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Sister, keep going

This is a picture of my “previous life”.  I was a medical device sales rep, spending my days working cases in operating rooms and cardiac cath labs.  It worked hard and made great money.  I was able to be present for most of the important moments for the kids at school.  I didn’t get to take them to school most days and I didn’t get to pick them up.

But when I was there, I was ALL there.  

At night, we were free to laugh and play.  I didn’t have the looming stress of how in the world I would get it all done tomorrow.  I wasn’t worried about how I was going to make payroll and keep the lights on.  (That was someone else’s job.) After my years as a server and a flight attendant, I spent the rest of my career, leading up to HeartStories in sales and this was the …

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You already are.

Yesterday, while eating lunch on the patio with friends, my friend Libba told me a story.

She got a moment to pray with her daughter the other night before bed.  In that moment, her daughter asked, What are you praying for Mom? Libba answered,  I’m praying that I will be exactly the mom you need me to be.  

At that, her daughter turned to look in her eyes and said, But you already are.

Libba’s eyes filled with tears as she recounted the story.  The reassurance that her daughter fully believed she was exactly who she needed her to be, in that moment, was overwhelming.

When she told that story, I felt it.  Big.

I’m working so hard at becoming the best version of myself.   Seeking to live a life filled with more meaning and purpose.  Giving more and more time and energy to things that matter, things that make a difference.

And yet, it’s so easy to let that …

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Misguided Missiles

There are so many people who have had influence in my life, and who have pointed me back to who I really am in times when I have allowed circumstance or emotion to lead me to compromise what I know is true. I wish that I could adequately pay tribute to all of them here, especially to Margaret and Lauri, since I must pick one person, I am choosing my mom. I know that it is somewhat cliché, but my mom truly was my first and very best friend.

She wasn’t a very social person, and still she taught me everything that I know about people. She understood that there is evil in this world, yet she viewed people, individually, as either heading in the right direction or as misguided missiles, meaning they weren’t inherently faulty, they were just being guided in the wrong direction.

This theme would be repeated over and …

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