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My wife has taken the three girls to a “sewing day” today. They are involved with a local sewing club and every year the “ladies” get together and spend nearly an entire day together. Most of the people involved are older in age…but apparently quite young at heart. My three girls are decades younger than most of the women in the club but they are embraced and helped as though they were everyone’s daughters. It is a beautiful thing. Tami will then take them all directly to their soccer training…oh the modern girl! I must brag a bit and say that all three girls are quite talented in the sewing and even more so in the soccer. All three of them (the twins on one team and the elder on another) “play up.” That is to say that they play on teams for girls that are older than they are. I would go on about them but my intention is to talk about my son.

He is nearly fifteen years old. Since Tami is gone all day with the girls it has fallen on his shoulders to have primary care for the younger three boys…7, 5 and 18 months. Now, I have talked to many moms who have a difficult time dealing with only one or two at these ages. My son has done an incredible job feeding them, taking care of their needs, making up games for them, playing with them and just overall giving his entire being to his three younger brothers. I hardly know a handful of adults who are so able to give up their own agendas and give themselves so fully to others…especially others covering these particular ages.

His ability to pour his love into his brothers speaks of an understanding about life and love that far surpasses his nearly fifteen years of age. He has caught a glimpse of what it means to be loved…not only by his mother and me but by God…and is able to allow that love to flow from his very being. I am not trying to say he is perfect. But, I am simply trying to share with all of you that a life of one who understands what it means to be loved has an incredible ability to enjoy others and love others because of the inherent understanding of the precious beauty and gift of love.

One of my greatest desires in all of life is to be able to share with as many people as is possible what it truly means to live loved. I hope you can continue on this journey with me and come to see a glimpse of this incredible beauty in life that is not only available and accessible…but the doors are standing open for you to enter in. We will talk more about these things in the future…but I wanted to share with you what a lovely human being my eldest son truly is.

By the way…he is one of the most talented soccer players at  his age that I have ever seen.

Remember to “live the adventure!”

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