Not how we Planned

We plan many things in life, like : tomorrow's outfit, what dinner will be, graduation travel plans... weddings. Not once do we plan around the obstacles that come with life. I had a baby going into my third year of college. The plan was to stay in college until I gave birth and thereafter. Boy was the joke on me! Morning sickness was all day sickness. My grades suffered as I tried with many failed attempts to stay awake during class and while doing homework.

At the age of twenty, I decided to take a break from school until I was sure I could handle being a superb mother and, student. Ten months after the most beautifully humbling gift I had ever received  was born, I gave birth --AGAIN!

Scared, happy,anxious, and many other words which escape me at the moment,  wandered if I was robbing my first son of all the love and affection he would receive if he was the only child.

Why do we do that?

If this would have happened like this-- then this would have been the outcome.

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At twelve and two months, the boys were dedicated. Later that day we had a party and the families came together for the first time since our first son's babyshower.

This was the beginning of parenthood.

It has been a rewarding, uphill battle ever since, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

We are perfecting flawed on a righteous journey of finding ourselves  while following Jesus.

Do any of you have a plan that God did not approve of? Changed?                       

 Shay Nefeteria                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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