Totally Complete!

As I’ve shared a few times in the last seven months, I’m a proud, new YaYa!! Our daughter and her husband welcomed their first child on Jan 4th, 2021!

Although my experience being a YaYa is fairly new, it feels like I’ve been preparing for it all my life. I could go on and on about the joys of being a grandparent and all the fulfillment our little Ever brings to our family! But instead, I’d like to share this...

Since her parents made the decision to move closer to us, I’ve been blessed to be an active part of her life and see her regularly. My children are both in their 20s, so it’s been a while for me. Not that we haven’t had babies in the family, because all of you have met the other little person in my world, my niece Phoenix💜 But, she lives a bit further away, while Ever; I get to see weekly. It seems like in seven months, she’s changed so much. Chunkier thighs, puffier cheeks and hair that goes back and forth from curly fro to a blowout🤣

The picture that I’m sharing in this week’s Perfectly Unwrapping is from our family vacation in San Diego. And in this moment, I’m thinking that no matter how much she’s changed and continues to change; she is/has EVERYTHING she needs to fulfill her purpose. The current babbling will turn into words. She’ll move from scooting to walking to running. 

Because before her birth, God already knew her, and by the time we met her she had everything that she needed to become all that she will be (Jeremiah 1:5). I’m not sure what God has purposed for her life, but He does😇 And how awesome it is to look at her and think that the only real difference between she and I (as it relates to purpose) is that I’ve lived long enough to allow experiences to sometimes cause me to think I didn’t have enough in me to do what I know I’ve been called to do. But I get back on track and remember the wholeness that I walk in. Like my beautiful Ever, there’s nothing broken nor missing. 

So, while many things are rapidly changing in the development of our seven-month-old, when I hold her in my arms, I’m reminded of just how complete she is! 

And, so are you. 😇