His Rest

In a season of hustle and bustle, take time to put some things to rest in your life. Your own plans and your own dreams. Put them to rest and let there be some peace. In the season of rest God will bring His blessings and His very best! Once you fully realize that you are not the author of your life story, and let Him fully take over everything, you will be in a constant state of peace. 

However, if you continue to take control of things on your own and not let God help, you will be in a constant state of unrest. 

This is a lesson I am learning (and continue to learn). God has subtle ways to put me back on track and remind me to let go of the control and just rest in Him. 

It's okay to get mad.

Emotions are a part of life. Happy. Sad. Mad. Each one is bound to show up at some point in your day, week, month. You get it. Dealing with emotions is tricky, I think it's especially harder for girls to deal with their emotions. Girls are so emotional!

Bottom line, we shouldn't be ruled by our emotions and being a girl doesn't give us a free pass to be a roller coaster of emotions. Emotions need to be controlled.

You can control your emotions in different ways

eating froyo 

singing 

running 

removing yourself from the situation that is making you upset 

smiling (whether you're happy or not) 

crying 

laughing 

most important: (i think) PRAYER

This past weekend has been an emotional one. I'm not perfect, I still get upset and overcome by my emotions. I sometimes need to slam a medicine ball on the ground at the gym to let off some steam. I will admit to emotional trips to get froyo by myself. (maybe more than one?) 

Dealing with emotions is always going to be a learning process but God has got my back and only wants the best for me.

He allows opportunities for me to be tested and allows me to grow from each test. 

Praise God for that! 

Vortex of Life

Throughout the first month of this year I have been stuck in what I like to call the "vortex of life." It's the routine that you created for yourself (without knowing it) that consists of everything you do on a daily basis. Nothing new or super exciting happens, you just continue day by day and before you know it, you're a week into a new month. How did that happen? It's not that I wasted the days in January because some fun stuff did happen. I just found myself going day to day without truly living life and just making sure the routines that I created for myself went smoothly and then I would do the same thing the next day. 

How boring! 

I did a post about our habits way back but I think the vortex is a little more intense than just having certain habits. I think when you're stuck in the "vortex of life" you don't realize all this time has been passing by and you're pretty much doing the same thing. Getting thru each day rather than living life. 

Vortex of Life

Wake Up (hit the snooze button at least twice: "good morning" from Singin' in the Rain greets me at 6am and sometimes it's not time for it to be a good morning yet.) 

Coffee

Get Dressed (daily outfit consist of some type of yoga pant and hoodie) 

Wait for kiddos

Breakfast

Spend the day caring for some kiddos

Finish working

Clean up Workspace

Dinner

Go to the gym for a boot camp class

Shower

Bed

REPEAT

Don't get stuck in the "vortex of life!"