That was me to my brother, Kevin, yesterday! It’s incredible how every conversation with him has been sacred, including one we had last night that lasted only five minutes. I invited not only me, but my four kids and my nephew to have dinner with him, and without missing a beat, he says, “Come! I will treat you and the kids to dinner.” I’m talking about such genuine love, generosity, and kindness. May we all learn to be kinder because I believe anything we do for another is rewarded back to us by God Himself.

“I wank to suck up your joy!!!” I also said to Kevin. He exudes (display (an emotion or quality) strongly and openly) JOY. Again, we can all work on upping our game in this department. God told me this in a recent appointment with Him when I locked up in my closet with Him crying, saying I was tired of being sad:

“For Jesus’ Cross, the Holy Cross, is NOT a source of sadness or depression, but of peace and joy. However, if it is a human or imaginary cross we are carrying on our shoulders, or one which is the result of interior rebellion against the true Cross, then indeed we become sad and worried. But this weight and preoccupation can disappear from your life and cease to drain you; all you have to do is open the eyes of faith and decide to cut the wings of your imagination…

You are carrying on your shoulders a weight which is as atrocious as it is ridiculous (God was lovingly correcting me of the nonsense stuff I carry around with me in my head!)– a weight which you imagine is a mountain and in fact is a grain of sand. They are ghosts created by your mind, bogey-men your imagination decks out in vivid colors, giving them huge terrifying hands, and swift, agile legs. These are what are chasing you and filling your soul with sorrow and agitation (TOTALLY ME AT THAT VERY MOMENT!!!). A little assertion of your life of faith would be enough to make them disappear. Don’t you realize how easily they can be got rid of.” – Jesus as Friend by Salvatore Canals

As Kevin and I discussed yesterday, I can’t say I’m rolling with God and walk around looking sad. Sadness is for people who don’t trust God. Anything I’m worried or sad about is an area I’m not trusting God to handle on my behalf and allowing the crazy lady in my head to convince me otherwise.

Not everything is in our control, but God is the ultimate Controller, and we have to trust that He is taking care of the problematic parts with us. It’s just for us to show up, give our best and leave the rest with Him! Wink! Wink! He got us! And this provides us with the JOY, peace, and strength to face our days confidently! Crazy lady, please go away and stop telling me all this foolishness that I should be sad about. I’m trusting God here! Thanks, God and Kevin, for being my guard rails and keeping me on the right path. (HUGE SMILE)

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.” – Proverbs 3:5-6 NKJV

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I felt God singing to me yesterday through the song, ‘I Swear’ by All for One:

“I see the questions in your eyes
I know what’s weighing on your mind
You can be sure I know my part
‘Cause I’ll stand beside you through the years
And you’ll only cry those happy tears
For better or worse, ’til death do us part
I’ll love you with every beat of my heart
And I swear”

I was playing this as I dressed to go out and buy something for the boy’s dinner. As I was leaving to get something to cook, Joshie asked for pizza, and when I told him “No,” he asked his friend, Isaiah, who came over to play their game if he wanted pizza. The way Isaiah responded, though, was so cute and funny that I said, “No problem, I’ll get it.” Can you believe I’m waiting for the pizza, and I started crying those happy tears from the song that I felt God was singing to me minutes before?

It was a crazy day, but again like the lyrics said, “I’ll stand beside you,” I truly felt overwhelmingly supported by God. I just felt God coming through for me in so many areas. Like my daughter, Ember, showed up to help me with a project at our office, and she did such a great job helping me out. I had a great conversation with my nephew Duro that he is getting some help he needed in getting an internship. Joshie ended up telling me that Isaiah said it was his best time having pizza. To see my boys so happy playing with such fun and positive friends made me so happy. When I told Emmie that our life is a mess right now looking at so much laundry to put away, he surprised me and said, “LIFE IS GREAT!” No shame in my game, I can honestly tell you, when I’m weak, God is my strength standing STRONG with me. For better or worse, when I’m high or when I’m low, He is there like this verse from Isaiah beautifully reminds us:

“So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” – Isaiah 41:10

Even when I’m feeling good for nothing, He says, “Nik, give me your nothingness! Didn’t I create the world from nothing!” We can unceasingly worship, praise, and thank God at every moment knowing we can always count on Him to be there for us with His love, joy, strength, peace, wisdom, and favor backing me up in this treacherous world where we don’t know what is coming at us from one moment to the next. He is there for you too!!! It’s just for us to tap into his help, love, and guidance! Pray all day! Every day!

And speaking of His love. After going all overboard about Tom Brady in my last YouTube video, can you believe, hours later, my daughters and I attended what we thought was a DJ Khaled concert, but turned out to be the Sports Illustrated Awards Show, and unbelievably Tom Brady was in attendance accepting the award for Sportsperson of the Year. I gave him a screaming standing ovation, so surprised by God.

This lined up a little bit too perfect to be some ordinary coincidence. I knew this was God lovingly arranging for me to see Tom Brady, who has had such a strong influence on my decisions to train myself like an athlete every day, as I aim to be the Greatest of ALL Time Wife, Momma, and Person, ALL FOR THE GLORY OF GOD! Tom taught me that we could strive to be the best in our little worlds, and I run with that, waking up every day with that as my goal. Some days I fail miserably, but every day is a new start to begin again, leaving the past in the past, knowing God can help get any situation back on track once we look to Him, moment by moment, for guidance. God is personally involved in our lives!!! Don’t miss out on the best life with Him!

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“I’M HAVING FACE-TO-FACE CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD, BOYEEE!!!”

That was me to my brother/coach, Kevin, yesterday! I told him how all of his advice is working for me, especially when he said that I should make getting closer to God a top priority. This is my prayer for us all that we can walk through life JOYFULLY and STRONG, knowing that we have God as our constant Companion, Friend, Guide, Helper, Strategist, Planner, Father, Helper, Therapist, Supporter, and Teacher walking with us. Nothing more wonderful than this! (HUGE SMILE)

I have a place I meet with God every day, and it’s truly astonishing how He finds these ways just to let me know He is there. Like the night before last, rushing the boys out to church, I ironed an outfit for my son, Emmie, but he didn’t like the pants I selected and instead pulled out some crumpled jeans. At that point, he had like five minutes to get dressed before his ride came, so I remembered what my cook taught me about giving clothes a strong shake when I didn’t have a chance to iron them, and I did exactly that and rushed Emmie out the door. Fast forward the following day under my God tree, this incredibly showed up on our family’s website of now 115 pages:

“Our cook said, “Just give the clothes a strong shake and let them go!”” Wink! Wink!

This one little sentence showing up under that tree was God revealing His sweet invisible Presence with me as if saying, ‘Nik, I know everything about you, including every thought you think! and everything you do!’ And He didn’t stop there. God found a way to also confirm a post I recently wrote about my nephew, Duro:

“I told him that I’m the mother eagle who takes apart the nest of the eaglets so that she forces them to learn how to fly on their own. I’m not my kids’ friend now, but eventually, they will hopefully see that this crazy momma/aunt always had their best interests at heart. Same thing with my relationship with God. I ask Him sometimes, “God, why?!?” but those challenging experiences are exactly what I need to become the Nikki God Himself has created me to be.”

Fast forward under my God tree yesterday, this message randomly showed up in a Purpose Driven Life Devotional For Kids:

“A mother eagle will take the nest of her young and stir it up. She will make them uncomfortable and miserable, then kick them out and force them to learn to fly—for their own good. GOD DOES THAT IN OUR LIVES: HE MAKES US UNCOMFORTABLE SOMETIMES BECAUSE HE WANTS US TO GROW. He will allow a problem, irritation, or frustration to push us toward what is best for us.”

And this was AGAIN God coming and having a face-to-face conversation with me about the irritations in my life that I allow to get the best of me. No coincidence!!! But today is a new day! God had so much to say to me under that tree yesterday that I felt so incredibly loved by Him. And being aware that His Presence is always with me gives me the joy and confidence to tackle all these situations that I go through with a God perspective. Yes, the problems, challenges, irritations are still there, but I get my advice from God on how to tackle them all, with Him backing me up by working on my behalf in the spiritual realm. When I am weak, He is my strength. I can therefore show up as my most joyful, brave, courageous, most loving, forgiving, excellent, shining bright for His glory self.

Are you feeling God’s Presence with you? Sometimes I ask myself if I waste time going to seek God under that tree every day, but I know without God as my life’s strong foundation, I would not be able to show up as the wife, mother, and person He would have me to be. With Him, I can calmly, happily, courageously, and skillfully deal with anything coming my way! Heehaw! Not one second seeking God has been a waste of time. I wouldn’t trade that knowledge of His constant Presence with me for all the money in the world! When are your alone times with Him? I promise you, as you seek Him, you will find Him! May we all live lives STRONG with God! Amen!

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