It sounds so cliche, but it’s the absolute truth: ENJOY EVERY DAY of your children. Because, one day, they won’t be children any more.
Twenty-two years and three days ago Diana and I welcomed our son into the world. We were in the midst of packing our home and preparing to move to Florence to serve at Ebenezer as Minister of Youth and Recreation. I was two weeks away from graduation with one class remaining to be taken a week after graduation in a workshop. Our lives were in a tempest of things that had to be done to take the next steps in our lives when Drew was born in a hospital which was over 600 miles from home. We had no biological family nearby, but we had plenty of family from Woodmere Baptist Church and from our seminary family. And there it was …
Four weeks later we drove away from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary to our new home, Ebenezer. A place we still call home. With two small children and a calling from God. And it has all unfolded faster than we could blink our eyes.
Today I have two children who have earned Bachelor’s degrees … One who is working on her masters degree as a Physician Assistant, and one who is now in process of applying to the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary to do online work as he serves his own church in Florence (Greenwood Baptist). And it all seems like a flash.
Just yesterday we were unloading a truck into one of the Cambridge Apartments. Playing softball at Freedom Florence and baseball at Maple Park. Going to programs, plays, and multiple sports at Delmae, Moore, Sneed, and West Florence.
I have said it many times the past few years and am saying it again now: PARENTS, BELIEVE IT!! It goes by like a flash!! And I really wouldn’t change it at all!! (Except maybe to slow it down and enjoy it a little more)
The Random Thinker 
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