New relationships

It's amazing to me how one "small" event can be used to change your life. One phone call and your world spins in a completely different direction than you thought it would when you woke up that morning. The phone call came. "You're going to be an aunt." That statement is something that I had resigned myself to probably never hearing... along with "You're pregnant." And I'm okay with it. God and I have had some talks and I'm really okay with it. Yes, it would be nice if it eventually happened but the chances at this point in my life are slipping away. I have so many other children in my life that I can say with confidence, I really am okay with it.

But then I get the phone call. I'm going to be an aunt. Then another call comes about 8 weeks later. "It's a girl." Now, of the children that God has given me, there's only one girl and she's is the princess of my life. I've never been a girlie girl, so I have watched her, taken notes and admired what it means to be a princess. It's not so much an attitude (although it can be but not in a good way) and it's not a title that you strut around with thinking you're better than others(although some do). I've watch this little princess grow in confidence of who she was created to be. And although she's only 8, this 37 year old stands in amazement of who God has created this little princess to be. (And by the way, when told this past weekend that she would need to share that title in her Awa's heart, she was completely okay. In true princess fashion, she simply replied, "It's ok, Awa. I was the first.")

I have begun to pray that this new little princess that is now in my life discovers the plans that God has for her with as much confidence as my first princess has. Kayla means "beloved". Little does Kayla know how beloved she is even now.