Speaking of filling out security and info cards. My son from another mama, literally, wanted his new name on his card. The whole school calling him "confidence" by faith is A-Ok with me! You'll think I made this name up, but no, it was actually a name and could not have been more suited to my formerly shy, sullen, withdrawn 8 year old boy whose new name is...Swagger! Yes, Swagger. He loves it! So Swagger enters the 3rd grade this week with a whole world of possibilities that come with being confident and self-assured. He already has the compassion of Mother Teresa, the generosity of Rick Warren, and is in a gentleness class of his own. I'm believing God that Swagger's new confidence makes him a leader to inspire a trend of compassionate, generous and gentle elementary school students.
A couple of weeks ago. The big kids were at a summer camp. Karima was being picked on by a rude, obnoxious, little girl and it was Swagger who stepped in and told the girl to leave Karima alone and apologize. The world needs more kids like Swagger and Karima and Tirion.
Romans 4:17-18
The Message (MSG)
17-18We call Abraham
"father" not because he got God's attention by living like a saint, but
because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn't
that what we've always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, "I set
you up as father of many peoples"? Abraham was first named "father" and
then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God
could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of
nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding
to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God
said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples.
God himself said to him, "You're going to have a big family, Abraham!"
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