Episode 226: My Journey with God Throughout My Virtual Assistant Business

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[00:00:00] Hey mama. I have been feeling God prompting me to share my journey with Him, with you. So today’s episode is gonna be all about my journey with my faith throughout my virtual assistant business. I grew up knowing God, but I never had a super deep relationship with him. We went to a Lutheran church growing up, and I loved the tradition of it, but one thing that I felt was missing was talking about the relationship with God, but I felt like a lot from the Lutheran church, and maybe you’ll agree, maybe you won’t. That’s okay. It was a lot about the rules of what you have to do to be a good Christian, and that’s great. It’s really good to understand that, but I just didn’t have that connection that made me wanna follow the rules, if that makes sense. So I did just because like, you know, I won’t. I wanted to make everybody happy, so I made good choices growing up. Not really because you know I wanted to, for God, it was just because I was afraid of making anybody upset. So I just didn’t really have that connection of like why we were supposed to do good things and that relationship to just help me feel super connected. Then my sophomore year of college, I ended up getting an apartment with two girls that I did not know.

[00:01:27] My college paired us up, or the apartment complex paired us up and that December of that year, one of my roommates was actually killed in our apartment. They still don’t know who did it. It’s been 10 years now. It’s crazy. But that event really, it just took off my rose colored glasses of feeling like I was safe, feeling like nothing bad could happen. It made me question how God could let something like that happen. It. It didn’t draw me away from him. It just had me asking him a lot of really hard questions, which if you didn’t already know, like he can handle those hard questions. He wants you to come to him in those hard times and ask and just ask why. Ask how he welcomes those questions from you. So that was a really hard year for me. And then a couple years later, I graduated from college and I really felt like God was calling me to go to Texas, like I was gonna be a teacher and I went to a job fair at our school. I. When I really, I met with I think one Michigan school that was looking for teachers, but I just really felt called to the Texas locations. All I can say is that God was pushing me towards them. I don’t know any reason other than that I. But this was also really scary because I didn’t know anyone down there okay. I knew nobody. I was freshly outta college. I had no job yet. I had always, you know, lived with my parents. I mean, I lived in the dorms for a little bit in that apartment, but after that I went back to my parents ’cause I’m like, I’m not doing that again. Yeah, so just moving across the country felt really nerve wracking for me, but I followed that nudge anyway, and he provided, when I moved down to Texas, I moved into this apartment. I was on the first story, and literally the day I was moving in, I met my upstairs neighbor.

[00:03:32] Who was about the same age as me, worked at the local church was starting a Bible study with a whole bunch of other girls my age. Like how perfect was that? He literally just glopped a group of friends for me right above my apartment. So he definitely provided there. Right. And then during that time, When I was meeting with those girls in Bible study, that’s when I really started understanding that you could have a really deep, beautiful relationship, even friendship with God. And that was just something I didn’t really understand before. So that was kind of my first glimpse into what that was like. I really just wanted that connection with him. So I started building that, started reading the Bible more, praying more. And then a couple years down the road when my husband had eventually moved to Texas, we got married and then he moved down. We started trying for a baby and I was just unhappy with teaching. I didn’t know how I was gonna be the present mom that I always wanted to be, and I was feeling the nudge to do something else, but I didn’t know what it was. My husband and I had a conversation and we decided that I was gonna take the first year off of teaching when my daughter was born and that I would just be present for her.

[00:04:53] And I feel like that was just kind of a little step of faith. Like we could live off of my husband’s income, but I. It wasn’t going to be, you know, comfortable. But we took that step of faith because I felt in my heart that I was meant to do something else. And my husband trusted that feeling that I had, and we just went with it. So literally, the day I went into labor, I found out about this virtual assistant world. You guys, that is not just coincidence. I know a hundred percent that it was God’s timing. He was like, you are meant to do this. This is what’s going to allow you to be home with your babies. Okay, so one thing I’ve, I’m kind of proud of is that I’m pretty good at following the nudge from God. Like if I feel him telling me to do something, I will do it. But also sometimes I jump in before asking him, I try to control everything. I feel like a failure when I can’t control things, and that was kind of hard in the virtual assistant world because I felt like a failure. Whenever I didn’t land that next client.

[00:06:01] I would compare myself to other people who maybe even started their virtual assistant business after me, but seemed like they were farther from me. So that was really hard, and I struggled with that a lot in the first year of becoming a virtual assistant, but I think it was towards the end of that first year that I was like, you know what? I’m not meant to control this. God gave this business to me. He gave me this idea. He’s helped me learn everything I need to. He’s given me all the people to guide me. And so that was when I decided to give my business to God and ask for him to provide for me. I asked him to provide financial resources we needed for our family. I asked him to provide the clients that would just value me. I just gave it all to him, said, God, just do with us what you will. Once I did that, everything changed. It was so much easier to run my business. I sometimes still struggle with control. I think that’s a daily commitment that I have to make to myself, and I’m not always great at it.

[00:07:03] But when I remember to go back to that peace to give my business back to God, e. Always, always provides. So I just wanted to record this episode for you, and I hope that it encourages you to bring God into your virtual assistant business. He can be in everything, even if it’s not, you know, you’re sitting in the church at a pew. He should be in every part of your life. He should be present in all aspects because he’s the one that controls everything. It’s so much easier. It’s so much less of a burden when you just give it to God and just follow his will.

[00:07:45] So real quick, I wanna pray us out of this episode. Father, I just wanna thank you so much for always giving us exactly what we need, even if it’s not necessarily what we want. You always have exactly what we need to get to that next level, to grow in faith with you and to just become the person you created us to be. So Father, we are so grateful every day for your presence. I just ask that you would pour life into these mamas and their virtual assistant businesses so it can help them do what you’ve designed them to do, to be home with their babies, to be present, to be patient, to be loving. And I just pray that you would bless all of these amazing, beautiful mamas listening to this show. Amen. Alright, y’all, thank you so much for tuning into this episode and we will see you next time.