I'm Saying Yes

Good Morning,
I have already had one large cup of Chai Tea, the kind made with milk and lots of sugar! Plus, I took my thyroid medicine at 5:30 with no food! Probably not so smart, but Wow!  I am rocking and rolling, know what I mean?  Hands are gittery, I feel like I drank 5 mountain dews and I am ready for whatever comes my way!

So I decided that today is the big day!  My big reveal about my new big idea!

I have wanted to write this post for over 3 months now.  But somehow it never got done.  I mean, I was way excited about writing about this post topic.  It was going to be my big debut about how as women we need to say YES to God every day.  And I was going to tell you how I am going to start writing articles about real life gals that have said YES to God in amazing ways. 

I have had every good intention of getting it done....I mean I think about writing it at least twice a day...doesn't that count for something? But alas, it never got written.

But today...in as close to an audible voice as I have ever heard, God told me to "get er done!"

We argued for a while about it....I told him that that this "new idea"  was silly and that I had better things to do with my time. To which he promptly reminded me that I had 5 hours today without  Sydney (she goes to Mother's Day out).  And before I could even start my counter-argument about how I had a hair appointment at 10:30, I got a phone call asking me if I could push back my appointment.  Seriously?  Couldn't the universe work with me just a bit?

For the last year, I have committed to saying YES to God everyday.  To stop focusing on what the "big" plan is for my life and to focus on saying YES to what he wants me to do.  But, one day at a time.  And ya know what?  It has been a crazy ride! 

I wrote my story on a blog and people actually read it!  We joined a new church, filled with a a family of believers that support us.  I quit Baby Bella and have never been happier!  And we are starting the process of adopting a child.... which one year ago today was not even on the radar for my husband!

All this by just saying YES.  And saying Yes is what he wants from me and it is what he wants from you. 

Here's How:

• God wants me to say YES to the dreams he places on my heart. Even those dreams I had as a little girl, the ones I dreamed before the world told me that I couldn't, shouldn't or wouldn't.  The dreams I had when I new I could be anything I wanted, before the world told me exactly who I ought to be.
  

• God wants me to say YES to accepting my passions and pursuing them with a tenacious spirit.  It doesn't matter what my passions or likes may be....Big, small, silly or crazy, he wants me to pursue them.

• God wants me to say YES to the woman he has made me.  To say Yes to being different.  And he wants me to STOP trying to change what he has made wonderful. He wants me to stop trying to stifle, ignore, re-invent or otherwise manipulate the unique woman he has fully equipped me to be.