A Trumpet...

We started teaching Jackson the Prayer of St. Francis the other night. We have tried to teach him prayers and spend time helping him night after night. The other night as Lori was going through the first line, "Lord make me an instrument of thy peace…” As Jackson started praying the prayer he said, "Lord make me a trumpet"

Dude...this guy is so awesome. What a blessing.

Here is a copy of the Prayer Of St. Francis.....I think he would be okay with Jackson's addition.

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.

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Zoo

Hey...today we went to the Zoo and it was a great day for family. We went with some friends and had a blast. I know this is isn't deep or anything like that, but I haven't written in a bit so...

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Beautiful One...

Lori was putting Jackson to bed the other night and she asked him what he wanted to pray for/about. He said, "Mom, I want to sing Beautiful One, because God likes it when we sing."

He gets it! So tonight as I was putting him down and just rubbing his back before he slipped off to sleepy time, he said again, "Hey dad, let's sing the Beautiful One again..." How awesome is that! SO here we are singing a cool song for the God who loves us and I am reminded again of a God's means of grace for my life. Those times, areas and moments when I feel the warmth and presence of our God who loves us so much that "my soul my soul must sing, my soul my soul must sing...the beautiful one!"

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Too Easy...

I mean come on. Two in a row.

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I'm hungry!

Dude...I'm just saying. This is a prime target!

A Really Important Story...

Yesterday as we were finishing dinner, my son Jackson said he had a really important story to tell. Basically it went like this...


Today in preschool we read a story. It was about God. Some people didn't like Jesus and then he was dead. There was a cross. Then they put Jesus in a big monster cave and rolled a rock as big as a monster onto the cave. Three Weeks later he was back alive! Now he lives in the sky...

The four year old version of what he remembers from the greatest story that has ever been told. When you hear it from a four year old, you begin to remember the first time you could ever tell that story. I'm also reminded of the often used story where Jesus says, "let the children come." (Mark 10:14) That's good stuff.

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In case anybody reads this...

I just changed the color of the blog. What do you think?

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