Rainbow After A Storm

Dear Faith Family,

I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.  Wonderful are Your works; my soul knows it very well, (Psalm 139:14). 

Over thirty-five years ago she greeted the world at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and I-20.  (Don’t panic, there’s a hospital on that corner!). And tonight?  Well, I guess technically 1:00 qualifies as this morning rather than tonight.  In any case, she’s back at the same address.  That same “little girl” is here to introduce her little girl to this world. 

I can’t begin to calculate the love or the prayers that surround this precious, as of yet, unmet little girl.  Knit meticulously together in the hands of her doting Heavenly Father, His image is about to appear before our eyes! 

Her name?  As I write, is yet a mystery.  But not to Him.  He’s known this little girl since before the foundation of this world into which she will no doubt make her presence known. 

I just thought I understood the incredible love of our Father.  That is until He blessed us with children.  As our children greeted this world, my understanding of our Father’s love exploded.  Even so, the love that I have for my children pales in comparison to His love for us!  Wow!  Just wow! 

And now?  Now there’s a new explosion!  A child of my child.  A rainbow after a storm.  How can such love exist for one I’ve not yet met?  I don’t know how.  I just know that such love does exist.  We get to love because He first loved us.  Our Father graciously affords us a taste of His love for us by gifting us with a love for our children and our grandchildren.  Wait – You love us more than that?!   

Did I say wow yet?!  Just wow!  Even as I type these words, a text message tickled my phone: “Baby is out”.  Shortly I’m going to meet my little girl’s little girl!  I get to be her Pop Pop!  Just thinking about her makes my eyes rain! 

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God, (1 John 3:1)! 

Loved,

Pastor Karl