FAITH
Its not all rainbows and butterflies
its sometimes discouragement and fears
many days its filled with tears, that keep dripping like a leaky faucet
Faith isn’t easy to hold on to but I am not tossing it!
its not a side order for me in this journey called life
its the main dish, I wouldn’t feel full without it
Except after that meal, I still need it, I crave it
Even with the conflicts in my heart that I might feel
is this for real, or for fake?
Am I dreaming or am I awake?
sometimes I have to ask myself, is this worth it?
to not toss that 5 letter word
filling in that blank, the unknowns of this season, time and place
Faith, its a mixed bag
NO matter what though
I will choose to carry it, have it, embody it, live it, and be an example of it!
FAITH!
It was a Tuesday, July 24th 2018 to be exact and I woke up feeling very very
discouraged. Why? You may ask. well lets just say my fundraising journey for the
world race hasn’t been easy. It hasn’t been a pocketful of sunshine- but it has been
a pocket full of abundant prayers, love, encouragement, and all that jazz!
Well on that very day, I went about my day pretty normally. I got up got ready,
made myself lunch for the day and headed to work. Even with the feelings of
discouragement, I had a feeling something was about to happen…
in conversation with a coworker- I was explaining to her about my funds and the
deadlines and how I was given and extension till this coming Friday July
27th. I held it together during that conversation. There is no way I would cry at
work in front of the kids! Well during a conversation with a different coworker- I
broke, I lost it, I couldn’t hold back the tears as I was talking about the fundraising
faith walk I have been on. It has not been easy! I have done everything from t-
shirts to yard sales to pop up shops! The funds just haven’t been speeding in on a
nascar track! They have been chugging in on Thomas the train and apparently
Thomas is tired!
Rewind, back to my work day- I work with kids- so I can’t be on my phone alllll day
that being said, the day was moving right along and it was lunch time! YAY I was
hungry and wanted to eat! I also wanted to take a peak at my phone!
When I did, I saw that I had like 50 million messages from texts to multiple
messages from my J squad peeps in our group message! There was no way I had
time to read them all, (actually read them) so I scrolled- and saw a text from a
teammate and it said : YOU MET THE DEADLINE?!?!?!
I thought to myself “what the heck??”
Then I told my coworker, I think my squad mates helped me get funded!!!
She was like what? Then a few minutes later she was like, someone tagged you in a
post-you want me to read it
to you? Or do you want to read it? I was like I will read it, then I was like ok you
can
read it, she read it out loud….
Wow, I was speechless!!!!!! I really didn’t know how to react!
I definitely was excited, but also in shock! & it didn’t end there! Naptime
finally came and after I got one one of 2 kids I was sitting between asleep I was
able to check allllllll the messages that I had. First I went to the group message and
saw the usual 20+ messages, scrolled to the first one and this was it:
Talk about mind blown!!!! I was beyond that!!!
WOW!!!! I was in full shock mode, GOOD shock!!!
God provided all that I needed and $130 dollars MORE than I needed to reach
the $10,000 goal! & he did it 3 days BEFORE I needed to have it!
A Fundraising MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!
Did my faith fail me???
NO it DIDNT!
What did it do?
It just grew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God is SO SO SO SO SO SO Good and I am launching on the WORLD RACE with my
squad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank YOU! Yes YOU! For all your love, encouragement, prayers, support, donations, wisdom and allllllllll the things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am Thankful, Grateful, BLESSED and still processing this miracle and the fact that I am leaving this island in a week (from today July 25th, 2018) BUT one thing I
do know, GOD does truly work all things out for the good of those who love him!!!
