So I know I haven’t blogged in a long time. Life has been crazy. For one Twitter has almost replaced my blog, but in the past couple weeks I have had many requests to get back to blogging so here it is.

I was sitting on my bed last night with my 18 month old daughter, and she like most 18 month olds is a little goofball. I love when she gives me kisses and she loves to not give them to me just to be a dork. So I am trying to get her to kiss me and she is being stingy with her kisses and finally I just grab her and plant one on her. at this point I start to cheer and act like it is a big deal that she kissed me. Well she responds by coming back and giving me another kiss. I then cheer some more and the cycle continues for like 5 minutes.

It ws in the middle of this at some point that God revealed something to me. We all want to love and be loved. You see all of us have love inside that we long to give away, but the thing is we want to know that the person we are giving it to is cheering for us and loves us in return. My daughter had love she wanted to share but it wasn’t untill i shwed her that I was excited about recieving her love that she felt comfotable giving me more.

This has so many implications in my life. For one who I am cheering on and giving my love to? Am I cheering for my family to show them my love? My kids? My wife? Secondly I realized that my little girls, the other one of which is 10, are going to give thier love to someone. I want to make sure that the understand that that person needs to show them he is cheering for them wholehartedly before they are willing to do that. Lastly I need to realize that I have a Love inside of me that is always cheering for me. The Love of Christ. How am I using that love to cheer for this world?

Just some thoughts to chew on today.

Yesterday was my little girls 1st birthday. It seems like just a few days ago I was in the hospital with her mom watching her be born. And it seems like not to long ago I was watching my other kids be born. Life is just so stinkin’ fast.

Makes me realize that every day that God has blessed us with is precious and should be treated as such. i need to take every opportunity to tell my daughters how beautiful they are and how much they are loved because if I don’t one day very soon some young man will be saying that to them and his intentions won’t be the same as mine.

I need to spend as much time as I can teaching my boys how to walk as men of God because if i don’t they will learn how to be men from some other place and won’t learn the values that I want them too.

I need to spend as much time cherishing my wife, building her up, and encouraging her growth spiritually for her benefit, but more importantly for my children’s. They need to see what a godly marriage looks like. My boys need to learn how to treat their future wives. My daughters need to know what a man of God looks like so they can make a good decision about their future husbands

Life just moves too fast. I often kid with my wife that I hate weddings because I am dreading walking my girls down the aisle. And you know what I am. I worry about weather or not I will have done a good enough job teaching and loving them in the time I had with them. I worry about weather they will be marrying a man of God, or a woman of God for my boys.

Life just moves too fast. Dang! Pray for me as I try to be the man, husband, and father God has called me to be.

Life just moves so freaking fast. Embrace your daughters, love your wives, and mentor your sons, cause LIFE MOVES FAST.