Family...

I recently celebrated my 83rd. birthday and spent last evening thinking about as many of the people who have been part of my past, some for only a brief period, and others ongoing for many years. Thinking  back over these many years, it is overwhelming to consider so many people who make up my past and have become part of what I have now become as a person. Most importantly, that includes family, which began with my parents back in the 1940's, and continues to the present as Kathie and I now celebrate the birth of our 6th. Great-Grandchild, Nehemiah Matthew Haynam, who was born on February 26th. just days after his cousin, Roman, who was born on January 30th! All of these Great-Grandchildren are a blessing to us, and all of their parents, who are now anxiously waiting to become part of their future as well!

God has gifted us with all of these children and we now have the opportunity to become part of what they will become as they grow up and mature, and become what God has created them to become. They are learning in the home just by being around us and watching us. Their behavior often becomes modeled after what they see in the home by their family, both good and bad. Our hopes and prayers then, is that God will lead us as family, so that our children will be obedient to our leading/teaching and grow up to love and obey God in their daily lives.