Maybe you're Living your Dream, you just don't know it yet.

Seven years ago (in 2018) when I began working as a nurse, I dreaded it. I was so thankful for the opportunity to work in such an honored position, but the gratitude was quickly drowned out by fear, anxiety, and depression. A career that I had worked so hard to arrive at, was the very thing that I wanted to escape. So much so, that a few years later I would go from making $25-30+/hour, to taking a cleaning job for $15/hour - just to pay the bills and have a way out from the healthcare field.

"I can't keep on with this. Mentally - I am drained. I never felt like this before. I feel anxious and dread coming to work- idk what it is. I pray for direction God. I ask for forgiveness for feeling like this. I used to be so enthusiastic thinking about my future as a nurse, & now I'm not so sure- what should I do? I feel so down. I want to love my job but... I just can't." This was from a journal entry I wrote on my phone at 4:36 AM at work on July 17th, 2018 - just 4 months into my career.

During my time working as a nurse, I knew something needed to change. I deeply knew that that career was not something that I could stay in long-term, and so I began to pray heavily for direction and for God to lead me to my purpose and help me discover my gifts.

This is when I began to have a desire and passion to make skin care products. I started out with very few ingredients and learned on YouTube. I had found something that I loved to do and knew that this was going to be my "out".

After a little while, I began to sense God calling me out from my job to start my own business, so after almost 2 years of working at my first nursing job, I left with no "real" back-up plan. My plan was to quit my job, start my business, and have it flourish enough to sustain me as much as having a full-time job would. The faith was there, the vision was there, but I was not at all ready for such a huge task.

Over the years, God has been preparing me to fully step into my dream, and that's how God works. He takes his time with us. He sees what areas we need to grow in, and what needs to change within us before we can receive the blessing he has for our future. His timing is perfect.

Today, I did my second-ever craft show. I was able to sell my handmade products to awesome people in my own community! It was a such a great feeling. I wrote all of that to say this: Sometimes, we have a vision or a dream of what we think our life should be like, and there's nothing wrong with that, but you have to sometimes step back and look at things from a different perspective. I don't have a million-dollar company (and might I add I don't even have a thousand-dollar company), but I do have a company, and I was able to sell my handmade products at a craft show today and made a good profit. Doing this craft show is also conquering my fears. Living our dreams may not look like the world's view of success, living our dreams is sometimes found in the simplicity. Life isn't perfect, and monetarily I am not a wealthy business owner, but I am living my dream with the peace of God, trusting in His timing and thanking Him for the small opportunities.

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