lemon ginger tea & dreams

I sip tea, write emails, recycle old documents, update files.

I dream.

This has become my new favorite thing to sip:

It instantly brings to mind the fresh ginger tea they made us in the Dominican, add a bit of honey and I'm there again... in the DR. It amazes me to think that 5 years have passed since that trip. 5 years and I still remember the colors, the people, the exhaustion. The experience changed my perspective and my heart. It stretched me spiritually, emotionally, and physically.

I left with dreams of discovering how God could use me...

Corporate jobs can squash dreams I've learned. Maybe not squash... but push out of the mind, diminish, delay. The desk, computer, emails, papers, pressing deadlines...

I don't want to let my day job remove from my mind all that God has taught me and done in my life. Most importantly, all that God wants me to do with my life... whatever it may be.

What have you lost sight of?

 

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21

summer begins

Friday may very well have been my first day of summer...

Why is that you ask? Because on Friday at noon, I was home, I hadn't showered yet and I was drinking coffee.... I had worked many many days straight and the LPGA was over, so I took the day off!

It was sunny and wonderful outside. I had no pressing deadlines, no work to do, just things I should do.... you know, those things that get neglected when you work long days for 2 weeks straight. Cleaning, vaccuming, picking up what I dropped on the floor each day when I got home exhausted... and just plain relaxing.

From Monday June 4th, through Sunday June 10th (LPGA week) I worked about 75 hours. But then no, I didn't take the following days off... it was Expo tear down after all. So after working the 4th through the 14th... I took a day off. 

My life is no longer consumed by Expo planning and executing details, managing staff, product coming and going, sponsors, credentials, golf carts, and so many other things. I'm not quite sure what to do with myself... but at the same time I love it. I joke about having the brain capacity to go back to normal life but it's true... I'm very happy that I once again have the ability to have a life outside of work :)

But it was good, it was a great. It was again a time when God showed me His strength, His power, and His ability to take over, because I'm human, I get tired, and I get overwhelmed with what seems impossible.

I'm not sure what the rest of this summer will hold, but I'm looking forward to seeing what God has in store...