I Need a Mindset Shift

I need a mindset shift. Last night, I was reading news articles about spikes in Coronavirus cases. It made me worried and frustrated. Frustrated at the circumstances in which I am competing for a Title that I have dreamed about for 3 years. (Dreamed about = worked hard for, constantly learning about the system, figuring out who I am and what I am all about, building my connections and working to incorporate them into my brand, etc.)

Questions swirl around my head. Should I have competed before when everyone was telling me that putting it off was a bad thing? Should I have been more prepared that our country would still be fighting the Coronavirus and therefore, planned my pageant goals a little better? Will I be missing out on a full reign because of travel and health uncertainties? How am I going to interact with people and truly connect with them under these circumstances?

Once again I am struggling with the heavy fruit that is produced through my tendency to not face reality. It’s the same thing I did when my sister was diagnosed with a third round of brain cancer.

There is a fine line between having faith and accepting this world’s reality.

Praise God that He does not leave us in a place of spiritual scarcity and heaviness. Weighted down by confusion and discouragement.

“My people will live in safety, quietly at home. They will be at rest.” Isaiah 32:18

Let me get on my soap box real quick. The Bible is alive and active!!! How else would I have randomly opened my Bible to see a star beside this very verse? Who knows when I marked this verse!!! It could have been years ago. The same Spirit inside of me marked this verse many years ago because the same Spirit inside of me needed to read it today. “doo doo doo doo,” like my Mother says. Too uncanny to be a coincidence. It’s God. Every time.

My mindset needs to be redeemed. What if, just what if, God has called me to this position in such a time as this? A time when the whole world is heavy burdened with uncertainty and discouragement. What if God wants me to be a light of hope for the ones He has called me to? A light of Hope while sitting quietly at home.

What if He has called you, too? 

Sure, this year is going to be different than I expected. But that doesn’t mean there is no purpose in it. The purpose is going to look different. We might travel stateside with the help of my newfound soul-sister, Christie, at Global CommUnity.

I guess this is the moment where Faith comes in. Faith in the hope and purpose yet to come… while living each day joyfully in the trenches.

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