a magical weekend: Bed and Breakfast with Paul, concert with Sara Groves, impromptu singing in a coffee shop, a gorgeous winter Saturday, pho (fuh) with my faves Daniel and Paige, a romp around my old college town, and at the end of it all, incredible favor inside my favorite old store with a new friend named Debbie.
All you have is all you need
Nellie Dunn, my old favorite store,
has turned to The Style
I don’t mind, for seasons change
it still smells like home, like eau d’ grandmother’s house, and it still feels the same
overflowing eclectic, yesterday’s beauty not discarded but cherished
for what it’s been, and is and will be 
and there’s Debbie: do you want to know the story? She is carrying an embroidered shirt on a dummy sits it down on a table to tell me
No wonder it’s all the same to you
you see, I ran Nellie Dunn for seventeen years. . . and now it’s mine
Long ago my sisters and I pressed our eyes up to these windows, and we dreamed:
‘that’d be a great store’ but it wasn’t my time yet
no, God always lets you know when it’s your time
One day we looked and two old hippies were here with old tools yuck and we pushed our way in past all their ‘not ready for business-es yet’
and there in that back corner they had a pair of black and white
polka dot platform shoes
I knew right then and there this was my store
I came right out and told them, ‘oh you really need me here,’ (as I was saying to myself, where did that come from) and of course they said, ‘oh really?’ Three months later when I came they said, ‘we really need you here’ So I came on part time I ran their store for many years
and the lessons I did learn
Now all the old antiques are gone Everything has a season, and that one’s over
One day at 4:00 in the morning I woke up and my mind was full
the entire plan for my store was there in my head I kept hearing, ‘it’s your time. . . it’s your time. . . all you have is all you need’
so I asked the owner who was selling what he would think of me staying here in this building, my own store across the street from his new one yes, the one with the ‘keep out’ sign there on the door
eventually he came up to the idea changed things in our relationship, though
and I’ve had to fight to stay here but past all the trouble God has been so good my racks always full, my store never empty you would not believe the stories of people who’ve come in and left here changed
and I believe it’s this place is blessed it’s not what it was and I got to take care of it for seventeen years before it became my time
and I have dreams of rooms and rooms of trunks filled with the most beautiful things I have seen such colors and wonderful textures I wake and I think those aren’t colors from here I’m seeing heaven and there are glass baubles there oh, He knows I love beauty there, I’m crying again I’m so full I leak and the truth serum flows goosebumps stand up all over when we talk of Him like this two who know Him like this
all this to say
don’t give up on your dreams let him bring you back to your passion say yes stand your ground be yourself
there will be no interruptions when He’s got you in place
and He’s moving through you
All you have is all you need
