I received the most incredible Christmas present from my kids this year. It began as a scavenger hunt with many clues. Fortunately, my kids helped me figure out what the clues meant.
The final clue pointed me to my bookshelf in my study. It said to look for something bright blue. They were referring to a book on the top shelf.
When pulling the book off the shelf, I was a bit puzzled by what I saw. I had never seen the book before and it had the title of a sermon series that I had preached a little over a year ago – Prayer Biographies. I said, “What a coincidence.”
They told me to thumb through the book and look at it. I looked first at the table of contents. Another strange coincidence. The chapters looked a lot like the individual sermon titles I had used before. Hmm.
Finally, when my kids couldn’t stand it anymore…they blurted out that it was my book.
My three children and their three spouses had each taken a sermon and transcribed it as they listened to it. Then they personally edited the chapter and then passed it on to another sibling for more editing. Finally, they had the book published and secured some endorsements from some of my spiritual mentors and heroes.
I couldn’t believe it. They had been encouraging me to write for years and told me that this should give me a jump start.
Talk about a huge investment of time, energy, and creativity. I was overwhelmed by this amazing demonstration of love and sacrifice.
I just had to take this moment and share with all of you how proud I am to be the father of incredible kids.
Thanks for indulging me with this very personal blog entry.
And special thanks goes to my kids:
Jason and Amanda Landry
Steve and Beth Browning
Nathan and Michelle Schneider
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