Why Do We Wait?

Why do we wait? Wait to let people know how we truly fell, wait do accomplish things, wait on running after a dream, wait to connect with people. Waiting to do things because we think that we have plenty tomorrows.

What if today was the day that waiting ended. Love today. Be honest today. Dream today. Start today. Live today. Laugh today. Write today. Begin today.

I'll Make Your Sandwich

Tonight I was talking to my husband on the phone and anyone that knows us knows that we have been living our lives 600 miles apart for the last 15 months. He was so exhausted, falling in and out of sleep on the phone...too tired to get up and make his sandwich for work the next day before going to bed. He joked and asked me to make it for him, begged me to make it for him and while we kind of laughed, it made me sad that I wasn't there to do it.

Next Sunday we will drive from Destin to South Florida as I begin my new position with my company and we will be living in the same house! We are so blessed and God has worked in so many ways in our life. And the first thing that I want to do for my husband on Sunday night...make his sandwich for when he goes to work on Monday.

In about three weeks I am going to take on one of the most challenging career opportunities I have ever taken on.  I am filled with excitement, I'm anxious to begin and most of all I'm thankful for the road I'm on.  Thankful for God showing up through the in the people in my life, and not letting me try to control this situation myself.

Heather, thank you for standing in front of me and being real, being honest, and letting God use you in ways in my life that only he can.  Never letting me step away, always keeping me plugged in and our friendship growing even with 600 miles between us.  

Pastor Troy and Steph, thank you for your entire family being devoted to God and what he has called you all to do at Flamingo Road Church.  My life has changed because of the teachings and the examples that you have set as a couple.  My life is beginning with my husband the way it should because of God working through you and impacting my life.

The Flamingo Road Church Pensacola team, thank you for being the family for me that you never knew you were.  We are 50 - 100 - 150.

Yamila, thank you for saying something that I will take with me for the rest of my life, "What can't you accomplish with you family, friends and church behind you?"

My family, thank you for loving me no matter what and no matter where I am.

We need to stop and give thanks.  We need to stop in the middle of something we feel is too overwhelming and give thanks to God and those that he has placed around us.  Our God is an awesome God and there is nothing too big for him.  Who are you thankful for?

Now Boarding

The airport has to be one of my favorite places to people watch.  I have spent quite a bit of time in airports, and today as I sat there by my gate sipping my coffee watching all the people walking and running back and forth from gate to gate, I realized that this is the one place where masses of people have so much and so little in common all at once.

Everyone in an airport is going somewhere, trying to get there the best way possible but they are traveling for so many different reasons.  Flying to meet the ones that they love and to say final goodbyes.  For work, for pleasure.  Taking first trips together, taking trips that are long overdue.  Yet, in all of this we rarely ever speak to each other for more than complaining about the flight delays.

We have this amazing opportunity to stop, in mid air, look to our left and right and begin true social networking...at 10,000 feet.

Moments of Definition

We have these moments in life that when we look back, we can see that they were part of defining who we are today.  Sometimes we know that they are defining us as we go through them and sometimes we see it in hindsight.  What I've begun to realize is that it isn't really the things I knew I had to do that have defined me, but those things that I didn't really have to do that did.

Where is Home?

They say, "Home is where the heart is." This weekend my mom and little brother came up to visit me and I realized that my home can be anywhere my family is, because my heart is always with them.

We have spent some amazing time together doing ordinary things that suddenly became extraordinary because I was with them.  Laughter and love shared with some of the most important people in my life.  It also has been an amazing reminder that I get to spend the rest of my life with even more family members than before with Kam's family and mine now being forever interconnected.  

So I say, "Home is where my family is."