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Crazy day in NYC

Just got home from playing tonight. It was awesome! We are absolutely loving New York so far. Tomorrow we are cruising the city. I have a ton of video from today, but I’ve been up since 4:30 this morning and I’m to tired to edit it. I’ll try tomorrow!

I’m a softie…

For about 2 years now (since I moved to Dallas), a change has been going on in me.  I began to become a softie. I’m moved to tears easily. I have this sensitivity towards God and His Presence that I see everywhere. I have a deep, genuine heart to help those who do not have what I have (spiritually and physically). Even if that means helping requires sacrifice.

Now relationship is more important than size and the journey is more important than the result. I guess I should say the journey is the result. This is all new territory for me, and my thoughts and beliefs and lifestyle are having to line up with it. Thank God for John 16:13 or I’d be lost.

Excellence: an action or attitude?

Last night I closed up and I was vacuuming the floor. I was running late because I started an activation like 10 minutes before close. As I was vacuuming one of the managers said, “don’t worry about vacuuming under those, the customer won’t see it.”

My first thought was, “they  may not see it, but they will feel it.” I believe that excellence is not an action, it is an attitude. An attitude is not tangible. You cannot touch it, smell it, or see it, but you can feel it. You know when someone is acting nice when they are talking to you, but you know they don’t feel that way?  You feel something that is not tangible. It’s the attitude behind what you see, hear, touch, taste or smell.

In your workplace or home, are you excellent? Or are you just taking care of what the “customer” sees? I challenge our community of aubreysanchez DOT com to take care of everything with excellence in marriage, work, parenting, relationship with God. If we do, you and others will intangibly (and eventually tangibly) feel the difference!

Resting my brain

I have about 5 posts that I want to post, but for some reason I am having a hard time sitting down and writing them. It is not that I do not have the time. Lately, I have just not wanted to get quiet and put my mind in the mode to think deep and write these thoughts out. Some of it is that there is a lot of mental energy going towards learning the ropes at my new job, but maybe sometimes you just need to give your brain a rest.

Anyone else ever feel like this?

He will, He will rock you!

Around this time two years ago, my wife and I’s world was rocked when we knew we were supposed to move to Dallas. The thing is, we were not looking to move. We loved our church, our friends, our house, our city, our university (OU), and would have even bought our plots there.

Quite honestly, ever since we moved here (Dallas), our world has just been rocked over and over. We moved to work at a church. No doubt in my mind it was what I was supposed to do. Then six months ago, we felt God pulling us away from the church we moved here for. Confusing? Absolutely. Nevertheless, we would rather error on moving towards where we feel God leading rather than taking a chance of sitting when we shouldn’t be.

As soon as I resigned from my position at the church, God opened another door.  We knew we were supposed to walk through it. Then 2 months ago, God starts dropping whispers in my heart about pursuing music again. Like all the other transitions, those whispers became shouts as wise counsel and mentorship began to echo the same whispers. So, I stepped out. If you read this blog faithfully, you know about the last two months.

In hindset, I know without a shadow of a doubt that Meg and I made the right decisions. What made it hard to walk through is that I do not know the purpose a move or season serves like God does. I have my ideas, but His are greater than mine. I picked up my life and moved to Dallas for a church. How would you interpret that? Yeah, me too. Like you would be there for awhile.

But God saw it differently. Now I am beginning to see that the relationships formed during that short time are lifelong bonds that are vital to all of our futures. God placed us there for a time to plant seeds that will ripen in our future and in others’ futures.

I could go on forever, but the moral of the story is this: If you are not where God wants you to be, and you know it, my advice is to do whatever needs to happen to get there.

However, if God put you where you are at, learn to love it. But remember, it may not serve the purpose you think it does. Whether it seems to be a good situation or a bad situation, God knows what He is doing. Just know that you are planting seeds for your future and many other people’s futures. You may not even know what those seeds are now, but you will in hindset.