The Process

Hello Gorgeous girls!!
I hope everyone is doing well!! Today was so so beautiful!! I hope those of you here got to enjoy it! I took a nap. It was best for all those around me. LOL
So last Sat I was at Bliss Elements Salon and Spa getting my pre-V-day (This post was started 2/18/2011 & completed 7/6/2011) showing me love day on and I spotted the absolutely ADORABLE little girl about age 2-3 years old. She was getting her first blow out and sitting perfectly still and being such a little lady that I actually gushed. And I do not gush over kids. So after she got her hair done I saw her getting her nails done too and again I gushed! She was exactly what I dream of my lil girl will one day be.But then as I watched her sit still and get her hair & nails done like a big girl I realized, I was loving the outcome. For a second there I was looking past the process and focusing on the outcome. Her momma had to go through a process to get there!!! And Whew chile I'm not sure I'm ready for THAT process!!!LOL I do however welcome it in the next 2-3yrs, scratch that when God says its time, just not next month or anything like that.
Anyway its like that for a lot of us wanting the dream & shunning the process. I've wanted to design clothes for forever and yet I've allowed my fear of the process keep me from my dream. Even this blog (confession time: I cringe every time I press send to email my new post, probably why you get so few of them.) Will I be good enough? Will they be encouraged? will anyone outside of my uber supportive chicas read or support it? Will they get it if I invite them to read my thoughts normally reserved for the select few I trust? Thoughts similar to these come to most us when doing something out of our comfort zone. Every single one of us must go through our own process to get to what we deem as success for us. Weight loss: diet & exercise; college degree: studying & test taking; motherhood: pregnancy & child birth; running a marathon: training & conditioning your body; yep, everything has a process even getting ready for work is a process.
Let me say that there is nothing we can't do to excellence if its our passion & we desire it enough! But first we must have the DESIRE. That thing that is buried deep in your heart that you just can not shake (for me my love of style, fashion designing, all things clothing, shoes accessories, with huge stars in my eyes! LOL) when you can't do anything but think about that thing you desire day& night you must push past the starting line, the fear, the procrastination, the naysayers, etc. and go for what you want!!! You won't be happy until you're at the other side with your dream in your hand!! Close your eyes & see yourself doing whatever it is you have that deep burning desire to do. Where there is no VISION the people perish (Proverbs 29:18) The misery where you are right now won't end until you trust God & step out on FAITH to do what He's called you to do! Yes, I said what He's called you do! That's the pressure/ burning in your chest you feel, that you feel when looking around your job, or neighborhood that's the desires God has put in your heart what more then where your are right now. Do you think he wants us existing from day to day in misery? Nah, He wants us to live abundantly and to do that we must go through the process! I won't hype the process up to be fun & easy all the time, we're too honest w/ each other for that right? There will be hard times, but they will pass as you are DILIGENT and push forward. If you get knocked down get back up and keep going!
I know all about getting knocked down & getting back up! Another confession, well more so testimony: I had this math class that was k-i-l-l-i-n-g me!! Every Thursday night I'd come home discouraged & sit on my bathroom floor & cry. Yes math had me that STRESSED!!! When I was done my pity party I'd get off my bathroom floor & tell Jesus as long as it takes and keep going. I caught the bus to tutoring on days I didn't even have class in the freezing cold in a not well lit area w/ chain smokers around me (and not always cigarettes were they smoking if you feel me) & I have Asthma. They told me for my 2 little credits take 2-3yrs, but God did in 9 months Baby!! When the man told me I was graduating early I was praising the Lord like never before shouting in the bathroom at school!!! I put in work because I knew if I remained where I was I'd never get to where I one day what to be ... on your backs & in your closets with my designs. Going back to school to finish my highschool diploma at 26 was a part of my process. Yes you read that correctly, never would have guessed, huh? LOL That's the amazing thing about God He not only will give the desire, vision, faith, & diligence, but He will leave no trace of what you've been through when He's brought you through your valley. I believe that's because when you share your testimony people can't help but to give God the GLORY!!!
God will also give you the drive when you are discouraged because He's right there going through it with you! It's His promise to us, "Don't be afraid, because the Lord your God will be with you everywhere you go." (Joshua 1:9) "Just be strong & brave.!" (Joshua 1:18) So stop standing there debating & go through the process already! You'll be miserable until you do trust me I speak from very personal experience. Right now I'm lacing up my sneakers, one hurdle down just a few more to go!! Next up Technical Design School at Moore College of Art and Design starting July 18, 2011,and I have everything I need: DESIRE, VISION, FAITH, DILIGENCE, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY GOD!!! ....Care to join us and go through the process? DESIRE+ VISION+ FAITH+ DILIGENCE+ GOD= OUR DREAMS
xoxo Mor