will be the finances. For some of us it will be medical issues... for still others it will be emotional pain. But you know, if Spring teaches us anything, it is that flowers can't bloom without the rain. I am a rose in a garden of prosperity and happiness. I have to trust that my day to bloom is coming -- and yours is too!

So it is Friday. Strangely, I am energized, rather than fatigued. I am ready to chase a dream, to fight for my abundance and prosperity. I have a dream, and I refuse to let it go. Check back to see our family journey into a new and better season.