HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAC!

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My son Mac turned 22 on the 21st, and for the first time in years he was safe, sober and sitting inside-rehab.

It wasn't his idea of a Happy Birthday...However, that's what growing up is all about. Change and change and more change. Growing pains and painful growth. Giving up our reckless past and giving in to healthier choices.

I know Mac may not feel good about himself right now, but I believe his Spring will come. It will take time and tough decisions, tears and tiny baby steps...But every day is a new day with the promise of new life and the Love of Christ who is watching over him every step of the way.

On the day he was born, Mac kept me in labor all day...Entering the world just before sundown...Screaming at the top of his lungs...Announcing to the world that he had finally arrived-on his terms. I remember he was so tiny, almost fragile and much smaller than his older brother. Who would have guessed that one day he would be towering over the rest of us...Tall, dark and handsome...with protruding muscles and a beautiful head of curly brown hair.

I Love this kid and I get on my knees every single day and pray for his protection while giving thanks for the gift of his young life...A life worth living to the fullest, because that is what God fully intended.

And so it will be my prayer on this special day-that Mac will receive the gift of wisdom and the willingness to open his heart to the will of God...So that he can begin respecting his carefully crafted life almost as much-as the One who created it.

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you and before you were born I consecrated you..." Jeremiah 1:5

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