Happy 66th Birthday to my wonderful Mom today! ❤
I did a down-and-back trip to MWC, and JoBug and Emily met us at Ted's for lunch! Here's JB with Mom and Dad.
Me and the Miss K, who's looking adorable as ever in her '90s-turned-2020s-style jean jacket and side ponytail!!
Jace and Rachael... in the midst of him trying to talk her into getting him a turtle! lol
Carter, Emily, and Triston! =)
I also brought a dozen bundtini's thinking Mom could enjoy them over the next few days. Unexpectedly, the kids all seem to like them too (I thought they'd be grossed out by the cream cheese). So they're going fast, and next time I may need to bring more! lol
Dad and Jace were outside practicing some basketball when I got there! =)
This was JoBug's pandemic-year bday gift to Mom, reusing an old bow Mom had put on one of her presents. lol
I played volleyball with Kyndal for a while... I love her intensity as she's about to serve... and I cracked up when I saw how her whole body is off the floor in the live photo as she's finishing the serve -- she really puts in the maximum effort! lol Perhaps that's why I was never a volleyball star. ;-)
This is off the subject, but I bought this from a FB ad and framed it tonight. I love this verse and the art that reminds me of God's protective strength! And I love that it could easily go in my future daughter's room, but also totally works for me. lol
I'm thankful that Mom's birthday happened to fall on a holiday so that everyone was off work and school and we were able to do a fun family lunch!
I'm also very thankful for the legacy of Dr. King, and I'm praying that our nation will honor that... and that more courageous Christians will stand up against dehumanization in all its ugly and deceptive forms.
To end this post, here's a wonderful quote from one of his sermons on July 4, 1965:
“We are challenged more than ever before to respect the dignity and the worth of all human personality... all men are equal in intrinsic worth. The whole concept of the imago dei, as it is expressed in Latin, the "image of God," is the idea that all men have something within them that God injected. Not that they have substantial unity with God, but that every man has a capacity to have fellowship with God. And this gives him a uniqueness, it gives him worth, it gives him dignity. And we must never forget this as a nation: there are no gradations in the image of God. Every man from a treble white to a bass black is significant on God’s keyboard, precisely because every man is made in the image of God. One day we will learn that. We will know one day that God made us to live together as brothers and to respect the dignity and worth of every man.” ❤
~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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