Our lives are for God’s purpose.
We were bought with a price.
We think about natural skills we are born with a supernatural, spiritual gifts that God gives us. I don’t want to waste one minute that God has given me. I fill every day with as many things as I can. I want to inspire my adult children and grandchildren. I hope they appreciate life to the fullest and learn all the great things they can do for God.
In the USA, we are a free people, able to imagine and pursue our dreams. As children, we are told we can be or do anything we want. It is inspirational and exciting!
For me, I was writing and illustrating as a small child and wrote my first book in elementary school. It wasn’t published, but I still have the book. I am still writing today. Children’s Christian books are my favorite. I also wrote about God’s path leading to homesteading and our retreat into the forest escape.
I was always an artist, drawing and painting. For years, I created mosaic art. Now, I create Christian gifts for people to give those they love.
I spent 30 years in advertising and marketing. I learned project management and handled multiple accounts at the same time, buying media and producing anything needed as a full-service advertising agency.
Outreach is important. As a web developer, I have multiple Christian web sites. I also have multiple social media channels, including YouTube, X, Locals and Rumble.
Teaching is important and I focus on communication. In the past, I taught mosaic art and helped elderly people write small books to give loved ones.
Counterterrorism is important to me, so I worked six years helping in this effort processing undercover video and audio, developing web sites, and scheduling book signings and speaking engagements. I feel that everyone should serve their country. I wanted to be in the military, but when we tested to enter at 18 years old, they could not guarantee my husband and I would be stationed at the same base. He joined. The counterterrorism work was my way of serving.
I grew up in a family of builders and I designed our cabin in the woods, and built the greenhouse and the chicken coop, as well as other miscellaneous things.
Working at a coal plant in a laboratory was a strange experience, and working creating logic flowcharts for emergency operating procedures and abnormal procedures for a nuclear facility was also something I could not have imagined.
We spent many years in the oil industry, acquiring leases, developing them and producing both oil and gas. We handled investor money, and had personal oil wells, as well. It was a lot of financial responsibility for me.
I managed technical support for an internet service provider and wrote technical orders for troubleshooting, and worked at my husband’s computer store ordering parts, and teaching software.
Elderly people in a senior center loved writing books for their loved ones, and I loved reading to the blind lady, too. We were reading a book about Revelation and she was very intelligent to talk to.
I produced a prayer letter for many years for missionaries in Africa. It was printed and mailed out in bulk mail. It was a time I treasure, learning about people who have everything in God, but nothing in this world. Such poor people were rich in their hearts!
My family is full of entrepreneurs, so it is no surprise that I have been one most of my life. I enjoy the freedom of having my own business and making the rules to put family first. I could be with the kids when they had special programs, and was a chaperone for school functions, as well as home when they were sick. My daughter-in-laws are both stay-at-home moms, and it is the best way to grow and nurture children in this crazy world.
Now, we are homesteading in the peaceful forest, away from people, and so close to nature – and to God. This is the story of a life lived to the fullest – not a moment wasted! Praise God for all He has allowed me to do and be. I will always be a child of God, because Christ died for me. I will always know God loves me, no matter how I mess up He is quick to forgive if I repent.
We are separate. We are in the world, but not of the world. Don’t have fear, or a lack of confidence. If you feel inspired to write a book, for instance, pick up a sheet of paper and a pen and write the first title you can think of, and then write by you. Now, start writing! You have done something in five minutes that you have been putting off for years. Life might be long or life might be short. Live it to the fullest because quality is better than quantity. Follow God’s path for your life, and don’t let a scraped knee or a couple bruises stop you! It is the American way to fall down and get right back up fighting! Don’t be a timid Christian in silence with a candle under a bushel, but be the light shining on high that God wants you to be!
Hoping to wake another day because there is work to do - praise the Lord!
