Do you think God has a sense of humor? I sure do and I just figured this out recently! I am a slow learner, at least, when it comes to my faith and listening to my Father. While I am trying to go down one road in my travels (daily life) and think I have it all figured out, he gives me a completely different turn to make and he just interrupts my way. How dare he? I am sure he is laughing the whole time because he knows that sooner or later I will get it and know he picked the path, not me, and nothing I can do will change that path if I listen to him. It may take me twenty years to finally listen but he knows I will get there eventually and I bet he is just having a big old belly laugh watching me while I figure it out.Nothing is spared from this sense of humor he has. I can now look at my life and in hindsight see what has happened in the past, how I didn't listen, and where he took me instead. I can give you about a million examples and I will but right now, I will just tell you about my blog.About a year ago, I signed up for a website subscription that told me what items to buy to stock up on from my favorite store, and what coupons to use so I could get my stock up items cheap. I started couponing and stocking up. My family knew I started couponing and this last February, my mom-in-law told me about a story on "Good Morning America" about a sort of direct sales company for couponing where you could actually have parties for couponing. I immediately found the story, went to the website, and was hooked. I signed up as a member and then as an couponing educator to learn more. I was going to about a hundred different couponing sites to find out the latest deals from the latest ads just so I could go grocery shopping and save money. After seeing that a bunch of these sites were blogs, something I knew nothing about, I thought can do that. I can write my thoughts down on the computer so I started a blog intending it to be about saving money. Then my mom-in-law told me about a man she saw on Christian TV that told people how to make money by making their own website. Okay, now I was drawn in to blogging. I could make money by writing my thoughts down in a blog. By this time, I had found the "5 minutes for mom" blog and they were having their annual blog party. Not knowing what in the world this was, I joined the fun, and met some awesome bloggers. That is really where my blogging story starts. I wanted to make money with my blog so I signed up for every ad place I could find, figured out how to arrange a layout for the blog and get paid for people clicking on the ads. This was, I thought, the purpose of my blog. To make a little cash while writing. I can't write, I have never been able to write, but who was I to say that others wouldn't visit, and hit those ads so I could make some money.I started investigating all the blogs out there that had ads and were making money. I signed up for everything. I listed my favorite blogs as all the couponing mom blogs and thought this was what I was supposed to do. I didn't use facebook or twitter and was having a fun hobby while reading all the saving money blogs. Well, God had a different plan. I just didn't know it yet.While I was visiting "5 minutes for Mom", I noticed a button on their sidebar for "A Woman Inspired". I thought I would just click on it and see what it was. It was for a conference that they were having and one of the creators of "5 minutes for Mom" was speaking. At this time, I was also going thru a very difficult "fibro flare" that ended up lasting for about four months. I was stuck pretty much inside my house from February thru May. I would try to go out to do something and then was stuck back home in excruciating pain from one little excursion out of my home. What did I have to lose? I could stay home, listen to a women's conference online, and lay in my bed in pain, and all at the same tiem. I signed up and that was the beginning of God's plan not only for my blog but for my life. God has spoken to me constantly since April, when the conference was held, about the direction I am supposed to be headed in writing, with my husband, with my children, with my Fibro and I am listening. Maybe I should say that I started to listen in April. I am sure he has been talking to me for a very long time but my ears and my heart are finally opened up to find out what plans he has for me and what path he wants me to go on. I am apologizing now for changes you have seen in my blogging if you have read from the beginning. I have never had a plan for this blog and I was just writing all over the place but now as I work it out, you will see one thing for sure....my blog is no longer about me.....it is about my Father, and what he lays on my heart to write. I have written posts about changes and about what I am going to write now and then what I am going to write next and I was just all over and had no clue what I was doing. I was menu plan writing, tackle it writing, writing about saving and sales. I was writing about a bunch of different things. I didn't have a course to follow. I was trying to be like everyone else. I was trying to find catchy little phrases and I was trying to have my blog seen. I was not be authentic. I said I would be, I thought I meant it but I dont' think I really did. Now, I do. You will see my tag line or description of my blog has changed. It is not about being frugal or managing my house in pain. It is about all of that and more. It is about my journey to how I got to this place. This place of Faith first, Family second, and Fibromyalgia third. These are the key aspects that make up my life. In many direct sales companies they will say your priorities are faith, family, then work/career. Well, my life boils down to these three items and I can fit everything into one of these three aspects. You will see that I will no longer have five hundred labels with different categories that I will write. I will have three. Faith, Family, and Fibromyalgia. There is a reason that he, not I, chose that title, even from the beginning, and now I am learning why. I hope you stay with me on this journey. This journey started long before I even had faith or family or fibromyalgia but it has come full circle now and it is time to tell you about it from my heart. Blessings to all of you, in faith, K.
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While I am trying to go down one road in my travels (daily life) and think I have it all figured out, he gives me a completely different turn to make and he just interrupts my way. How dare he? I am sure he is laughing the whole time because he knows that sooner or later I will get it and know he picked the path, not me, and nothing I can do will change that path if I listen to him. It may take me twenty years to finally listen but he knows I will get there eventually and I bet he is just having a big old belly laugh watching me while I figure it out.
Nothing is spared from this sense of humor he has. I can now look at my life and in hindsight see what has happened in the past, how I didn't listen, and where he took me instead. I can give you about a million examples and I will but right now, I will just tell you about my blog.
About a year ago, I signed up for a website subscription that told me what items to buy to stock up on from my favorite store, and what coupons to use so I could get my stock up items cheap. I started couponing and stocking up. My family knew I started couponing and this last February, my mom-in-law told me about a story on "Good Morning America" about a sort of direct sales company for couponing where you could actually have parties for couponing. I immediately found the story, went to the website, and was hooked. I signed up as a member and then as an couponing educator to learn more. I was going to about a hundred different couponing sites to find out the latest deals from the latest ads just so I could go grocery shopping and save money.
After seeing that a bunch of these sites were blogs, something I knew nothing about, I thought can do that. I can write my thoughts down on the computer so I started a blog intending it to be about saving money. Then my mom-in-law told me about a man she saw on Christian TV that told people how to make money by making their own website. Okay, now I was drawn in to blogging. I could make money by writing my thoughts down in a blog. By this time, I had found the "5 minutes for mom" blog and they were having their annual blog party. Not knowing what in the world this was, I joined the fun, and met some awesome bloggers. That is really where my blogging story starts.
I wanted to make money with my blog so I signed up for every ad place I could find, figured out how to arrange a layout for the blog and get paid for people clicking on the ads. This was, I thought, the purpose of my blog. To make a little cash while writing. I can't write, I have never been able to write, but who was I to say that others wouldn't visit, and hit those ads so I could make some money.
I started investigating all the blogs out there that had ads and were making money. I signed up for everything. I listed my favorite blogs as all the couponing mom blogs and thought this was what I was supposed to do. I didn't use facebook or twitter and was having a fun hobby while reading all the saving money blogs. Well, God had a different plan. I just didn't know it yet.
While I was visiting "5 minutes for Mom", I noticed a button on their sidebar for "A Woman Inspired". I thought I would just click on it and see what it was. It was for a conference that they were having and one of the creators of "5 minutes for Mom" was speaking. At this time, I was also going thru a very difficult "fibro flare" that ended up lasting for about four months. I was stuck pretty much inside my house from February thru May. I would try to go out to do something and then was stuck back home in excruciating pain from one little excursion out of my home. What did I have to lose? I could stay home, listen to a women's conference online, and lay in my bed in pain, and all at the same tiem. I signed up and that was the beginning of God's plan not only for my blog but for my life.
God has spoken to me constantly since April, when the conference was held, about the direction I am supposed to be headed in writing, with my husband, with my children, with my Fibro and I am listening. Maybe I should say that I started to listen in April. I am sure he has been talking to me for a very long time but my ears and my heart are finally opened up to find out what plans he has for me and what path he wants me to go on.
I am apologizing now for changes you have seen in my blogging if you have read from the beginning. I have never had a plan for this blog and I was just writing all over the place but now as I work it out, you will see one thing for sure....my blog is no longer about me.....it is about my Father, and what he lays on my heart to write.
I have written posts about changes and about what I am going to write now and then what I am going to write next and I was just all over and had no clue what I was doing. I was menu plan writing, tackle it writing, writing about saving and sales. I was writing about a bunch of different things. I didn't have a course to follow. I was trying to be like everyone else. I was trying to find catchy little phrases and I was trying to have my blog seen. I was not be authentic. I said I would be, I thought I meant it but I dont' think I really did. Now, I do.
You will see my tag line or description of my blog has changed. It is not about being frugal or managing my house in pain. It is about all of that and more. It is about my journey to how I got to this place. This place of Faith first, Family second, and Fibromyalgia third. These are the key aspects that make up my life. In many direct sales companies they will say your priorities are faith, family, then work/career. Well, my life boils down to these three items and I can fit everything into one of these three aspects. You will see that I will no longer have five hundred labels with different categories that I will write. I will have three. Faith, Family, and Fibromyalgia. There is a reason that he, not I, chose that title, even from the beginning, and now I am learning why.
I hope you stay with me on this journey. This journey started long before I even had faith or family or fibromyalgia but it has come full circle now and it is time to tell you about it from my heart.
Blessings to all of you, in faith, K.