My Letter to Christopher on Election Night

Christopher,

It's 10:52 p.m., Tuesday night, November 4, 2008. You are lying next to me in my bed, sleeping soundly as the world around you changes tremendously. Tonight, America's first African-American president has been elected. I want you to be able to look back and know what was going on, what it all meant, and how your world is changing. Mommy is not a very political person. I didn't keep up with all of the issues very well. Many things were said about Barack Obama. I don't know how much of it was true or how much was a lie. Just this morning you told me that you were "not picking Barack Obama" because a teacher told you that "he wants to make mommies and daddies poor". All I know is that we are all in God's hands and that God has chosen, through the people of America, to place Barack Obama as our leader. As Proverbs 8:15-16 says "By me kings reign and rulers make laws that are just; by me princes govern and all nobles who rule on earth". Many emotions run through my mind right now. Fear, anxiety, sadness. Someday you will read this and understand why. But something else finds its way into my heart as well. Hope. Hope that no matter who our president is, no matter what happens on this earth, in my life time or in your life time, God is in control. Someday you will read this. Remember that tonight history was made. Remember to always pray for your nation. Remember that if you have surrendered your precious life to Jesus, nothing can pluck you from his hand (Romans 8:38-39). I love you and I pray that Barack Obama will lead our nation with integrity and most of all by God's will.

Love,

Mommy

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all-how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?" Romans 8:28-32

Pumpkin Patch 2008

On October 24th Christopher and I went with his class on a field trip to the Pumpkin Patch. This particular patch was really neat. We rode the bus and when we got there there were several different "stations". There was an old fashioned school house, an Indian women with teepees and all her tools and animal skins, an old cabin, a nature walk, a hayride, and several other things. The kids got to look at all of the things and hear about how school used to be, how the Indians lived, etc. They even got to pan for gems. And of course they got to pick out a pumpkin at the end. Christopher said his favorite parts of the day were the hayride, digging for dinosaurs, and getting to pick out his pumpkin. Picking out his pumpkin was of course the moment he had been waiting for all day. The kids and parents got to eat our sack lunches at some picnic tables outside. It was an absolutely beautiful day! We had a blast and as you can see the day really wore Christopher out!