In Love

Today I fell in love four times over! How can four very different young men touch my heart in so many ways? There are no words. I am SO blessed. Met my four new grandsons today for the first time. J is such a handsome young man with a vibrant smile. Like all twelve year olds, he's strugging between being a young man and a kid. I so remember Ross at this age... same kind of thing. Wanting to be grown up and treated like an adult one minute and then remembering he is not quite as old as he thinks the next. Lord, be his stability. So much change in his life ... new home, new family, new school ... and all this in the midst of his own body and mind changing. T is so strong-willed, and I say that in a good way - because I know what strong-willed children turn into - people like AUDRA who can do anything they set their mind to... people who God calls to do extraordinary things. Lord, YOU alone can turn T's will to be YOUR OWN. Bring his strength and will under YOUR control. D has the biggest heart you can even imagine. He is so easy going and easily satisfied. He reminds me so much of Brian. Lord, being the third of four brothers is not an easy place. Show him his identity in YOU. Help our family to cultivate the love in his heart so that it can encompass all the new in his life. Little I is a typical two year old and can steal your heart in a moment. He is learning to express himself. Lord, give him the words he needs to do that. They are all sleeping now. Give them a precious night's rest, sweet dreams of Gigi and Grandpa Rick. Take away all of their cares for YOU care for them. Give Audra and Brian the rest they need to begin another day. Give them YOUR strength, YOUR wisdom, YOUR words, YOUR heart. Teach our family how to love these boys in the way that YOU design. We lay our whole family at your feet. Make us into what you want. Bring glory to YOURSELF as we bring praise to You for what You have done and are doing and for the new adventure you have led us on. Our lives will never be the same.