So I always think I don’t want to start a blog with things like… ”Someone once said”… or “I once heard  a saying”, but since well..in this case it’s absolutely true and the best way to start this..here goes… 

My Dad once told me “Life comes at you fast, be resilient, flexible, faithful and keep moving”.  My dad to simply say in one word- Wise. After all he is a Pastor, so wise goes along with the territory. At the moment he said these profound words to me..I was in a place of park…parked on well I guess you can say fear, but what in mind seemed like saftey. However,  we call it like we see it…I was parked on fear. I don’t think I realized that is what it was at the time.  I was in a state of bewilderment at life events, stunned and suspended in a moment of time. Almost a year ago this time..I was in in the storm of a lifetime, twirling in my very own life Tsunami. It’s easy to stay in a place even after a storm has come..because it’s familiar…even with devastation and debris…it was what home. You can make the choice to stay and reminisce of what was and what should have been according to you, or you can choose…to keep moving and pursue the a new adventure a new journey, a new life. I think for me I have never been one to want to stay in place of devastation, but at that moment in time, no matter how brief I dangerously skirted the idea of camping out in fear in what was…now my former life.

It’s always great to have those voices that charge you on, challenge you to keep moving.. for me there were so many… I am blessed with amazing friends, wonderful family and thus the two intertwine to make my Framily :-) (a word coined by my dear friend and family The Big Dragon).  The words of my father cut to the core of where I was.. The power and authority behind those words broke the chains that held me tied to the devastation of my past…words do have power. I began to pick myself up, taking only what was necessary, and leaving the rest behind and began to shift gears out of park and begin to navigate through the lanes of life staying the course to my God given destiny.

Don’t get me wrong.. I believe it’s okay to pause and reflect on life…but don’t stay in park. You will miss out on so much being frozen in time. If I stayed in park I imagine what I would have missed out on as I stand on the other side of a Tsunami on my new vast land, with richer soil, greater vision, more beautiful than the previous…sigh..that’s life:-)  So one day perhaps I will past down these words to my kid as they navigate past one of life’s Tsunamis…”Life somes at you fast, so no parking, stay in the right lane..and hold on to Jesus!”

For with out HIM, not even, as great as my earthly father is..I would not be welll…here.

Revolutionary thought #231- Don’t stay in park!

Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. ♥ Phillipians 1:6

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ♥ Jeremiah 29:11

♥, G