I know it has been a while since I have blogged, and have been thinking about this for a long time. You see I do not blog just to blog, or just sit here and think, people need to hear what I have to say so I better type something today. Blogging helps me get what is going on in my life out there, and lets me type through what God is telling me. A way to purposefully think through what God is doing, and remember it so to say!! Potentially could this have an effect on someones life…maybe, but can only happen if I am honest and vulnerable, and listen intently to what God is saying! So here we go on a month of blogging to get back at it, and see where it goes from here! … I will post at least 3 times during the week to start and hope to do daily blogs…. Here we go!

The past year and half has been a whirlwind so to say, things going on in life that are unexpected, a layoff from a position that I thought was God’s calling on my vocational life to find out that it was just for a season (not saying that about the layoff, just clarity that God has me where He wants me), relationships that have been kind of ripped away so to say (missing the teens) , Personal struggles (sometimes not feeling good enough, anger towards people, sometimes including God, having a I do not care attitude), and not giving God the totality of my life. You see it is because of these things that have happened that I have taken some HITS to the gut, and BLOWS to the face, and KO’s to my personality, and would go as far as to say my being….all caused by a round 1 of doubt that crept in when I felt someone tell me I was not good enough (was it that person telling me or just my thoughts to the matter…I am guessing the second one.) and flat out …the thing I was not doing was punching back….with each blow, I would turn my head and give them another cheek….heck you would think I would have 20 cheeks instead of 4 (you have to know me to get the 4 joke). This crap knocked the living tar out of me, to the point of where I am still battling my way back off my knees, but hear me say this….I AM GETTING THE CRAP BACK UP…and CANNOT WAIT TO WALK WITH GOD this year. Cannot wait to see what he does through the fam, in the fam, and just in me personally by saying…. GOD…. I know what I am worth to you…. I do not care what life throws at me…. in you I will always win, apart from you….I AM NOTHING!

Watch this clip from the ROCKY BALBOA movie!

So where are you…be honest, lets start a discussion of WHAT GOD is telling us we are, vs. what we are hearing from others….Let’s throw out there things people have been telling us, and enable this place to be a complete place of lifting each other up….kinda working the cuts and swellings down so to say, and begin the healing process! I pray that you will keep moving forward, and that it will not take until the 8th or 12th round for you to figure out who God has intended you to be!!

Proverbs 24:16 states (MSG) No matter how many times you trip them up, God-loyal people don’t stay down long; Soon they’re up on their feet, while the wicked end up flat on their faces.

You see you are gonna get knocked down and tripped up…TAKE THE HITS….but do not stay down long!

Start the discussion!!