The Journey

About four months ago I made a choice, a very hard choice. I was miserable with the way I had been living…nothing bad..just mundane..just mediocre, just coasting…and I had some choices to make. Sometimes God sends storms into our lives that make us change…and sometimes He doesn’t..but I still had a choice…and I chose to do whatever He asked of me with the gifts that He has given me…whether I was uncomfortable with it or not. I could see what God wanted to teach me…and at first, I sat around and cried about it..I didn’t want to change..but then I said yes… and then…something amazing happened.

I felt that I needed some adventure. Kind of like the movie Walter Mitty…where he’s always dreaming the adventure….always saving up for “someday” and then “someday” finally came and instead of daydreaming the adventure…he lived it!

What is it that you want to do in life? What adventures do you want to go on? Do you want to go camping and see how you can survive a horrible rainstorm with lightening all night and thunder???

Or perhaps, you want to do something crazy like clowning…but you’ve been holding back…to afraid that people will think your weird?

These were all things that I have felt…but four months ago…I said that I would do what He asked of me…regardless of how uncomfortable I felt..:

So far…I’ve met some incredible people…I met a lady with Food For kids where we made sandwiches Monday mornings in the summer.::and I clowned at their water day…

I taught kids at the Youth Alliance how to clown and we went to the retirement home and had a blast!

I clowned for Pivotal Point and the animal shelter.

I went on tv and did this character for a promo for our store.. two things I said I would never do: go on tv, and clown at my store..

Decided to do some clown visits with new friends:

Went to a business meeting and got the business people to do “Tony Chestnut” with me…they did awesome!

Introduced a new character for our store to have some fun in our community….

I say none of these things to brag…only to say…how amazing it is to me how many doors open when we finally let go and let God direct us. Last year, I couldn’t beg people enough to let me clown…the doors all kept closing…because I was knocking on the wrong doors.

Sometimes, the greatest blessings can come into our lives when we least expect it. When we are at our weakest, when we feel like hiding in our homes and never coming out…but God had amazing plans for each of us…if we will only let fear go.

Fear was my biggest obstacle…it still is…and I will overcome it.

For now…I keep being amazed at the doors that keep opening…I keep walking through what He has asked me to walk through…and I keep being amazed at how all the things I was trying to fix and control…He totally has.

Press on friend…press on!