Let me just start by saying that the level of anxiety that I am experiencing right now is at an all-time high. It’s been over two years since the last time I’ve blogged, but when Mattie James hits you with the MJConsistencyChallenge, you shake the dust off of your blog and do what you have to do:-).

I’ll be honest-I was NOT going to do it though, Sis. I mean, don’t get me wrong-when I read about it initially and saw all of the positivity and excitement from the other bloggers, I was all in. Then I took one look at my circa 2000 blog with all of the loud colors and crazy pop-ups that used to be cute back in the day (*until it wasn’t) and I was like, “Oh, no ma’am“. Not to mention that all hell hath broken loose in my life as of late (chiiilllee, another post for another day).

Of course I mentioned it to my preaching-podcaster husband, who hits me with the “you can do all things through Christ” and “this is God’s plan for your life” convo. Now at this point I’m like, “Really Sir? So you’re just going to bring Jesus into it like that and hit me with the scriptures too?” But as much as I wanted to try and get out of it, I couldn’t.

So I decided that since I wasn’t going to walk away from this, I would just give my blog a quick facelift and it would be fine. I’m a total perfectionist, and there was no way that I was going to post and promote my blog in the state that it was in. Three hours later my blog looked no better than it did three hours before.

It was a hot mess, and looking at it reminded me a lot of certain areas of my life- maybe not a total mess, but a mess nonetheless.

A lot of times we want to wait for the “perfect” time to launch a business, write a book, re-launch a blog (umm hmm, I know), and go ahead and insert your foot-dragging project here __________.

There’s so many changes happening in my life right now that I would have never anticipated (more on that later). I’m definitely smack dab in the most difficult season of my life, but

I’m learning that the best way to weather a storm is to lean into the wind.

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So I’ll be weathering the storm, re-setting my life, facelifting the blog and binding the devil and his Quarantine-10lbs all in real-time. Definitely not my ideal way to do things, but I know that God doesn’t make mistakes, and I’m totally convinced that someone else needs to hear this at this exact moment.

It’s okay to say that you’re not okay, at the moment that you’re not okay.

Stop waiting until you get your certificate to testify. I promise you that someone else is experiencing the same trial that you are, and they need you right now.

Until tomorrow,

Xoxo….mjr.