Hope Has Arrived!

Great news!  My sweet husband was offered a job this week!   Yeah!  This is nothing short of God's miraculous handiwork.  Others have been looking for work for over a year.  He had six down weeks to lament the loss of the business we had built over 22 years, and God has placed him on a different road.  The Lord's Faithfulness always blows me away . . . He is Good All Of The Time!  Even when it doesn't feel like it.  Even we think that He is not there.  Very thankful that we can move past the uncertainty of losing our home and wondering where to go from here?  On a different note, commercial kitchen plan blew up.  That's alright.  It obviously wasn't right, something better will show up.  Having our Fall Open House next week for Lilli Buttons, excited about that.  Prepping as well for the Nov. 15th Taste of Maitland show.  Praying that God will continue to open doors for us to walk through.  All for now!

Waiting on the World to Change . . .

I know that it is not a good thing to spend time waiting for a day to turn into a new week, a new month, a new year, etc., as time is a gift and not promised to any of us.  I love the thought that that is what the present is.   A gift to be used well daily.  Even when you make the conscious effort to choose happiness over despair, it is still difficult, especially right now.  We are just waiting for something, even small, to happen to change the course of this monotonous waiting since the demise of our retail business.  A call, a glimmer of hope in a conversation, God, please send hope for the future today!   Publix, maybe even Chick-Fil-A!   Ruth Bell Graham was a woman greatly admired.  When she passed, her daughter recalled that the most remarkable thing about her mother was that she chose to be happy, regardless of the circumstances in which she found herself in life.  That is an incredibly difficult charge.  I would hope to someday have enough spiritual maturity in this life,  to realize that the day to day stuff is so fleeting, and that the eternal is one day closer.  The good news is nothing ever stays the same.  Ever. So no matter how dismal life's circumstances are right now, you are not going to be sitting in that same spot forever.  Change will come.  We just have to have faith to know that God is on the job, working out the appropriate job, for my Jesus loving husband.  I can rest in that.  No matter how many days that might take, because His provision is and will be enough.  On a baking biz note, our printed labels arrived yesterday, and they look beautiful!  Our business cards and cake menus arrive today.  Professionalism here we come!   Looking forward to our Lilli Buttons Open House, and all the creative possibilities that the holidays bring.

Got to get decorating for the Fall season, that always puts me in a good mood and seems to energize me.    Thankful that my hub started BSF last night, along with another man that we know, that God also loves dearly.  God is working behind the scenes, the picture just hasn't come into focus yet!  More later . . .