True! I need to remind myself often to focus on today, and not “what if” the future that is in God’s hands.

So true and yet so difficult to remember at times! I enjoyed the challenge of my last position and there are moments where I really miss all the slicing and dicing to analyze results and variances or resolve discrepancies, but then I remember how the stress and deadlines affected me physically. I believe when I slipped in the kitchen last year and broke my shoulder that God was telling me it was time to step back and focus on my first priorities (my husband and my now-teenage son) for the time being, as well as pursue ways where I might encourage others in the Lord (this blog being one) and then just pray for God’s direction day by day.

Thank you, Kelly, for your kind words! Whatever encouragement it brings to you or anyone else is totally God’s doing. I write from my heart but I also pray about what I write, that the Lord would guide my words and that He would help me speak truth. I have felt led for a couple years now to encourage others, probably because of how often I need encouragement myself. I’ve also thought about starting a blog. The idea to blend the two just sort of happened.