It’s been a crazy week here in the Queendom. I had high hopes to be incredibly productive . . .
to get the house just so for the Christmas holidays.
to write so many blog posts it would make your head spin.
to have lunch with a friend.
to get so much work done that I would be way ahead when break began for the Princesses.
to shop and wrap and meet with a young friend who I’ve been encouraging.
So many plans. But let’s just say that things rarely turn out how you plan and instead I spent one full day in bed feeling like crud. My girls have been home THREE days this week with respiratory gunk and fevers. The house is a mess. I have barely written. I cancelled all of my plans.
Today, to avoid work I cleaned my kitchen. I texted a friend to let her know I had truly hit rock bottom. If you know me well, you know I hate to clean. Usually I would chose anything else first but since the kiddos are home because of 24 hour fever rules but with no fevers currently, I couldn’t concentrate anyway so I sat on the floor and hand mopped my really icky vinyl. It was the high life. Also, photo evidence because it happens so rarely:
The one highlight of the week has been receiving texts and e-mails and Instagram photos and Tweets and Facebook posts from friends and readers who are already beginning to receive their copies of Slaying the Debt Dragon. It’s still a little surreal that the book will be on the shelves in a matter of a couple weeks. And apparently, Amazon and Family Christian already have it in stock online and copies are shipping out. Pssst, it might make a great Christmas gift for someone you love. Double pssst I am giving away three autographed copies in the next 24 hours.
I have to be honest that I’m feeling a little uncertain, a little raw (not just my nose), and a little bewildered. I have no idea what lies ahead. I really like control. I really like people to like me. I really like to know where I’ll be three weeks from next Saturday. I need to let go of all of those I really likes. What’s done is done and what the future holds is far from my control. But all the same, I wouldn’t mind it if you whispered a prayer or two for me. I need to remember what I’ve been called to do and focus on the task at hand. I need to be ok with coming apart at the seams and dodging the illusion of a perfect anything – Christmas, book launch, family. I need to remember that I’ve been caught up in a great cloud of people cheering me on and that their voices matter more than those who seek to deride the story God has given us.
Here we go.
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Praying for you Cherie! God’s got this…