WOW Wednesday

So, I realized last week doing a post EVERYDAY was too much for me.  I am going to interchange Wednesday and Thursdays – I feel like I can keep it fresher that way and I won’t feel so pressured to have a post daily.

But for this WOW Wednesday, I am going to share with you an email a girl from high school, sent me now a friend from FB wrote to me that literally made me cry:

“Honestly ... YOU wow me! I read your blogs, I look at your pictures & I see how you radiate through the crap that is going on in your life & I'm awe-inspired by your strength & how you make cancer beautiful & amazing. I could honestly say if I was standing in your shoes I would be a complete mess inside & out. I love your spirit, I love your candidness & I love how open & raw you are about the "ICKS" of cancer. You are truly an amazing example of beauty!! We weren't friends in school & I'm honestly sorry about that. Sorry I didn't make an effort because I adore the Renee I know on FB! I missed out on getting to know the Renee before. I pray for you & your 2 gentlemen daily. I pray that if I EVER have to walk this path .. That I can be as courageous as Renee!!”

And I kind of chuckle to myself when people tell me we weren’t friends in high school…honestly, I was pretty b*tchy in high school. Looking back I think...I know...I was insecure with myself, my faith, my everything and it was just easier to put up walls and keep people verses making myself venerable…thank goodness I am not like that anymore…I am venerable all over the place these days!

But here is the thing...I honestly believe every single person could be the way I am with cancer because I believe God gives me the grace daily to be this way. Yes I have a choice everyday when I wake to think, OH boo hoo stage IV cancer is such a bad thing, poor me, poor situation, wah, wah, wha - blah OR say what I do say – whatever…it is what it is, put my big girl panties on and pray that God gives me the grace to make it through the day. We can all pray for that grace and accept it with an open heart.

Here is a new picture...I believe each one of us color the world in our special way.

WOW Wednesday

Wow: an exclamation of admiration, amazement, etc.

What wows you?  Who wows you? Do you ever look at someone and think, “wow, they are amazing, how do they do that?” or read a story of so much love, it totally wows you?

WOW Wednesday is going to spot-light things that wow me – and if you would like to share a story or something that wows you, please email me here.

For the first WOW Wednesday, I would like to tell you about this book I recently read.  Praying In Color: Drawing a new path to God by Sybil MacBeth.

This book has seriously changed my prayer life and therefore; my life. Like so many people, my prayer life would get interrupted by me, my crazy thoughts & my crazy to-do list and before I knew it, I was no longer praying, I was trying to figure out what to do next – not really the “talk to God” relationship I wanted.

SO, I when I noticed this book at my church bookstore and thought, why not? Well, there is NO reason why not – this book is great.  It shows you how to put your prayers into doodles and with this, while you are doodling around your prayer, you are praying for that.  Here is a picture of one of my journal pages.

Oops...it is upside down..odd.

It.IS.AMAZING to start a journal page, and look up 30 minutes knowing you were just in prayer for a full 30 minutes – it seriously cleanses my soul to talk to God like that for that long.

If you feel stuck in a rut with your prayer life, don’t have one but want one, or just want to try something different, I would 100% perfect recommend this book. 

On an exciting side note, I finally got my business cards!! 

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