08/25/2026
Sometimes you don’t understand what God is doing until you look back. 🤎
Years ago, I knew how to cook.
Farming? Not so much. 😂
I didn’t come from generations of farmers. I didn’t have an agriculture background. I didn’t have some childhood dream of becoming a farmer.
But God called me there.
And I went.
I learned the soil.
I learned the seed.
I learned the harvest.
I learned the work.
I learned to serve people from a completely different side of food.
And somewhere along the way, I became a farmer.
But God never asked me to stop being the chef.
That’s the part I understand differently now.
Sometimes we think walking into the next thing God has for us means leaving the old thing behind. But what if He was simply adding another piece?
Another gift.
Another experience.
Another layer.
Preparing us for something we couldn’t see yet.
As I prepare to turn 40, I feel incredibly grateful to be in a season where I get to walk in all that God created me to be.
And on September 12, one of those full-circle moments is happening.
I’ll return to the kitchen as Guest Chef for The Wisdom of Food Farm-to-Table Dining Experience, preparing a four-course meal on a farm, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the very organization that grew out of my yes to agriculture, Black Farm Street Inc.
Look at God. 🥹
The thing He called me into didn’t replace what was already in me.
He connected it.
The chef learned to farm.
The farmer returned to the kitchen.
And now, we gather at the table.
I don’t know what God is putting together in your life right now that doesn’t quite make sense yet.
But I’m learning not to be so quick to decide that one season has nothing to do with another.
Sometimes He’s been writing one story the whole time. 🤎
