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An Easter reminder

Name:	Dave Young
Date Posted:	Mar 23, 2008
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OK, I'm lucky enough to welcome many of the community as my family, but I admit I've been lapse with pics and personal things. While transferring pics from my camera yesterday I stumbled into this one of my wife and daughter at a wedding we went to last weekend. She is 4 months old now. The look on my daughter Olivia's face instantly struck me as pure, uncompromised joy. On a scale of 1 to 10, she's at a 10. There isn't anything she could do more to demonstrate how completely filled up with joy she is at this moment. Look!

It struck me in several ways. First how much of an incredible miracle she really is for us, though I complain sometimes about the inconvenience. Second, that she, like each of us are before God, is a blessed child. If I can feel this way about my one little girl, how much more would my Heavenly Father as the source of all love, feel about me as His blessed child? How much more can he look upon me... anxious to stop at nothing to give me the chance to have that same heart filled with joy. And giving the ultimate sacrifice which speaks for itself time and time again that he will stop at nothing to wash me clean of sin and see that I can live my life unhindered.

I am relatively new to understanding all this, and very much still a child who needs to be washed clean. One thing is for certain. Today we honor the resurrection of a man so famous, we remember him 2000 years later, number our days by his birth, and have symbolic elements representing his life and death in every area of life. Incredible story of an event so shrouded in mystery and glory, and one worth looking into even thousands of years later. The Easter bunny's story is rather more shallow.

It took me 30 years to come to the truth, and I'm glad I did. When I look back at all the years fighting against the battles of my own attempts at steering my life it pains me deeply. I once mocked and shouted loudly that God wasn't real, didn't exist. I can't even imagine how much it would hurt me to be standing right behind my daughter, calling gently to her, and having her ignore me for so many years pretending I didn't exist when in her heart she could feel it wasn't right. I am eternally glad the creator of the universe didn't give up on me and kept giving me a chance to finally look into the truth of it all.

Anyway, enough ranting, I'm just grateful and glad to be alive.

Happy Easter!

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Kevin James (Mar 23, 2008 at 12:07 GMT)

This is quite a wonderful blog to read, my friend.

Jesus hit the nail on the head (go figure) when he said that the two greatest commandments were to love the Lord your God and second, to love your neighbor as yourself. [Matthew 22:34-40] That's living the Christian life in a nutshell, and its something that I'm still working on with plenty of room for improvement!

Thanks for showing your love to the community by sharing your testimony.

jydog (Mar 23, 2008 at 12:16 GMT)

Cute kid.
On our way to church.
"He is not here. He is risen!"

Mike Rowley (Mar 23, 2008 at 13:06 GMT)

Wow, Great looking family, and super blog. Thanks for having the courage to state the truth. :-)

Mark Dynna (Mar 23, 2008 at 14:22 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

Great blog Dave. You deserve thanks for being a great example of Christ in my life and so many others.

Rigo Cisneros (Mar 23, 2008 at 15:50 GMT)

Nice Dave,
appreciate you stepping out for the community and for Jesus. It is true that a baby changes so much in the way you think about life. I have a 3month old boy myself and I can't help but give thanks :)

Congratulations & Happy Easter!!

Donald \"Yadot\" Harris (Mar 23, 2008 at 18:16 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

In some of my post I may bring up God once in a whlie but not like this. Very good read and I love the last paragraph. My first daughter is the reason that I am so deeply in love with God. I may share my testimony later. But I will say that this is one of my favorite scriptures

Psalm 127:5
Blessed is the man whose quiver is full.

Chip Lambert (Mar 23, 2008 at 18:54 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

Amen Dave. That's about all I could add that hasn't been said. Happy Easter.

Gregory Stewart (Mar 23, 2008 at 19:35 GMT)

Thank you for this, Dave.

David Montgomery-Blake (Mar 23, 2008 at 20:32 GMT)

I think you're wrong about the 10, though.

I think she's hit the Spinal Tap 11 in terms of joy!

Chris \"C2\" Byars (Mar 24, 2008 at 00:10 GMT)

Great blog. :)

Andrew Hull (Mar 24, 2008 at 01:26 GMT)

He is Risen!

Don Hogan (Mar 24, 2008 at 03:07 GMT)

He is risen indeed!

Jonathon Stevens (Mar 24, 2008 at 16:36 GMT)

Dave.. sorry to burst your bubble, but she just got that fart out she'd been working on all day ;)

Leroy Frederick (Mar 25, 2008 at 20:20 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

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Wow, Great looking family, and super blog. Thanks for having the courage to state the truth. :-)

Couldn't agree more! This is a refreshing message from all the chocolate egg/commercialized nonsense elsewhere (tv, supermarkets, internet etc), it's great to know others know otherwise :-)

David Horn (Mar 26, 2008 at 01:13 GMT)

congrats and God bless

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