My beloved nephew, Hudson, graduated from Kindergarden yesterday. It is moments like this that make me feel grateful that I am still home at the moment. However, he will not have another graduation for years. He was funny, cute, and showed off his intelligence. God has blessed me with the family that I have here. Hudson is in the center of all of our love because he is the only child in the immediate family. (For his graduation gift we gave him his first big boy Bible with his name inscribed in gold.)
When I move to Bolivia, I will have 40 street kids to give my love and attention to. I pray that I will be someone stable in their lives and that I will show them agape like love. I want to love them like they are my own children. It doesn't mean I will not miss my Hudson terribly because I will. It just means that I want to serve God where He has me in whatever capacity that He provides. It also means that I want a family of my own, even if it will not be in the traditional format.
"If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing."
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
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