He’s Still Working on Me

I haven’t posted to my blog in quite a while.  I think there’s just so much running through my mind that I don’t know where to start.  God’s working in my life, and I think that 2009 is going to bring about many changes for me, positive changes.  The process of getting there is painful though.

I just returned from a Premier conference, and I am refreshed, motivated, and humbled.  Every year Premier has a Verse of the Year.  For 2009, the Verse of the Year is Proverbs 15:13, “A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.”  I want to start every day of 2009 by reading this verse.

One of the testimonies given at the conference was from a woman with generalized anxiety disorder that is running a successful Premier business in spite of her illness.  She said, “Let your business be the bulldozer that breaks through the problems in your life.”  She will never know what an effect that one phrase has had on me.  For the past year, I haven’t had the will do to anything.  I have let the pain in my neck handicap me in a lot of ways.  This debilitating pain has affected me both physically and mentally.  But, I think that sometimes our mental will can be stronger than our physical abilities.  And God is stronger than any problem we’ll ever have.

Andy Horner, founder of Premier Designs, also spoke at the conference.  He talked about the power of a positive attitude in all aspects of our lives.  He said “Plant seeds and let God handle the results.”  This is true for witnessing, for parenting, and for working our Premier businesses.  A positive attitude is a seed that when planted and prayed over can have enormous results.  I am ashamed to say that I haven’t had such a positive attitude in the past year.  I have let my pain control my life.  I’m embarrassed to even say that, but there it is.

I am so glad that God is working on me.  He’s got a lot of work to do!!!!  I do too.