Godpportunities!

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Faith and action work together, and I am amazed at the different opportunities I have had since I got out of bed and got back to work. I am calling them Godpportunities. I recently had a defining moment, it was a moment when I experienced faith and action merging.


I have been thinking a lot about direction, and specifically the direction JostWrite was to go. As I thought deeply about how to move forward, I decided to sit with a business consultant to talk through the vision and ideas I have for myself, my life and my small business. I was also feeling stuck and bored, and paying a consultant was the option for me to narrow down direction and action steps. I had a consultant picked out, but I kept having that nudge in my spirit to wait. The nudge I always get from God to hold back, wait, hold on or do nothing. The nudge to "Be Still." 


It was a frustrating season of yielding to the instinct to wait while also knowing that definition and a new direction was needed for JostWrite. A season of wait can be annoying especially when you know what you want to do and should do.

I am glad I waited, because while I was waiting on calling up the business consultant, I kept on giving all the best I could muster up to JostWrite. I signed up for the Black Enterprise Small Business University powered by Dell. It was a series of weekly educational videos by different small business experts teaching on topics like creating a life/business plan, 30 second elevator pitch, financing and social media use. Each week, depending on your class engagement, you gain points and are entered into a drawing to win anything from a laptop, a printer, a free business consultation to a free subscription to Black Enterprise magazine. If I did win anything, I was hoping for either the laptop (my dear lappy is broken) or subscription to Black Enterprise magazine (my subscription expired a few years ago).

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Lo and behold, I won a free business consultation with a business expert. When I got the email, I knew the friction between the need in my spirit to wait before spending money I did not have on a consultation and the need to re-define, re-direct and rebrand JostWrite was connecting. I got to talk with the Alfred Edmond Jr., senior vice president/multimedia editor-at-large of Black Enterprise. I was extremely nervous before I got on the phone, because it is not everyday you get a chance to talk to someone in that position. I was so concerned about not sounding stupid or dumb; I wanted to shine. I can confidently say I have never talked to anyone who made me feel more at peace in my life. He is a wise wonderland. :) Judging from that picture, he also has style. 


Our conversation was for me more than a moment of peace or clarity. It also took me back to a direction I knew JostWrite was called to go. The direction he led me to was a direction I had backed out of, because it was not what I wanted to do, it was not my writing passion and it was not what I liked or was comfortable doing. Talking with Mr. Edmond was like hearing everything I already knew was my direction, but had ignored because it was not my comfort zone. Whatever happened to risk and thinking long-term? I was just thinking of sticking to my comfort zone.


After thinking through a lot, I am making a 180 degrees turn around back to a path I committed to earlier in this journey but abandoned out of fear and insecurity.


Connecting with him is one of the Godpportunities in my personal desert. That been said, I am working on re-branding the direction for JostWrite, and I know I have been saying this for a while, but it is time to move from point A to point B. 


In other news, I am meeting with a small business today through the non-profit I signed on as a client two weeks ago. Another Godopportunity that was birthed because I got to work on the wings of faith.


Beloved, You are Loved Absolutely!