The Story God Wrote For Me

Sometimes God throws us a curve ball in our daily walk with him and it makes us go...wow where did that come from? I just gave up on that "dream" not two months earlier and now after 10 years of marriage it is going to happen when I gave up? Yes, that happened to me this past summer. After 10 years of marriage to my bestest best friend I had all but given up on the thought of having children. Why? Because I turned the big 30 in July and I decided I would just go back to general surgeon school and work in Africa as a surgeon one day and thought that was the path God was going to open up for me. 9 days after my birthday I get the "OMG" moment when the pregnancy stick turned immediately pregnant...Now after 10 years I have taken many many tests and I had never had one that showed pregnant. So of course, I think it is a fluke...2 additional pregnancy test that had the "pregnant -spelled out for dummies" later and lots of shock and then the realization of i...

5 days and I will be back where I feel like I belong :) I'm returning to Niger again! I'm so excited!

June 6, 2011 @ 10:48pm One sunny day a fisherman walked to a little pond and sat down. He didn’t do anything but just  watched the surface of the little pond, he watched the tiny minnows swimming just below the surface, he watched the big fish jump and leap up in the air and watched them smack the surface as their weight drove them back down to the depths. He watched the birds soar high above, and he watched the snake in the grass that was watching him. He watched the whole pond and then he got off and walked away.  Just below the surface one little fish named Barnabus stopped suddenly and looked up towards the dark shadow that fell over the pond......"oh, just that funny looking tree again” but he ignored it and he kept swimming and playing with his friend. That night he went home and his momma told him that he needed to stop playing all day long and he needed to start paying attention to the way the pond was changing. It isn't safe for you anymore, you are getting b...

Hello Friends, It has been an interesting past 57 days in the USA. I returned home (AL) from Niger, West Africa on March 20, 2011. The first 4 days I spent time at different revivals that were going on in different churches. I left for my sister's bridal shower party for 2 days, returned back to Andalusia and had 4 days filled with doctor appointments, getting ready and filing taxes and then returned to Atlanta for a 8 days for my sister's wedding and babysat my adorable niece and nephew while my sister went on her honeymoon. Then I returned home for a day then left for a sound/lighting job in New Orleans with Mike, after 3 days, I returned home went and had a MRI and another doctor’s appointment with my surgeon and then the next week I had surgery on my left shoulder. Apparently, I really did "bring it" to my P90X Yoga X disc and I managed to tear my glenoid labrum in my left shoulder about 3 weeks before I left Niger. That plus a few other things managed to "...

March 21, 2011 So an update from the “home front”. I attempted to leave Niger as scheduled on March 18 but after about 2 plus hours in the Air France booking office I didn’t get to leave as scheduled. My travel agent booked my return flight home when he booked my original flight to leave back in April of 2010. I had already confirmed my flight back with the Air France website, their customer service and I had already been assigned a seat (44A) in my name but they said they didn’t have a ticket number for me so therefore they couldn’t let me board……crazy! I learned one lesson…….I thought I was a stubborn person but Africans beat me in the stubborn range…. Very disappointing and maddening since it was a simple mistake on Air France’s part and should have been fixed ASAP. So I went back home and just prayed. I’m a firm believer in the saying there is a reason and a purpose for everything so I just had to stand strong and believe that Jesus had a reason. The next morning my supervisor a...

Where do I start? I’m leaving Niamey in exactly 25 hours. I will arrive in Paris on March 18th and will be staying there for 3 days. I will arrive in ATL on Monday around 4:00pm (GA time). Depending on how tired I am and how late it is I will probably stay in Newnan with Daddy and be leaving for Andalusia by Tuesday AM. So I hope to see all of you very soon, Lord Willing. When God first told me to come to Niger, I could have never imagined what all would take place once I arrived. I have learned so much and part of me is terrified that when I get back home to the States I will forget what I’ve learned and who I have become. I’ve had trials but my faith in God has grown stronger than ever and I love my Savior more now than I did before I came out to this desert. The hardest trial I had in Niamey was the malaria. I first “obtained” malaria in late August and had it reoccur for the months of September, October, and November. I joke around and call them Malaria #1, #2, #3, and #4 but ho...

So I am leaving Niger 2 weeks from today. I am already feeling the stress and rush out the American lifestyle and I have not even made it back yet. This week I have had to deal with my bank account being short of some money and trying to figure out why and how, after secure emails, phone calls, and it still isn't worked out and nobody can tell me what happened to the check. Pray it is worked out soon because missing money stresses me out BIG TIME. Then I found out today that my P.O. Box that I've had for 12 years is needing me to come in and update some information, and only the box holder can update this information and bring in 2 forms of identification and if I don't come in then my P.O. Box is going to be closed......urghhh....then I’m trying to get my taxes ready because I won't have time to work on them once I get home and I have to file them 2 days after I land and trying to deal with all of this right now isn't really working for me so can we just hit the Am...