Thursday, April 28, 2011

Introducing Miss BumbleBee


 
Ladies and Gentlemen, the joy of my world, Miss Zion E. Williams, I call her ZEW for short. This two year old little girl has made my life betta than I could ever image. She pushes me to do and be more than I ever dreamed and propells me to places I never thought I would be bold enough to go. There is no option for failure with her. She expects to be feed, clothed, sheltered, and to feel safe. I get up every morning motivated by her smile and go to bed every night inspired  by her laugh ready to do it all again the next day. ZEW arrived on the scene two months early cuz she is impatient. Plus, she doesn't feel she has to follow anyone's schedule but her own.I call her my Bumble Bee because of the issues I had with her on the journey to get her in the world and a sermon I heard when I was a little girl.
 Getting ZEW here was a challenge within itself, however, I purposed in my heart that regardless of what happened, who didn't like it, no matter what was said or done,  she was going to get here.   My challenges began with her father not wanting her here, then an emergency gall bladder surgery, labor and 2cm dialation at five months, premature delivery at seven months with concern that her lungs were undeveloped. However, through it all , God was faithful and she arrived, perfect. When I was a little girl every Sunday morning, my mother listened to a Minister by the name of Michael Lee Graves and one day he talked abt the bumble bee.  He stated because of the size and shape of the bumble bee dynamically and scientifically the bumble bee wasn't suppose to be able to fly. Its body was round instead of oblong and its wings were too small and thin to actually carry the insects weight; yet it still flies. Why? Becuz God says it flies.  I was sitting in a chair one day thinkin of all that had been said and done when God, told me, she was my little Bumble Bee. Now, I analyze everything. I was like, " God are you saying she is a fighter and has enough sting or strength to handle her own, what? Plus my concern was once a bumble bee stings, it dies." He told me, "Yes, she's a fighter like her mother,however, the fact that she is here is and will continue to kill alot of things He was ready to die in my life. Like, fear, non-accountability, the lack of responsibility to live right, cuz assumingly I thought I wasn't being watched, a spirit of selfishness and self-centeredness. Most of all but definitely not last, the sense that I could do things on my own. I would have to come to Him to raise this child and to know how to be a mommy period. Plus she lives cuz I say she lives." I said, "Oh, ok."  

 So I want to encourage anyone whose life did not turn our like a fairy tail and some of the decisions you have made and things you have done you aren't so proud of. God can make your mess into messages and ministry. And what was used in attempt to destroy you and break you down, God can turn that thing around to restore and rebuild you. I love my daughter more than I ever thought I could love anything. I am so glad she has changed my life.

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