If your year has been anything like mine, the days have been filled with scheduling, planning, attending and hosting events, networking, creating, assessing and learning…In Pursuit of your Kingly Purpose! Through it all it has been a most productive time.

2010 has been a year that has fostered within purpose minded sisters, ingenuity, refueled passion, tenacity and focused faith.

Oh my were we challenge! we faced many challenges, if ever there was a year when we learned to trust God this was it.

As women with a Purpose we had to improve in the art of Time Management, while jugging our many hats we still had to remain focus on our goals. While persevering we still had to remain sensitive and take the time to inspirit others to keep moving forward. The way I did it was to get up every morning thank God for another day, place both feet on the floor, did self care and moved forward with one foot in front of the other.

The biggest lesson that I’ve learned was to make time to take care of myself! We women always look out for everyone else.

2010 was a year of self health care management. Prayer, planning, and instituting a health maintenance program are essentials if we are going to live long enough to fulfill and enjoy the fruit from our labor.Some of the things I had to take a look was; nutrition, daily exercise, elimination — freeing my life from toxic people, developing positive personal sister relationships,  self appreciation and recognition for jobs well done as well as efforts, keeping my mind, heart and hands clean so that my focus would not be distracted. And oh let’s not forget letting go. This was huge for me, I had to learn to let go, to leave people alone. Apostle Paul tells all of us in the book of Phil. as we forget what’s behind, we will be able to pursue what lies ahead. If we hold on to person, places or things when their season is up we will only frustrate our purpose.

Another lesson I learned was How to Ride the Storm. This valuable lesson brings three key ideas to my mind now.

1. To remember that God, my Father is always right here  within me, available to assist me, with God is the answer to every challenge.
2. To allow the encouragement of the Holy Spirit ( the whole spirit of God) within me and others who have come into my life to share in the blessings to remind me that I Am more than a conqueror.
3. Transitions are temporary…This too shall pass.

These three key ideas and others have helped me to survive and thrive during a season of insurmountable, challenges, obstacles and seeming delay. Yet here we are in November and we are still right here, we all are, we have to be.

There are so many who are counting on us to be. So my dear sisters take a look over this past year, smile and celebrate with me 2010 we did win.( the battle was not ours). All is well.

Talk to me…Let me know what lessons you have learned this year.

Blessings from your sister in purpose

Joyce..

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