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I have been reflecting on the special moments when my kids look at me. I thought a quick video would be a good reminder for me the next time I don’t pay attention to the depth behind each expression my child shares with me. During the process God met me. I love how He interrupts our journey to speak and remind us of truth. For me it was that even though I quickly forget the special moments He gives me with my kids, He has never forgotten anyone of the expressions of my face when I look to Him. He is faithful, He sees me, enjoys me, is proud of me, and loves to laugh with me. He has never forgotten.

I hope that my kids will always know how much their dad loved and loves them and that he treasures every moment with them.

I trust that He will also encourage and remind you of special moments with Him and others.

A big shout out to Carlos Whittaker and this post. It was the still images in his video that started me down this road…

You’ve probably seen the many surveys people pass around on facebook. I’ve actually never filled one out. However Naomi did a little survey with Esther (Our 5 year old daughter) about me. To be honest I was a little nervous to read it. Why? Kids are brutally honest and they know you better than most. Maybe something for you to do with your kids.

So I realize that my blog is often on the “heavy” side.  So I thought I would try and write some more about things that happen with our family. So, here’s how I impressed my kids with some totally useless knowledge.  They did have fun with it, even if it only lasted for 5 minutes, but Dad was “cool”…not that we do things to be “cool” , right?  :)

So, what fun, but useless tricks have you taught or shown your kids. i would love to hear them so I can impress my kids further with useless skills.

Should be fun to read.

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Naomi and i have been sponsors of two great kids through Compassion International. Every couple months we get a letter in the mail from our kids.  I say our kids, because they are part of our family. Our own children love to draw pictures and write notes back to them and treat them as their own unseen siblings.

I’ve been really drawn to the situation that many of these kids live in. And not only the physical need, but emotional need to be loved and cherished and taken care of.  Meriam, is our newest sponsor child and in her latest letter she ended by asking, “Do you love me?” My heart broke when reading that, and it is still breaking thinking and writing about it now. Yes, Meriam we love you very much and hopefully one day we will be able to meet you.

I know there is a lot of need right here in our city and our neighbourhood. And I’m the last person who wants to guilt people into anything, but I have been trying to be more open to His leading in my life and I felt I should share Meriam’s 4 word question and let it mull and sit in your mind as it has for me since I read that over a month ago now.

I read a lot of books, and i know lots of sites give reviews and recommendations. I’m not into giving huge reviews of books, but I have started to list what I am reading and my one or two line thought on the book. (and you can probably judge the personal impact a book had on me by how much I blogged about what I learned through it, but I don’t traditional book reviews.) If you decide to purchase a book i happen to be reading we would be grateful if you used the Amazon link through my reading list as we will use 100% of the commission to help support Compassion.