🌸 Four Good Weeks & a Grateful Heart 🌸
It has been four good weeks since I stepped away from formal employment to work from home, and I just need to take a moment to celebrate God’s goodness. 🦋 I am so grateful to be in a position where I could make that step, continue working, and still be present for my kids. It was long overdue. I knew it. And I truly believe God was the one pushing me out the door. Was it scary? Absolutely. But my body, my mind, my health; everything in me was confirming that it was time to go. The environment I left was stressful, unhealthy, and deeply unfulfilling. I loved being a dietitian. I loved the work itself. But the environment was not conducive to me showing up as the professional or the mother I was called to be. So I stepped down. 🌺 I won’t say I’ve arrived. I haven’t. But I am at peace. And there is a beauty in that. I looked at my calendar for next week and it is three-quarters booked. I will be busy again, but this time I’m doing it on my own terms, from home, with my kids nearby. Being able to cover childcare and be a mom, I can now by God’s grace work through parenting, and I am grateful; genuinely, deeply grateful. Sometimes we wait to celebrate until we’re completely on the other side, looking back at the struggle from a distance. But I think there’s something powerful about rising up and speaking through the journey; about offering hope to someone who is still in the middle of it, still carrying the weight, still waiting for the breakthrough. That testimony matters too. 🌼 1 Peter has been a rock for me these past several weeks, even in the months leading up to my resignation. The hope Peter writes about is not a fragile hope. It is a living hope. A breathing hope. A hope that holds through every season, through job transitions, parenting challenges, uncertainty, and all of it. 🦋 And here is what makes it so profound: this hope is not built on our strength. It is not built on our circumstances or our consistency. It is built on and rooted in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, prepared and waiting for us at the day of His appearing.