The Struggle Is Real:

    I know everyone has heard the statement "the struggle is real" and let me tell you there has never been a more truer statement. Between being a wife, a mom, a new blogger, and trying to maintain my renewed status of stay at home mom on top of it, the struggle has definitely been real.

    A few weeks ago my husband and I had a major life event happen, not to get into details, because I am not ready to share that part of my testimony yet, but in the end we decided that we needed a huge change in our lives.

    See, I was working a full time job, over 40 hours a week, and my husband was doing almost double that. We were trying to get through paying bills, getting out of debt, and so on and so forth, but our home life and our family were taking a huge hit.

    In the end, I resigned from my job, and Daniel took a pay cut, at a new job, with less hours, so that we could focus back on putting God first. In doing this, our marriage, family and finances have all had to be put in God's hands. As anyone would naturally do, we worried and struggled to let God take the wheel, so to speak, but we have honestly never been more at peace.

    The first thing that God gave me to stand on after our change was Psalms 23. I know we have all heard it before, and most of us, I am sure, can recite it by heart, but let me just say, hearing God's beautiful voice in it has changed all of my worry into peace. 

    I am able to rest in green pastures and with His spirit leading me beside still waters he is restoring, not only my soul, but everyone and everything in our lives. He keeps guiding us along the right paths and speaking into our lives, giving us direction, and blessing, throughout.

    In the natural, things look dark and bleak, but I know that God has already prepared a table before us and has anointed us with His oil. In layman's terms, he has been working on putting the "super" back into our natural, so that goodness and love will follow us for all of our days. I can only give God the glory in this, because only He is the one that can and will provide.

    If you don't get anything else out of this blog, please know that God will provide. He will keep your peace and ease the worry and anxiety in your heart and mind. All you have to do is remember Psalms 23. Repeat it, over and over again, until it is written in your heart so that God can put the "super" back into your natural. May God bless you and keep you and cause his face to shine upon you. In Jesus name Amen.