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Walking on the wild beaches of St. Andrews, Scotland, relishing the distant city lights, talking as friends has delighted me this week as I have visited Joel, my beloved son. We have been close friends and adventured together for many years as familiar companions.
When you first hold a baby in your arms, you can not even imagine the talents, personality, strengths, faith, antics this child will have as an adult. Yet the miraculous and mysterious process of loving, training, cultivating skills, inspiring your children over many years results in a full-fledged adult that you could not have perceived in their earliest moments.
I remember driving to the beach in California with Clay searching out a parking place and I giving a speech about how we all needed to stay together and hold hands when we got to the parking area. At that moment, Joel, 18 months, started singing “Twinkle, twinkle little star,…” in perfect pitch all the way through. I wondered in that moment, “I wonder if he will be musical? Maybe I should cultivate that in him.”
Fast forward through many moves, many divergent seasons and I never did as much as I could to totally cultivate his obvious musical talent—time just kept passing, and busyness ensued. We did invest in music organically in our home and Joel shares that today on our podcast. But it is a miraculous process to see your children’s talents and drives progress beyond what you could imagine, beyond what you could have imagined. I think it is a miracle—we give God our limitations, our “fish and loaves,” so to speak and He makes it more than we ever could have on our own.
You will love the song he shared at the beginning of the podcast that he wrote and he and Joy performed. We talked on today’s podcast about this new album that he composted and recorded with Joy over the time of Covid when they were locked inside their flat. The music is stunning but also a picture of something wonderful that can come out of a very difficult time when a plan is made and creativity and a desire to encourage come together. I know you will be encouraged, as I was.
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