Taking on public speaking!

Hey y’all! 
So it’s been a CRAZY but also amazing day! Today I started a new adventure that God put on my heart early this summer... Public speaking! Anyone that knows me well knows that I have always HATED speaking in front of big groups of people! Y’all I can ROCK a room full of kids.... but you put me in front of a group of jr high, high school or even worse adults... Kelley is probably going to puke or cry.. or both! But when God puts something on your heart you go for it! 
This morning I was an absolute HOT MESS y’all! I cried in the car before I even went into my first class! Walking into the classroom my nerves and anxiety hit an all time high... I just wanted to around and hightailed it out of there! But I went and took a seat and anxiously waited for class to begin. A few days before class we all received an email from our professor that we would need to give a 2-3 minute introduction of ourselves in front of the class... and of course I was chosen to be one of the first 3 people to give theirs! Y’all my notecards were shaking so bad the whole class probably thought “Is she having a seizure or is she just that dang nervous!”! I totally wanted to puke! But I took and few deep breaths and went for it... and I made it thru! I even cracked a joke! But the biggest moment of the morning for me came as I was getting ready to leave class. As I was getting ready to walk out the door my professor stopped me and said “I hope you don’t mind me asking but can you tell me a little more about Spina Bifida?”... Y’all that very moment I realized just why God has put me on this new journey and the walking/5K journey! It wasn’t just to get me to be more confident and go out of my comfort zone... It was to help get awareness out and educate people about Spina Bifida! But why me? Yes I have lived with Spina Bifida for the past 33yrs.. But I don’t know all the statistics or medical stuff! All I could think is “ I’m not qualified for this!”! But that’s the thing God doesn’t call the qualified.. He qualifies the called! After that encounter I went for a walk and then I went home and made notecards with all the Spina Bifida stats and info I could find! I may not think I am qualified to educate people about Spina Bifida... But I also didn’t think I was qualified to walk in a 5K and I am FOUR days from walking in my FOURTH 5K! And I never in a million years thought I would be qualified to walk 1,300 miles... But I hit that number yesterday! God knows what he is doing when he calls us to do something... we just have to be willing to listen and go for it! We have to be willing to let our faith in his plan be bigger than our fears! 



❤️Hugs💙
Kelley 

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