Seasons....

It is crazy to think that all we have standing in our way is our unwillingness to change.  How do we do this?  We end up wasting so much of our life obsessing and double guessing every step we make and we sit day after day, hour after hour at our boring desk or the job we can't wait to get out of or the house we can't wait to upgrade or the body we can't wait to change, we some how think that if we just barely get through this period of time in our life then we might have enough strength to make it to the next stage.  Why can't we see that there is something more that we need to learn in this specific season, that it's more than just to teach us or grow us to a certain point, which by the way you aren't growing if you sit there complaining and wanting so bad to be somewhere else or doing something else that you can't even realize why God has you in that season in the first place.

I am here to tell you my faithful friends that the Lord is not a keeper of time so he's got as long as you do plus eternity and until you learn why you are in that situation and who your suppose to help or what your suppose to be learning then He will keep you there as long as it takes.  SO you might as well get through it quick and do it right the first time.  "Rejoice in your suffering, suffering produces perseverance, perseverance - character and character hope" (Romans 5:8) This verse is conveniently hung in my bathroom where I can see it everyday and it continues to remind me what my attitude needs to be, and if all I have at the end of the day is hope, then that should be efficent enough.

If you wake up dreading the day that you have to go to work or don't have a work to go to then you are already starting off with the wrong mindset and you need to make the decision to change your heart and with the changing of your heart comes the changing of your life.  If I have gotten any point across in the last 36 days I hope it is that in order to make a real change in your life you have to make a decision to do so.

Sometimes we don't realize that the only thing holding us back is ourselves, can you believe that!  WE are holding ourselves back from achieving our dreams, our goals, the desires of our hearts, we spend most of the week asking God why and to magically set his gaze upon us and change everything bad and horrible in our lives in the blink of an eye, but I have learned, because He has taught me, that WE must be the ones to act, we must be the ones to set the ball in motion, we can't just wait and hope for the best, No we must fight! We must take initiative! We must learn that just because things aren't happening the way we "planned" does not mean that nothing will happen at all. We must continue to strive for it, to yearn for it, to want something so bad that you are willing to fail to get it.

Because that is what it's going to take, you are going to fail, you will stumble, you will get discouraged, you will want to give up, you will want to slip into the "comfortable coma" of settling, BUT YOU CANNOT AND YOU MUST NOT!  The road is not easy, but if it was there is no way that it would be as satisfying once you accomplished it.  I hope you all want the desires of your hearts bad enough to achieve them, even if all you have at the end of the day is a picture on your bathroom wall to remind you never to give up, that you will always have HOPE.

Good tidings to you and I bid you all a farewell till tomorrow of course!

Warm Regards,
Candace

BBQ Chicken

Chicken breasts, baked
1/4 cup low sugar ketchup
2 TBSP worchteshire sauce
Sea Salt
Pepper
2 TBSP of Chicken Broth
1 TbSP of Cider Vinegar
1 TBSP of Splenda (or sugar sub.)
2 Slices of Bacon or Turkey Bacon, Chopped

Heat all ingredients except for chicken in a sauce pan on medium till mixed together and warm, put sauce on cooked chicken and enjoy :D