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Today was a great day. I got to be with family and friends and that is priceless. It amazes me that we can just pick up right where we left off as if we have never been apart. We remember the same stories and laugh all over again at the same ones we have told one another for years. This year however was different. The topic of conversation always comes back to our children and our grand children.
I have decided we never out grow parenthood. Being a parent is probably as close as we will ever get to being like God. We actually get to create life and birth another human being onto this planet. We nurture and care for this little person that will grow up in our image. Literally many of my brothers children and my own look just like us. I see photos of my friends grandchildren and they look just like their own children did. I have a hard time wrapping my mine around the fact the little children that played next door now have children that look just like those little children that played next door.
That got me thinking. Do we look like Noah, Abraham, Sarah and Jacob, etc. etc. Does God look down and see the resemblance? Then I thought about all the joy those little next door neighbor children brought me. As I traveled down memory lane I just kept smiling. I have had a wonderful life. God has allowed me just a glimpse of what He must feel and how loving He really is to allow us to procreate and enjoy family.
Thanks for just allowing me to ramble.....I am on vacation you know. I truly am enjoying the pleasures of a well lived life. I look forward to coming home and kissing on my grandsons, seeing my staff, hugging some friends and just being where I belong.....
Ahhhhh but the beach? It has allowed me time to think, reminiscence and reflect. So take-a-way for today? Find time to reflect on your life. Take time to remember and when you do be thankful we serve a great God.
1 John 4:19 (NIV) "We love because He first loved us."
1 Timothy 5:8 (NIV) "8 Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever."
James 1:25 (NIV) "25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed."
I have decided we never out grow parenthood. Being a parent is probably as close as we will ever get to being like God. We actually get to create life and birth another human being onto this planet. We nurture and care for this little person that will grow up in our image. Literally many of my brothers children and my own look just like us. I see photos of my friends grandchildren and they look just like their own children did. I have a hard time wrapping my mine around the fact the little children that played next door now have children that look just like those little children that played next door.
That got me thinking. Do we look like Noah, Abraham, Sarah and Jacob, etc. etc. Does God look down and see the resemblance? Then I thought about all the joy those little next door neighbor children brought me. As I traveled down memory lane I just kept smiling. I have had a wonderful life. God has allowed me just a glimpse of what He must feel and how loving He really is to allow us to procreate and enjoy family.
Thanks for just allowing me to ramble.....I am on vacation you know. I truly am enjoying the pleasures of a well lived life. I look forward to coming home and kissing on my grandsons, seeing my staff, hugging some friends and just being where I belong.....
Ahhhhh but the beach? It has allowed me time to think, reminiscence and reflect. So take-a-way for today? Find time to reflect on your life. Take time to remember and when you do be thankful we serve a great God.
1 John 4:19 (NIV) "We love because He first loved us."
1 Timothy 5:8 (NIV) "8 Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever."
James 1:25 (NIV) "25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed."
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