It's been a year and a month since Nathaniel was born; he's walking now. We're going to see him this weekend!  My daughter and husband are celebrating their first anniversary this weekend. I remember their wedding day and how I was wondering if this marriage could last. The first year is always the hardest, and they've made it through with seemingly few difficulties.

Once when we were over there visiting, I asked dd what she'd been doing that day. Her husband had forgotten his lunch, so she fixed him one. Then she put Nathaniel in the stroller and walked a couple of miles (in the heat) to take her dh his lunch. Now, mind you, this isn't how my dd used to be. In fact, I would have to say, I'm not sure even I would do something like that. I think that's an indication that God is working in her and changing her.

I know God answers prayer. He delights in our getting in on what He's doing by our participating by prayer. My prayer for N__ has been that he will have a "desire" to know Christ as his savior. My dd gave him a book called "Wild at Heart" written for guys. He's been reading that and enjoying it. I have a feeling he won't stand a chance with so many people praying for his salvation. Ha.

N__'s family now has another baby out of wedlock on the way. N___'s sister is pregnant. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately--I'm not sure), this girl will not be having a wedding. The baby's father is already out of the picture. It's interesting how this family has perpetuated the same inauspicious beginning to their children's lives. First the parents, then two of their children. They're lost people, without the Lord in their lives. I don't expect them to act like Christians. I don't condemn them. I only feel sorrow. They're the products of our society with it's immoral views of sex.  Their behavior is really a picture of their underlying beliefs. It's ok to have sex outside of marriage. It's ok to have babies out of wedlock. It's ok to raise a baby without a father. It's ok to have a baby with two different women. They're sowing to the flesh and reaping the results. It's really sad. I pray for them to come to the Lord not just to have their sins forgiven, but to have abundant life--and to experience it in their lives--in spite of the mess they've made of them.

Many days I pray Paul's prayer in Colossians 1:9-12 for all my children. That they might "be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. It says it all, doesn't it?