Promptings

Well, well, well…Time to dust off the old keyboard and see where this post takes me. It has obviously been quite some time since I last posted. I could give multiple reasons, but really just one rings true…LIFE. Of course there have been many times over the last couple of years that I was “going to post something” but then I got busy or prioritized something over writing or I was too busy saying “YES” to something else, causing other yeses to take the backseat. I have read countless books that speak to saying your best yes, or making sure to say no so that you can say yes to what truly brings you joy. However, no matter how many books I read, or podcasts I listen to, it falls on deaf ears (mine) and I get back into the cycle saying yes to things that should be no’s so that I can say yes to my priorities. So cheers to taking back a little control and getting back to the things that bring me joy.

One of my favorite recent yeses was helping with a fabulous women’s event at my church this past weekend. Author, Jennifer Dukes Lee came to speak and it was just one of those nights that you truly felt that you were in the right place at the right time. I had already been reading one of her books It’s All Under Control and her talk was going to be on her most recent book Growing Slow. At the end of the evening I had a chance to speak with her one on one. I asked her some questions about how she got started and when she knew it would be more then just a project. I told her a little about how I had started a blog a while back and that someday I would get back to it and she said as we were getting ready to leave, “why not tomorrow?” I drove home that night with a smile on my face. I know that it was what I needed to be prompted back into one of MY yeses. A yes that brings me joy. I am still in awe some days of how the Holy Spirit shows up or better yet, walks people into my life just when I need them. It was just the right prompting that I needed to shake off the dust and renew this journey that I am on. So my question to you is this…Is there a prompting that you feel on your heart that you are doing your very best to ignore or push away? When you feel it does it make you uncomfortable but in a good way? I know in today’s world there are so many competing sources at play in our day to day life. But if we stop and truly take a minute do we hear it? Do we see it? Do we feel it? I challenge you today, tomorrow, this week, to be still when you want to move, listen when you want to speak and see if there is a prompting in your life that just may be calling you to something not just great but Extraordinary! We often think promptings are these grand callings or gestures but often they are just a whisper or a gentle nudge that if we are quiet enough we can hear or feel. So what we will you hear today and how will you follow the prompting…

As always I pray that you find joy in your journey