When I am away from Connor and McKenzie for an extended period of time, I find myself frequently looking at pictures of them and trying to figure out what it is that they were thinking about when the picture was taken. This habbit helps me feel close to them and keeps me engaged with them emotionally and gives room for God to inhabit my daily prayers for them.
I am consistantly amazed at how talented and special each one of them are in their own way. As often as I contemplate this, I am faced with the fact that both of these children are just mine on loan. They are after all His kids. God has blessed us for over 10 years with a four person family. He has grown Lisa the children and I in ways that we never could have imagined, and now we are all on the verge of expanding our family by an additional two. It appears that God may have it in His plan to loan us two more young men.
Lately, I have been going through the same mental exercize with Michael and Andrew as I go through it with Connor and McKenzie. I am so excited to jump in and wrestle around with the four of them. I am certain that it will only be a couple of years before I will really have to start defending myself from the steadily growing quartet. I can see kids flying around the living room comming at me from all angles. Hopefully Lisa will come to my rescue in the nick of time . . . . .
Any way, it’s been alot of fun to make a place in my heart and prayer life for Mike and Drew. It feels wonderful to be laying down some emotional capitol for them in advance.