Lately I have been focused on a lot of my goals and achieving them.

I started to think why has it taken me this long to achieve them?

Which I think is a valid question to ask.

I am wondering why it has taken me so long to gather up the courage to do the things that I have dreamed of?

Oh, I have so many questions.

I know that God’s timing is different to ours and we are right where we need to be.

God is not late he is always on time.

As I navigate my goals this year, I am reminded of how His timing is different.

I am reminded that he gives us favour, divine appointments, divine connections, and divine protection.

I have been on a journey, gathering up life skills, learning and embracing different experiences.

I have been collecting the necessary skills that I need to make my dreams come to life.

There has been many pinch me moments (as I like to call them) in the last few months.

My God moments-

One that I am so grateful for is being able to record two songs that I co wrote and be in a proper recording studio. That Bill Risby who I have never met created the most beautiful piano arrangement for my song Rise. That Brett Word created the most amazing guitar arrangement for Rise, that Merelyn Carter who has been my music mentor for a long time guided me through the journey. Also having Adrian from The Song Store (where I recorded my song) teach me so much about being in the recording studio and the recording process. Oh, and for him playing Cello in the instrumental of Rise.

I am also grateful for my gym journey where I have a great coach who has journeyed with me, from the person that was so unsure of herself in the gym to the person who is now working towards her first bodybuilding competition next year. Being in the gym has helped my mindset it has let me know that I am capable, that I can do hard things. That I love a challenge and I am not giving up.

There is also another mentor Elaine who helps me with me writing and I have just about finished my journal book that I have been working on for such a long time. This has been a journey and she is just so encouraging and has supported me in embracing being an author.

There have been many mentors and people that have been in my life that I have learnt from and grown. Mentors who have been with me in the valleys and then celebrated on the mountain tops.

Yes, there have been many valleys but oh the mountain tops make it all worthwhile.

Some of them will never know how much they have impacted my life but they are all in my story, they are all part of my journey that I am embracing.

They are all the reasons that I am still here, still here creating and embracing new opportunities.

It has taken me a while to walk out my dreams because He was doing a work in me and still is, he is the potter and I am the clay.

I hear Him whisper it is not too late Tracey.

I hear Him whisper to you it’s not too late.

Be encouraged I am cheering you on.

I am learning to be me.