Today my Caleb turns six years old. And as cliched as it is to say, it’s true: I can’t believe it’s already been six years.
He is stubborn, absent-minded, impossible at times to reason with and occasionally makes us want to pull our hair out (or in my case, pull someone else’s hair out, I guess). But he’s a growing child, and that’s just part of it.
The rest of the time, he is so sweet, so loving, so kind. He loves to help, he loves to snuggle up to you and he loves to tell you how much he loves you.
I don’t know where he learned it, or if he just made it up, but one of his favorite things to say is “I love you all the way to God’s heart.” Occasionally he will say “all the way to Heaven and back.” No matter how mad he can make me (and boy can he), when he says that, I just melt.
I’m so thankful to my Lord for the blessing of my children, Jack, Caleb and little coming-soon Joshua. I love them, and their mother, all the way up to God’s heart.
It is said that the first impression a child has of God’s love comes from observing his own dad’s love for him. I pray that I do a good enough job showing my kids how much their father (and their Father) loves them: All the way to Heaven and back.
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