Enjoying the Journey as Much as the Destination

Monday, February 19, 2007

Affect & Effect in Existence.....

"I suppose it is comfortable to think of an unchanging world, but change is fundamental to existence. The stability paradigm offered a false hope of a world devoid of major challenges. History sometimes reaches turning points, and we ignore them at our peril. The question then becomes whether we will seek to shape events or be shaped by them, to lead or to stand aside."
~James S.  Robbins

"Existence is the very nature of God. It is the thing that truly characterizes God and not us. If we did not exist, if we were never created, He would still be. If He were not, nothing would be. We have our being, our most constant predicate, from the One who alone constantly is.

God has no beginning, no middle, no end. There is no difference whatsoever between God at one point and another, because God does not exist within time. God does not exist merely “forever,” because He exists before forever begins and after it ends. He exists in a realm where questions of time cannot even be brought up.

To make a long tangent short, the complete otherness and pure existence of God requires that He be above everything and unaffected by it all, which is very difficult to maintain without error. Yet therein we will find the stability we seek."
~Michael Anthony Abril

Affected - adj.

  1. Acted upon, influenced, or changed.
  2. Emotionally stirred or moved.
  3. Infected or attacked, as by disease.
Effected - verb
  • To bring into existence.
  • To produce as a result.
  • To bring about.
  • How arrogant are we in this world, somehow thinking that we can "affect" the long-term direction and shape the outcomes of this world and the events of this world??? Or how desperate can we be to develop a picture of God that is disconnected and "unaffected" by the world He created when in reality He loves us so much that He invaded the space-time continuum to become a man and "effected" our rescue from death and destruction by offering His own Life in exchange for ours....who loved us in action and sacrifice so much, so that He came to win us back???

    It has occurred to me on my travels this past month that the struggle to understand God's eternality and existence and His "otherness" has left this world in a sense of hopelessness and despair and a worldview that is characterized at its deepest level by the Postmodern perspective that there is no truth and all that is considered truth is relative. And that we have so detach God from this world, so "otherize" Him in our feeble attempts to clarify Who He is that we are losing the deeper essence of His character......Love. If existence is His very nature....then Love is that existence.

    Our hopelessness in this age of Postmodern thought is steeped in this belief....that there is no God, and if there is, He is "unaffected" and therefore we are still on our own.....adrift on this planet created by a God who has better things to do in the Universe than be "affected" by us and our little problems.

    We, however, are completely "affected" by this disease called sin.....it permeates our entire being and we have no cure in and of ourselves. No mantra, no exercise to get ourselves "centered" or course to help ourselves completely eradicates the reality of this disease. As all disease....its eradication requires the "affect" of an "uninfected" source to permeate the existence and "effect" the cleansing of the "affected" person, without becoming "infected" itself. Hence, God's character and existence outside of time and space left Him as the only solution for our freedom from this disease.
     
    AND yet.....I find myself in response to this deep truth still seeking that cure in my daily relationships.... through the response of those around me, the actions and attitudes of those who I love and say they love me....or at least like me, and the recognition that I am important to them somehow coming from them in some sort of meaningful way. And this morning I once again sense the reality of God's feelings....that all He is asked of me is to respond to His great love for me, acknowledge Him throughout my day, recognize that He is important to me in some sort of meaningful way  and be completely "affected" by Him who has been so "affected" by me.....hence experiencing the only cure for my disease.
     
    Transformation is the "effect"....the journey I am on with Him is clear only to Him and I can rest in the truth that He is "affected" by me and at the same time the only Source that "effects" my transformation....that wholeness I seek, that security I struggle to gain, that surety that I am so lacking....that Love that is so available and yet so last on my list. It is such a scary thing to surrender ALL of it to an unseen and yet so powerful God, who I can't understand or even grasp the reality of His eternal existence.....without that very surrender. It is a fleeting experience....I have known it for only seconds at a time and can not conjure it up for the life of me on my own....and yet the reality of Him is more real than anything I can see in this every day life....and He brings peace beyond explanation when I fall into His arms.
     
    This is the way God put it:

       "They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing.
    Israel, out looking for a place to rest, met God out looking for them!"

    God told them, "I've never quit loving you and never will.
       Expect love, love, and more love!

    And so now I'll start over with you and build you up again, dear virgin Israel.
    You'll resume your singing, grabbing tambourines and joining the dance.
    You'll go back to your old work of planting vineyards on the Samaritan hillsides,
    And sit back and enjoy the fruit—  oh, how you'll enjoy those harvests!
    The time's coming when watchmen will call out from the hilltops of Ephraim:

    'On your feet! Let's go to Zion, go to meet our God!'" 
    ~Jeremiah 31:2-6 ( The Message )

    Extreme Dreams, LLC
    Kathy Douglas
    President
    10603 Grant Rd. Ste 110
    Houston, TX 77070
    Office - 281-890-5034
    Fax - 281-890-0300
    Cell - 713-398-7304
    www.extreme-dreams.com/
    www.indieextreme.com
    www.indieextrememusic.com

    www.exdevents.com

    kathyd@extreme-dreams.com

    "Helping people enjoy the Journey as much as the Destination"

    Visit my coaching journal at:

    http://extreme-dreams.blogspot.com/

     

     

    Tuesday, February 13, 2007

    Everyone is where they are at for a reason.....

    "Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."
    ~Mark Twain
     
    "People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
    ~Eleanor Roosevelt
     
    "Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open."
    ~Elmer G. Letterman
     
    "People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character."
    ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
    "Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix."
    ~Christina Baldwin
     
    "It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."
    ~James Gordon
     
    It seems my life has been filled with observing people.....including myself......who are trying to figure out why they are where they are in their life. They usually want to be somewhere else, someplace else or someone else.....that goes for me too! Facing the fact that everyone is where they are at for a reason has been a very sobering observation for me as I have watched others and myself struggle with the life we live.
     
    The greatest challenge in my own life is discovering WHY am I where I am at???? What is the reason that I am here, at this time, this place continuing to do what I am doing......do I REALLY want to change or am I what my Dad sometimes muses....someone who would "complain if they were hung with a new rope!!!" In other words, do I just LIKE to complain??? Do we all just LIKE to complain, has it become such a habit and integral part of our daily life that we can not stop and change????
     
    Recognizing those areas of life where we sabotage our dreams is tough work. We must surround ourselves with people who will tell us the truth and follow through with the steps it will take to change our patterns of sabotage.....give up our long held strategies of destroying our dreams and surrender to the Goodness and Graciousness of God as He pours out blessing upon us.
     
    As I stand on the edges of a dream that is becoming a reality.....my daily struggle is to examine my sabotage strategies and head them off at the pass!!! I am reminded of the truth I learned many years ago....that an eagle must throw himself off a precipice and spread his wings as he descends, looking for the wind currents that will lift him to the heights. That descent is instinctive and necessary for flight.....and the wind currents are the source of support and stability.....both essential to the journey.
     
    As Moses went up to meet God, God called down to him from the mountain: "Speak to the House of Jacob, tell the People of Israel: 'You have seen what I did to Egypt and how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to me. If you will listen obediently to what I say and keep my covenant, out of all peoples you'll be my special treasure. The whole Earth is mine to choose from, but you're special: a kingdom of priests, a holy nation. This is what I want you to tell the People of Israel." 
    ~Exodus 10:3-6


     

    Extreme Dreams, LLC
    Kathy Douglas
    President
    10603 Grant Rd. Ste 110
    Houston, TX 77070
    Office - 281-890-5034
    Fax - 281-890-0300
    Cell - 713-398-7304
    www.extreme-dreams.net/
    kathyd@extreme-dreams.net

    "Helping people enjoy the Journey as much as the Destination"

    Visit my coaching journal at:

    http://extreme-dreams.blogspot.com/

     

     

    Saturday, February 10, 2007

    If nothing changes....nothing changes!

    "Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."
    ~Jim Rohn

    "We must accept through faith that the means to complete our tasks will appear. Then our plans, goals, and actions are aligned with our faith. Surrender brings the resolve to withstand life's stormiest tempests and truly make an enduring difference."
    ~Steve Brunkhorst

    "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
    ~Helen Keller

    "Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."
     ~Eugene Ionesco

    I am back from a series of trips that have taken me to such varied and vaste places....both physically, mentally, and emotionally. I have been stretched and expanded in various directions....realizing as it was happening that the old saying is true...."once stretched, you can never go back"....or something like that!! I am realizing that this process is changing me, stretching me out beyond myself....to a place that I know nothing about and have no idea what it will look and feel like.

    AND yet I am so ready for it....in a strange and wonderful way I feel I have been prepared for it throughout my life and that I have finally come to the place I am supposed to be. And since I am completely convinced that God is sovereign over ALL the affairs of "man", I am clear that it took all it has taken to get me to this place. All the pain, all the anquish, all the suffering and trials AND all the dreams, all the joy, all the miracles, all the inspiring experiences with friends, and family! All of my life makes up who I am and has prepared me to step into this new place.

    What I know about myself is I love people. I love being with each one, learning and experiencing everything about and with them....getting to know their history, their stories of their lives....and really connecting with them on a level of relationship that transcends the everyday niceties of our modern culture. I occasionally get the privilege of going on a trip with the artists I work with.... my travels this past month included just such a trip.

    We took off for Canada, a place I have not been....one of the few! Travelling with Matt Brouwer and Jackie Key to experience the beauty and the people of Matt's homeland.....meet industry folks and attend an awards ceremony Matt and Jackie were performing in. The awards ceremony was an experience in itself that I will not go into here! The beauty of the Canadian Rockies were unbelievably breathtaking....and Calgary was wonderful! But my favorite part of my entire time was the time I spent talking with Matt and Jackie as we drove around the city and through Alberta. I learned so much about each of them....and gained an incredibly new and powerful perspective of their hearts and their lives...and I think they learned a lot about each other also!! I realized that we all have this deep need within our souls to "know and be known" by others....and that we don't tend to take the time to listen and really hear the hearts of those people whose lives surround us. We find ourselves alone and lonely in a crowd of friends who, to some extent are strangers.....we have accepted a perspective that keeps us emotionally separated from the people that we spend so much of our lives with....

    All this to say, that I sense this arrival at a place where, though it is a scary place at times, I am committing to the diffcult and sometimes treacheous challenge of going deeper with the people whose lives fill up my days...to learn of their hearts and their lives...to really know them and be known by them...far away from the stress and strain of our everyday "hustle and bustle " ....and to call each of them up to BE the person God has created and prepared them to be, as they go forward on their own journeys.

    Then those who feared the LORD talked with each other, and the LORD listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in His presence concerning those who feared the LORD and honored His name.
    ~Malachi 3:16

    Extreme Dreams, LLC
    Kathy Douglas
    President
    10603 Grant Rd. Ste 110
    Houston, TX 77070
    Office - 281-890-5034
    Fax - 281-890-0300
    Cell - 713-398-7304
    www.extreme-dreams.com/
    www.indieextreme.com
    www.indieextrememusic.com

    www.exdevents.com

    kathyd@extreme-dreams.com

    "Helping people enjoy the Journey as much as the Destination"

    Visit my coaching journal at:

    http://extreme-dreams.blogspot.com/

     

     

    Monday, January 22, 2007

    Love your work....

    Are there times when you were having fun or sincerely helping someone or deeply appreciating an experience? Recall those times. How do they make you feel mentally, emotionally and physically? Do they add quality to your day?
    ~ Doc Childre and Sara Paddison
     
    Time pressure starts to subside when we shift to the heart to find quality of mood and ease. It's our unmanaged emotions that turn time into an opponent and make life a rat race. Managing time with the heart is the ultimate time management tool.
    ~Doc Childre
     
    People always make time to do the things they really want to do.
    ~Anon
     
    Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.
    ~ From "Cheers
     
    Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
    ~ M. Scott Peck
     
    I realized as I came across these quotes that valuing our time and our relationships can have conflicting perspectives if we are not clear about who is the master of our lives. Our pastor spoke on one of my favorite set of verses yesterday and I was reminded that whether I like it or agree with it.... or don't, God is the master of the Universe....and my time is in His hands. And when I think about that....I am relieved!!! Thank goodness that it is not all left up to me!!!
     
    Some people have looked at my life and wonder why I spend my days like I do....some think I work too much, some think I don't work enough, some think I don't spend my time on the "right" priorities, whatever those are.....and others wonder why I prioritize at all!!! Through the years I have come to realize that God is the only One who I need to look to in answer to how and where I spend my time.
     
    Years ago I was in a class and the speaker said something so profound that this one sentence changed my life. He said, "Nothing in this world lasts except the Word of God and people, everything else will burn up." I made a decision that day to spend my life and my time on what lasts....loving God with all my heart, mind, soul and spirit and loving others as I love myself.
     
    This choice has lead me to enjoy all my life....the people, the job, the experiences and the lessons. I remember years ago my husband, Jack, pointing out a truth to me....that I didn't really have a job, because I had too much fun doing what was my job!!  AND he was right!!! I love what I do....it is more fun than fun! I love the people I work with ....they are the most amazing people on the planet!!! I love the artists I work with, they are such a gift in my life, they teach me so much about risking it all, about opening up to all the possibilities.
     
    Tomorrow morning I head out with Matt Brouwer and Jackie Key to Canada...to attend the Shai Awards event in Edmonton,Alberta....I have never been there! I love to travel and see new sights and meet new people....I have enjoyed the excitement of seeing so much in my life and experiencing so many cultures and wonders in this world. The fact that my job allows me the opportunity to experience this new adventure with 2 incredible artists....well God, You have blessed me beyond belief AGAIN!
     
    But in the end, does it really make a difference what anyone does? I've had a good look at what God has given us to do—busywork, mostly. True, God made everything beautiful in itself and in its time—but He's left us in the dark, so we can never know what God is up to, whether He's coming or going. I've decided that there's nothing better to do than go ahead and have a good time and get the most we can out of life. That's it—eat, drink, and make the most of your job. It's God's gift.
    ~Ecclesiastes 3:9-13 (The Message)

    Extreme Dreams, LLC
    Kathy Douglas
    President
    10603 Grant Rd. Ste 110
    Houston, TX 77070
    Office - 281-890-5034
    Fax - 281-890-0300
    Cell - 713-398-7304
    www.extreme-dreams.com/
    www.indieextreme.com
    www.indieextrememusic.com

    www.exdevents.com

    kathyd@extreme-dreams.com

    "Helping people enjoy the Journey as much as the Destination"

    Visit my coaching journal at:

    http://extreme-dreams.blogspot.com/

     

     

    Monday, January 01, 2007

    Dreams REALLY do come true....

    If you have a desire you cannot forsake, you have the first ingredient for achievement: a dream. Your dream is all you need to start with; it is a blueprint for the future.
    ~ Steve Brunkhorst

    If and When were planted, but Nothing grew.
    ~anonymous

    Life makes you walk that delicate balance between making it happen and letting it happen.
    ~Rick Beneteau

    Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.
    ~Cherie Carter-Scott

    Today marks the first day of a brand new year....and a year that I have been preparing for over the past 7 years. I have no real and concrete idea of what it will end up looking like as I look back at it this time next year. However, I have a deep sense that it will change my life and the lives of those I love in a powerful and wonderful way, much like 2006 has changed each of us and our lives in an incredible and unpredictable way!

    For the past 4 years I have been envisioning and working on an idea that has truly been "a desire I can not forsake"....I have TRIED to forsake it so many times along the way. There was never a point when I could "make it happen"....I tried that one too! I just had to allow it to grow and expand and work its way into the realm of possibilities. I had learned from years of hanging out with dreamers and learning from one of the biggest dreamers of all time, Mary Kay....not to give up on this dream. And even if I had .....it was not going to give up on me.  Hey....I tried that too!

    Last year I surrendered to the reality that this dream was going to come into fruition and I was going to be an important part of it. Once I did, all the pieces started showing up! People began to show up who had dreamed of this for years! Had tried to even create it themselves....and had some piece of the puzzle that made the picture come together! It has been AMAZING to watch!!! I have this sense that I sort of know how Noah felt!! Building something I have no idea HOW it will work or WHY I am building it or WHAT will happen once I do or IF it will be of any use to anyone once it is ready!!! And in saying that, I am CERTAINLY not implying that what has happened can in any way be compared to Noah's Ark.....FAR FROM IT!!! Yet, here we are.....and each person has shown up seemingly out of nowhere.....to get on this boat and bring their part to the project...... and now we are ready to launch!!!

    Who will become a part of this now that we are ready to receive??? I have no idea of that either!!! From what I have learned this year, the WHO will come just like everything and everyone else has.....they will show up and they will be looking for us and we will be ready to serve them!

    You can visit the storefront of this dream at www.indieextreme.com .....and though it is still being expanded and developed.....it represents the work and vision of this team of incredible dreamers! Our board of Managers, Vinny Ribas, Jim Spivey, Jeffery Armstreet, Harvey Cooper and our financial consultant, Mark Hakemack have worked tirelessly to take this vision and birth it into this world! And our office team, Cindy Pool, Greg Thibodeaux, Zach Crosby, Marita O'Donnell, Carol Lockwood, and Lisa Schneider who has carried out the vision in the day-to-day working out of the details, tracking the results and preparing the systems that make the dream work. AND our attorneys, Carol Guess, Maria Speth and Michelle Hallsten who have directed us through the scary waters of preparation for all those legal issues that must be taken care of!!!  And the two artists, Paige Stroman and Matt Brouwer, who believed that what we were envisioning would make a difference in their music careers, their lives and their futures. They took the risk with us and stepped out in a faith that believed that God was doing something....our thanks to both of you for your trust and belief!!! 

    This new company, Indie Extreme Label Management, LLC represents the work and the hearts of each of these incredible people. They are each a gift that God has sent to me in answer to my prayer in July of 2005....and God could not have answered that prayer in any more beautiful and powerful way than He did when He sent each one of them! The reality of the vision lies in our people....their hearts, their vision, their genius, their work ethic, their belief and their dedication to serve and support the independent artists and record labels who will come.  We are people who love and believe in the power of music, the power that it has to communicate at a heart level and change lives. We are here to love and serve those souls who are called to create and give to the world their gift of music. God's Dream has really come true......and therefore, OUR dream has really come true!

    Be prepared. You're up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it's all over but the shouting you'll still be on your feet.
    ~Paul in a letter to the Ephesians 6:18

    Extreme Dreams, LLC
    Kathy Douglas
    President
    10603 Grant Rd. Ste 110
    Houston, TX 77070
    Office - 281-890-5034
    Fax - 281-890-0300
    Cell - 713-398-7304
    www.extreme-dreams.com/
    www.indieextreme.com
    www.indieextrememusic.com

    www.exdevents.com

    kathyd@extreme-dreams.com

    "Helping people enjoy the Journey as much as the Destination"

    Visit my coaching journal at:

    http://extreme-dreams.blogspot.com/

     

     

    Friday, November 10, 2006

    Doing the impossible.....

    God is looking for people through whom He can do the impossible- what a pity that we plan only the things we can do by ourselves. 
    ~A.W.Tozer
     
    The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong
    ~ Unknown
     
    Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function.
    ~ John Pfeiffer
     
     All you must do is accept all that is unacceptable to you.
     ~Cheri Huber
     
    Imagination is more important than knowledge.
    ~Albert Einstein
     
    Everything you can imagine is real.
    ~Picasso

    I had an experience of "dejavu" yesterday while I sat beside a friend at our weekly gathering called Love Machine. I listened to him share is pain and I felt the same pain I had experienced myself. It washed over me....and then I was able to let it go. It was a wonderful experience to know that I completely "felt" his pain and could honestly tell him that...and yet I did not have to live in it anymore.

    I realized this morning that this was an important experience for me and it was timed perfectly....just as yesterdays message was perfectly timed for me. I am being asked to lead an impossible journey and it is scary because of the pain that washed over me yesterday as I listened to my friend share is very real pain. I am not qualified to lead this journey and by all human standards I am the last person anyone would choose to lead such a venture. AND yet I was reminded yesterday that God has a way of picking the most UNPREDICTABLE people to be the vessel He chooses to work the impossible through.....I guess that is why His working looks like a miracle...when in His reality it is just everyday stuff!!!

    God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.
    ~Paul in a letter to the Ephesians 3:20 ( The Message )

    Extreme Dreams, LLC
    Kathy Douglas
    President
    10603 Grant Rd. Ste 110
    Houston, TX 77070
    Office - 281-890-5034
    Fax - 281-890-0300
    Cell - 713-398-7304
    www.extreme-dreams.net/

    www.extremedreamsevents.com

    kathyd@extreme-dreams.net

    "Helping people enjoy the Journey as much as the Destination"

    Visit my coaching journal at:

    http://extreme-dreams.blogspot.com/

     

     

    Thursday, October 26, 2006

    Working by faith....

    When they arrived at Capernaum, the tax men came to Peter and asked, "Does your teacher pay taxes?" Peter said, "Of course." But as soon as they were in the house, Jesus confronted him. "Simon, what do you think? When a king levies taxes, who pays—his children or his subjects?" He answered, "His subjects." Jesus said, "Then the children get off free, right? But so we don't upset them needlessly, go down to the lake, cast a hook, and pull in the first fish that bites. Open its mouth and you'll find a coin. Take it and give it to the tax men. It will be enough for both of us." 
    ~Matthew 17:24-27 (The Message)

    True creativity quite simply starts with balancing your emotions and activating the power of the heart. Through practicing emotional management from the heart, you tap into the highest form of creativity possible--recreating your perceptions of reality.
    ~Doc Childre

    Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.
    ~
    Eric Hoffer

    Our lives can become cluttered by many things.  Some are obvious, such as material things, the stuff we collect.  I really wish I were able to give a lesson on how to prioritize the material things-how to sort them, dispose of some, and put the rest in order-but I'm not qualified... But how well I know that we can surround ourselves with the material things to the extent that we have no time for the spiritual.  Look around and you will see all the gadgets and toys and the nice and the fun things that cause us to squander and pay and to wander and play.
    ~ William R. Bradford

    Running a business is a balancing act of the heart. Things can become clouded by the bottom line of financial expediency so very easily and I can forget that the Creator of the Universe lives in me and He is and will always be enough to provide for me and my business.

    I tend to put issues and ideas into nice little boxes and categories and then make decisions based on how I have sorted and filed them from my past experiences and training. God has been spending an large chunk of time in my life breaking open those neat little boxes and splattering the contents all around me. All the while asking me to look at the sense that the chaos is truly making.

    I haven't written this journal in a while, mainly because I didn't feel I had much to say. Then this morning I have this story of Jesus and Peter wandering around in my heart and head.....and I am "seeing" how easily I have fallen into Peter's perspective and just looked at the "reality" of life rather than the "eternity" of life. Then I realized that Jesus sent Peter BACK to what he had been called to LEAVE and abandon as a vocation and means of providing the "cash" of life in order to pay a fee that he could not pay....by the way, not only for himself, but for Jesus also!!!! Peter went back to "fish" for the money to pay the tax. But he was told very specifically to just catch the one fish and the need would be provided through that one fish.

    I then realized how often I place the activity I have left behind to follow God as the thing I am no longer to do than the essence of what that activity had become for me. Peter trusted in fishing for his life's sustenance. He was again and again shown that the activity of fishing was not a "why".....the point nor the problem .....just a "how" choice to be surrendered into God's hands to use as He wants to.....and He seems to just love blowing our minds with crazy provisions like finding our tax money in the mouth of a fish!!

    I want to live in the miraculous.....and yet how often do I demand that the miraculous fits into one of those neat little boxes or categories that I have "figured" out. God seems to be reminding me of late that the "how" is really not an issue.....He is completely capable of providing abundantly in ways I can NOT even begin to imagine. I have watched this happen over the past month is various areas of my life and business. AND I am learning that the training that I have and continue to go through is part of what God has prepared me to lead others through. How fun is that?????

    Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
    ~Paul in a letter to the Ephesians 3:20-21

    Extreme Dreams, LLC
    Kathy Douglas
    President
    10603 Grant Rd. Ste 110
    Houston, TX 77070
    Office - 281-890-5034
    Fax - 281-890-0300
    Cell - 713-398-7304
    www.extreme-dreams.net/

    www.extremedreamsevents.com

    kathyd@extreme-dreams.net

    "Helping people enjoy the Journey as much as the Destination"

    Visit my coaching journal at:

    http://extreme-dreams.blogspot.com/