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"it's only by zooming out that you get the full picture." - Gloria M. God works in mysterious ways. Two weeks into my sobriety journey, I was still torn between quitting and just taking a break from drinking. During that time, I kept asking God to give me an answer. I remember being at Costco and stopping on the condiment isle when a woman came up to me and said : " omg I love your boots! those kinds of Uggs aren't sold anymore. Where did you get yours? " ; I was caught off guard but flattered so I said : " I know right! I'm not quite sure where my mother found these but, they really come in handy when there's too much slush on the ground. " We both laughed. Then, she asked me a very interesting question. She said :" What is your goal this year? "  Imagine a stranger asking you this very personal question. My face tends to speak before my mouth does so I kind of gave her an apprehensive look like: " you're in my business...

" No, it's really that deep!" - Gloria M. I love that everything is a lesson and I'm excited to share this one with you. I was left stunned when it all came together for me. That " AH HA !" moment made me giggle and shake my head. How could I have missed it?. I'm going to try my best and make it make sense to you as well. Hear me out. A woman was sharing a story about her journey to a market that's about 3hrs from where she lives. She has crippling anxiety that makes it hard for her to leave her house. For the last 3 years, she has been challenging herself to drive to this market. When she'd drive and she's hit with anxiety, she'd turn around and go back home BUT, this particular day, she finally made it to the market and she couldn't stop crying. She kept saying : " I know it's just a market but it took me 3years to get here. this is a surreal feeling "  This video made me see God in the details. I saw God through a d...

"when you don't hear, you wait!" - Anonymous When you speak to anyone, you listen to them. You pay attention. You give them time to respond. Why don't you do that with God?  At the beginning of the month of April, I said that it would be the month of execution and my prayers were centered around it. All I kept doing was asking and talking and asking for more not taking the time to listen. I just kept making requests and not sitting with whether or not what I was asking for was available to me. I had a conversation with a beautiful lady who confirmed it. She verbatim said : " You have been talking to God and that's a really good thing but you haven't been listening to Him ". Hearing her say that, almost took the wind out of me. In that moment, I realized, the reason why I couldn't hear God's voice was because I WASN'T EVEN LISTENING TO BEGIN WITH! I just kept doing the talking. That changed how my month went. To execute my plans, I had to ...