Busy birthday fun making miniture gardens

10 years ago today .....

A tiny girl was born.......

She turned one.....

Then two......


then three......

 

then four.....

then five.....

then six......

 

 

 Then seven.......

 

 

 

 

 Then eight.....................

 

 

And then nine.

 

Today Heidi, you turn 10.

There.

I've said it.

10.

You've said it about 10 billion times in the past few weeks. To anyone who would listen.  Anyone!

It is a good thing, this 10 turning business.  It is a sweet blessing from the Lord that he has given you to us to love for these 10 years, and we have loved being your parents and watching you grow and grow and grow. 

I have  loved watching you play soccer this season, your enthusiasm and good sense of fun are so evident as you play and encourage others.  When you pick yourself up and laugh, I want to cheer for you, and if you start remembering to bring home all you take to the pitch I don't know whether I'll cheer or cry that you are maturing even more. 

You are blossoming before our eyes.  It is a bittersweet thing to watch a daughter grow.  We trust you to God Heidi.  He made you and will sustain you through all that you navigate as you grow up.  Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him,and he will make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6

 

Double digits.  How exciting.  We're all cheering for you sweetheart. 

 

Child like theology

"We wont know what forever means until we get to heaven or hell"

"Your heart reminds you of the sea"
Pause
"Do you get it? When you put a sea shell to your ear it sounds like the ocean, but its your heart that you hear.  So your heart remind you of the sea."
Another pause.
'Maybe scientists don't even know that"


In the skating changing rooms and a child heard an echo, perhaps for the first time.  He turned and smiled. "That's God singing to us"


I love how deeply they think about things.  The amazing observations they come up with.  How they really do see connections between things that perhaps they have never been told, but they see them as their minds are trained to do the great work of thinking. 

And then at supper, over long story short, when one is clarifying whether the Israelites lived in Egypt as they were spared the plagues, and we talk about Goshen being a region specific to the Israelites within Egypt.

And of course, a small voice pipes up " Goshen, that's  where Batman lives!"

We persevere.......