Thoughts on Family

I love my family. I've heard people say that there should be a holiday called Family Day, just like there is a Mother's Day and Father's Day. Over the course of my life I've been taught that there is a Family Day, and for my family it was always Sunday. On Sunday my dad would always be home to spend time with his family, even when he traveled for work. On Sunday he would take his family "bummin" or his boys fishin'. On Sunday our family would go out to Pizza Hut every week after church, and my brothers and I would get monetary rewards for drinking soda through our noses.

Family isn't just a bunch of folks that grow up together. It's people who love and support each other. Who trust and challenge each other to be better people.

I'm on a journey called life, and in this chapter of this journey I am embarking on the true establishment of something called family. I have a wife, and we're expecting our first child soon. How amazing is that? It's a miracle, really. And in this new chapter of our lives, we are going to be responsible for raising a baby up into a fine young man of God. We will have opportunity after opportunity to plant and instill the word of God, values and lessons of life, natural knowledge and understanding, and so many other things into his life. And all this will be held in the realm of something called family. My family.

Father God, I pray that you guide every move I make, and form every word I speak. Above all mold my heart and mind to be one after You and your glory. All I want is You.