Last night Mrs. Fussypants herself came and we put our big toes in the water of how to share community with girlfriends 1:1 a thousand at a time. She has a vision to help find fabulous women bloggers and speakers and share them withe the rest of us! BlissfullyDomestic.com is already known as a launching place for moms and bloggers to find good things! Her team, which I am now privileged to work with as a creative strategist, is so wonderful Katie Howard, managing editor, and Daisy Olsen, pro wordpress expert are simply amazing women! Wow, is Alli a natural in front of the camera! She's so nice in real person, and we had more than a few mistakes, giggles, and so much fun working through the concepts.
This week award winning author Karen Rabbitt has been my guest at the studio as we have
Do you know people in your life that simply impress you that they allow God to use them? I have several RAWK stars of Leadership, as Mrs. Fussypants would call them: David Cooper, Michael Hyatt, John Maxwell, Maya Angelou, Dr. Kevin Leman, the late Barbara Jordan, Thelma Wells, Max Lucado, Virginia Turner Smith, Cavett Robert, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and so many others. Not all my heroes are celebrities either. Many are the small town leaders and people who simply do what God tells them to do and they do it with grace and beauty! All of these leaders are in leadership not so much because they had a "master plan" to be a celebrity or larger than life leader, but because of the work they do to build people, projects, and their prestige despite the challenges and the personal cost of leadership for doing it God's way. These folks focus on what is best for all, how to deliver the message they have been given to others, they build and expand those around them and they celebrate others successes as they develop under their leadership along the way, more thrilled for their students and colleagues success than focused on their own.
Who do you look to for leadership? Of course God provides the absolute best leadership daily in his presence in your life. The Bible is full of stories of leaders who rose, fell, and got up again with His mercy and grace. Has God lead you to dream a dream? Is God whispering to you an idea that seems bigger than you could possible do yourself? I am living the reality of a dream that God planted in my heart 24 years ago when I graduated college and worked with so many broken families in a town far from home. A dream to develop programs and events that would help us all create A Joyful Place Called Home. People and teachings that would help families restore the home, one heart at a time. It is very exciting as I come to realize its not just about families like my own step and blended families. This dream is a God gift to all families and I.cannot.wait to see what our God does next! It has given new meaning to the concept that if God gives you the dream, he provides the means to make it happen. My gosh eight months ago I didn't KNOW these twelve women whom God has brought to help with this dream. I didn't know internet television was possible to this level yet. I didn't know how in the world that these dreams He had shown me would be possible. God is God and I am not and God had the details figured out long before I knew the needs! Do you ever feel entirely responsible for something God has given you to do? The truth is, God has it covered, just relax into His goodness and pray faithfully for your own path to be made straight. Our Father God is a loving God He will never shame you, leave you on the path alone, these lessons I am learning daily as God unfolds this dream into a reality. These last eight months have been the most breathtaking time in my life! God is good and I can't wait to share the rest of the story with you as it unfolds!
God is God and we are not!
Sweetie Berry
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