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You Make Beautiful Things

You Make Beautiful Things
In 2014, I wrote this blog and titled it "You Make Beautiful Things".  I thought I would share it here as I think it still has meaning today. :)
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“A religious neighbor of mine thinks we are the way we are due to someone in our family being a sinner and we are now paying the price for it. We have to rebuke it and release the sin.” – per a post in an Usher Syndrome FaceBook Group

Um….really?!

Are they talking about what Adam and Eve did thousands of years ago when they chose to disobey God?

Who has the nerve to tell people that?

ESPECIALLY when the person has something of them that is out of their control?

Why is it that religious people say things like this? This is not the first time I have heard of this thought process and it makes me disgusted. I have heard things like this taught throughout my life being around Christians, sadly. I never really understood it and I still don’t. YES. I fully understand there are consequences in life but being born with a disability, a disease, being “different”, is not a price that we are paying because someone in our family sinned.
I am here to tell/remind you that…..

GOD MADE YOU BEAUTIFUL

Whether you believe in God or not, I truly believe He has created us all. We all have a purpose in life and He designed it so that each of us are apart of His story. Life is not perfect. We were never promised a perfect life.

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As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him……..”
~ John 9:1-3
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Yesterday, our pastor shared the above Bible verse and I remembered something. Something that I had once forgotten. I was created with a purpose.
Why me? Why do I have to be the one who was born deaf (which I honestly don’t mind at all) and then developing this eye disease that is slowly taking my sight away? Why Jadzia? Why does my daughter have a disease called Cystic Fibrosis that is life shorting?

Yes. YES. That’s right! We were created so that the Works of God might be displayed in HIM.

Even though I KNEW this…it felt like an *AH HA* moment when I heard that in church.

Then, the worship team came up and sung this song below. Do you know how many times I have heard this song at church? A TON!!! I have always loved it and the words. But that DAY…it meant something completely different. Every single part of us God knitted together and that there was just so beautiful. I want to be used by Him. I want Christ’s love shown through my daughter either by her or by us as her parents. 

Beautiful Things
by Michael Gungor
All this pain
I wonder if I’ll ever find my way?
I wonder if my life could really change at all?
All this earth
Could all that is lost ever be found?
Could a garden come up from this ground at all?
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us
All around
Hope is springing up from the old ground
Out of chaos life is being found in You
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us
Oh, You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us 




I sat there in church listening, singing, tears streaming down my face as I held my precious sleeping Warrior in my arms and praying, Lord, please use us for YOUR GLORY. Thank you for making us beautiful even when we struggle to think otherwise. Please give us the strength to share You through our own struggles.

I hope this post will leave you with encouragement in your life. With a newness desire to bring Glory to God. He can and will use you whether you are blind, deaf, have C.F., cancer, have A.T., D.M.D, tall, short, big, small, dark, light, red, green and have purple polka-dot skin. Whether you believe in Christ or not, He can use you to bless others by your actions, by your strength, by you just living life and being you.
 
God has made YOU Beautiful and He will use you for His Glory. AMEN!
Now go out and show the world just how AMAZING of a person you are! 🙂

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In 2013, I was shocked and devastated and scared of the unknown. 
 
The BAD: My second child was diagnosed with a life-threatening disorder that damages the lungs and digestive system.  At that time, everything I read pointed to “Shortened lifespan”, “Hundreds of hospital visits”, “Your life will be surrounded with lung infections”, “Always Sick”, “Antibiotics. Antibiotics. Eat them like candy, Antibiotics”, “Be terrified of germs”, Etc. You can imagine, as a mother to a newborn and a not quite 2- year- old, I was extremely overwhelmed and felt lost.
 
The GOOD: The following month, I was on a mission. A mission in the search of, “HOW do I keep my family, my medical needs child, healthy so that we DON’T have to be THAT sick family?” 
There MUST be another way.
There MUST be an alternative to living like this.
I continued to search, “How do I have a germ-free home without cleaners that make me sick?”, “How can I support the immune system?”.
GOD gave me hope that things could be different and so I knew there was something out there. And that is when I saw it, something about, “Keeping the Family Healthy Naturally”. 
 
The BEAUTIFUL: Through tons of researching and knowledge that was shared with me, I began learning how to create a healthier environment for my family to not only live in but to THRIVE. Part of this included a process of ditching the toxic chemicals in our home and switching to healthier alternatives. A process that also focuses on the entire body and not just portions. We must take care of our spiritual, mental, physical, and emotional health. 
Fast forward to today, my now 11-year-old medical needs child remains healthy, happy, and has yet to be hospitalized or be on antibiotics for lung infection!! As a matter of fact, she has had ZERO lung infections! I know that things can change as it does with this disease, but we will continue to Praise Jesus for the opportunity that has been given to us.
My passion is to share with others that there is hope of a better life. I want to inspire and empower women/mothers that we can create a healthy life for ourselves/our family. As the saying goes, WE are the gatekeepers of our home. YOUR life is worth living no matter what you are going through. 
 
Let us be equipped for success and be empowered to make a difference in your life and in others. I would love to help you experience a journey filled with possibilities, let’s connect!
 
Blessings,
♥Andi Nicole

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