These past 5 months have been a whirlwind of gartermaking, website creation, Dress Tagging, emailing, Pillowing, twittering, facebooking, sewing, lacing, embroidering, traveling, & all around HandCrafted Creation-ing.
Did you notice anything missing from that line up?
I did...
How about Family-ing.
Everything that I listed above falls under the catagory of WORKING...
While I really do love creating lovly works of art.. such as the dress tags, embroidered pillows and wedding garters. I do need to step back and take inventory of my life. I must say that I am feeling a bit lost and empty even though I am very busy. I have been doing some soul-searching about why I have been feeling this way... and it seems to me that the reason is because I am over-working and under family-ing.
I've been on the social networking band wagon more so this year than in the past. It can be quite obsessive if you ask me. Tweeting this... facingbooking that... blogging about everything under the wedding sun. Some people are extreemly obsessed with it. I have the ability within me to go down that road. Infact I think that's what's making me feel so blue lately. I have been on that road and it's not the road that includes my family.
In September I was going a bit crazy working on orders and then making new contacts, creating brand new design samples to send to this person and to that person... In the midst of this kaotic bliss God was whispering to me... Back a long while ago I was inspired to write a scripture in my planning/ password book. I handwrote it in various random places in my book so that when I paged through I would stumble across it while working. Well, This is where God started working on my heart. Busy as a bee looking for passwords to various sites to log in and work on social media networking, blogging, twittering etc... and BAM there's that scripture as I page through... Read it and think on it... then get back to work. This went on all week as I was using my book for all my info needs... This scripture kept on being stumbled upon over and over. I began to really think on it and see that I NEEDED to Heed it's calling!!
the scripture reads:
"Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint"
HAVE THE WISDOM TO SHOW RESTRAINT
That hit home as I was making garters and a custom designed pillow for the Southern Weddings Magazine. I was wearing myself out... I was spending all my time on my business leaving little but "crumbs" left for the family. Well this really isn't what I'm all about. I am a down home family kinda gal at heart. From the time I was a little girl I dreamed of being a wife to a great guy (got that) and a mother (got that) God has blessed me with the deepest desires of my heart. It's time for me to really embrace them.
Another scripture that holds true and helps me out is this one...
":Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."
Prayers help & God does give peace that transcends understanding. It's a blessing that is just wonderful. In times like this I am grounded when I read ....
"whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
Thinking about such things - rather than the social media Highschool popularity contest is so much more healthy. I am here to say I am going to try much harder to do this!!
Victoria Joanne Love~Your~Garter
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6 Comments - Click to give Your 2Cents:
Very well put, thanks for sharing. Needed to hear this. Rose
A very good read! Two years ago when I left the corporate world, I felt as if a huge stone lifted off my chest. My husband used to tease me that the airport was my home away from home.
Now with a new business, I'm as hectic as ever. But I get the chance to cook dinner, take the kids to school, and enjoy my morning cup of coffee at home instead at the airport!
We all have different stages in life, and each stage has a different calling. Trust your instinct. Embrace the present for the present passes by and you won't get it back. Be mindful.
I hope you have wonderful day.
Rose ~*~* I'm glad it helped you.
Christine ~*~* It can be a stone. I am so very greatful for being able to work from a home office and have my family here. I need to embrace it more and not let it pass by as you said it so correctly. We can't get it back.
Thank you for sharing. It can be tough and time consuming and sometimes you need to take a step back and ask what's really important in your life. I needed this little reminder, thank you :)
I think a good soul searching every now and then. I am happy for you.
I may have met you via Twitter, but I will always be here for you IRL.
Cherise ~*~* You aint kidding - tough and time consuming is exactly right.
I'm glad this little reminder did help you a bit. I think we all need to assess things every now and then so that we will be sure we don't end up living with regret about the things we wish we had done.
Lauren ~*~* Soul searching is good :) I'm very glad we met on Twitter - Twitter has been one of my favorite things to meet great wedding related people! and I'm glad to hear that you'll be here even outside of twitter :)
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