Finding my Legs

Hello All, Thanks so much for including us in your journeys and wanting to share in ours. This has been an awesome journey thus far and we are excited to see what God will do in the coming months.

Potters Wheel was revolutionary for me. I realized how much i need to walk into being misunderstood and forgotten...and I have had many an opportunity to do this. What has been even more freeing for me though, would have to be giving up control for Lent. Yes, i know it's a bit out of the box, but Patti (bless her heart!) challenged me to do this and i'm failing every day and learning and understanding and pressing through the fear and anxiety of letting go. 

Miraculously, i have had less headache, and my children are much happier. ??? It seems the less i micromanage and just let things be, the more we are able to accomplish in our day. The more i pushed to get our "list" of things done, the more i'd end up with resistance.  

Once i took on the attitude that it does not matter anymore how much school we get done or how they do it or if the boys pick up their rooms the way they are supposed to be (etc...fill in the blank...you get the idea) the less resistance and the happier our day was.  The boys are much more at peace.  Amazing!  I know the whole idea is counterintuitive, but it's really true,  the less control - the more happy everyone is.

This is just a small piece of what God is doing.  i could go on for days about what God is doing in Tim and my relationship, how i seem to be more merciful, etc. but i won't bore you...you could also check out my site & blog @ kathleenhedrick.com.