What's your cup of tea?
This weekend I remembered how much I love music and how much I need it in my life sometimes. When you have a 3 year old and only a 5 minute commute to work you don't get a lot of time to listen to what you want to listen to. Harper is at the stage where she picks things up very easily so listening to any non-child appropriate music is out of the question and with my short commute I am lucky if there is a song on during that time. Music has a way of speaking to me and I love how the music I pick follows the mood I am in. I like to say that my iPod is ADD because I have pretty much every genre imaginable on there. I like so many kinds of music but I probably gravitate toward Christian and Country the most. This weekend, the Passion 2010 CD "Awakening" was my jam.
I attended Passion 2010 right after one of the hardest times in my life. I felt like I pretty much hit rock bottom. Like hard. I really didn't know what to do with my life or which direction my life would head but I was determined to allow God to do whatever He needed to heal me during that trip. I did a lot of healing that weekend and I was so surprised and so thankful how renewed I felt after that experience. I like to listen to this CD when I know my life is about to be rocked. These songs give me so much strength because it reminds me of a time where I overcame so much in my life and when God did so much work in my life. I knew I was going to have a similar experience this past weekend.
This past weekend I attended a business retreat with about 450 of my fellow business partners (Lemon Droppers). I knew that my world was going to be rocked and that it was going to change my life. I was so stoked and so scared. I was ready to grow and be rocked but I wasn't ready to face some things I needed to face. At some point I will go in more depth about what I learned and how it changed my life but for right now I will stick with an overall view. I learned so much about myself personally. This retreat was way more about personal growth than about business and it was much needed. I am ready to grow as a person and pursue my dreams.
After the Passion 2010 conference I was renewed, I was pumped, I was ready to be myself. I was ready to be happy and I was ready to do great things. I was renewed in my faith and love for Christ. I wanted to shout it from the roof tops. Just like with Passion 2010, this retreat has sparked something in me. I am gaining my self-confidence back. I am gaining a desire to pursue my dreams. I am gaining the drive to achieve my dreams. The first thing I am going to do is shout what I do from the roof tops.
