Aaron's comments

My son often has some pretty thought-provoking little lines.

At lunch the other day, Aaron told Kate and me, "sometimes, I put my hands behind my head before I go to sleep, and I wonder what Grace is doing in Heaven. Then, I get mad at myself because I know she's probably having the funnest time ever..getting to be with Jesus and the other angels."

This morning while getting him ready for school, he said, "it looks funny hugging the air. I don't do it cause it would look funny." I asked him why he would hug the air, and he responded, "how else can you hug Gracie?"

After picking him up from karate a few minutes ago, he said, "Dad, do the angels wear white robes?" I said I didn't exactly know for certain, but he stopped me short and said, "I wonder if there's karate in Heaven, because the angels already have the white robes! I wonder if they wash them with raindrops and dry them with wind..."

I don't want my son to lose his innocence. In the age of attention grabbing advertising and kids growing up way too quickly, the role of parents is vital to a child's view of morality. I pray every night that He will continue to guide Kate and I in the way we are raising our son. Proverbs 22:6 states, "train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not turn from it." I pray we are living this verse out.