Hi everyone, my name is Lori. I am doing an intro, my intro video and I'm doing it
live which is really kind of uncomfortable for me if I'm being honest
but I have been a part of the Rest Intensive for a couple weeks now and
I've kind of put off the intro video because I kind of struggle a little bit
with opening up and sharing I guess and so this is my daughter Felicity. She had
a bump a little fall the other day and she bumped her head and anyway but I am
a wife and I'm also a business owner. I have a photography business and I'm also
a lemongrass spa consultant. I love both of those things so much and but I kind
of struggled my entire life with you know operating my business out of a
place of rest. I actually started my business when I was 14 and so I've had
many highs and lows with my life and my business and I kind of have a lot of
insecurities surrounding that because I kind of believe the lies that people
told me about myself whether it's with my self-image or whether it was my looks
or my business or my services. I feel like I really believed all of the lies
that were told to me that were not true and so the last couple weeks I as I have
been working through this series I have been realizing how unconditional God's
love is for me and I just had a moment a couple weeks ago where I just saw Jesus
standing there through all of my hurts and all of my pain and everything that
I've ever gone through in my life that led up to this moment and I just saw this look of felicity.
She started discovering that screaming is a very very fun so anyway so I've
just felt like I just felt like I could just see see God through God's look of
unchanging love through all of those hard things and and that was a huge
moment for me and just being able to release all of my doubts and all of my
fears to God and just surrender and kind of play we're in teething mode right now
her first tooth came through anyways so she gets a little grumpy sometimes but
anyway I feel like I've already been learning so much and I'm so happy to be
a part of this group and I hope that I can learn to share a little bit more and
open up up more that's something that I struggle with and because I'm kind of a
kind of a lot of shame surrounded by just I don't know just the things I
struggle with so I'm really thankful to Carrie Byler for sharing her journey
with me and her followers because I feel like I just I just don't know where I
would be today and I don't want to know where I would be today if she hadn't
introduced me to the rest intensive and to Ashley and I feel like I've learned
so much even in the short time that I have been here and I'm so grateful for
that and I hope everyone has a happy Monday and I will catch up with you guys later