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The pause button

Have you ever felt like your life was on hold, or that there was a missing piece to the puzzle of who you are, that maybe God hit the pause button of your life when you felt he should have hit the play or fast forward.  

I have!   I am a visual person and I always have a scenario in my mind of what I am feeling like in the season of my  life

The race horse on a brisk morning on the track ready to run the race of my life, but no one was opening the door so I could show the crowd or God that I could run a great hard race win or not.

 Then there is the running but yet haven't moved, I visualized a hamster on the round running wheel going round and round feeling like a busy worker then it dawned on me I was in the same place that I started.

Now don't get me wrong, I am a positive person, I do what is necessary to stay in that happy zone but sometimes it seemed difficult.

My other is the muddy lake - OH you know the one...that your walking in the mud up to your waist,  moving in slow motion, so so slow, and exhausted with the situation but you have to keep moving.

Not understanding and not liking that my pause button had been pushed, tired, cranky and ready to give up is always when the light bulb goes off - the "AH HA" moment when it all makes sense of why I had been in that "season" that I was not on pause I just needed time to learn the lesson.

Most recently I was in the muddy lake!  I was moving forward but at such a slow pace that I would get frustrated.  I like things in a "microwave moment" and not have to wait.

I know the lessons are always far greater and has allowed me to see things differently, instead of being sad and on the pity pot that I am in mud...Again! I now see the mud as a great beauty treatment. The muddy lake is my personal spa that it is the best beauty treatment I could receive from God. 

This season in the muddy lake it showed me to enjoy the slow pace,  to see the dragon flies, the turtles, the deer on the bank, the smell of the trees that the wind carried on a hot day. It allowed me to be quit and listen to myself, listen to other, watch the beauty of life in each day.  Each time I come out of my muddy lake I see the change in my life, a new beauty in myself, personal growth of making me a better person.

My wish to you is, while your in your mud lake, hamster wheel, or horse stall that you allow yourself to be quit and hear the beauty in each moment and see the beauty treatment in the mud the strength from the hamster wheel or the perseverance in the wait to run the full race and win

Karol Lahrman

Reflection Agency girl quote for the week

And then I realized something, twenty-something girls are just fabulous, until you see one with the man who broke your heart.

Carrie Bradshaw

Reflection Agency fashion quote for the week

``They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes,''

~ Imelda Marcos

 

Reflection Agency quote for the week

"if you fall down, get right back up, if your shoes are fabulous thats all they will remember"

~ Karol Lahrman

Reflection Agency fashion quote for the week

 

"The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress"

~ Hubert de Givenchy

Reflection Agency fashion quote for the week

“I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.”

Gilda Radner

 

Stumble or Perservance...

This past weekend was a great early fall day and I was blessed to enjoy a day trip to Cumberland Mountain State Park in Monteagle Tennessee. The park is full of mountain hiking trails, festivities, camping and much more. The day was perfect , great weather, the beginning of  fall coolness that you could smell the pine, the crisp air and know fall is just around the corner. The trails were great they made me reflect on life.

As we started out it was simple and then proceeded to get more difficult  as we went down hill, we had to make sure each step was taken with caution there were no rails, no security,  just natural trails, we stopped at several waterfalls to rest and enjoy the beauty that we were witnessing, the flowers, the trees, nature at its best. As we continued, the trail itself got more difficult, ahead of me was my boyfriend stopping every so often to make sure I was behind him and safe. John took his steps with caution and was focused, I myself had to look down at each step where my feet were going in order to not fall off a cliff or stumble over a tree root, several times stopping to see where we were headed, then looking back on what we just walked. In doing this I had to stop and enjoy what was happening and how it reflected many parts of my life. 

We often get so involved in each step of our life to make sure we don't stumble, or that we achieve what we set out to do, we often forget to see how far we have come and what strength it took to get there, we struggle in looking forward  to where we are going and how exciting that can be we miss it because we get stuck on where we are that moment.

To see the beauty that lies ahead, the new, the changes we are not use to that push our personal bubble a bit, experiences we may not understand. It can be steep, it can have tense difficult moments, it can be exhausting and we may need to rest. we  have people in our life who are there to be with us but they have to focus on their steps and cannot make the steps for us but can guide us or be there to support us. 

I enjoyed the beauty in that day to know most of the time was looking down and at times was difficult I made time to glance back but was more excited on seeing my path ahead , not miss out on the experience of life

Life makes us stronger in who we are, who we are becoming from the path we walk. 

Karol

Reflection Agency fashion quote for the week

 

" Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it"

~ Yves Saint Laurent

Reflection Agency fashion quote for the week

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." -

~COCO CHANEL

 

Reflection Agency fashion quote for the week

 

"Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind....a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static

~ Oleg Cassini