When You Don't Get the Gold Medal

I started running a race years ago and I still don't have my gold medal...I got a boat load of other stuff though. I honestly don't know if I ever made a specific goal. I always followed the rules and lived peacefully among others so I could glorify God. I wanted everyone to get along and I wanted to help others whenever I could. When I imagined my life as an adult, by this point in my life I wanted to have a career, a social life, and a family. In reality, I've had a lot of random jobs, I guess I have a social life and I just started my family (it's my husband and me). I don't see my life as a "gold medal". I love my life; it's just not what I expected. Not only do I feel like I don't have the gold medal, I feel like I'm not even on the path that I started anymore. Which can get confusing. It's like if you prepare to go to Canada and end  up in Hawaii. That's my life; I planned to go to Canada but ended up in Hawaii, which is why I feel so bad complaining about it. So I talked to a colleague to figure out what direction I should go in, and I didn't get the response I expected.

My colleague shared Hebrews 11:6 with me where it says without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. I had read it before, but she added a footnote to it. She said, "...it may not be the reward you expect". That statement lines up with another one of my favorite scriptures: 1 Corinthians 2:9 “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him." So obviously, the reward that God has for me won't be something that I expect. Still not really helping.

The thing about life is there is no "right way" to do it, you just have to lie. Unfortunately I've reached a point in life where I'm scared to live. I worry about even the smallest decisions because I don't know how I ended up where I am. I don't know which straw was the one that broke that poor camel's back. I think I want to open a studio. Last year, I officially started a business ByJRochelle We provide video, graphics, and photography services. My goal right now is to save enough money to buy a building and equip i with everything I need for 2 fully-functioning video studios and 1 fully-functioning audio studio. Sounds pretty lofty, but I'm sure I an do it if I can just stop worrying about what didn't happen. Oh well...until next time

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Not Settling for Good Enough

Joel Osteen @ Lakewood Church

Too many people are living with things that are less than God's best.

•1 Corinthians 2:9 However, as it is written:"What no eye has seen,what no ear has heard,and what no human mind has conceived"—the things God has prepared for those who love him
-"Good enough" is not my destiny.

•Genesis 38:27 When her time came to give birth, it turned out that there were twins in her womb. As she was giving birth, one put his hand out; the midwife tied a red thread on his hand, saying, "This one came first." But then he pulled it back and his brother came out. She said, "Oh! A breakout!" So she named him Perez (Breakout). Then his brother came out with the red thread on his hand. They named him Zerah (Bright).

-We all have 2 people on the inside of us: 1 wants to settle and the other wants to stretch.


•Deuteronomy 1:6 Back at Horeb, god, our God, spoke to us: "You've stayed long enough at this mountain. On your way now. Get moving. Head for the Amorite hills, wherever people are living in the Arabah, the mountains, the foothills, the Negev, the seashore—the Canaanite country and the Lebanon all the way to the big river, the Euphrates. Look, I've given you this land. Now go in and take it. It's the land god promised to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their children after them."

-Just because I give up doesn't mean that God has given up.

-J.J. Watt settled delivering pizzas and remembered that he was destined to play football


• Genesis 11:31-32 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and Sarai his daughter-in-law (his son Abram's wife) and set out with them from Ur of the Chaldees for the land of Canaan. But when they got as far as Haran, they settled down there. Terah lived 205 years. He died in Haran.

-Don't build a house where you should be pitching a tent.

-The first place I lose the battle is in my mind.

-If you don't see what God has placed inside you, see that as temporary...dont settle there.


Numbers 13:28 "We went to the land to which you sent us and, oh! It does flow with milk and honey! Just look at this fruit! The only thing is that the people who live there are fierce, their cities are huge and well fortified. Worse yet, we saw descendants of the giant Anak. Amalekites are spread out in the Negev; Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites hold the hill country; and the Canaanites are established on the Mediterranean Sea and along the Jordan."

-They saw God's goodness in the wilderness; they were too easily satisfied.

-- Sent from JRochelle's Palm