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Why She Shines



If you read my bio you saw that I chose the name She Shines from Matthew 5:16.  Well, it wasn't quite that simple but is it EVER that simple for a southern girl who likes to entertain and likes to talk?  Uh, NO! 

When I was a little girl CB Radios were
a thing. We took road trips all the time in our motorhome and jumped on those radios talking to people like we were important.  My Dad's  handle was " The Lighthouse" and wanting to be like my Dad I chose "sunshine girl"  as my handle. I Totally DID NOT know what prophecy even meant as a 10 year old little girl, but when I think back to that period of time you could say Light began to evolve as a passion and who I was and strived to be. It was kind of like a prophetic word over my life.  I truly love to be out in the sun but it was beginning to evolve as way deeper than the weather.  
     Fast Forward 20 years when I was teaching a women's bible study and in the guide it asked us to look up the meaning of our name and find a life scripture to go with it. I did and guess what Cyndi means?  You Guessed it!!  Cyndi means Light!! I Had No idea when I chose sunshine girl  as a 10 year old that it was actually the meaning of my name.  I picked Matthew 5:16 as my life scripture that day.  "Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and Glorify your Father in heaven."    I began praying that I would begin to be a light in this dark world that Shined Christ love to those around me.  
    Lets jump forward again to 2015 when I went on staff at a church as the ministries & event coordinator and girls pastor of a student and after school ministry.  Every Girls ministry needs a cool name right?  Well as I trying to figure out a way to integrate my life's calling of Shining Light into the name It just hit me like a lightening bolt from Heaven.  SHE SHINES!!  I'll call the ministry SHE SHINES. 
     When I stepped down from that staff position and decided to start my own event business I was faced again with picking the name.  After a lot of thought and prayer I thought  "why reinvent the wheel? "   I love the name She Shines because it defines and describes me and reminds me every day Who I want to be and I what I want to do!  
 
So She Shines it became and She Shines It Is! 

My Jeep Sports it and I hope my Life and My Business DO Too! 

#SheShines


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From the Mountains to the Sea

8/12/2021

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  In 2020, when the pandemic hit my husbands company decided it was going to move to Mexico.  We are a  family with special needs kids and an international move just wasn't the best idea for us, especially during a pandemic. So that left us wondering and praying what we should do.  After much thought and prayer we decided to relocate our Family to Wilmington, NC from Hendersonville, NC where we were established and had lived for many years.  With everything shut down because of the pandemic the event and decorating business was almost eliminated completely.  I had two weddings in that year and our own vow renewal, but that was it.  No weddings, baby showers, festivals.  Nothing.  As I continued to think about it over the year I began to think maybe I should close my business like the other thousands of other small business owners.   At least formally.  I knew I could possibly volunteer at church doing events (if church ever reopened) or get involved in school events but still it wouldn't be a formal business. We love living at the coast now, but I don't know vendors or have tons of contacts like I did in WNC. It didn't seem feasible to try and start from scratch in a place where I barely knew anyone.   I had previously thought of moving my business to my parents farm and have done a few events and weddings there,  but my husband could not find a job there and the timing just never seemed right.   So it seemed impending doom was knocking at the door for She Shines Events and Decorating. 

A month ago my brother Greg called me and said he was going to transition back to the farm after he retires from the Army. He told me it was his dream for each of the siblings to come back and use their gifts and talents on the farm.  That got the wheels spinning in my head and the prayers going up.  One of my greatest joys is to work hand in hand with my family on the farm. So my husband and I began to talk it out, pray about it and then talked to my parents. The timing seemed  as if it might be right because my Dad was going to start the transition to retirement.  This might open the door for me to do events there.  Was that what God was doing or was it something else? 

Sometimes when God gives us a word and it doesn't happen as fast as we think it should,  its easy to think we didn't hear what God told us or what we thought he asked us to do.  But King David was anointed as King 13 years before he actually became the King.  I'm sure he wondered if he really heard what God said as he waited for 13 years  to  see that come to fruition.  God does the same with us.  An idea might begin to take root a very long time before we act on it.  Sometimes we act on it and all the doors seem shut. Then when we least except it the doors swing open and things begin to move.  I'll be honest I'm there right now, wondering if I heard God when I opened a business not long before a pandemic hit.   Only to move 5 hours away from where I knew everyone.  But God's plans and purposes can not be thwarted and His ways are not our ways.  He sees things and knows things we do not.  So we stay close to Him and pray so we can navigate this crazy road called LIFE.  She Shines is on the road again and even though this crossroads hasn't shown us our final destination yet are so excited to wait and see.  

In Gods Grace

Cyndi

PS.. below is a picture of my parents at our vow renewal on our Family Farm this year
   
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"Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father in heaven"
​                               Matthew 5:16
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"Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do" 
                                Walt Disney

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Cyndi McDaniel
​Phone: 828-273-9352
Email: cyndi@sheshineseventsanddecorating.com

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