Live. Love. Lead.

     I just finished my 3rd year in an official leadership position. I love it. Every day I experience the cycle of success, defeat, frustration, illumination, exhaustion, second wind, stuckness, alertness, "in my zone", no where near my "comfort zone" and everything (if there's anything left) in between. It's coming to a time when I am getting a lot of questions on what my next move is going to be. Are you ready for the next level?      I struggle with this because I often feel there is much still to be learned in the chapter I am living. I struggle with what the "next level" will require of me? What will it require of the family I seek to have one day? How can I find my rhythm between all the roles I carry?      As a woman who strives to live faithfully to God, I struggle to know how there can be room for public leadership, eventual entrepreneurship, health + fitness, beauty, education, family (when that time comes), and faith? Oh and sle...

     For me, this season has been a long, long, one more time LONG one! There have been many triumphs and also many trials that have taken me by the chin and put my face before the throne of my King. Praise Him for His faithfulness especially in our process of repentance! Our King is kind and faithful! No way, do we deserve to even have audience with Him and yet like the Psalmist states "what is man that You take thought of us?" (Psalm 8:4).      In this season, the Lord has tested my faith...and many times I did not know how much more I could take. In these times of despair, the Spirit prompted me back to the only source of truth, not my feelings, not my grit; but His word; so I re-read Hebrews 11. The portion on Sarah stuck out particularly to me since she was the first woman mentioned as this example of one who hopes and has the assurance of hope even though that hope is not seen. The Word says, "she considered Him..." (Heb. 11:11). She "considered Him...