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Football season baby! It's the most wonderful time of the year!

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Created for a purpose

God can use your separation or divorce to help you understand His plan for your life. God created you for a specific purpose that only you can fulfill. In order to know where He is directing you and to hear what He is saying to you, you must draw near to Him, spend time developing that relationship, and start praying about how God can use you.

Dr. Myles Munroe says, “God created everybody for a purpose. You were not born for the purpose of being married; therefore, you must discover the dream God put in your heart. There’s something He wants done on this earth that requires your life.”

The story of Esther in the Bible is a beautiful story of a young, orphaned Jewish girl who, through God’s sovereignty, was chosen to be queen. While Esther was queen, a plan had been put into effect to destroy all Jews in Persia. In the face of great personal danger, Esther was obedient to God and approached the king on behalf of the Jews. Because Esther was in that unique position, she was able to save hundreds of lives. The Bible says that God placed Esther in that royal position “for such a time as this.”

Those key words can also apply to your life. There will come a time (or times) when God has planned for you to be in a certain place, at a certain time, and at a certain level of spiritual maturity to fulfill His purpose. He is preparing you “for such a time as this.” Be ready!

“Who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:13-14).

Sovereign Lord, You know and plan the days of my life. Please use my life for Your great plans that I cannot yet see. Amen. *Borrowed with Love from “Divorce Care Daily Emails”

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Coffee helps me translate mornings.

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#GetOutside #prettyclouds #freshairisthebest

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#truestory

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Watching thunderstorms together. #favoritepastime #sonotreadyforwinter #foreversummer #lovethunderstorms

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#GetOutside

I think the first thing I want to do to create the life I want is to get outside more. More walking. More running. More mountains. More wide open sky. There's something about fresh air that makes the world seem full of possibilities.

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“Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.”

Dr. Ben Carson

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Write a book, they said...

Like writing a book is easy, right? Everyone should do it. Okay, I do have a talent for writing. And that’s saying something because I’m the last person in the world who’s willing to brag about myself. But I am good at it. The problem with writing is the amount of creativity you need to have, especially in place of having actual life experiences. Let me back up. I’m 29. I’m 30 in less than a month but I’m holding on to 29. I’m divorced. I’m a college student who is trying desperately to finish her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. I’m childless (which FYI is okay with me). I’m living paycheck to paycheck (huzzah America). I live in my parents’ basement. At age 29 (basically 30). After work, I come home and walk my dog, Maddie…binge-watch Pretty Little Liars on Netflix…do my homework and go to bed. Sometimes to spice things up I do some laundry. I’m not interesting. That makes writing really hard. I don’t have any kind of life to play off of, so I have to create an entirely fictional world that would be more interesting to live in and more exciting to share with people than what I’ve got going on. And it is really hard to do. If it wasn’t, I would have done it by now. Probably. So I got to thinking.

I should actually try to be interesting. I should start creating a life for myself so that I have something to write about! It can’t be that hard, right? I think the hard part is creating the interesting life, and the easy part will be telling the story afterwards. After all…I’m practically 30. If not now…when?

I’m not sure it will help. I tend to avoid new/different/fun/exciting/life-changing things. Why? I haven’t figured it out yet. I think I’m scared. I’m not sure what of. But fear keeps a lot of people in their little boxes when they deserve to break out and be free. What I need to do is take stock of what I’m scared of, and work to change it so that I can start living the life that I want. The life that I planned for myself. The life that I can envision that seems so much better than life in a “second teenager-hood”. Just because my ex-husband doesn’t want me anymore is not a good reason to hide from life. But I’m letting it control me. Even if I don’t want him, I’m hiding so that no one else has a chance to get into my life and subsequently let me down. Well, I need to get over that. I don’t have to let people in if I’m having a fabulous life. Maybe my life will be so fabulous that I won’t even want to. But this isn’t working for me anymore. I’m going to start creating the kind of life for myself that I’d be proud to write about and share with the world.

I bought a book entitled “How To Be Interesting”. I’m not sure it will help…because my room is so disastrous right now that I can’t find it. But maybe it will have some ideas that can jump-start this journey. Once I find it, that is. But maybe I can dream up some things on my own. I know a lot of fabulous people. Surely they didn’t all have to read that book to become who they wanted to be. Right?!

Now…

Where to start…

I’ll come up with a game plan after my Econ homework.

~K