Dream Destination: Happily-Ever-After

A few years ago in a magazine interview I was asked what my dream destination was? The answer was easy: "To walk my daughter down the aisle to be married someday." Today was that someday. I have been blessed beyond measure.

"Happily-ever-after to our only darling daughter, Allison, and to her beloved husband, Joshua!"

I was blessed to write their marriage vows... yes, I cried, of course, I cried... glad tears...

Humbled.... speechless...
Grateful

A God Who Saves

Recently, I went in our grown daughter's old bedroom in our family home to pray for her. (She's a young adult now and living in her own place.) I picked up one of her Bibles that she left behind on the nightstand. Opening it, her Daddy was encouraged as I began to pray verses she had previously high-lighted. This verse from the Psalms especially lifted my soul to a higher plane:

Our God is a God who saves...
-- Psalm 68:20a (NIV)

Click here: Our God Saves Paul Baloche Worship Video - YouTube

Jesus Saves!
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Keeping in Touch

I've tried to instill in my grown children that one of their daddy's life-values is "Keeping in Touch". As they get older and have lives of their own, certainly I do not wish to cramp their style, however, just hearing from them through whatever form of communication they choose means the world to me.

As I was thinking on these things today, I sensed my Father God saying that "Keeping in Touch" is one of His life-values, too. And how do I know if I am "Keeping in Touch" with Him or not? My prayer life is the leading indicator.

So, as I thought of my grown kids "Keeping in Touch" with me, their earthly daddy, I found myself praying that we as His children (yes, their daddy, as well as my son and my daughter) would all be especially passionate about "Keeping in Touch" with our Heavenly Daddy Father God.

"Keeping in Touch" was surely initially Father God's idea. After all He gave us these three words in His Holy Love Letter: Pray without ceasing. -- 1 Thess. 5:17 (NKJV). Sounds an awful lot like "Keeping in Touch" to me. And "Keeping in Touch" must mean the world to Him, too. (Simply read John 3:16-17 for proof of that.)

IF MY PEOPLE... WILL? I WILL! God's Promise in 2 Chron. 7:14.
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Hands of Kindness

On the Mount of Beatitudes Jesus delivered His Sermon on the Mount. It's recorded in Matthew 5, 6, and 7. He spent the night before praying on the top of the mountain then preached the next day on the flat plain overlooking the Sea of Galilee. In His sermon Jesus said: Blessed are the merciful... Yes, blessed are the kind...

On our Holy Land Pilgrimage we read aloud from Matthew 5, yes from The Beatitudes of our Lord's Kingdom. Indeed the Beatitudes are the attitudes of those who belong to Him. After our reading time, Dara fashioned a cross from some of the straw on the mountainside. How the Lord must've been moved to receive such a personal expression of love from one of his daughters! With hands of kindness, Dara then offered the straw cross to her pastor on Christ's behalf. What an attitude of gratitude. Humbling. Touching. Blessed.

IF MY PEOPLE... WILL? I WILL! God's Promise in 2 Chron. 7:14.
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My Son And Daughter

Let us not neglect to pray for our sons and daughters and to also remind them that we are praying for them. This is a prayer-message that I recently sent to my own son and daughter:

Lord, bless My... son and daughter today. I can't believe how very much I love them and then to think You love them even more! WOW! Amen.

Please Love Jesus Passionately.... and... always,
PRAY to the Lord. TRUST in the Lord. WAIT on the Lord.
your daddy

IF MY PEOPLE... WILL? I WILL! God's Promise in 2 Chron. 7:14.
Grateful