Our plant named Joy!

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Written By Dawn Hill

The first piece that I included in Journey into Trust is about our plant named Joy. We don’t have cars with names or other plants with names, just Joy. Several years ago, my daughter was really into plants and had her heart set on getting a Fiddle Leaf Fig plant for her birthday, I believe it was. But she wanted some other things too, so by the time we got to the nursery to shop for plants, the budget for a large, expensive plant had dwindled. We found one she liked, but just couldn’t afford it. I think she was around 10 or 11 when all this happened and she handled it all really, really well. (This was after much research had gone into how to care for this rather interesting plant!)

The very next day, I was grocery shopping at Aldi, and what did they happen to have —yep, fiddle leaf figs on sale— cheap! I scooped one up and brought it home to Corrie, sharing with her that this was God’s gift to her. We named her Joy, and she’s grown up in our home ever since.

Dawn Hill

For Dawn Hill, discovering her Heavenly Father’s daily gifts of joy, hope, beauty, and grace is what continually inspires her as a writer, wife, parent and friend. She has trudged through deep valleys, including 12 years contending for the health of her two children when Lyme disease and toxic mold illness threatened to strip life from both of them, and from her, too. Yet through it all, Dawn and her family, have been upheld by God’s sure Presence and His enduring promises. In the spring of 2023, just when God was moving the mountains for her kids, she discovered a small lump that has taken her on a whole new level of trusting her whole self to Jesus. With the self-proclaimed motto of “cancer is selfish, and I don’t want to be”, Dawn published her first devotional, titled Journey into Trust, to encourage others to see God’s faithfulness, be uplifted by His strength, and have their hope renewed no matter what they may be facing.

https://www.thehopefulbuttercup.com
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