07/21/2024
Pearl’s Cakery. What a wild thing to have done. It was 2018 and I wanted to quit teaching to stay home with baby Hazel, so to make ends meet I decided to try selling custom cakes. God used this little business to provide for our family, grow our trust in His faithfulness, and stretch me to learn new skills - not just cake decorating.. I mean problem solving, accounting, management, networking, design, marketing.. the list goes on. There were really painful seasons, and really joyous ones. In all of it Jesus knew what we needed.
I am always amazed at the providence of God over our lives. I was supposed to go to school for teaching. I was supposed to teach in Cleveland and Ravenna. And then I was supposed to be done. I was supposed to start Pearl’s Cakery. I was supposed to work and grow that business until it was no longer sustainable for our family. And now I am supposed to be done.
I made my last wedding cake as a business owner today. It’s bittersweet as I think about where I started, and where God took me. Pearl’s Cakery has taken a back seat the last couple years as I started working at our church, and now I have finally fulfilled my last booking, an order that feels like a culmination of my skills and style that I’ve spent the last 6 years honing.
God is good. My heart is full as I think about where we have been, and where we might be another 6 years from now… who knows. But for now, peace out, . It’s been real. 💛🌻🎂
