I haven't always been good at cooking. In fact, for a really long time I was quite horrible at it. The first meal I ever made was crunchy garlic chicken. I had just married my husband at them time. I used chicken drumsticks and some garlic salt that was it. That's about all we had on our meager salary at the time. We had decided to get married on a whim and found very minimal paying career starters . I started cooking my first meal and with a pop of my cap the garlic salt came pouring in. It then became "crunchy garlic chicken!" Josh has tried to be nice and eat the chicken but with every bite crunching our mouths felt the utter unpleasant taste and texture. I finally broke the audible silence of the chew fest and said, " Shall we order pizza?"
That was the start to 11 1/2 years of crunchy, Munchy, canned, boxed, store bought disasters from my kitchen that let to an amazing breakthrough of one day this past January saying no more box meals! At the same time I was always searching for a place work to or outside the home, a job where I could make a difference. I needed a place or a calling. Perhaps being an at home mom was my calling all along and I was simply missing it? One day I prayed for wisdom and discernment. I simply just let my job search go. Then the changes began, I noticed some amazing gifts start to take form. It wasn't until I submitted to His will that I could really see changes start to take place. First, I could see beauty in everything. I could see the joy and with that now the ability to create. This leads me to my second newly found gift, the ability to cook and bake but only when I draw near to Him. It is symbiotic because if I lose focus on God, it becomes clear I cannot bake. It is clear God has superbly blessed me with this gift and I clearly believe I did not have in my earlier years or it lay very dormant. Third, is my ability to teach. I am seeing these gifts in the center of Christ as my focus and it's amazing how he continues to grow me and those around me. He is allowing me to homeschool my boys next year and he is allowing me to reach kids and teach through me to them His love. It's so exciting to see this! I am just clay and a work in progress!
That was the start to 11 1/2 years of crunchy, Munchy, canned, boxed, store bought disasters from my kitchen that let to an amazing breakthrough of one day this past January saying no more box meals! At the same time I was always searching for a place work to or outside the home, a job where I could make a difference. I needed a place or a calling. Perhaps being an at home mom was my calling all along and I was simply missing it? One day I prayed for wisdom and discernment. I simply just let my job search go. Then the changes began, I noticed some amazing gifts start to take form. It wasn't until I submitted to His will that I could really see changes start to take place. First, I could see beauty in everything. I could see the joy and with that now the ability to create. This leads me to my second newly found gift, the ability to cook and bake but only when I draw near to Him. It is symbiotic because if I lose focus on God, it becomes clear I cannot bake. It is clear God has superbly blessed me with this gift and I clearly believe I did not have in my earlier years or it lay very dormant. Third, is my ability to teach. I am seeing these gifts in the center of Christ as my focus and it's amazing how he continues to grow me and those around me. He is allowing me to homeschool my boys next year and he is allowing me to reach kids and teach through me to them His love. It's so exciting to see this! I am just clay and a work in progress!
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