Nine years ago today, our lives changed forever. Our first child, our sweet, beautiful Cameron was born at right about..... NOW. (10:30 am). It was a rainy Monday morning, he weighed in at 8 lbs 2 oz.
Today we celebrate his life, his past, present and future. Cameron loves parties and loves people, he's very sentimental, and he remembers everything.
Last night about 9pm, he came up from his room from reading, and he found me on the couch and he dove into me and hugged me good for about 30 seconds. I look forward to this bear-like, emotion filled hug each evening. It is not the hug I try to get from him, or the ones right at bed-time when we're tucking him in. It's this famous, out of the blue, no-words said hug. It often brings tears to my eyes, (but I try not to let him see those). It's his way of showing and saying "I love you", "thank-you mom". It's the kind of hug that neither of us wants to pull away from. It's the hug I will remember always.
My prayer for Cameron today and daily:
Lord,
I pray that out of your glorious riches, you may strengthen Cameron with power through your Spirit in his inner being, so that Christ may dwell in his heart through faith. And I pray that Cameron will be rooted and established in love. I pray that he will have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and that he would know this love that surpasses knowledge- that Cameron will be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God! AMEN.
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Just catching up on your posts, Jen, and I wanted to tell you how much I love this one. The prayer at the end got me choked up and I found myself nodding in agreement with that prayer for my own kids. Thanks for the reminder of the power of praying the scriptures over my girls.
Also, I remember visiting you guys in Caro soon afer Cameron was born. . .I was pregnant with the twins. So much has happened since then! You have a beautiful family!
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