This has been quite the year. Many ups and down but overall I am beyond blessed. I am so not worthy of any of the blessings that I have. I am so grateful for each of them. God is truly loving and faithful.
Over the past few months, as I slowly share my blessings with others their response tends to be "wow you are so lucky". I am quick to reply "its all God". Truly, everything I have in life is because of God. I pray so much and try my hardest to always rely on God. I can't make it through a day without Him.
So on a quick note, some of the blessings that I have received this year has been my job, being able to spend time with Popeye, finally paying off my credit card debt, and my health is slowly getting better.
At my job, this job was a gift from God. For years my mom was concerned with the fact that I haven't worked since 2012. But I kept telling her that God told me to "be still". So for the past 6 years, I tried to be as still as I could be (which those of you that me on a personal level know how hard that is for me). But I stayed still as for as work is concerned. I did try a job for a few weeks while on Guam and it was a disaster. It made me realize that when God is ready for me to go back to work He would open the door. Friend, when I tell you waiting on God for a job was the best thing ever. This job has been blessing me in ways that I could not have imagined or expected. I am blessed with a good boss. I call her "boss lady". She thinks I am ridiculous for calling her that but she answers to it lol. I have no idea where I got that from or why I call her that but it stuck and I can't call her anything else. I try calling her by her first name but it always comes out as "boss lady". She is a praying woman and it has been a blessing to have a boss that has a relationship with God. It definitely helps when there are bad days at work. She is very understanding and fair. I have a few awesome coworkers. One in particular, whom I will name "Josephine" she has been such a great friend and coworker. Lord, knows I need her in my life. We share the same birthday. We love to laugh and enjoy life. But most of all, I learn so much from her. God put us together for a reason. One of those reasons is to help me realize that I have been Jonah (that post coming soon) for so long and just needed to stop running. So thank you Josephine for helping me realize that. You are a blessing more than you will ever realize.
At home, having time with Popeye is still a weird concept but I am loving it. We are both always working or tired so we don't do a lot of exploring in our new city. However, we make the most of the time we do have together. We are learning each other like its our first year of marriage because we have been apart for so long up till November 2017. Its been challenging but fun. I love my Popeye.
Finances, we still have a long way to go before we hit financial freedom. But we are plugging away at it one day at a time. We are slowly working our debt following the snowball effect and Dave Ramsey.
Through all of this and so much more, I have prayed and stayed before God. None of the above would have been possible had it not been for Him. Anyway, I am done rambling now but to answer those that keep telling me I am lucky. No, friend, I am not lucky. I have prayed and prayed and prayed some more. But really now I must get back to cleaning my house and getting ready for my upcoming work week. But remember....
