Cana Dream Team

Today can be a terrible day.  Today can be a day you wish you never had to see.  Today can be a monumental day with great pain. Today can be a day with just too much to do!  Today can be loaded with stress and mistakes. Today can be a day where you feel like the bug, not the windshield! Today is the only day you have to make it through, though.  Just today. Sometimes the only task in life is to make it through the day. During these days you need God, but the most of you feel like he has left you.  God has not left you. Then why did this terrible awful thing happen? I don’t know, but one day you will know. We are not supposed to know all the reasons why.   God can calm the storm.  You can feel peace in great chaos.  You have to ask for it though, and you have to be willing to receive it.  What does that mean or look like? Well for me, it looks like taking a moment in my head to say “Lord, help me with this” and yo...

Do you want to have more good days than bad?  Do you want to be different? If you want to be different, you should probably change a few things.  If you don’t like how your day is everyday, then change the first thing you do each morning.  Start small. Start with the first thing you think, read, or hear each day... I stumbled upon this truth.  I stumbled upon this when I changed my mornings and realized that almost my whole day was different!  I was happier. Here was my daily morning:  wake up 6:30ish, make coffee, take a bath, and listen to the local news.   Then get myself dressed and get kids dressed all at the same time! Yell and scream and fight all the way out the door... always late and annoyed!   My routine was changed after my husband completed an amazing remodel on our shower!  I mean look at this shower…….. Once ...

I don’t consider myself to be a jealous or envious person, but I do a lot of comparisons!   As I reflect on my past younger comparisons, I have compared my body and hair at least a million times. If I looked like that girl, I would be so much more confident! I have compared my life and decided if I was just a dress size or two smaller, all my problems would be handled.   If my hair would do that, I would feel so much better about myself. If I could pull off a messy bun like that girl, I would feel much more comfortable. Look at this stupid little bun.. I have compared my income... “if I made X amount of money, my life would be great like theirs too.”  I have compared my marriage, my family, my car, my job, my life, my faith, my whatever else, and I am sure I have made a comparison to something or someone. Why? Recently, a bible study I am attending pointed out that we are all insecure.  No matter what, we all have a natural layer of insecu...

The phrase that keeps coming to mind is “Rome wasn’t built in a day!”  Stuff takes time!!! Just because you prayed today, does not mean tomorrow all your problems are solved!  It still took God six days to complete the world and on the seventh he rested…. Where I am going with this is that miracles take time. The miracle you are asking for may not ever happen, but maybe it wasn’t what you need, so it will NEVER happen!!! Think about that… what if you don’t get what your heart’s desire is?  You will be fine because God will give you something better if you look for the good in all things. For example, I prayed for a son!!! Both pregnancies... But I received two of the bossiest, most beautiful little girls I have ever seen.  These girls are exactly what I needed! I don’t think I would make a good boy mom now that I am a girl mom! Boys are dirty, and my girls are dirty enough for me!!  My girls are exactly what I needed. I needed to be more fem...

How many of you can't sleep?  How many of you the moment your head hits the pillow, thoughts go off like a rocket of “I didn't do this or I should do that?!” How about those of us that keep a notepad by the bed so we can write things down?   I have been guilty of having a notepad by my side of the bed to use to make my to-do list.  Then, I would flip the page and write all the stupid things I need to do like organize my closet!!!  I am never going to organize my closet.... but I still have to write it down or I can't stop thinking about it, and the ‘train’ just keeps waking me up saying “sppttt you are going to forget to organize your closet....” Damnit it's been 2 hours and I still haven't been to sleep yet?  Then the next thing you roll over and see your husband snoring away and wish you could swat him a little...anyone feel like that? Well that was my regular nightly routine.  Before I had the to-do list I would hardly sleep for fear I would forget ...

From a person that didn’t really grow up in church and never really felt the guilt about not going, church was kinda blah for me..Church felt weird.  Me being at church was odd at best! It was also awkward and uncomfortable if you asked me. But then God told me to go so I had to go…My “My Walk” story describes the experience I had with God telling me at 3am to go to church. So I went and it was weird.  But it was weird because I was weird. I made it awkward, uncomfortable, judgemental, and constricting. Looking at it now I realize I decided to feel standoffish. I decided to be guarded and put my skeptic radar on full alert.  I was the weird one. All those happy people.. what are they so happy about anyway!?!  Why are they grinning and saying Good morning! I tried to blend in as best I could because really, what was I doing there?  Me? I didn’t do church.. this wasn’t part of my Sunday. I was normally in my jammies drinking coffee and watchi...

If you are a control freak or are a recovering control freak this phrase can help you!!  That’s not my circle… I went to a woman’s day event and Susan Goss, one of the speakers, spoke about “That’s Not My Circle.” What that means is you only have control over what is in your circle.  You only have the ability to be frustrated with what is in your circle. You are only stressed by what is in your circle. YOU CAN ONLY CONTROL WHAT IS IN YOUR CIRCLE! She explained how to practice this by asking everyone to draw a circle around yourself…”that’s it’s darlin that’s all you can control..  Nope, not your kids! Nope, not your husband!! Not your boyfriend!! Not your job, not your boss, no one except the one in the circle. Which is you!” She said. What she went on to explain is that everything outside of that circle was God’s business and not my business. In my head I say “My momma has been telling me for years to mind my own business!! Now you too…”. She exp...