Positive Attitude Creates Positive Results

Good afternoon ladies!  My name is Brandy Fitch, I am a 29 year old women (oh shoot, let’s just face it I’m 30 as of 2/27) who lives in Dallas, TX.  I’m a full time employee to a IT consulting company, part time student at Collin College, full time wife to a loving husband, full time daughter to the best father God could have given me, full time friend to a wonderful group of people, and a stepmother to 4 beautiful children.  Life is crazy, hectic, fun, exciting and sometimes downright depressing.  However, I’ve learned (the hard way) to turn to God during every single moment not just the depressing/hard moments but the fun and exciting times as well. 

So there’s my into, now to the good stuff.  Mrs. Raynisia Nagel has shared with me some of the struggles she’s dealt with recently and I’ve coached, listened, and most importantly prayed with her over all of it.  So yesterday I made a routine check up call to see how she was doing and to my surprise she said “everything is great, I am so happy and have so much to tell you!!”.  So 2 hours later (lol), the bottom line was that she went to a women’s conference this past weekend and God spoke to her like he never has before!!! 

In her new revelation she decided she wanted to start a blog and share with other women her inspiration, her joy, her sorrow, her struggles, and how God is helping her through it all.  So, being the encouraging friend, I said “that’s awesome Raynisia good for you!”……then it happen……she asked me to post as well. My mind immediately went AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!   Apparently she sensed that (5 yrs a friendship will do that) and said if I feel uncomfortable she understands and asked me to pray about it.  I’ve never even read a blog much less posted one AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!  Honestly, I got off the phone with her, cooked dinner for 8, celebrated my daughter’s birthday, cleaned up the mess from dinner, cake and birthday crafts, laid in bed with hubby and vented about the somewhat bad day I had at work and didn’t’ give the blog a second thought…..(just between us, I feel asleep during my prayers). 

This morning on my way to the office I was listening to a talk show and the host asked his colleges “does what we do on a daily basis make a difference in the world?”.  My immediate thought was no, a radio station doesn’t change the world.  Well to my surprise one of the other hosts said “of course, we have contests to pay peoples bills, we send 100’s of terminally ill kids to Disney World each year as their last wish, we had someone write in and said they were going to commit suicide that day but heard our radio show and decided it’s not that bad and he is still alive today, even if we make one person laugh and bring a little sunshine to their day that helps!”  I thought, man, she’s right!  I’m going to make it a goal that every day I change someone’s life somehow, some way.  I wish I could pay their bills that day, or send them to Disney World, or prevent someone from ending their life.  However, if I walk everyday in life with a positive attitude, show someone a little sunshine at the gas station, on the side walk walking into school, a co-worker or even more so my kids or husband then for that day, that moment I’ve made a difference.  So I prayed right then and there “God, please help me to have a positive attitude, help me to walk my every day, extraordinary life with you by my side and let people see that, see You, see a happy person who for a moment, if not longer, and forget about their worries and problems.  Help me make a difference.”  His reply was “Brandy, blog about it.”  I said “huh?”.  “Join Raynisia’s blog, it’s not so scary, I promise, use your story this morning and share it, share Me, share your journey’s, your struggles, your needs and see how it impacts people and see how Brandy can make a difference in other people’s lives .  Don’t worry; I’ll help make sure you have good stories to share. ;)”    So ladies…..here we are….. here is my story of how I became a blogger.  I hope that what you take away from this is that we, yes we, ladies can make a difference.  We can start a journey together and WE can change lives.  I pray that somehow, some way this blog has opened your eyes and hearts, and most importantly I hope that it has changed your lives. 

Have a great day and remember if you “have faith as small as a mustard seed and you can move mountains”.