It Takes A Village .....
Last night our youngest son Adam graduated from highschool. We are so proud of him! School has never been easy for him, ADD is challenging. We are thankful to all his teachers who have helped him along in his school years. Adam is sooo happy that he has made this accomplishment. He is thinking about a career in auto mechanics.
The Commencement speaker last night talked about how our town was a village, geographically speaking. It is a small town, and in small towns (villages in this case), you have the advantage of growing up knowing most of the people in that village. There is a sense of belonging, family, values are an important part of life.
I have been thinking about villages this week. Tuesday morning, we learned of a tragedy that struck our village hard. One of our close friend's son was injured while serving in Iraq which resulted in his right leg being amputated just below the knee and his left leg at the knee.
Andrew, is a special part of our lives. Just three years ago, Andrew (along with our son JJ & friends) also graduated from highschool and school wasn't exactly an easy task for him either. We were so proud of of boys then too.
All of our kids have grown up together, in this village. We have laughed, cried, served side-by-side at countless youth group & church functions, shared so many times together at Big Stone Lake fishing & fellowshipping together .... good times, rough times, times we have slipped away from one another for a period of time ... all with God's grace interwoven bringing us together again. Sometimes, we look back and wonder how we got through some of those years.
It has been said, "That it takes a village to raise a child", and it is true here in ours. A ministry collegue asked me recently, "how will I evangelize, how will I show people the grace of God?", and we talked about "villages" and that we do what we do here ... we visit, we have coffee, we bring food, we love ... we get through it together ... through grace ... God's grace is sufficient.
Andrew has grown in God's grace through lessons and love of the village, and he is strong and brave, and giving ... and will rise above this obstacle as he has many times before .... because he has this village. It takes a village to raise a child.
Come home Andrew .... your village is waiting.
Grace & Peace ~
Lori
The Commencement speaker last night talked about how our town was a village, geographically speaking. It is a small town, and in small towns (villages in this case), you have the advantage of growing up knowing most of the people in that village. There is a sense of belonging, family, values are an important part of life.
I have been thinking about villages this week. Tuesday morning, we learned of a tragedy that struck our village hard. One of our close friend's son was injured while serving in Iraq which resulted in his right leg being amputated just below the knee and his left leg at the knee.
Andrew, is a special part of our lives. Just three years ago, Andrew (along with our son JJ & friends) also graduated from highschool and school wasn't exactly an easy task for him either. We were so proud of of boys then too.
All of our kids have grown up together, in this village. We have laughed, cried, served side-by-side at countless youth group & church functions, shared so many times together at Big Stone Lake fishing & fellowshipping together .... good times, rough times, times we have slipped away from one another for a period of time ... all with God's grace interwoven bringing us together again. Sometimes, we look back and wonder how we got through some of those years.
It has been said, "That it takes a village to raise a child", and it is true here in ours. A ministry collegue asked me recently, "how will I evangelize, how will I show people the grace of God?", and we talked about "villages" and that we do what we do here ... we visit, we have coffee, we bring food, we love ... we get through it together ... through grace ... God's grace is sufficient.
Andrew has grown in God's grace through lessons and love of the village, and he is strong and brave, and giving ... and will rise above this obstacle as he has many times before .... because he has this village. It takes a village to raise a child.
Come home Andrew .... your village is waiting.
Grace & Peace ~
Lori
posted by Lori @ 7:31 AM
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