WARNING.....this is going to be the longest post in blog history...but please read it....please, or print it out..and read it.
About a month ago at bible study we had a conversation...(we are so good at talking) ...about GOD speaking to us. I was so attentive to what the girls were saying because I was not sure I had ever heard him "speak" to me...I have had a few times where I had been at total peace during some rather un-peaceful times which I definitely felt GODS presence...but really, I had never heard him "speak"....(and not in that echo-ish loud deep GOD voice like you are thinking about right now)
but Saturday..I heard HIM..loud and clear.
Really, I did and NO, I was not dreaming....I was taking a shower and you know how things sounds really good in the shower...and now, I am excited to share it with you. PLEASE PLEASE, even if you are not "interested" in hearing my GOD talk, I ask that you to keep reading...
before I go on with what GOD talked to me about & for those who are newer to my blog...here is some more background on me...
it goes waaayyyyyyy back a few years, to tables like these...
where Deena & I were actually scrap booking...gasp....and we talked & dreamed about the "big girls" in the scrap booking world....
"Big Girls" to us means like Tony Hawk to skateboarders...Bubba Stewart & Travis Pastrana to MotoX...Hanna Montana to little girls....get it? so...as us just "regular girls" we always just admired and dreamed from the sideline..from afar...just chit chat and recaps of the who's who's in the scrap booking world...via magazines & blogs...except things changed & I credit it all to GOD & his plan, because in just a whirlwind few years...we found ourselves BOTH doing what we LOVE...for a living...and working in and around the "big girls"
all I can say, even as I type this... is YIKES, because if you know me, I am kinda.....
dorky.
no, I am super dorky...but as I have aged, like I have said before, I am okay with it. I look at it as a skill and truthfully, I have become comfortable in my own skin...BUT still, I would NEVER approach those "Big Girls"...because, well, they are the big girls....
so back to GOD talking to me...
if you have been reading the past few days, then you know that I have committed to the Avon 3 day 39.3 mile walk.. Now, you know that I do not work well with PINk..and you know that I need to raise $$$ for our team ....and when it comes to something like this....I can work with PINK...so, I created this cover from the Prima DD Line and I sent the photo over to one of those "big girls" because I used some of her product on the cover. I wanted her to see how beautiful it turned out and she happens to a very dear friend of mine (yikes again...but that is another entire blog post for later this week)...
anyways...
She emailed back and told me that she would do something to help, for the cause...I thanked her and just asked that she "contribute" to my book because I knew that her plate was full and I did not want to add anything extra to her long list of things....
insert screeching breaks....and GODS voice...
WE are all busy...WE all have FULL plates...but WE are also all capable of using of talents and gifts to help make a difference....and right there, on Saturday, in the shower...GOD told me to ask for help, he gave me a long list of who to ask and what to ask for....
and
EARLY Sunday morning,with an absurd amount of extreme confidence that only GOD could have filled me with, I sat down, shared my story, the story about Stacey and simply asked for their help & support through their own gifts, talents & creativity...
I felt totally empowered and faithful and full of confidence to ask these people, of which most of them do not know me...yes, they may know my cookies..but not lil ol me...at least I thought...
so I do not know how to explain it any better than this...
on Saturday I heard GOD tell me what to do...in the shower...
and on Sunday...I was able to FEEL my PURPOSE...
and SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE
regular ol' me...
GODS creative crash test dummy,
the regular girl,
the boy mom,
the girl that got to marry the first boy that she fell in love with 23 years later...
the girl that had a magazine,
the girl that gets to create for a living,
the girl that wishes, hopes and dreams,
the girl that relys 100% on FAITH,
the girl that prefers flip flops over heels,
the girl tha SIMPLY COMPLICATES her life..for the better
(I could go on...but I think you get it)
BUT
let me just tell you to get you ready for the auction of a lifetime...all to support Breast Cancer & Awareness and my commitment to the Avon 39.3 three dy walk...
this lil ol' creative girl (me) got the most wonderful, inspiring,warm and just amazing emails from Teresa Collins, Tim Holtz, Janna Wilson, Suzy Plantamura, Ali Edwards, Jennifer Stewart, Melody Ross, Celine Navarro, Jenni Bowlin, Margie Romney-Anslett, Tia Bennett,Melissa Phillips, CD Muckosky, The crew at Pink Paislee, Teresa McFayden, Donna Downey, Candice Carpender....and the list goes on...
and they all said ABSOLUTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and they are all going to create a cover....
I wish that I could see them all right now because I would NOT admire from afar. The thing is,as I told them in my email, we all came into this world the same way and we will all go out the same way...
it is what we do in the middle that makes a difference...
so TOGETHER
putting everything else aside...
WE are all the same and TOGETHER (yikes, because it includes me with them)...WE will all use our time, talents, gifts and skills to make a difference...
for Stacey and for millions who are fighting...or have fought.
for as much as I just wrote....I have no more words...
my heart is full.
click on the doodle to access my Avon 39.3 page