Remember What Matters Most...

It has been FOR-EV-ERRR (much needed Sandlot reference!).  Needless to say these past three weeks have been a blur, and with one weekend off ahead, it all starts up again after.  I hope this finds everyone well and enjoying the Fall as it embraces us, FINALLY, and the holidays are right around the corner!

The last two weeks I have been on the go but a good on the go.  It started with our first Fall championships at the Big West, cross country the last weekend in October, just love watching people run! That next Friday I landed in the South to celebrate two very special friend’s birthdays! While I was only there for hours… maybe 60… Each moment is always great with my Memphis family.  This past week I traveled up North for the men’s soccer championship in Davis.  Luckily we had semifinals Wednesday and finals Saturday so I got to have some much needed time with the fam!

These past two weeks and being with my family, Memphis and Stockton, I have realized that is what life is all about! I am my happiest when I am surrounded by those I love most and those that care for me as well.  Work has swallowed my life to the core, which in my line of work can be an easy thing to happen, but I must step back and make time for the things that keep me going when overwhelmed.

Life can grab us and not let go, spinning us around and putting blinders up to the things that we need to have strength to get through.  While I have my routine, work, Saturday off for errands and regroup, Sunday church and then work, nowhere in there am I making time for me, or most importantly my relationship with God. 

Many questions stagger in my mind these days and I forget the ultimate answers lye in meditating and focusing on God’s will for our life and where he wants us to be.  But in order to listen to his calling we must first meditate on his word and go to him with all things.  We must walk in faith in every aspect of our lives, it is hard to give God everything, sometimes it means losing that that means the most to you.

 A dear friend recently reminded me of Deuteronomy 28:1-2, “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on the earth.  All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God.”

    

Love to y'all! ~Brie