Let Me Tell You How Much Money I've Raised!

Happy Friday friends and family! I hope this full week after the Holidays was productive and that you're alive! I am so grateful for 2015, a new start! Let me start by saying I sort of tricked you. To be honest I've raised $0 for the half a million that I want to raise for Bridget's Dream (If you need the beggining of this story click HERE)!

I haven't posted an update for a WHILE so there is a lot to cover. But I'm going to make it short and simple for you! Even though I still haven't raised any money yet there are soooooo many nuggets of hope! Nordstrom is STILL a big possibility, I talked to them this week but they were supper bogged down from the Holydaze! Sonia Kashuk actually has come on the HOPE waggon. I am waiting to hear back from their publicist, I am thinking possibly next week! I called Target this week and didn't have any luck getting a live person to talk to, only fun robots and they weren't very helpful, they kept hanging up on me. I guess they don't get programed with empathy or compassion.... I thought I would give up on Target and my amazing husband found a webiste called human.com where you can get an actual phone line with real live breathing people with pulses. I was able to get through three people and the third person knew the woman who does casting for commercials and print so she sent my request to her via e-mail.... MORE HOPE! THEN I followed up with Loui Vuitton... Can I just say I am utterly amazed at their level of customer servise. They have an incredible team of people. I talked to two very nice ladies and they both were super helpful. They e-mailed me saying that it takes approximately four weeks to review any proposals. So WE WAIT. THEN I wrote a proposal to Proctor and Gamble. Phew! 

Today though! I got my VERY FIRST YES! I don't know all the details yet so I won't be able to say whom! BUT I am freaking out!!!!! God is so good! After saying no, they changed their minds! God has given me a fierce persistance. It is not of me but of HIM! The old me would NEVER take rejection and tried again. I would just feel defeated and hurt that I had been rejected! He is a God of restoration and courage! I can't wait to learn all the details of how they are going to use me but this company is awesome and they are local. So stay tuned for all the details! 

I am in awe of the work God is doing in me through all of this. He is helping me trust Him more and more and know that in Him all things hold together. And all things are possible through HIM! I don't know when, I don't know how (and I've actually stopped getting butt hurt that GOD isn't giving me ALL the details because to be honest HE IS GOD - I am NOT. He can keep his ultimate plan and I just need to rely on Him one day at a time!) He is giving me a peace that surpasses my understandinig. Even though at times I fall appart in my head, even thougth at times I want to give up. I won't. I don't. Thank you for reading this! Stay tuned! If you feel called to, please share my story with your friends and family. Encourage someone to believe that miracles still exist. Me being alive is one of them! THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR PRAYERS, GOOD THOUGHTS, ENCOURAGEMENT, LOVE, HELP. Your involment in this is as crucial. We all have a hand in this and I thank you for being a part of this in which ever capacity you are from the bottom of my very ELATED heart right now! I am fixing my eyes on Him so that I don't become discouraged. He is calling me to be strong and couragous. I would have never believed I would be couragous in my entire life!! I've felt more like a coward than anything else in life. I've realized courage comes when we know how loved we are. Courage comes when we do what God is calling us to do EVEN if we feel afraid. He knows we will never NOT feel afraid but we don't have to BE afraid because if God is for us who can be against us?! 

Stay blessed and stay saucy 

-Libier 

Miracles Through My Half A Million Dollar Journey

This week and a half has been crazy busy!! I always find it funny that there is so much pressure for us to have a wonderful time this season. For myself specifically I don't know of any other time that I feel more stress or feelings of disappointment. Why? Well I think I figured it out for me personally. I go to the outsources to make me feel the spirit of Christmas. Outsourses like hot chocolate and making cookies. Don't get me wrong those things are wonderful but if I personally don't go to God to get my joy and peace, those other things are so temporary that I am left feeling empty and disatisfied. With that being said, I hope that you find your way to feel that Christmas spirt. That you do have a peaceful and joyful Season where ever you are, what ever your circumstances.

I have some good news regarding my journey to raising a half a million dollars for Bridget's Dream. If you haven't read the proposal lettere click HERE. I experienced God's miracle in connecting me with a person that is very connected in the entertainment industry. What God has planned is beyond me. I am not going to try to udestand His plan. I am going to wait on His timing and TRUST that He knows what He is doing. He is giving me just enough light to walk each day and nothing more. I think in a way that is His way of protecting us. If we knew all that was going to happen to us we'd probably be too afraid to move forward. I can assure you though, miracles are happening.  We think of miracles as HUGE things that everyone can stand in awe of and don't get me wrong I believe that God is ABLE to do BIG miracles. I also believe that the miracles that happen internally, with-in our souls are as equally powerful. For me, the miracle that is happening in my heart is God taking me from the most obssessive person on earth, I mean I wanted to be in control of EVERYTHING and in the know of it all. I hated being taken by suprise and I always thought that my way was better than anyone elses (even God). I didn't know how to trust anyone! I never learned how. So, for me to sit here and tell you that my heart is surrendered to God and I am trusting in His plan and in His timing is a true miracle in itself. I am NOT saying that it's been a breeze for me. It has not. I have failed so many times in questioning God's timing and his plan but I surrender everytime I do. The more I practice surrendering myself I experience a peace that is beyond my comprehension. 

I did e-mail Sonia Kashuk's Team (they are a wonderful makeup brand that sells at Target) and I got an email back with their publicists information. I called and she was out (like so many other people are right now!) but I talked to someone and she liked my idea. She took my information down and said she would talk to the publicisit when she got back from vacation. SO THERE IS HOPE! There are so many possibilties out there. None have any concrete paths yet,  but I am trusting that in His time God will make the best move possible for Bridget's Dream. 

I write to you with an extremely thankful and hopeful heart. I am experiencing so much hope and joy!  We serve a God who is good, powerful and mighty to save! Even when we can't understand what He is doing, sometimes we are not meant to. Sometimes He asks us to TRUST Him and His promises. I do know that I am taking God out of my box and I am trusting Him for something BIG AND WONDERFUL. Because He will take things that are aweful and He will pay us double for our trouble! The devil means it for evil but God means it for the saving of many lives. Nothing you've EVER have gone through is out of God's reach to make into something good. If you trust Him and give Him your life he will never disappoint you! I have been through the ringer in my life and have spent so many years questioning God as to why. That has been the bigget waste of my time. When I decided I wanted to get better from all the wounds in my heart I made a choice to let God into my heart and allow him to heal me. What I found was the most exciting, loving and profound relationship I've ever experienced. Full of mercy and compassion. God cares about the state of our heart. He cares about what has wounded us. And he wants to fight evil with GOOD. I want to let him! I want to trust that even though terrible things have happened to me God is going to make beauty from these ashes. 

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

-Libier Reynolds 

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