New Direction – Angels in Hiding

don\’t know why I wrote it\’s a brand new day. Just what came to mind. And I just got up so it is a brand new day.

I created this puzzle a few days ago (see below) but my ADD kicked in and I went off in twenty different directions. It does happen. In my last note I shared about working with the website and a friend commented that she would like to hear more about the \”personal\” side of things rather than the techie side. So this note is a personal glimpse of things.

God is working. Definitely.

Three weeks ago I made the decision to move toward becoming a Social Media Manager rather than just a Freelance writer.

Since I like doing a lot of things beside writing such as working with this \’Joy in Jesus\’ site, creating web pages, working with images, video, and exploring the latest and greatest in Social Media this seemed a perfect fit.

I found a course that teaches one how to do this on the business side of things as well as the \”techie\” side. A very well-rounded course that teaches the basics for the newbie (I\’m a sort of middle level I think) as well as super pros.

Here is where life got interesting.

Once I got into the course the instructor said for us to think about what we were most passionate about and who we would most like to work for.  Who would be your perfect client.

Well, of course that was a no-brainer. Had to be God right?

So my \”perfect\” client would be someone who was God focused – Joy focused – Inspiration focused.

I came up with this tag line: Social Manager for Christian Outreach.

Doesn\’t that seem like a good fit? Works with my books, web site ministry, radio, everything.

Well, apparently God did too.

Two weeks into this new course and direction a writing client that I had been working for over a year decided to hire someone full time.

Result?

Drop the freelance writer (me).

What a surprise.

Nothing like \”thinking\” about jumping off the dock and finding that you have just been given a good, healthy push!

It reminded me of a friend who told me about his experience when he decided to become a fully committed Christian. At the time he owned a very successful real estate business. Had a nice office, great employees, lots of work and made lots of money. He and his wife made the decision that they were going to have a Christian Real Estate business. It would all be in the Lord\’s hands.

Result?

Overnight his secretary quit, his salesmen quit, his business took a nose drive. Whoa? Where did everybody go? What\’s happening?

Oh my gosh. God was listening. Seriously.

So that is pretty much my current state of affairs. I have my Church job working at Oakville Presbyterian Church which works beautifully in my line of things and I am now totally, fully, (drum roll, blare of trumpets) 100% committed to being a Social Media Manager for Christian Outreach.

Will keep you posted as to how this proceeds. At the moment I am redesigning my personal site to focus on this new direction. It\’s still undergoing stuff under the hood so not ready to share yet but I will in a week or two. My hope is to work with Christian ministers, authors, speakers, etc. who would like help expanding their Christian outreach through Social Media.

Wish me luck but most of all – pray for me if you would. I will continue to pray for you as well. Our God of surprises is only revealing this road (as He always does) just one step at a time!

It\’s a brand new day and here is a brand new memory puzzle.