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Get Fired Up! It Might Look Dead, But an Abundant New Thing is About to Sprout Up

“… and then God can let the good stuff grow. It’s then that God makes beauty from ashes.”

4 Reasons You Have to Manage the Weeds

🔥Any foresters out there? 

Sometimes it takes a little fire to burn away the clutter… and then God can let the good stuff grow. It’s then that God makes beauty from ashes. 

Keep going, friend. 

You aren’t walking through fire to just smell like smoke. 

You went through hell because God has plans for you on the other side of the fire. He has important work only you can do, but you have to let go what doesn’t matter. 

“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”

Isaiah 43:19 NIV

“But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height…

The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.””

1 Samuel 16:7 NIV

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In My Daughter’s Eyes, The Amazing Year of My Diagnosis

Created January 2018

I actually wrote this post in my notebook a couple of years ago. And with Maggie’s fourth birthday quickly approaching decided to revisit.

This song is one of those you’ve heard a million times and never meant too much. But fast forward to a new season of life and it hit me in heart. 

During Maggie’s first year of life, I had many moments where I never felt more weak, powerless and lost. Looking back, I know that if I hadn’t had her during that time, it would have been so easy to give up. So easy to focus too much on myself and my health and I would have surely drowned in anxiety and self-pity. But Maggie never failed me.

She didn’t care if there had been a bad doctor’s appointment that day or if my body ached to the point I didn’t want to get out of the bed. It didn’t stop her from needing someone to pick her up, feed her, change her, and love on her. And it definitely didn’t stop her from letting out her first real giggle, from starting to crawl, or the first time she called me “Mama.” 

Maggie needed me and I needed to get stronger for her. There were so many times I wanted to give-up and she is the reason I kept going. The reason I keep going. And I will thank God every day for her the rest of my life. 

Because of my daughter, 2017 is not the year of my cancer diagnosis, surgery, and radiation treatment. 2017 was the year I became a mom. The year I learned how to love deeper than I thought possible. The year I was able to block out pain and distractions to be present so that I could enjoy my little family. The year God created a human who thought I truly hung the moon. 

Praise you, Father, from whom all blessings flow. 

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