I Still Got Plans!

Being a mom is the best thing that could have happened to me. Though I didn't plan to be a single mom, my plans and dreams for my children hasn't changed. 

I still want Aviela to grow up knowing who she is as a person, able to choose her path in life (of course, that path CANNOT be different from God's way of doing things...). I'm not gonna push for her to become a doctor, a lawyer or an accountant - though it would be nice to say, "my daughter is the top neurologist in the world..." If she decides to be an artist, I will support her. If she wants to become a musician, I got her back. If she decides that the fate of the spiders of the world depend on her, I will support her. From a very far distance.

I still want Aviela to not ever want for anything. So I'm up baking cakes till 1am or 2am, covering and delivering before 8am. And I still make it to work. And I grab (almost) every opportunity that comes my way - yeah I'm into network marketing. I even sold water in a sachet (pure water to my fellow 9jans)! As long as God and the leaders over me say go ahead, I'm going into it with gusto. Just so that Aviela can have her princess birthday party. That's coming up on Friday!!

I still want Aviela to know that she's loved. The fact that Mum and Dad don't live together, doesn't make Abike or Jumai or Chinwe better than you. Her name means God is my Father - that's better than any earthly dad in my books. Ever since she was born, I haven't had to buy clothes or shoes for her because somehow, she gets what she needs when she needs it - well, maybe it helps that her aunties and mad about the girl, and that her god-parents both own boutiques and buy her things when they travel. To me, that's Abba looking out for His little girl.

Above all my wants, I want Aviela to know who she is in Christ. That will NEVER change. I want her to understand that healing is not something she needs to pray to God about - it's her right simply because Christ already proclaimed her healed (Isaiah 53:5)! The girl prays for me and anyone around her that exhibits any signs of even mere fatigue. 

I want her to understand that all she has to do is ask, seek and knock. That as simple as that, she will get what she asks for (Matthew and 7:7, John 14:14). Never mind the realities of life - God said, that's it! 

I want her to understand that love and forgiveness is the most important thing to her. That without love, she won't be able to forgive, and without forgiveness, she will be bitter and eaten up by events that will happen to her. I don't pray for it to happen, but Christ did promise that in trouble, He will be with us - yea though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fer no evil. Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me...Psalm 23:4

I want her to know that no matter what, God loves her more than He hates any sin, so she can ALWAYS go to her Abba, no matter what, no matter why and no matter how. 

All these start now. I must teach her to love God now, plant the seeds in her innocence and when she grows, she will always remember this truth. That I still have plans for which path her life must take.