“May we never lose our wonder; may we never lose our wonder…
Wide eyed and mystified, may we be just like a child…
Staring at the beauty of our King.” (‘Wonder’ from Bethel Music)
A new school year is underway and the joys of education are beginning afresh. We had a great summer with the highlight being a child born to Kinsey and Jordan Stanley. Owen Gabriel is a healthy little boy and we are thankful to our Father in Heaven, the Author of life.
There’s nothing like the miracle of a baby. To think of all that happens in the womb, then to meet a little one for the first time awakens our wonder. A labor and delivery nurse, Kinsey finished her degree to become a midwife last spring. She then passed her boards on Wednesday, June 22 and had the baby on Sunday the 26th. She and Jordan are so happy.
Karlyn and Susan are also happy. To watch sister or grandmother hold little Owen makes me smile. Of course I enjoy holding babies too, but I think I’m a little more comfortable when they get a bit older.
Wilkes is almost seventeen months old now and he is so much fun. Often he will see something new and say, “Whoa!” I think he and Owen both live in a state of wonder that holds lessons for us all.
“Jesus called a little child and had him stand among them. And He said: ‘I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.’” (Matthew 18:2-3) Perhaps Jesus intends to remind us of ‘wonder’ when He calls us to be like children. Our two grandsons don’t worry, they live simply, and they trust those who love them. I want to follow this example.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable then they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? …
“But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” (Matthew 6:25-27, 33)