Day 42/100 healthy happy days and I am still journeying forward. Today has been jam packed this morning with several hours of texting back and forth with my assistant back home at Promise House Nashville who manages everything with the property in my absence and also with a couple of my current guests who have been helpful in meeting and greeting people and helping folks moving out and moving in and its been a bit of a whirlwind since 6:30 this morning. Its all good though. Its such a blessing to have great folks needing a room for a while and that they are so willing to help one another and help me when I need it. Its a flurry of activity to get things cleaned and ready for moving days and for new guests arriving. I love my home (Promise House Nashville) and days like this find me torn between being in KY with my family and being there with my Promise House family! If I could be in both places at the same time it would make life so much easier. However, I know everything is in the best of hands when my neighbor is in charge and on the ball. Shes my eyes and ears and hands and feet and even my mouth piece when I need her to be. She gets it done and done right ASAP! Shes a real keeper and I am so fortunately blessed to have her on my team. I dont know what I would do without her. I guess its times like this when you know you have to trust the Lord and know that everything will be OK. Just keep calm and carry on, right? And count the blessings! I have had to fight the urge to get in my car and drive the 6 hours back home and take care of things myself. Suzie assures me though that everything is good so I feel better about it. I just didnt know so much was going to take place at the same time, this weekend. But thats the nature of this business! People come and go as they need to and often their stay is shorter or longer than they first thought. So, I should be used to it all by now after 4 years of doing this. Still, its not easy for me to let others handle my business and I get concerned and the fright or flight urge tries to get me to have a knee jerk reaction to situations like this.... Im just in a place where I have no clue what Gods plan is for my next assignment and its so difficult to know where I am supposed to be right now. I dont have an answer to that. My family is here in KY and needs me and my home and business is in TN and needs me and then there is my own personal need to get back to fulfilling my passion and purpose and desire to help others with health and weight loss.... And I have the need to provide additional income needed to take care of myself. Promise House pays for itself but thats it. Now that the Vanderbilt surgeon has released me from his medical care, which is a great thing, especially after 2 years and 3 months dealing with the injuries suffered on my former job. And although the company has taken care of all the medical expenses, I have not had a salary for more than 2 years and the limited benefits I was receiving from Workers Comp are no longer in effect. So that means $1,300.0 a month income lost. Thats how I was personally surviving. It takes money to eat healthy and buy the good supplements, nutritional support, skin care, hair care, and just basic essentials a girl needs.... Its a lot of money and I am not willing to compromise my health and do without or get inferior products and services..... I shouldnt have to because I had plenty of good income before the injuries and losing my job as the result of being injured and needing surgery and a very long recovery time for both shoulders to heal. Since it is a high risk for re-injury on the type of job I was doing, my employer terminated my position 2 years ago and although I exhausted every avenue, no one would even consider hiring me as long as I was under medical treatment. So whats a girl to do now? I am having to regroup at age 52 and without more than a high school education, that is not easy to find the kind of job that I need to be able to support myself in the lifestyle I am accustomed to. I know God has a plan and I know its a great plan. However, I do not expect Him to rain down money for me or to grow it on the trees in my yard or magically deposit it into my checking account. What I do expect is that it will require much work from me and that is what I am gearing myself up to do. I feel it is coming and I feel that much is about to be required of me..... But I also feel that good will be the outcome from it. I just dont have a timeline and I dont have clarity on WHAT and WHERE for me to get to work..... And yes that threatens my sanity at times. I admit it. :-( The only reason I am sharing my heart here and now is so that when the time comes for me to share the blessing of the next big thing.... I can point back to this and say, see? Look where I was and what I was dealing with and look at how successful I am now because I waited on the Lord and trusted in Him and believed in my heart through my strong and determined faith that God allowed me to go through what Ive been through so that I would be able to fully comprehend and understand the immeasurable blessing He was preparing me for throughout the entire time I was pushing and striving and learning and growing and praying and yes sometimes crying and sighing and wondering...... But look what the Lord has done. It was all worth it...... Until then...... I PRESS FORWARD TOWARD THE MARK..... TO THE GOAL..... TO THE WINNERS CIRCLE...... TO THE PRIZE!!!!! #100healthyhappydays
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 19:45:30 +0000
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