Showing Up Is Half The Battle

As I walked up to the gym this morning, eyes glazed over with exhaustion, there was a sign that caught my attention.  It read "KNOW that showing up is half the battle"  Ya know...  It's true...  This small little statement can be threaded into every aspect of my life.  The things that I think are so hard, financial insecurities being the biggest for me right now, aren't really that hard.  What's hard is the resistance I give it.  When I just show up and accept my life for  EXACTLY the way it is right now, things get inevitably better...  Being broke isn't really all that tough...  Resisting being broke is...  I don't know if any of that made any sense, but it was almost like an epiphany for me this morning.  Showing up is half the battle, and all I have to show up for is one moment at a time...  There's relief in that for me 

Well, somehow October flew right by me!  It was definitely a busy month...  Angela got married and Clay and I enjoyed our first "out of state vacation" together!  It was SUCH a blessing to be able to stand with her on her day, and to know she'll be standing with me on mine...  

Mom came into town toward the end of October to interview for jobs.  She landed one in San Antonio and will be moving there beginning of December!  I'm actually going to be going up to Idaho to surprise her for her pinning ceremony!  She's graduating from nursing school and has worked too hard for this opportunity to not embrace the full benefits!!!  I'm excited to go up there since it's been almost 2 years since I've been there...  

Less than 6 months to go and I'll be a married woman!  Clay and I found out that we got the park facility that we wanted for our ceremony and reception.  I've started a few DIY projects.  I've had some amazing blessings come my way with this whole wedding planning, it just blows my mind...  I was talking to my boss a couple weeks ago and a piece of reality really sunk in...  We were talking about the wedding and I shared with her that I didn't really get WHY I get to be so lucky...  I get to marry my absolute very best-friend.  I get to grow old with him...  A girl like me doesn't deserve that...  Truly...  A girl like me doesn't earn "happily ever after" yet it's here...  I can only imagine that it's by the grace of some power bigger than me out there that sees more in me than I could EVER see in myself.  I'm just so damn lucky...

Enough rambling for me, I must actually get some work done today   Happy Thanksgiving, try to remember the true meaning of this holiday...  Till next time!

~ Me