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In an email to a friend I outlined how I was pushing for Fall:

• Apple spice candle burning
• Cinnamon roll candle in my drawer waiting its turn to be burned
• Hot coffee preferred over iced
• Recipes to make using stuff like butternut squash, pumpkin, and carrots.

I’m ready for Autumn.  It is my favorite time of year despite the fact that we really don’t get Autumn here unless you count November – February.  However, Autumn is still 23 days away and it’s supposed to be 108° on Friday.  #SIGH!!

I’m excited for the next couple of months here at PrudyChick.com.  There are some exciting things happening including two series one of which that will feature some amazing women guest blogging it up. I will also have my first giveaway next week. Eeekkk. *chair dances of excitement happening here*

Maybe a new look to the site.  I love the way she looks now, but she may need to get dressed in more warm tones for Fall & Winter.  We’ll see…Shawn is getting increasingly busy with freelance work which is great.

I’d also like to post another couple I’m Impressed posts.  I seriously have amazing friends that impress so much on me I just want to shout to the world, “Hey, pay attention to these people.  They’re doing something right.”

And maybe another VLog.

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Since I’m pushing for Autumn to start the end of August, tell me what is your favorite things about the Fall season, and yes I know my friends in Australia you’re starting Spring?

“I’m Impressed” is a blog series featuring bloggers that have touched my life in an extraordinary way.  They come from different walks of life and each have a phenomenal story to tell.  Read their story and ask God what He can impress upon you from their lives.

I’m not quite sure how I came to find Tam (aka inProgress) but I did.  I have odd memories of her with teeth full of Oreo cookie while I’d scroll through my Twitter feed during the People of a Second Chance’s – Real Photo week – I would think who is this strange person and why am I following them .  When I asked readers what other women bloggers I should follow the responses were Tam, and I had just started following her.

I remember starting to read her blog just as she shared her story of her abortions and her abusive ex-husband.  Something in her story touched me.  A woman who was overcoming difficult circumstances and walking with grace on the other side.  Many women would feel entitled had they gone through what she has, but she doesn’t.  Like I said she walks in grace.

In the time I’ve followed along in her life from my computer I’ve see her passion.  She’s got a lot of it!!!  It’s great passion.  She recognizes that the events God allowed her to go through when she was younger enable her to minister to other women.  To serve and counsel them.

She is also fierce.  And when I say fierce I mean her love. Oh, and I wouldn’t put it past her to go all momma bear on someone who messes with someone she loves, I’ve seen her fierceness & protection for Alece.  I wouldn’t mess with her.  But back to her fierce love.  This lady loves deeply.  Her kids.  Her husband.  Her friends.  She loves unashamedly.

What impresses me about Tam is her passion.  It literally does touch and affect every part of her life.  Whether it’s using her experience to reach out to other women who are hurting, or the way she loves her friends and family, or the way she kills an Oreo cookie.  My hope is that, even though Tam is only 5 years old than I am, I’ll have the passion and love and grace that she radiates when I’m her age.  Heck I hope to have it now.

Bonus points:  When I was a freshman in high school my family almost moved to a town just miles from where Tam lives.  I was excited because at the time I was being taught at home (was home schooled for high school) and moving there would have meant I got to go to a real high school.

“I’m Impressed” is a blog series featuring bloggers that have touched my life in an extraordinary way.  They come from different walks of life and each have a phenomenal story to tell.  Read their story and ask God what He can impress upon you from their lives.

When I first checked out Git’z blog, I didn’t stick around.  For some reason even though I was heart broken for this lovely lady, I just didn’t click.  However, that slowly changed.  Something inside did click one day and the next thing I knew I was adding her to my daily reads.

Here was a kind hearted, compassionate woman who was enduring more than most do in their lifetime.  One of the things that stands out to me most about Sara is the amount of grace she has.  While her disease reigns her life she doesn’t allow it to rule it.  What I mean is she doesn’t play the victim.  She’s open with her readers about her daily life and the struggles she endures but she doesn’t point a waggering finger at God and blame Him.

She trusts Him.

I’m not saying she’s never questioned God, because even the best of us would.  But she lives like the Apostle Paul.  She trusts that God can heal her but for His greater purpose has allowed her this “thorn in the side”.  And if that reason is only to show some people across the globe the grace that she can have and the endurance that He gives her than his purpose is being fulfilled.

One day Gitzy will be healed and will be whole.  She will be able to walk, run, and dance free of the pain that has taken up residence in her body; and I guarantee you she will not dance alone.  Her family and friends (readers) that live across the world will dance with her.

Over the months that I’ve daily read her blog I’ve grown to love her.  God has made her dear in my heart.

What Gitz has impressed upon me is to endure in the most difficult of times and to live my live full of grace.  Like her I have a choice to allow my circumstances rule my life or to trust in God.