Carey Bailey

Dream Team

Defining the Dream.

What IS my God sized dream? She asks. Simple question, right? Simple for a dreamer. When I was five it was to be a fire fighting, ballet teaching ,mom. When I was eight it was to a ballet teaching mom When I was nine it was to be a teacher/mom Then I spent some real dreamy years being a dress designer in NY/mom Around twelve I settled in to wanting be Jane Pauley (former host of the Today Show)/mom. I hung out there for several years until I was fifteen and audibly heard God call me into  ...

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Dream Team

2012 Failure Seeking Your Best Advice.

Do I have any fans of failure out there? Anyone just love looking like an idiot? Anyone just proud as can be when something is a flop and want to give me a pep talk about how failure is the only way to learn what will be a win? When I took the time to look back on 2012 I didn’t have many check marks or things crossed off on my BIG goals list. In fact I can really only count 1 thing as “done”. You see I have become slightly paralyzed by a fear of failure. I am hopeful the damage is  ...

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Advent/Christmas

Cheers to being Merry and Bright!

Merry, Merry Day to you!!! I am praying it is filled with so much joy! And an opportunity to reflect on the love given and received. I am going to be taking a bloggy break to soak in my family. But please join me by walking into 2013 with a " No Fear" attitude. I have been honored to join Holley Gerth and her God sized Dream Team. Walk with me on the journey. She has a step by step plan of how to make certain you are living out the vision God has for you. Get all the details here. It is  ...

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Advent/Christmas, Dear God Letters

Dear God, I think I might be too old?

Dear God, I read Mary's words and hope beyond hope that I am as open, attentive, and as willing as she was. She was so young and sometimes I wonder if age has jaded me...has it made me think too much about the risks you want me to leap into rather than tip toe into? I hold onto Mary's story and ultimately His story knowing that our stories may not always look like or feel like WE want them to but that You have created life as a journey and along that journey will be lesson learned, hurts  ...

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