{"id":2479,"date":"2016-05-26T05:46:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T11:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2016-05-24T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T03:22:12","slug":"children-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/?p=2479","title":{"rendered":"children"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend passed away last Thursday afternoon. Mark is with Jesus now, but he will be missed by many throughout the world.<\/p>\n

\"photo\"<\/a>Cleaning out an office drawer as we prepare for summer, I ran across this hand-written note from a Kindergarten-age Kinsey, shortly after she and her brother had gotten in trouble for not getting along: \u201cI love you so much dad that I can not be mene to taylor in e more. Love, Kinsey.\u201d Our little girl taught me that a great love for my Father in heaven should impact the way I treat all His children.<\/p>\n

Watching Karlyn walk across the stage a couple of weeks ago brought flashbacks of a \u2018little girl\u2019 befriending African children as a world traveler at a young age. As a college student she had opportunity to do the same thing while living in Africa several months. I smile at the passion God has put in her.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_4816\"<\/a>I\u2019ve told John and my 83 seventh grade boys on more than one occasion that I often look at one-year-old Wilkes and wonder what he\u2019ll be like when he\u2019s twelve or thirteen. I told them I also wonder what they will be like when they are as old as Taylor who is now twenty-nine.<\/p>\n

As we close another writing season, I\u2019m reflecting on children – not just my own, but the children of the world. The picture of Jesus that should attract any person anywhere is the smiling Son of Man opening His arms to the little ones while scolding those who thought He was too busy.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople were bringing little children to Jesus to have Him touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, He was indignant. He said to them, \u2018Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.\u2019 And He took the children in His arms, put His hands on them and blessed them.\u201d (Mark 10:13-16)<\/p>\n

When we visit our friends in Ecuador in a couple of weeks, we\u2019re hoping to assist disciples of Jesus to help the children of their land. Please pray for these children. When I wished the Hunters Godspeed as they flew back to Namibia a few days ago, I thought of the beautiful children of Community Hope School and God\u2019s great love for them. John said, \u201cWe\u2019ll get all the children to pray for you Dana, as you go through your cancer stuff.\u201d I\u2019m grateful these children have prayed such prayers for many years.<\/p>\n

Children remind us of God. And God reminds us to think highly of children. I pray you have a great summer! Thanks for your friendship and prayers!!<\/p>\n

\u201cHe took a child and had him stand among them. \u2018Whoever welcomes one of these little children in My name welcomes Me; and whoever welcomes Me does not welcome Me but the One who sent Me.\u2019\u201d Mark 9:36-37<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend passed away last Thursday afternoon. Mark is with Jesus now, but he will be missed by many throughout the world. Cleaning out an office drawer as we prepare for summer, I ran across this hand-written note from a Kindergarten-age Kinsey, shortly after she and her brother had gotten in trouble for not getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}