This picture was taken March 15, 2006 and I honor my dear grandmother with this post today. This was Bonnie Kirkwoods last birthday celebration here on Earth and although it has been four years since her death, I miss her more today than ever. Oh the regrets of not taking more time to spend with her. Oh how I miss the times I did spend with her. She was a piece of my life, someone that was always there. I wish she could just tell me one more time about her garden, her birds, her dog, her life. I love that she lived simply. It is something I strive for now.
But my oldest grandchild is also in the picture and we were also celebrating his birthday! The Grand with the grand. A generation before me, and the one after me. Oh may I give my grandchildren some of what my grandmother gave me. A love of God, a love of life, a love of simple things, and the knowledge that we will all be together again, with no regrets, and having birthday parties for eternity!
Happy Birthday, Grandma! Happy Birthday, Nate! I dearly love you both!
Ephesians 3:19-21 (The Message)
My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.
God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.
Glory to God in the church!
Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus!
Glory down all the generations!
Glory through all millennia! Oh, yes!
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