What can I say about my daughter? She is amazing. She is beautiful. She is smart. She loves people. I am amazed at how much that she has grown in this past year. She can almost have full conversations with me, where she understands most of what I am saying. She also loves to sing, both my kids do, I love it. Just today I was practicing and preparing to lead worship and the kids came in and started dancing and singing along with me. I can already see in my kids that they will truly love God and want to grow deeper in their knowledge of Him, especially Josiah.. But we are talking about Promise here. She is learning so much as well.

I need to break away again for a moment to thank Bethany for being an amazing mom, but not just a mom, a leader, a teacher, a friend, an amazing wife, a prayer warrior, and a lover of God and people.. She doesn’t think that she has been doing a lot here, but I can tell you for sure that she has, and the kids will thank her for it someday in the future.

Ok, back to Promise. She is a lover of people. She really just genuinely loves people. My favorite moments are when I come home from a long day at school, I walk through the door and not matter what is going on if Promise notices me she will drop everything and come straight to me to be picked up hugged and held for a bit. I always say that this is a real picture of who God is. That no matter what is happening in our lives, when we look to God we can drop everything and head straight to Him to be hugged and held for a bit. Another way to look at it is that whatever may have happened throughout my day, when I come home and walk through the door and my kids come to me, nothing else matters. I could have the best or  the worst day ever, but when I walk through the door the only thing that matters is that my family loves me for who I am. At my best, and at my worst and I don’t have to worry about how they are going to accept me or not, they always will, they will always love me. The same is true of God. As soon as we put our eyes on Him nothing else matters, God loves us no matter what..

Poll: When is the last time that you have run to God to be hugged and held for a bit?