WAHOO!! Such a God thing!

(WARNING! This post includes lots of excitement, including, but not limited to: Internet shouting, excessive exclamation points, PRAISE!!, conviction, hyphenation, word creation, parentheses, run-on sentencing,etc. If you aren't prepared, stop reading now!! TOO LATE!)

Yay! I'm so totally praising God right now. YAY! A new cake order! A woman found my site through someone's blog (thank you whomever it was!), and sent me an email. You should know that I check my email. Obsessively. Compulsively. So often I might need to attend a meeting for this addiction. (Another sign of my addictive personality, but that's another post)

Of course, My Sohl-mate took the computer which contains my business email with him on his trip this week. Did that matter? NOPE! Why? Because --- God is great! He don't need no stinkin' email. He's got G-mail (no, not Google-mail). God connected this same woman and I just after First Wednesday (which is totally a God thing in and of itself!!). She approached me, and asking, "Are you the girl who makes diaper cakes?" Imagine my shock! WAHOO! You better believe I am. I was shocked, though. How did she find me? How did she know me? How did she know?? G - O - D! Thank you!!

O.k., I know I'm a little excited, but God has been showing my that I'm not taking Him seriously enough. He has been telling me all over the place that He wants to bless me in so many ways, but I've been pushing it off and throwing myself a little bit of a no-orders-on-my-terms pity party. Finally the other day I just threw some of my constant, long-time stumbling blocks at His feet. I'm working my hardest not to run back and pick them up, even though I know it's where they belong.

Then last night the blessings began. The Wagnocker Hometeam discussed a previous message, and we talked about passions, gifts, experiences, and locations. I was falling back over one of my long-time stumbling blocks when God threw me for a loop. When called out on my what my passions were, I faltered, saying I didn't know, maybe entertaining. (Please, roll your eyes as God did at my non-committal answer) Kirby totally called me out, though, on two occasions, and reminding me that God does see me as someone better than I allow myself to see. God, through Kirby, was saying, "Hey! Remember you left those insecurities back here?!? They're gone now, wiped away. So stop trying to pick them up again. You're not who they said you were. You never have been. Be who I'm telling you you are." It was totally a world-coming-to-an-audible-screeching-halt moment. WHOA!! THANK YOU GOD!!! Thank you for forcing me to remember who is really in charge of me, and of my direction.

So today when that sweet woman approached me, I was shocked, and not. I wanted to give her one of those almost-knock-you-over, squish-tastic hugs. Trying to maintain my "business etiquette", I politely thanked her, and asked her a few questions. I did end up giving in and hugging her, though not the hug I had initially wanted to bestow upon her. I knew it was God, saying, "See what happens when you let Me do it?"

Such is God, right? Once we show that we'll stay the course, that we want what He wants for us, He opens the gates. YAY! WAHOO!