Last Girl Talk Sleepover of the School Year

Last night I attend the last Girl Talk sleepover of the year. One of the Board Members of Girl Talk was the Guest Speaker for then night. Her speech was sooooo inspirational. So powerful. It was about her growing up in the mountains as a poor little girl. She talked about how she made poor decisions and how she overcame those poor decisions.

As a little girl, she remembered looking in a Sears catalog and seeing women in there with pretty jewelry on. She would only see her teachers wear pretty jewelry like the women in the catalog. She made a statement to herself saying she wanted to be like those women with the pretty jewelry.

One important fact she hit on was about having an imagination and how important it was to have it. She always imagined herself as a teacher.

When she turned 18, she ran off and got married. She had 2 years of college and ended up having a baby and having no money to complete college. While she was working a man who own the place where she worked at told her she was smart and gave her more encouraging words. She knew she wanted to finished school. She worked, went to school, and raised her daughter. And she continued until she completed college.

She stressed on how important it was to imagine herself to what she wanted to be. Now she has her degree, her masters and 1 Dissertation away from completing her Doctorate degree.

She said she was 75 years. She did not look a BIT of 75 and she said the reason why is because she hangs around young people. :) She hangs around young people to continue to learn and be ambitious. She texts her grandchildren, uses Facebook, and etc.

She concluded about start imaging what we want to be and then set goals for it.

I have taking the speech and have implanted it in my heart. I have some imagining to do and will began do the necessary steps to get to what I have imagined myself to be.

Asking God for something and accepting it when if comes...

I asked God for something and He answered. But let me be honest. I was hurt from the answer. For a split second, I didn't want to receive the answer. I wanted to go back and change things. I wanted to be angry. I wanted to be angry at the way I received the answer.

But because I have grown spiritually in wisdom, deep down I knew the answer was best. The things is, you have a choice. A choice to be hurt by God or...be hurt by your own doings.

I was angry because I was hurt. The answer came dramatically and in two directions. I received the answer one and then immediately another way. It was like someone kicked me on one side and slapped me from another. I felt hurt and humiliated and a shame to share with anyone what was going on. (I opened up to my close friend eventually.)

Because of the wisdom God has developed in me, I knew and trusted that God had greater. Had I not accepted the answer I knew I would have faced several consequences.

One. The physical being in me wanted to go and change things. But if I had went back and made things stay the same, I would be missing out on the blessing God is preparing for me. Move the old out for the new. Also, what if I would have change it back? My feelings would have probably been hurt even worse. Do we want to be hurt by God or by our own doings? Example. Our parents spanked us when we did something wrong. Now our feelings were hurt and we cried because the spanking hurt. But of course, our parents spank us for discipline, out of love, and learning/training. What if they didn't spank us though?

Another point is that if we try to go back or change things back, we've put our trust in our own selves and not Him. One word: FAILURE! We have put our selves before Him. (Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other gods before me.)

I also thought about how the angriness transformed into motivating me to stay focus on the vision God has for me. If I had stayed in that position I truly believed I would have lost vision or gotten comfortable with my current living. If we pray to God to get us closer to our vision, He keeps us uncomfortable including changing our now-position.

There are other consequences. However, these two are what stood out to me the most. I'm sure those who mature or maturing in the faith can see more consequences. But I encourage those to trust God and His plans, even when it hurts or you don't understand. Do not act out on feelings but stand still until you hear Him give you directions.

Be encouraged!