Family

Family is the theme for today's post. We talk about family a lot as believers, and we were able to see several manifestations yesterday. We saw parents and children working side by side to help further the kingdom.We saw our church family working as a team to get the projects finished. After we were done laying the floor and painting the sanctuary, we held a worship service with the members of our new Mexican family. Then I got a special surprise when Sarah took me and Gaby and Norma and another couple to an Argentinian steakhouse for my birthday. Shortly after we sat down, another couple came up behind me and gave me big hugs: Lauren and Paul, my other two kids, flew down to surprise me for my birthday! I was stunned into silence (yes, there is video evidence of this). They had been planning it for months and I never suspected a thing. My smile is only now beginning to fade.
   I hope you get to see the wonderful gift of family that our Heavenly Father gives to us in many ways every day!

Philip Weinrich