I have begun the process of starting my personal training business beginning with the business plan and registering my business name, (hopefully next week!) At the same time I have a applied to a handful of gyms in my area and I will just wait patiently for a phone call. I will not worry. I will simply wait.
I want to make blogging my regular thing again and I am constantly reminded how we all have gifts that we should use to serve others. I don't think I'm a New York Times Bestselling author (though I swear if I landed a Real Housewives gig I could out-write Teresa Guidice, am I right? LOL) I do know that I've always loved writing and blogging is my outlet.
I have been reading a great book, Living on the Edge by Chip Ingram, and just got done with a chapter that talked about authentic community and how it occurs first with the real you through authenticity and purity. "Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good." Romans 12:9
"For authentic community and genuine love to occur between two followers of Christ, we need to take off our masks. We need to stop projecting what we think others will like, and start being open and honest, and appropriately vulnerable." -Chip Ingram, Living on the Edge
I am thinking that I ended up reading that chapter today when I was also missing blogging at the same time to be a message from God to be open and get to blogging again! I am in a stage in my life that is crucial because I could easily fall, or I can grow and become the strongest person I ever could dream of becoming. I have no idea which will happen but I am striving for the latter. I have been in the midst of many struggles, emotional, physical, mental, etc. and I feel like I need to stop hiding that and just share it all. Maybe someone out there can be inspired!
When I went to a Joyce Meyer conference event in Tampa just last week, I remember her saying that if we want to do something big, start a ministry, or do something that makes a difference, that we need to start with ourselves. To live as close to Christ as possible because we need to strive to be ambassadors of Christ. That how we live and who we are might be the only evidence of Christ to someone who wants to know Him! That was huge for me to hear and knowing that we each carry such a responsibility to serve our God by serving each other, I really want to do my part! I think it begins with my writing in this blog for me...
I have been brainstorming a lot of article ideas I'd like to write for this blog. I am going to focus still on fitness and clean living, but at the moment I may have a lot more to say on the inspirational, mental health side of being STRONG. So be patient with me if I seem disorganized in my posting schedule for a while. I'm not gonna stress about it. I think I'll just share what is on my heart at a given moment. Though I do have a struggle with exercise now that I don't have a gym yet! So I'll be trying to get creative and share those experiences with those of you who also don't have a gym and have to workout at home. It can be done!
All in all, I feel loved and blessed and then I feel lonely and abandoned. I guess those are natural feelings of any divorcee. . .
I don't want to feel like a screw up with anything to hide so I am going to make myself blog more often! I hope you get something out of it!
So here are some topics I am working on:
- Independence
- Promises
- Feeling Fake
- Fighting off Fear
- Living Day by Day
- Trusting God
- The Body Struggle
- Being a Friend
- Assumptions
- Little Things
- Working Out for a Feeling
- Fighting the Bumps
- One Step Back, Two Steps Forward
- Feeling Worthy
- Where is Home?
- Signs in the Right Direction
- Repeat it Until You Become It
There are lots more I can ramble about but I think by glancing over those topic ideas you can see an overview of all the things/feelings I am going through at this moment. My life feels like a roller coaster that I really want to get off of but it never stops. However, I am filled with so much hope and faith and that is what gets me through day by day. So there won't be regular schedule here for a while, it will probably be more of a brain dump! I also want to give tips or little challenges you can use to apply to your life. I hope anything I share helps you or makes you appreciate life better :-)
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Melina, I'm so glad you're making some time to write again. As a Christian blogger I often wrestle with the question of whether I should share my daily life--including the ugly warts and extremely painful moments--or if I should only write the things that uplift or make others feel like they would also want to follow Christ. I love the quote you shared from Chip Ingram (one of my faves, by the way). Every time I "hide" and don't share I just miss writing and sharing my life. I recently shared some of the pain I've been walking through, and an amazing thing happened afterward. Despite my desire to take it all back and "unpublish" it, I actually was unable to since my internet went down. Two days later, I was able to get back online and I was overwhelmed by the love and concern of my readers. We all feel bad sometimes, and we all go through awful things that we don't have any control over. You are courageous for sharing your struggle, and you are surrounded by love because you share. I hope you feel that love in the coming week and that it strengthens you to keep walking on the harder path toward growth, even on the days when you feel you've failed. Peace & Joy to you.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, if you want to read my painful post, here's the link: http://alifeinseason.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-pain-of-loss-hope-does-not.html.