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We’re all women here, right?  Who doesn’t love a sweet, from the heart love letter?  Thought so. 

My “love language” is words of affirmation {if you don’t know yours, you MUST find out…http://www.5lovelanguages.com/…read the book too}. 

What does ”words of affirmation” mean?  It means that what you say to me sticks like hot glue right to my heart.  I need and crave positive words affirming me as a woman, mom, friend, sister, daughter, co-worker, on and on.  Words fill my love tank.  And words can empty it too.

I’ve been so busy lately I’ve hardly been able to tell my head from my rear. Seems like there is never enough time in the day to get everything that needs done DONE.

Can I get a witness?!

I had a convo with God the other day about how to get it all done and how to prioritize, what to cut out, what to keep. I’m truly wearing myself out just thinking about it right now. The word that kept coming up through that convo was “blinders”.

Hello, world.  My name is Becki and here is what I am: I’m a believer and follower of Jesus Christ.  I’m a wife and a mom of 4 girls.  I’m a photographer and I own my own business.  I live out in the country in a state where we experience the extremes of all four seasons (i.e. the incredible ice storm that has laid 1/2″ of ICE on the ground outside as I write this.  Only 60 days ’til Spring, people!  Yeah.  I’m keeping track.). 

Here is what I am not: A marketing genius.

1. A wish or desire accompanied by confident expectation of its fulfillment.
2. In Christianity, the theological virtue defined as the desire and search for a future good, difficult but not impossible to attain with God’s help.

The book of Job is full of hope….Job’s hope that he will be healed and his heart will be restored. Job is ever so faithful and he cannot be broken….no matter what is done to his heart, his land, his fortune, his health. He BELIEVES that God is what He says He is, only faltering from that faith for a split second. Job trusts God. He just does.

Yesterday, as I was driving home I decided to stop along the road and take a few pictures of the soybean fields. For those of you not from the midwest, you may have no clue what soybeans even are….have no fear. Google it. Anyway, I’m not sure if this year they are prettier than normal as they turn and are getting ready for harvest or if my eyes see things in a different way these days.

I know it was for me because as I was driving I was asking God to keep me on the right path…to show me where to go, what to do…I was praying that He give me a sign. I hadn’t “heard” from Him in a while. I was shocked when that rainbow just fell out of the sky. I really do love it when He does that.

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