The highlights of 2022 were amazing for our family with many great accomplishments. Sidney Bess set and achieved many of her goals while Revonda Gail stepped outside of her comfort zone in ways that will forever change her life. Noah is sixteen and sixteen is hard…working consistently on being himself in a world that isn’t always kind to others that don’t fit a specific mold. Israel is just trying to keep up and to be honest so am I.
When we wrapped up 2022, our world began to fall apart. We started realizing that things are not always what they seem to be…life seemed to stop running smoothly. Those that we thought were friends, were not friends after all. Those that we considered family became distant…almost to the point of not even being recognizable.
Then in the midst of relationships crumbling, unexpected sickness comes out from nowhere to their fearless leader…me. I married a man who wakes up every single morning ready to laugh and smile…for seventeen years I have watched him in some tough situations and still be able to laugh and find the good in it. For seven days in 2022, I saw a side of him that wasn’t laughing and I knew that my illness was no laughing matter…it was only filled with hope and prayer…worrisome but faithful that God had a plan for me.
2022 closed out with rumbles of change that blasted us all into a full blown whirlwind and bringing us all together in ways that we never imagined was possible. The phrase “when we must, we adjust” has been used so much that it makes me nauseous. God never left our side…He calmed all the storms around us and continues to smooth the waves now and in the coming months.
Today is day 1 of 2023…He has wrapped us in His embrace. He isn’t going to let anything happen to us that isn’t in His plan. So no more “when we must, we adjust”…it’s now “when things don’t go right, we go left.” Because He has our backs and a plan…in 2023 we must focus more on Him being beside us than the storm we are facing.
We are thankful and grateful to our old and new friends and for our families that have prayed faithfully and for the doctors and nurses that have been placed in our paths to take care of me. No names need to be listed as they clearly know who they are❤️
Happy 2023🎊Our family has come through a storm…this is picture is our perfectly imperfect family..Waking up this morning (New Year’s Day🤦🏻♀️) and putting on our annual Christening pjs for our annual Christmas photo…no showers, no filters, no brushed hair, no washed faces…but God has kept us all together for this picture that could have every easily been without me. It’s not always easy for us to recognize God’s presence because our focus isn’t on Him but the storm we are going through.
In 2023, I will watch carefully to make sure that He is part of all that happens to me and when things don’t go right, I will go left…either way He is with me.
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