Thursday, December 2, 2010

The Author

I never knew I would write a masterpiece in my lifetime. However, I have come to that realization. I am writing a masterpiece everyday. The good, the bad, the ugly and the boring. All of it is a masterpiece just the same.

The works by Christie and Jared will look nothing like the works of Christie and Joseph and still those will look nothing like the works of Christie and Jackson. And not one of those works will look like the works of Christie and Shawn.

I am lucky though. There is an even greater masterpiece being written. My masterpiece. Mine. All mine (ah, who am I kidding). The works of God and Christie, is not my masterpiece. It is His. And let me tell ya, there has been some very good, some very bad, some very ugly and some very hum-drum, put you to sleep boring stuff in it--but, MAN, it has been interesting!

In February 1995, my dad and Pam gave me a Bible for Valentine's Day. My dad wrote something very special in that Bible. He told me one of the greatest gifts God can give a man (or woman) is a child but that gift is not fully complete until that child turns back to God and claims Him as their savior.

Daddy, if you are reading this, you can celebrate this Monster gift.

We are all capable of masterpieces written by the divine hand. Have you begun your masterpiece yet?


1 comment:

patricia said...

amen! I can lose all the treasures of the world but if my children have a relationship with their Savior then my husband and I will eventually die in peace having lived the greatest and most fufilled life. There is nothing more precious that our children putting their faith in Him.