Smarter Sheep

Today I am having one of the best lunches ever, my beautiful third grade daughter inlcluded me in her school lunch making plans last night and left me a suprise this morning. On the menu for today is: PB&J sandwich, Lays classic chips, a golden apple and Capri Sun fruit punch with a straw. There also seems to be a signigicant measure of love placed into the whole thing that I could taste in the first bite of the PB&J sandwich that I’m sneaking a little early for breakfast at my desk this morning before my IT volunteers arrive. Thank you Lord for my kids, this is what life is really about. Today I have to give the Smarter Sheep award #2 to my daughter LilyAnne, for reminding daddy of how truly blessed that I am.

Dear Dad,
I have to say that I’m continually amazed at your openness to learn new tricks even as an “old dog”… as i have watched the last couple of years, your ability to let God show you new things that may seem contrary to the old school way of doing things is incredable. The other day I mentioned to another pastor that you said you were really having a good time with the “Confessions of a Pastor” book and even preaching out of it . He laughed and said “wow, he’s going to get himself fired if he’s not careful..”  The neat thing is, that you seem to be at a place in your life where all that matters now is what God wants to do with your life and how he wants to use your influence regardless of the status quot …as your proud son and a friend, i just wanted to encourage you, dad, and let you know that it really shows… and it’s driving me to go deeper in my own relationship with Christ… so at the end of the day, your accomplishing what you set out to do… raise kids that would go farther, dig deeper and trust Jesus Christ even more than you did… thank you for the example that I’m working hard to compete with for my own kids.