To Parents and Students of Summit and Food for Thought

Blown away is an understatement for what happened to me last week! Yep I'm talking about the birth of Emma-Claire, but that's not all. I was astounded at Parker (my 16 month old)!!! What I witnessed of him brought something crystal clear to my mind that I've taught fairly recently in Summit.

I went to the hospital with D and Saturday night she had Emma-Claire via C-Section. It was awesome and exhausting and amazing.Monday night Deidre's mom came to stay with her in the hospital while I went to get Mac and Parker and stay with them at home Monday night. Michael to me looked the same as he did Saturday morning when we left him with some friends. What hit me like a ton of bricks was when I picked Parker up from my mom and dad's. I promise you I left a baby boy at their house. He was a baby! I had watched him grow up for the past 16 months and I know what he looked like when I dropped him off.

I was unbelievably shocked when I picked him though. He was not a baby anymore, but all of sudden with new eyes and a new perspective of looking at 7lb. 6oz. Emma Claire, I picked up this little boy that seemed huge and growing and looking more and more like Michael than a baby. It was even more surreal when I got both the boys home! Mac and Parker were playing on the floor together wrestling around and chasing each other down the hall. The week before when Mac was playing him, it was a big brother and a BABY BOY that were playing. But now out of nowhere, when they were playing together, it looked like Mac and a BIG BOY playing together.

Now I know that in the course of 3 days, Parker didn't automatically turn into this little man. I realize that I had just spent a couple of days with an honest to goodness baby and that because of that my perception of how big Parker actually is changed. He had already been that big, but because I had seen him everyday growing, I hadn't noticed him changing. He still was a baby boy to me.

Alot of you guys are like Parker. You have been in the process of growing up spiritually. And growing into mature disciples doesn't happen in three days. It's a process! Where were you in your walk with Christ 16 months ago? Where are you know? Are you growing? Parent's are you helping your students to get in the PROCESS of growing into disciples for Jesus?

Dennis