Parents, thank you for acting like God’s Children. Wow! What an outpouring of love and encouragement from our post yesterday! We are so moved by your concern, your prayers, your thoughts…Thank You! It is so comforting and exciting to see God’s children being God’s children and loving us with words, helpful thoughts, sympathy, empathy, encouragement, mercy, and grace. We have seen God’s Hand during this ordeal. We are praising Him for His tremendous care and love; some shown in secret ways we may never fully know and some very publicly and tangibly through each of your posts. We experienced joy as each of you showed up with some written words, prayers, likes, cares, shares, loves and emojis and a tiny circle of your likeness next to your response. We smiled and gained comfort from your posts and the ways you have shown up in our lives on His behalf now and times before. COVID restrictions and distance had no victory in this situation, because you showed up with verbal hugs and comfort from miles away but no less real. Your digital virtuality became doses of emotional and spiritual reality in our time of stress. Thank you for connecting and loving us like God's family!
Thank you for following the Apostle Paul’s advice to the Ephesian church. He asked them to love people well… he says, “As God's dear children, then, take Him as your pattern, and follow Christ by loving as he loved you...” Ephesians 5:1-2a (NJB) You are a blessing to us… thank you! You inspire us to keep acting like Jesus too.
Hang in there people! God is with us! I’m praying for you all!
