Golden Opprotunities

So this week I was out of town on business handling a marketing event for our Houston office.  I pack my bags, go to the airport, set up for the show, and work the show.  My plans were to do business as usual and then fly back home to my family.  However, those plans NEVER quite work out how we think they should!!

I did all the things listed above and had dinner with my team after the event.  As we ate dinner and visited I began having a one on one conversation with one of my team mates.  I was telling him how next weekend I’ll be going to a women of joy conference with my friends and I was looking forward to it.  Then he began telling me how he’d love for his wife to go to something like that and he’d he even like to go to a men’s conference.  Well unfortunately, they live in Houston so I wasn’t much help to him there.  The subject then changed a bit and we began talking about how his wife is a stay at home mom and by the time he gets home she’s chatty Cathy and even wants to go out somewhere with the kiddos.  Well he just wants to rest from the hectic day and lay on the couch.   I told him Carl and I have those issues at times as well and you just both have to compromise.  Carl recently traveled 3 wks straight and literally begged me to not make plans one weekend because he was so tired.  Now I had my heart set on going dancing that weekend and was a little disappointed, but, I compromised and realized his needs are just as important.  So I stayed home and we had a wonderful weekend together, now this weekend….he needs to buckle up because we’re gonna be busy J.  I stay home with Carl some weekends and do nothing because that is what he needs, but there are also times he is dead tired but still takes me to dinner and a movie or out dancing if that is what I want.  It’s not always about your needs, it’s about your spouse’s needs as well and truly giving 100% of you to them, be it on the couch watching tv or out to dinner and hanging with friends.

Well this conversation steered me back to church and I told him about our church and how Carl and I began going there.  I told him how my husband and I absolutely love our church and have been going for 2 yrs now.  Well the first time Carl and I attended this church they were doing a series called Forever.  For Real?  and it was a series about marriage and the commitment it takes not only to each other but the commitment it takes as a couple to seek God and to go in His direction.  The relationship between the 3 of you should look like a triangle where God is the top center point and you to are the sides coming together in His name.  Then, and only then is the relationship truly whole.  Then and only then is the relationship on solid grounds.  Then and only then is the relationship healthy.

He seemed really interested in this series.  So I told him that our series are recorded and kept in archive and that I’d love to share it with him if he was ok with that.  He was super excited and said he’d love to see it!  So as you see what I thought was just going to be business as usual turned into great conversation and opened an opportunity for me to share Christ with a man who already knows him but could use a little boost.  I can’t wait to send him the sermon series and hear his feedback, I hope and pray that this is a wonderful experience for he and his wife!  I know it was wonderful for Carl and I and we still use those lessons we learned from the series to this day.  

So seize those opportunities ladies, use your past and current mistakes as testimonies and always keep them in your back pocket because YOU, yes you, could be someone’s superwoman, someone’s angel, or someone’s light at the end of the tunnel.