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“What a day”

Today was a day where at the end as I am writing this I am just thanking God I made it through. I woke up as usually feeling blessed to have another day where I am healthy and able to care for my family. We decided to go have a nice brunch and enjoy some time together........half of that happened. When all was said and done we tried to leave. Now I say tried because the battery in our vehicle decided it was time to die. So there we are in the parking lot with over 100 degree weather all the kids are in the car sweating. Lucky for us our sweet friend was working close by and was able to help us get the van going again. When we got home my husband went out to get the battery and had plans of replacing it himself. He returned and it was early enough for me to feel like we had a whole day still ahead of us after this ten minute battery change. However I was wrong about that. Complications quickly arose when we realized we didn’t have one of the tools we needed. I searched through the garage and found some treasures but no luck with tools. I could see that my husbands momentum was leaving so I said nothing and watched him walk into the house. My heart is that of a very stubborn person, I refuse to give up unless there is no earthly way to fix something. So I rummaged through the tool box and was able to solve the problem. Team work makes the dream work because the joy on my husbands face when he saw I fixed the problem was the best. We high fived each other and then sat in the air con in the car that was able to turn on because of the lovely battery. The day still had some life left so we decided to go buy food to make dinner, which turned into us grocery shopping, which then turned into us eating taco bell for dinner in the van. Needless to say the day did not go as planned. I did not get to have a mini getaway with my family BUT we were able to eat taco bell and enjoy each others company. Before the day was officially over I got to hear a zoom meeting between my husband and the AMAZING musicians and people that work beside him. I felt so blessed to know all of them and hear how God has poured into their lives. This part of ministry I love. If I had the opportunity to sit and hear every persons story about how they have encountered God and been blessed by him I would. This is one of those “behind the scene” moments I love. I am not the person directly pouring into the lives of those around me but I get to hear how the God who loves us all had blessed them. I get to hear from the people who stop my husband to talk about worship and how the church we are apart of has helped them and has given them a family they can lean on. Being “behind the scene” and hearing your stories is such a blessing. One story that sticks out is when we went out to eat dinner with family. We were just sitting and my Boo gets this tap on his shoulder and the words that came from this sweet person brought some water to my eyeballs. Moments like this make it worth it for me to be understanding of the schedule and tasks that are brought to us. If me being the person to hold the fort down just for a few hours or a couple days is what it takes for just one person to come to Christ I am all for it. As for me and this day.......we did a lot of laughing and praying! But I am blessed to say I am still ending it with a sigh of relief because I serve a God who kept us safe and gave me GRACE through my frustrations today!

Don’t compare your life to others. There’s no comparison between the sun and the moon, they shine when its their time.

-unknown-

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“Magazine Family”

A term that was thrown at me by a sweet friend with the best compliments behind it. When I heard this it for sure caught me off guard. Never in my life would I associate myself or my little family as that of one that would be magazine worthy. Me the wife of a worship pastor, the woman who has to drag herself out of bed and cheer myself on just to make it to the coffee machine before I even try talking to anyone. That was then followed up with “y’all are always so put together and so nice looking.” Little did they know the house looked like a tornado just came into town. This is just one of the many times I have had in my life where I wish I had more time to explain who I am and how I function....hence the blog. I am Katrina Perez, I come from a small town and I have three beautiful blessings that call me mom. I have a wonderful husband who as I mentioned above is a worship pastor. My life is so very far from perfect but for reasons still unknown to me I am looked at as a person who has it all together. With my husband being who he is most of the time people get to see him and what he is about. As for me and the kids....we are the people “Behind The Scene”. I really want to break this fictitious standard people have set up in their mind about a family who is involved in ministry together. Talking about the pressures of it all and how truly exhausting and messy it is. A lot of the time I am judged off of my social media accounts which quit frankly I could live without but still have because I feel the need to keep up with appearances. Was that a little too real? Welp that is the truth. I love people and I want them to know me for me and not off what they see on a good day I may be having or a special event where I force myself as well as the kids to at least try to look presentable instead of like bushman. I am human and I cry, eat my feelings, happy dance, feel overwhelmed and sometimes on a really bad day wonder why I was chosen to live the type of life I do. We (the kids and I) may not be on stage every sunday like my Boo but we have our own ministry going on and if you stick around you will get to enjoy the joyful and messy part of being a “Behind The Scene”.

“One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through and it will be someone else’s survival guide”.

-Brene Brown-