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If you would’ve told me THIS when I was a kid, I would’ve laughed in your face and probably said you were crazy!
I’m JoJo and this is my final LifeSongs blogcast.
You can ask anyone from my childhood if they would’ve thought I’d be on the radio! And guaranteed, their answer would be ABSOLUTELY NOT! (I wouldn’t have believed it myself!)
Somehow though, God has a way of doing the impossible and making something out of nothing.
That’s exactly what He did for me.
As a person who went to school to be a hairdresser, NOT a radio personality, I honestly didn’t know how to communicate very well. (which sounds strange!) But God did what only He can. He took what was buried wayyy down deep inside of me and brought what you hear today to the surface.
He equipped me with the strength, ability, and wisdom to become who I am today, and He gave me incredible people here at LifeSongs to guide and teach me.
I walked into LifeSongs 8 years ago with only direction from the Lord and a heart for His people, and God has used me in ways I never thought imaginable.
It’s been a humbling, rewarding, and fulfilling journey, but sadly, God has said it’s now time for me to step into a new adventure of entrepreneurship. You know what this means? This isn’t the last of me, yet only the beautiful beginning!
It’s a scary, yet exciting transition that I know without a doubt that God is guiding, but my heart is really devastated to close this chapter in my life that’s meant so much to me and it’s because of YOUR welcoming arms since day 1.
You accepted a sock lovin’, taco eatin’, crazy hair coloring, Toby Mac fan girl from Da Parish and for that I am BEYOND grateful.
YOU have impacted my life in big ways, and that’s something I will cherish forever.
This isn’t goodbye, but simply I’ll taco you later, friend.
Sometimes life looks like skimming your pool of tree tassels while the wind is blowing and more of the pollen producing structures keep falling even after you’ve scoop them all up.
It’s like a constant flow of using the net to get them out of the pool and as soon as you get those out, more keep falling into it!
Like you can’t catch a break!
In case you didn’t know, there is a giant oak tree in the back of my yard. It’s so tall that it towers over our back fence and pool.
So naturally, leaves are always falling in it. (Hence my blog from January!)
What’s falling from it this time is called catkins or tassels. They look like stringy, brown worms.
They release pollen into the wind which in turn covers our cars from front to back with a nice coating of yellow dust!
While a lot of the country is dealing with snowstorms, New Orleans residents are covered in pollen!
I saw a meme that says “It doesn’t snow in the south, it pollens!” (I’ve never heard anything more accurate!)
While we are focused on going through car washes to get the pollen off of our cars and out of our pools, it can feel like a never ending task.
Like why even bother trying to remove it?
It’s just going to come back the next day, and I’ll have to do the work to remove it all over again.
Life feels this way.
It feels like as soon as you take 2 steps forward something happens again in life pushing you even more steps back.
It gets to be mundane and really frustrating.
You toil trying to remove all the bad things from your heart and life, but the trees around you keep dumping their pollen leaves on you and before you know it, you’ve given up because it’s too much to keep up with.
Friend, it’s your job to do what the Lord has called you to. It’s God’s job to do the rest.
Only He can quiet the storm.
Only He can silence the winds and waves.
Only He can change the seasons.
Do what you can with the resources God has given you, but leave the rest up to the Lord.
He can part the sea, slay giants, and move mountains, but he wants YOU to be the vessel He uses!
Sometimes life looks discouraging because you are tired of scooping tassels out of the pool, but God is bringing you into the next new season so hold on.
Spring is coming……
And so is the LifeSongs Spring Fundraiser!
You don’t have to wait until next week to be part of the giving family. You can do so right now at lifesongs.com!
The weather across the US has been quite kooky lately.
From floods in Cali, to snow storms in NY.
Here in Southeast Louisiana, we are used to it being spring (or summer) temperatures one day and winter the next.
Sometimes, all 4 seasons happen in one day! (Believe it or not, that’s not unusual!)
The last storm that blew through our area swirled so many leaves in my yard.
We do have a bunch of trees along our back fence line, but piles and piles were dumped in the yard and surrounded my pool.
Thankfully, the day I decided to rake them up was a beautiful day full of sunshine so I didn’t mind getting outside to soak up all the Vitamin D!
Raking them was a lot of hard work! (Plus, I didn’t even get to finish because the rake broke!)
One thing that hit my heart when my hands were sore and blistered up, and my back was in pain is that seasons and cycles don’t just happen externally in the world around us, but internally.
Whether intentionally or by accident, there are “trees” in our lives that get planted, watered, grow, and produce fruit. It can be a harvest you expected or unexpected fruit you weren’t planning for. But there comes a time when the leaves that once were vibrantly colored emerald, fall off and hit the ground waiting to be raked up to make room for the new cycle of life to take place.
Friend, allow this new year to change your life.
It’s time to rake up the dead things that maybe worked in the past but aren’t working now.
It’s time to make room for the fresh, unique things God is doing in your business, faith, and marriage.
So grab that rake and begin the process! (And yes! It’s hard work, but worth it!)
Out with the old mindset, temperament, and things that so easily trip you up, and in with the mind, attitude, and perspective of Christ.
It’s totally ok to mourn the process of removing the decaying, dead leaves, but then rejoice and dance because you know that God not only gives life and life more abundantly, but He makes all things new!
Ezekiel 17:24
“‘And all the trees will know that it is I, the Lord, who cuts the tall tree down and makes the short tree grow tall. It is I who makes the green tree wither and gives the dead tree new life. I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do what I said!’”
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