Micah's Thirteen

This was the passage this morning that I shared with my neighborhood group that meets on Zoom for a short time together to reflect on a passage of Scripture before starting the day each Wednesday.  I had chosen this verse a couple of weeks ago and had forgotten about it, but when I read this to our group this morning, I smiled and thought of you and what I shared with you yesterday.  May God's steady, constant calling AND warm personal counsel come to characterize you, Micah,  and may you  (and me too in these coming weeks!)  be alert for  whatever he will do next in your life.  ❤

Dear Micah,  I am not sure if you know this, but today (June 29th) marks 13 weeks until your 13th birthday!!!!  I have been thinking about this for a while, and I even picked out a race that I would run in your honor almost a year ago that is coming up in August. I was going to use the time I was training to be more intentional in praying for you and taking time to journal thoughts that came to mind during that time. Unfortunately, I am not going to be able to run that race because I found out I have a stress fracture that I have to let heal over the summer.  So, I am finding other ways to move my body this summer, and I will use those times to serve as reminders to pray and hold you up to God's light again and again over the next 13 weeks.  Today, after a long day of work, I hopped on my bike and headed to Green Lake to swim for 30 minutes. As I was swimming, I remembered that today was my day to start your birthday countdown, and I let my thoughts wander while I wa...