Tips for a Happy 2021!

Well, well, well....here we are! A fresh New Year! I don't know about you but for me 2020 started out a real shit show... February I had a hysterectomy I didn't want or wasn't prepared for... then QUARANTINE...what's a girl to do?! Well, like the rest of the world, I stayed home. It'd been a long couple years for me. March of 2018 I got laid off, then three weeks later my little brother got shot, he's ok, thank GOD! but I moved to Florida so his mom and our dad could get sober while he suffered through 26 surgeries and months of infection. He was supposed to be going to college on a baseball scholarship and instead everything changed... I finally came home the end of August only to start hemorrhaging a month later, which lead to a fibroid/endometriosis diagnosis, six month of Lupron and medical menopause and eventually a breakup and hysterectomy... the last three months haven't been my best. But can I tell ya something? Four years ago I reconnected with God at a time I needed it more than I even knew. Almost three years later I'm sitting in a cottage on Sarasota Bay with the love of my life... how did it come to be? Well, God.

For years I prayed for a God-fearing man who would walk in to my life. I'd attempted online dating off and on, I live in a shallow dating puddle, and I don't go to bars so I prayed for him. 'Lord, I'm going to have to run over him (gently) with my car or he's going to have to move in next door...well, by the grace of God, he did. And here we are today. God is good and He will provide. After a hysterectomy and 15 years of bad decisions I never thought I'd find my person. I never knew what true love until now. I let my faith, my unwavering faith take over. I let GO of control and gave every decision to Him...even my hair and my outfits. LOL, sounds so stupid when I type it, but I'm freaking serious!

I listen to a LOT of Joyce Meyer, and a few years ago she said something that changed my whole world...everything is small to God, He created our entire existence in 6 days then took a nap. She said, I ask Him what to wear and how I should style my hair... your biggest problems ain't NOTHING to Him...He could fix every ONE of our problems in a second, but He's waiting on us... so I started praying those things, for my hair, my man, my outfits, my finances...all the things, NO thing is too big OR too small for Him.

My challenge for you in 2021, is to let go. Just do it. You're NOT actually in Control of anything anyway, it's hard to do, trust me, it's a DAILY practice, but better late than never. Just do it, at least try. Whatcha got to lose? Fear? Anxiety? Those things aren't serving you anyway.

Let go. Let GOD. 'The old has passed away, BEHOLD, the NEW has come.' 2 Corinthians 5:17. Happy New Year my friends, may your year be filled with blessings, in Jesus' name, Amen.