Just Making Pancakes

Just Making Pancakes

Friday, January 4, 2013

This Christmas season...

Ya know, it is kind of funny how I imagined my life happening.  I pictured a house, a job I enjoyed, no children, no husband, and a BIG HUGE bird. That was what I thought my life would be like and I was sure it would be just perfect.  Then I met Steve, fell in love, lost a daughter, lost a son, lost 200lbs, gained perspective, am in college, and just when we started to build our life without a child, here comes Kamiyah.  Bakannah would be 7 years old now and instead of curling up in the Christmas ball we usually do we have been blessed to share this year with one of the sweetest little girls I have ever met.  I did not get much for gifts, in fact, I got into a car accident, my husband was stolen from and then his car ended up totaled.  Did that stop the joy? nope. Jesus has blessed us with so much more than we could have ever asked for and NOTHING could have taken that away.

 Many great people poured love on us and Kamiyah. I never knew Kamiyah would own Toys-R-Us in one Christmas! From friends giving us clothes, to family helping putting the car back together, to just visiting with people we have not seen in awhile, it was amazing.

This is not how I planned my life and it sure is a good thing God is good at what he does because I like this plan way more than what I had in store for myself. Please read through to the end. Perhaps you will catch a glimpse of the greatness. :~)

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to?




The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage, but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”  -C.S. Lewis