Life Changing...

Quick note....  Bay News 9 did an interview with us today and it will air at 5pm, if you get the channel in the Tampa Bay Area.  For those of you who do not get the channel, I'll post the link when it goes up.  The cameraperson and I remembered each other from meeting somewhere....couldn't remember where until my famous SAM walked in the room:)  LOL  she shot and interviewed us at Easter for the Lighthouse for the Blind 's Easter Egg Hunt. 

Update on appeal...the appeal has been in Tallahassee since last Monday....6 business days and has not been picked up from the post office.  I had to send it through the post office as it is a post office address.  I found the number for the appeal office and called it today.  The receptionist said they'd go get it....not feeling really happy with them!!!!

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Today I picked up the mail and I got a package....I thought someone had sent me a book.  But when I opened it all that was in it was brochures for a women's meeting in another state.  Yeah like I'll be going to that LOL!  In large letters it said "LIFE CHANGING".... so I'm on my way to run errands and I started thinking about that term "life changing" and how it is thrown around nowadays....

I do not know about you, but speaking  for myself my life changing moments have not been in a crowd at some silly event....Call me cynical (which I am) but I've been to my share of conferences.....and my only "life changing event" has been to vow NOT to go to anymore of them LOL!  And I haven't!!!!  

But I've had life changing events....real ones, not ones where there is beautiful music playing and emotions are being worked on....no fluff, no teary altar calls that are forgotten in days.....

My life changing events have usually happened alone....some have been happy exciting ones like the day I innocently walked to my mailbox as a 17 year old girl and got a letter from Southeastern College and "heard" God tell me that was where I was going to college.  Some have been hard ones, where I had to cry out to God from deep inside of me, like in the corridor of the hospital when I had a sick little blind baby and I was determined NOT to become bitter but rather to trust God. 

Another life changing event happened while I was in an orphanage room surrounded by the most disabled children, trying to keep the tears in as I hugged little ones, gave them smiles for a few moments...knowing that my time would be short with them, wanting to give them all so much more....  I swear I could feel angels in that room that day....I almost can not think back to that moment without choking up. 

Don't be fooled by worked up emotions or fluff....God can and will give you some life changing events....it just probably won't be advertised by some slick ad agency and probably will cost you a lot more than the $150 registration fee.... it might cost something much more dearer to you.... it might cost you a lifestyle change.....it might cost you some friendships, that has happened.  It might cost you your ambitions..... but it will mean so much more to you than some worthless fluff..... don't be fooled!  

Let God change your life....right where you are...that's reality....