A Time To Win!

There is a season for everything. Sometimes seasons are really quick though. I wrote in my last blog about how I knew that God was wooing me into a new season of my life that was to find out more about Him. God also gave me the word for the first part of my year Metamorphosis. God took me on wild ride of showing me that we choose to be change or metamorphosized and sometimes it's very painful. As I was driving in the card today I got a New Word for this season. I knew that God would give me another word to hold onto, but I didn't think it would be so fast!

He gave me the word Influence.
So many people have asked me, "What job do you want to have?" My answer will never change it will be Mary Kay until God has told me otherwise, and the reason why is because I have a little girl dream that I would change people's lives. I have the biggest way of Influencing people in what I do.

But, than at Crossfit Today I was in the middle of my workout & we were running a mile & I wanted to win out my group. I have never beaten anybody in anything in Crossfit, because it's really hard lol. But, today I won. The last little stretch I told myself, "You can do this. You can not just finish, but Win It!"

I finished that with a heavy heart because I have thought in my business with Mary Kay that maybe I can finish it, and today I gave myself the HOPE that I can actually Win and Win BIG!

Being Metamorphosized

I wrote in my last blog how the Lord asked me, "Do you want be to metamorphosizeyou?" (Me & God made up the word-just so you know ha!), and I said YES! Not just a little yes, but like a BIG yes. All the cards are in & now it's time to see what I'm made of.

I have already encountered things that have been super uncomfortable. Things from confrontations to having to pick the phone to call people for my business. However, with the uncomfortable growth I can see bigger things now happening, even just in this short period of time. Things have been accomplished that I thought were impossible with my business. One of the biggest victories is booking over 10 parties from my friends and family! Huge Victory! I have been petrified by asking people for help.  Another huge blessing was going on a family vacation with my side of the family. We went to Red River, NM for 3 days to ski and snowboard. Check out my sweet heart getting some serious air!


BUT I truly believe that these blessings have happened more because of me staying closer to God. That was something that I knew was happening at the start of the year. God was serenading me to him. I had made decisions to do something for my husband, family, or business, but it never really happened because I would start worrying about things too much, and not letting God work on them.

Dear God I pray today that you will touch somebodies life with this word that you have given me. Lord we love you, and you are more than we need. Thank you for loving us even when we try to do something on our own. Woo us back in God. God may we be sensitive to you and what your doing every day. Amen

Metamorphosis

Happy New Year! 2013 Oh I can't wait to see what you bring :)

I have renamed my blog for this new season in life. I am naming it, "The Accidental Wife."
I think most people when they get married feel a little bit like what did I jut get myself into?! I have felt like I accidentally became a wife.

How I came to this new blog name? Well I was doing my grocery shopping like any respectable working house wife would do, & stumbled upon this product. It caught my eye because for one the lady has pretty hair & has a red tint to it & that it was kind of cute, not lame looking like all the house cleaning supplies.When I saw this I just stopped in the store with big eyes because that was me!

Last year I made this blog and titled it, "Journey to becoming a good Wife." That is still what I want to accomplish. Some things from last year that I am proud of! I learned how to cook & make meal planning easy with emeals.com (Seriously it's amazing.) I am proud of the growth from my team in Mary Kay & I am very excited about my checks growing each month! I am proud of the growth that me & my sweet husband have made. We know how to talk to each other pretty well for the most part. :) We are now home owners because of a wonderful Gift God gave us. I am proud of graduating from Texas Tech (wasn't really sure if that would ever happen.) but the one thing that I am most proud of is my relationship with God & the intimacy I have grown with Him, but nothing will be like what I am about to experience in 2013.

You know when you know that God is about to take you through something that your not sure is going to be the most comfortable thing in the entire world? That is exactly what I am about to go through. I going into this season of seeking after him & pouring myself out for his cause. For 2013 God has given me the word Metamorphosis. I started to hold on to this word as my ballet company announced their name for our January Recital entitled "Metamorphosis."

My company than started to talk about how a caterpillar must decide to be transformed or go through metamorphosis. It is NOT a comfortable process because the caterpillar turns into soup pretty much to become a new creature, but the caterpillar knows that in order to be a NEW creature the old must die & than your are transformed.

To tie into this word I have received, God has given me 3 scriptures throughout 2012 that relate to renewing, transformingg, & new bodies.

The first verse was is in Isaiah this was at the start of the year. Isaiah 54: 11 "O Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will rebuild you with stone of turquoise, your foundations with lapis lazuli. I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones."

Than in November or December I received Romans 12:2 "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will."

And than I received this verse on the last Sunday of the year at church...
Ezekial 37: 1-10 verse 9& 10 says this, "He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath. Prophesy, son of man. Tell the breath, God the Master, say, Come from the four winds. Come, breath. Breathe on these slain bodies. Breath Life!" So I prophesied, just as he commanded me. The breath entered them and they came alive! They stood up on their feet, a huge army."

These are the verses that have lead me up to a new beginning of 2013. I feel this wooing from God that he wants my time & affection. He has consumed me with his Love. This first part of the year is entirely about intimacy with God. God asked me at the end of the year, Do you want me to take you through metamorphosis? I said, Yes Father.

Lord, today I pray for anybody reading this blog right now God that today you will transform us, and Lord may we say yes to you. Even if we do not understand what you are doing Lord we till serve you. You are still my Lord & my Savior. We are your servants and we praise you for everything you have done in our lives. Thank you father for your unfailing love. Thank you Father for coming to this world to save us. Thank you Father for loving us so we can love other people. God use me as a vessel today Lord, use me God.

Change is Upon Us

My life will forever be changed in the next 2 months. I'm finally getting used to being married :) I will be graduated from Texas Tech with a Theatre Degree and I will be a Mary Kay Sales Director! how exciting is that :-) Another really big thing that happened a few days ago was when I was driving in the car I felt such peace. Anybody that is a Christian you know what I'm talking about. It's not just when you feel good or content, but it is literally like everything around you is peaceful.

God is showing me great ways to have peace even when events that require a lot of your time.

As I was basking in the presence of God and pondering about my times in the Czech Republic. I heard a small voice saying, "It's time to GO back." I got very excited, but then I started to think, well God when are you wanting me to? I didn't get answer, but I did start planning on paper how to make Drew and myself GO again to the place where we got engaged and the place that helped us to love other people.

So, here we go!

I also have started to fall in Love with God again. Like true love where I want to impress him! My name Tiffany means "God Showing Off." I think that is very fitting name for me, because everything I do is usually pretty crazy! He has started showing me wonderful things through this book called, "Hinds Feet On High Places." It is amazing!

Lately I have had so many people come to me for prayer request. It was too many people to keep up with in my mind so I started a prayer journal that I can just keep a list of people going and prayer for them every single day.

My challenge to everybody today is to fall in love with God again and let him show you some BIG dreams again :)

Married Life as Mrs. Tiffany Parsley

Well this is it! I'm married! After over 3 years of waiting for it to be the right time, me and Drew finaly tied the knot!!!!

Many people have come up to me and asked "How is married life?" the only answer I have for them is, "It's awesome but really weird!" I mean if you think about it, you are completely dependent on yourself for 22 years and then all of a sudden you are mushing these two lives together. Instead of talking about what you want to do that night, it's more of, "Hmm How about we go get Life Insurance." Haha completely crazy! I felt like a really old person yesterday when I was getting life insurance and changing my insurance from my parents to mine.

I think the craziest thing about getting married is that you realize how much you don't really know about anything :)

I will say that it is quite amazing thought when you have those moments that you have together and it all makes sense of why you got married. The things you love about them is the things you want to rip their head off for.

My biggest fear of getting married was the scary fact that I might lose myself during this process. I was scared that I would become the "Married Couple." Well we are a married couple, but it has been so cool to be able to still be who I am.

My business has been booming and I couldn't be happier to be almost graduated and be able to be a "working house wife." It's so strange how all of a sudden you want to please the person you are married to. You truely want to try and keep the house clean...even though that doesn't happen. lol I love being able to make him feel important.

...and as I am entering a new journey in my life God has been speaking to me more about women than anything else. I have begun to read the book of Ruth. I am so excited about this because I have never read the entire thing. Can't wait to write all about it :)

Queens have flaws too....

It is so wonderful when things line up together. In January God showed me this beautiful picture of being the Queen of Lubbock in Mary Kay, but there was a 2nd part to that. The first thing she showed me is that I don't like to listen to other people that much and second I am more concerned with popularity. Before January I had already been working on smashing my thought process of status. Status is a huge deal in America. You are either poor, middle, or high class. You have no choice but to be in one of these three classes, but through Mary Kay I have been revealed that you can be whats called the world class.

World class people view the world differently than we do they look at an obstacle and view it is a stepping stone to climb higher. There way of thinking is bigger. I also learned that God has created your obstacle specifically for you! They are also people that are very open minded. They check their ego at the door. They know that adversity is the catalyst of mentally toughness. World class thinkers also when they are in a bad situation they say to themselves, "compared to what?" What that means is if you say, "I had the worst day of my life!" You would say, "compared to what?" So even though you are forced to be in a certain class in the US everybody has the choice to be a world class thinker and to stay mentally tough, but whats really cool is when you learn how to be mentally tough and you do all these things you can change your circumstances!

The second thing God showed me that I need to work on was my listening. I have been making a conscious decision to ask more questions about other people rather than spilled out my "wonderful knowledge" on them.

Both of those things I thought I heard from God on, but sometimes when your mind is so consumed with other things aka wedding, sometimes you don't know if you have missed the mark with God! Yesterday all of that was verified-at our Steppin' Up training we were learning all about the different personalities what strengths they have and what weakness I have. My personality trait is a "high I" which means we are very people oriented, we love recognition, their fear is rejection and working alone, they loved prizes, and have a big impact on people, but their three main down falls are 1. not paying attention to detail (I actually love detail so this one doesn't apply to me.) 2. Popularity and 3.Listen when convenient. When I heard those 3 things, tears almost started going down my face. It was a little embarrassing, but it was also really amazing to hear that I heard God through all of these distractions :)

6 days here we come........

20 Days and counting...

Holy cow! finally we are approaching a number that has a 1 in front of it!!! It is so much fun to get to join two families together. This weekend I got to spend time with my two future sister in laws and even though I'm allergic to their silly cats and dogs it was still so great to spend time with them! It is also quite amazing that in 20 days I will finally get to have a grandmother again after 14+ years!!! Yay!

Even in this very busy time-God has still been showing me so many wonderful things about myself and my business. Last night while I was trying to get the cat hair out of my nose lol-God showed me the picture again of being the Queen. I have never been the Top at anything I have ever done, so for God to show me something like this is a tad intimidating. :) I don't know when I will I finish out becoming a director in Mary Kay, but all I can say is-it's going to be amazing when I do finish it!

While I was gone this weekend I was so excited to get back to my work because of how much power God is putting behind my business.