I found my mojo

The VCR/DVD Player is up and running. Cadence actually has a second shelf in her closet now. Whether I found a little extra time or just some determination, it's all good. Not great, but little by little, getting there.

Well, it's official. I am an actual "Qualified Pampered Chef Consultant". What does that mean? I submitted my quota in shows and sales for my first month and I am "official". I can keep the apron. I am having a blast with it so far. I get to cook and actually make money doing it. I can't beat that. It's great! And the warm caramel nutty brownies I've been making at my shows aren't half bad either. Anybody got any milk?

Today was back to work as usual. Had to leave early to get Cadence though. The little one is pretty sick. She put her own self to bed at 7, so you know she's gotta be feeling bad. She is my defiant one. The one who won't do ANYTHING unless it is her idea. Sounds like some people I work with! But as headstrong as she is, her heart is in the right place and it's pitiful when one of them gets sick. I wish could just take all of their pain away and endure it for them so they don't have to go through it. But, I am sure there will be many more of those moments in life, where I will wish I had that super power-something a little more than mojo-to protect them from the big bad world, with its big bad problems. But I can't do that. So instead, I am doing the next best thing-teaching them that no matter how big the world may seem, God is so much bigger, and He's got our back. And His mojo blows mine away, any day of the week.

So if you ever get too full of yourself-or even hang your hat on another human-thinking that you did something big or this "person" was your everything, all it takes is a trip to the Creation Museaum to put you back in your place. Their planetarium shows you where earth is in the universe. Where YOU are in the universe. And that is the tiniest of tiniest, little teeney weeney speck in a universe so grand and so intricate, that is hard to even wrap your brain around. Yet He knows every hair on our head, and every thought we think, and every desire of our heart. He is a big, big God yet He knows us intimately. He knows ME. But what does that mean? That we don't need to worry about anything at all because we are so tiny in the big plan that it doesn't matter? Of course not. Even though we are that teeney weeney speck...all it takes is one person to count on us and for us to let them down, or say or not say the right or wrong thing to someone, for us to get the other side of that equation and see just how big we can be, and how much our actions and words can influence others. All that said...Love each other. Tell each other. Get over things. Say you're sorry when you've hurt someone. Put it in perspective. If we don't, I fear that the only thing that will radiate from our tiny little planet as God glances over His Universe, is hurting people. Let's give Him a reason to smile. He gives us reasons every day. The sunrise, the mountains, the smile of someone we love...really, it's the least we can do for Him.