Well if you missed church this past Sunday you missed a great day. On top of God smiling on us with a slow sink in rain on Saturday we also got to Baptize 2 young new believers. “Praise God”
It is a great way to start the week. Today (Monday) there are a lot of happy parents and sad parents as school started today. Oh I remember all those first days of our boys going to school. Every year it was new supplies, new clothes, and new back packs, you know, all those things that you had to buy each year. “But mom I can’t use the same backpack as last year, they will think that I am a geek!” “I have to have those new Nike shoes and mom… PLEASE NO MORE UNDEROOS OR SUPERHERO UNDERWARE!!!” Oh yea I remember those days all too well.
Well today our youngest starts his first day of collage. The only thing that stands out the most is that he is a couple hundred miles away and it costs a whole lot more to get this day up and running. He now needs a new back pack that will carry a laptop, a new calculator that takes a rocket scientist to operate, and about 4 or 5 books that cost the same as a small used car. One thing is for sure, “He IS prepared” to be at all of the Razorback games he can… And you thought I was going to say, “He is prepared for classes”. Well on that part we really hope that he is ready…
One fear that Tina and I have had is will he continue to go to church, to follow Gods plan, to remember who he is. You know as you take part in raising your children there is always that thought as to who they will turn out to be like. As a Christian we hope that he will stick to his values and Christian principles that we have tried to teach him over the years.
As he started his journey, as a student, we prayed with him in the parking lot just before we left. At this point you give them to God and pray for their well being. The next day we talked to him and gave him words of encouragement. We talked about what he was doing and what to expect; about getting all his books and making new friends.
As Sunday approached and we had a great service we later found out that Brandon had gone to church that morning with some friends that he had ran into from his church in Benton. Yes folks he went on his own and it wasn’t a week or month or several months down the road, it was the very first Sunday… “Praise God”
Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
There is one thing for sure…. Luck carried NO part in this journey. We gave our children over to God when they were born. We put our lives on hold to be a part of their lives. We made sure that we did not miss any part of their lives as they made their way and found their foot hold. We tried to live as God wanted us to live and we put God first in our lives. You see, if we don’t live the example, they won’t understand how important it is to follow God. We don’t have to be perfect, we just have to be willing.
“The Greatest Adventure in Life is seen through the Love of Christ”
Bro John 501-262-0015
