Louder Than the Voices

 Hey There! Happy Saturday! I hope you have had a good week! Mine has been long and sometimes exhausting but overall, I realized this morning in my talk with God that the good by far outweighed the bad. When it seems like I have had a hard week, I fall back on something I used to have my AWANA boys do when it seemed like they were having a tough time. Give me 5 things. Just 5 things that went right this week.  Here are the FIRST five that came to mind: 1. I had a goal to make it back to the gym Mon-Fri of this week, and I did. 2. I had a goal to walk on the treadmill at least 30 minutes each of those days, and I did. 3. On Wednesday, I was asked to be a panelist for a workshop at the National Energy and Utility Affordability Conference. I was honored and gladly accepted. 4. Yesterday I was asked to hold a 4 hour workshop to help with customer satisfaction for not only our agency but two others. Again, I was honored and gladly accepted. 5. I travelled 2 days this week, being aw...

 Happy Saturday morning! Hope everyone is having a great, maybe a little laid back, start to the day. What a week! (Do I say that every week?) This week, we moved one of our ERBA outreach offices. I had the IT stuff all coordinated with the new building's CIO and we thought we had it all worked out----until we didn't. By the end of day one, we had plans B,C,D and E in our head but no proof that any of them would work, or more importantly, work quickly. Plan B was the second most viable and I was told on Day 2 that it would take 2-10 days to put in place. 3 hours later, after much prayer, and honestly praying someone else hadn't done their job completely, we were up and running! Pretty close to a miracle. So, Day 1's disaster turned into Day 2's big win.  Our whole week has been a series of ups and downs, and maybe most weeks are like that but this week it felt very pronounced.  We had been praying hard for a couple of things and one of them, we were told no and the ...