I really thought I was going to have a:

Daughter!

When I was in the ultrasound room pregnant with my 2nd child, the tech told me…

“It’s a boy!“

I was thankful for a healthy report -blah blah blah – all the ish we say to mask disappointment while holding gratitude for the blessing.

Both can be true – dang!

I got back home and closed the door to my office and cried.

Sobbed my eyes out.

I let go of the expectation of a daughter.

I accepted 2 sons – no daughter – no more children.

Moved along.

A few years later – a mattress meeting led to the creation of another child.

I had to be picked up off the front sidewalk – as I was layed out on the pavement – yelling “F*”!

I ended up coming to terms that I was going back to the baby phase. I had just gotten rid of baby stuff.

Found out I was pregnant with Queen Glory, our daughter!

I was talking to King Elijah, my 2nd child, last night about how he was the only child of the three that was intentionally planned for! bahahaha, I told him this story of how I let the idea of having a daughter go and ended up having a daughter years later.

He then goes hmm:

So shouldn’t you let your desire for X go?

This made me smile cause he was spot on.

He asked me why things worked that way. I told him how God’s ways are not our ways (Isaiah 55:8-9). Also told him that when you have him you have everything (something like that). So basically when you don’t have that thing you want – you also do have it.

Idk, yall.

The end.

Treat this like that phone conversation you be on for hours and then you start to tune out and say “mhm” cause you don’t want to be rude.

Just hangup.

Take what you wanna take from this. I hope it includes God’s faithfulness though.

Oh, and that the pull out method is still potent! bahahahahahahaha

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But seriously: My journey from tears in the office to conceiving Queen Glory taught me that God’s timing is rarely my timing. Have you ever finally released a deep desire (a career, a relationship, a dream) only to have God deliver it back to you later, completely unplanned? Perhaps, in greater magnitude! Share your unexpected blessings and miracles below!

Love,