I miss Lori.

I want Lori to come back. It was such an awesome few days. I sure love it out here, but this weekend really made me realize how much I dont want to go without my best friend. Lori, come back:( I'm sad.

My new wonderful amazing job!

God has a sense of humor. For years, I have wanted to work in the christian music industry. I was working/volunteering for a promotion/production company back in Phoenix. I have missed it so much. Moving to Nashville, I planned on finding a job in the industry. There was one slight problem. I felt inadequate. For a yr and a half I worked in the most miserable environment, feeling I couldn't make it elsewhere. Partly I think I felt brainwashed, being told I would never succeed, and would never survive outside the "banking" world. I would get lead after lead after lead, but never intensely pursue them, losing all opportunity. Yet through all of this, God has his perfect plan. As I wrote before, in February, the Lord moved me out of my job at the bank. Woohoo! In the months following, God restored my soul, my confidence, and reminded me that He created me: fearfully and wonderfully made. I began building so many relationships in and out of church, getting involved with various ministries, taking on odd-jobs, and dancing! And best of all, My relationship with Christ has deepened immensely like never before. I feel for the first time in 10 yrs I have been brought out of the trench. I see God changing me every day into His image. Things havent really got easier, but they just bounce off of me. I have a firm foundation. Christ is my Cornerstone. And I could go on and on about the ways the Lord has blessed me in just the past few months, but this blog is to focus on my new job. First, I must say that through discovering myself and meeting with the most wonderfully lady ever to help me do that, I have rediscovered the things I love that God has gifted me with. I have decided to start my own floral company, and start giving piano lessons. There are mounds of things I would love to do, and I know that if I try, that I could do these things (as long as they are part of God's will). I realized that I do not want to tour full time, as I did before, but I want to settle down and really make TN my home. Still I wouldnt have minded working in an office in the music industry. But because of following these other desires, I figured I would just find a good part time/ full time job that would be flexible to those, and really wasnt even looking into anything yet. Well, this is where God's humor comes in. A couple of Sundays ago, I was approached by someone at church who I had never talked to in the last 2 yrs. I knew who he was, and what he did, but never approached him. He came up to me and asked me to work for him. He owns a booking agency in the christian music industry- ha! The best part was that he had no idea that i was even interested or that i had experience. And no one told him about me, other than him "hearing" I was out of a job. Since being at this place, I cant believe how perfect it is for me. I set my own hours, low stress, Im not facing customers (thank you Lord!), and I love my position! Pretty much exactly opposite of all the misery I had to deal with at the bank. I know that God built my character there, and I made some lifelong friendships. Not to mention the opportunity to share Christ with so many. And to just smile. Sometimes that's all it takes to change someone's day. Remember that:)