Last year we found out my youngest was allergic to strawberries, oranges, soy, wheat and egg whites. The biggest reactions were strawberries and oranges so we completely removed those from her diet and did the best to limit the others. The bad thing for her is that she loves strawberries and oranges.
Over the past several months she would come up to her mom and I and say “When I get bigger I eat strawberries, when I get bigger I eat oranges.” Everyday she would say this several times. We knew there was a chance she would grow out of it based on what the doctor had said. We just never knew when. To us it was a possibility and I think she believed it was fact.
I half expected her to raise a bible in one hand and pull out a Joel Osteen accent and smile while declaring favor over her allergies.
On Friday she was retested. She has outgrown her allergies. We are now reintroducing her favorite foods. She was so good about telling people she couldn’t eat this food and now she is telling everyone she can. She tells them with a big smile, “I can have strawberries.”
I’m a big believer in speaking words of greatness and declaring things. I honestly probably haven’t been as committed as my little girl. Perhaps my faith hasn’t been child like enough. My brain may be getting in the way of my heart.
Is their something in your life that you want to change? Maybe if you are a little more committed and child like in declaring it with full belief you may see change. “When I get bigger I will lose weight, when I get bigger I will have that new business, when I get bigger I will no longer be addicted, etc.
Till next time go out with belief, declare it, and it could be.
Joseph Cortez 