Today I had big loads to carry My Uber driver was a wonderful man that I had ridden with before so he loaded my bags into his trunk and then I got in.
We had an easy conversation and when he pulled into Rockwall Body and Soul Massage, I stepped out and a wave of pain hit from my knee. This rarely happens- usually it just locks and I stand still for a few seconds to get the nerves responding but this morning when I stepped out, my knee went too far.
Marvin immediately grabbed my bags and then offered his arm.
I smiled at him and took his hand; my fingers sliding into his grasp as if we had already known each other.

We walked down the uneven rocky path and up the steps and then I hugged him tight before he opened the door and led me into the house.

I had shared with him a quote I had read in my devotional this morning and I believe those words were on both of our minds as we hugged.
Goethe said,”If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
The devotional went on to say “ What if your words grew out of the vision of their fulfilled potential instead of their current reality? You would begin to see them grow and flourish in ways you never imagined. Those are the kind of words that have the power to affect people for a lifetime. Trust me, the people in your life already know what their problems and weaknesses are; they don’t need you to tell them. When you become a source of encouragement to them rather than a faultfinder and self-appointed problem-fixer, you are cooperating with God
in building them into who he wants them to be.”

That just hit me so hard – the power of words spoken to me and by me……. Some words I’ve spent my life trying to prove wrong, other words I’ve spent my life trying to live up to.

So when I asked a new friend, Brandy Lancione, to be a model for a new healing session I had been creating in my head, I knew the reasons why I asked her- because I wanted to encourage her and show her the beauty and versatility of different massage modalities,

I plan to invite more people to receive while I improvise and figure out what the flow and intention is for these sessions…and others I’m planning to create.

One of my thoughts has been to shine and shimmer much like God puts His sparkle on us and sometimes we catch the light and see the radiance shining—
It’s like glittery confetti- God has ways of showing up in the most unlikely places all the time.
He showed up in the hug from Marvin, the tight hugs from Brandi and then when my neighbor took my hand and walked me to the front door of my home- I saw God at work once again.

After I was home awhile, I changed into my workout clothes and went into the gym.

I didn’t really feel like working out but I had promised myself that I would do 60 reps every day for 60 days and I keep my promises- even those I make to myself.

20 crunches
20 hip thrusts
20 side bends
20 ball slams
20 tricep curls
20 side ball touches
3 sets and it was done

It’s part of the deal- I’ll do my part because I know God is making a way through the wilderness even when the wilderness is me.