Grow & Go

Today was one of those days that you love and hate.  

One of those days where you pray to see the Hand of God with one outcome,
 and then you see it anyway with a completely different one. 

It's a long bittersweet story, but not mine to share.   

Just know that I saw the Lord work through a friend, in her faith and in her sweet baby boy. 

So today, I stopped and stared at these two faces a little longer & prayed a little louder.

I stopped.  I cried.  I prayed. 

Life is but a vapor and it is never more evident than in the faces of children. 

Babies one day, high school graduates the next.  

One blink and years are gone, right before our eyes.

But today, instead of being sad that my babies are growing up (I should *totally* place a rock on their heads, pronto), today I decided to rejoice in the fact they have a chance to grow up.  The boys are healthy with growing minds & bodies; they get a chance (for how ever long the Lord wills) and the more I understand about this ol' life.....I'm grateful.

They are not mine to begin with anway, they are HIS.





HIS children.

Growing for one purpose: To bring glory to His name, and shine through the darkness in big ways and small.  

So, grow & go, sweet boys. 

.....and I pray, you do.

"He said to them, 

"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.  I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." 

Mark 10: 14- 15