Letter to a newly minted five-year-old
I want you to understand where that light comes from and what we are supposed to do with it and where it should go. Light comes from God…
Category: The Grandaddy Letters
“Be Careful How You Live”
So we send these amazing young people out into the world, and we want them to be grounded in their faith. “Be careful how you live!” The writer of Ephesians cautions as the training wheels come off and they zoom off to college and life.
love so real it makes you cry…
The love spills over. That’s really what made me tear up so often over the weekend. Not so much the pain as the love. Love that is rich, and authentic, and love that points to such overwhelming truth. It wouldn’t hurt so much if it wasn’t so real.
Don’t hold back! Life is too important!
“Don’t hold back!” my grandchildren are saying. “Don’t hold back!” I was saying to the Tuckahoe Presbyterians. “Don’t hold back! Jesus is reminding me, “live like you mean it.”
The”bad-attitude” Elf, and the Faith of Children…
Maybe it really is true that the younger children are, the closer they are to remembering – that they have a history with God (that we all have a history), a story we easily forget in this terrestrial plane, and that so much of faith is really about remembering…
Are we going to jump on the seasonal crazy-train? Or will this be a time of Promise and Grace?
This is the week of promise. This is when we make the decision either to get on board with preparing our hearts, or simply climbing aboard the seasonal crazy-train and missing it altogether.
all you need is love (and a little grace, and a lot of gratitude)…
So here are a handful of the best photos. Enjoy the balance of your family weekend, share all the love that you can, and watch both love and gratitude multiply.
a day with the grandchildren #grateful
I watched the sun slowly slip over the horizon, and I thought about how beautiful life is, and how important it is to grab hold of these moments when they come along, and how blessed I am to be able to simply rest in the goodness, and to be thankful.
Learning… or doubling down on ignorance? What’s your plan for today?
What a beautiful day this is, and what an amazing opportunity is ours to be like the children and embrace learning, and growth, and experiences that stretch us in creative ways.
come together, celebrate life, just come as you are
This is what living in community is supposed to be. The simple celebration of life together. Enjoying what we have in common.
