MY LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE | Life is Beautiful

I attended BYBC, a bloggers conference in late February and what happened on the last day of the conference has forever changed my life.

Giveaways that I DID NOT win.

The person next to me is the founder of OURescue, Tim Ballard. He is my hero.

look at my puffy eyes! hahaha, I’ve never bawled so much during a movie.

I just got home from the Build Your Blog Conference!

At @funcheaporfree’s class(thanks for featuring my blog, Jordan!), she asked us to write down why we blog. Then she asked again, then the third time. I wrote down,

-my first why is to help orphans in third world countries. I want to help God by helping his little children.

I didn’t have a second or third reason. This is the first and only reason I blog. The reason why I blog and try to earn money through blogging is so that I can open up a clothing store, so that I can use that money to help orphans around the world.

I had no plans to come to BYBC. But I felt I should come and I thought only if I can get it for free. I felt I should ask on a FB group and this sweet girl connected me to @momitforward who had an extra ticket(thank you!). Last night the director of Shindler’s List & Jurassic Park was there talking about his new movie coming out and we were to be shown the premier that night. I thought about skipping because I was so tired but I felt I should go, so I went.

I’ve never heard of the movie The Abolitionist nor did I know they would be here. It’s about Operation Underground Railroad who go undercover to free child sex slaves around the world. @Ourrescue is an organization I follow every post of, donate to and admire. Then at the movie premier the founder Tim Ballard was there. I walked up to him, shook his hand and I lost it. Tears would not stop pouring down my face as I told him between heavy sobs how I called them “the guardian angels on earth” and I plan on supporting them and donating to them for the rest of my life. I realized then how I didn’t let go of his hand and was still shaking his hand(oops), but I also realized his eyes were full of tears.

Tears did not stop as I walked away and I met the other co-founder of OUR. As I told him my admiration for what they are doing and how I want to start a clothing line so that I could donate to them, he started to cry.

The movie was full of inspiration and hope. But one part of the movie showed a clip of an orphanage. The little tiny babies were lying on their own feces and severely malnourished. But they wouldn’t cry because they knew no one would get them anyway, a heartbreaking fact they learned early on as newborns. As the beautiful, such pure and innocent eyes looked into the camera, their eyes pierced my soul and everything in me. My body started to shake and I cried even harder than I already were and I knew right then that I would be helping OUR in a more deeper level in my lifetime. I knew I was meant to come to this conference solely to meet the people and watch the movie. Then I felt a prompting that I should not stop pursuing my clothing store(I learned from the gold sequin skirts how I didn’t want to be a business owner anymore), and that is the way to my goal. That I should not stop. Then images popped into my head very vividly of clothing pieces I’ve never seen before.

After the movie, the co-founder gave a conclusion and at the end he said, “I met a blogger just tonight who had such a beautiful spirit who told me she wants to start a clothing line so she could help OUR. I started to cry and I knew it was God’s confirmation to me that I was meant to be here. It was a confirmation to me of what I just felt.

I know it was the higher power who made everything just fall into place so that I could be at BYBC. My goal, my passion, my drive is stronger than ever. It is so strong it over floods my very being. Now I know clearly my purpose in life. This is it.

My amazing friend Kara(she has an adorable blog While Camden Sleeps, she’s an amazing seamstress!) has worked day and night to put together a 5K to help OURescue called the Rescue Run 5K on May 21st.

Use code: LIFEISBEAUTIFUL for $3 off your registration.

Will you join me in any way you can, by registering for the race, donating or spreading the word? I have registered and will be there with my family and I hope to see you there! More information is below.