ONE!

I can hardly believe that my sweet baby boy is one-year-old today! Haddon boy, your life brings real joy and light into our lives. We see God's love and kindness very clearly when we see you. The Lord has blessed us and gifted us with you and we are forever thankful. You are sweet, gentle, sensitive, funny, so happy (when your mama is around;)) and you sure do love your big brother a lot. My son, every part of me yearns and aches for you to grow and know how deeply you are loved by Jesus and my hearts cry is that he would reveal himself to you. Time is going by faster than I thought that it would (about as fast as they said it would) and I feel really, really privileged to be your mama. I am so grateful for these days with you.






"I want you to be one of the best men that ever lived—to see God and to reveal Him to men. This is the burden of my prayers. My whole being goes out in passionate entreaty to God that He will give me what I ask. I am sure He will, for the request is after His own heart. I do not pray that you may 'succeed in life' or 'get on' in the world. I seldom even pray that you may love me better, or that I may see you oftener in this or any other world—much as I crave for this. But I ask, I implore, that Christ may be formed in you, that you may be made not in a likeness suggested by my imagination, but in the image of God—that you may realise, not mine, but His ideal, however much that ideal may bewilder me, however little I may fail to recognise it when it is created. I hate the thought that out of love for me you should accept my presentation—my feeble idea—of the Christ. I want God to reveal His Son in you independently of me—to give you a first-hand knowledge of Him whom I am only beginning to see. Sometimes more selfish thoughts will intrude, but this represents the main current of my prayers; and if the ideal is to be won from heaven by importunity, by ceaseless begging, I think I shall get it for you."
-Forbes Robinson