A BeYOUtiful Flower

Hi Loves!

I’m the founder of A BeYOUtiful Flower Christian Blog. First, I would like to honor God and give him total praise for allowing me to have this platform to share my story and help others. I wouldn’t be where I am today if hadn’t been for his love and his grace.

This is not your typical “About” page. I didn’t want to highlight my education, my qualities, or my accomplishments. I wanted to be transparent and give you Mel. I wanted to share my story of what it was like before I met God and after I gave him my life. My story is unpolished and genuine. I have seen what God can do and how he can change lives completely because he did it for me. It’s so good to know that God’s love is not measured by our accomplishments, our sins, our shortcomings, or what others think of us. By the age of 19, I had become pregnant, became a single mother, left home, and was running from God. I must admit that God was trying to get my attention at the age of 16 but I wanted nothing to do with him. See, I had grown up in the church, but that still didn’t change my mind about how I felt about God, I just didn’t care. My feelings about God were based on what I had seen which wasn't always a true representation of who God was.

I became a little hothead (as the season people would say 😉) I wanted to do my “own” thing and prove to others I was grown, I thought I had it all figured out. However, behind that smile was pain, anger, loneliness, shame, fear, no identity, and many other things. I always knew that I needed God, I just had a difficult time surrendering. My turning point was in 2014 when I had a car accident that changed the entire trajectory of my life. I knew then it was God giving me a choice to choose which way I was going to live, was it going to be for him or the world?

It was after my accident, that I realized that I wanted to live for God. I mean, I don’t think I had much of a choice after that because my accident has always been a constant reminder of how he spared me and how I can’t live without him. Trying to live for God has probably been one of the hardest things to do in my life. Some days it doesn’t feel like I’m moving anywhere (forward or backward) and other days it feels just plain old easy. I guess that’s God’s way of keeping me humble.

Falling in love with Jesus has been one of the best decisions I have ever made. There was a time in my life I didn’t fully understand what love really was, I didn’t know how to give it or receive it. Since giving my life to Christ, I’ve learned so many things about love, it has caused me to have an undoubtful love in and for myself as well as for others. I can remember praying and asking God to put a love in my heart for him and for his people. Since then he’s been maturing me, growing me, and showing me just how to give, receive, and show love. It has been the most beautiful thing.

I’ve always enjoyed writing but had no idea of the capacity in which God wanted to use me. Little did I know that it was a part of my destiny to do work in God’s kingdom and blossom into that BeYoutiful Flower. So ladies let’s take this journey together. I hope you’re blessed by my transparency, continued healing, self-awareness, confidence, and my process of what God is taking me through to strip me of every single thing that I thought was my identity. Let’s rediscover who we are in Christ together!

Keep being BeYOUtiful

💜 Mel

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Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ

Phillippians 1:6