Free and Humble

Sometimes I have a great idea for a blog post, but I'm just not ready to write it yet. That's exactly what happened with this post. As I was reading the Bible I felt led to make a blog post about Peter walking on water. So, I created a draft, added my thoughts and left it sit for a while.  Lately, I've been struggling, I'm not going to lie. With the turn of the new year reality has set in. We no longer have my regular income stream, cookie orders have slowed down, and bills just keep piling in. I'm being humbled . It's easy to feel overwhelmed and wonder if you're making the right decision for your family, but I know I'm taking the path that God is paving for me. Okay, he's not paving, roughly clearing at most, but definitely not paving. If there was paving involved it would look much like the road that Lightening McQueen made quickly to try and leave Radiator Springs. But, no matter the condition of the path I'm taking (because it's not ea...

Hold up! Before you read that title and get upset, just follow me for a moment. What is faith to you? If you think about it, you can't have faith without some sort or hardship, adversity, or unknown. It's easy to say, "I have faith", but do you have faith because you already know something will work out or is it truly blind faith? Are you believing in the unseen and the unknown? The last month has opened my eyes to the true meaning of faith.  Faith means leaving your job of over a decade because you believe that God is leading you in a different direction.  Faith is walking away with nothing else lined up.  Faith is believing that God will provide and bills will be paid when you have no idea how that is going to happen.  That of those statements lead me to the next part... Faith is crazy. Some might argue that the word I should be using is crazy, not faith. Let's face it, sometimes I feel that way, but by stepping out in faith, I've never felt so close to...