Graduation 2021 – You Are the Light of the World ✨

David Paul Adams 🎓 & Jonathan William Adams 🎓, Cum Laude

One last blast of the pirate ship, Pirate Proud!

Jonathan, 18 (Auburn University, aerospace engineering) & David, 21 (Gulf Coast Exceptional Foundation day program)… David & Jonathan: biblical best buds, always looking out for each other.

Extended childhood coma, not expected to live past age 4. God always has other plans!

One to Alabama, one to Auburn, one to USA and one to Coastal…scattered to the wind but forever bonded.

The best part of milestones is sharing it with a growing family!

Third milestone – youngest crosses over from 8 years of elementary school (Pre-K-6th), to middle school, having been diagnosed with high-functioning autism last fall and discovering the joys and challenges of his reality…as we all do.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Tiny

This tiny fellow stared me down a few moments ago. I was finishing mopping the floors and had the kitchen door open to welcome the warm afternoon breeze to help dry the floors. He just hovered and dared me to linger long enough to snap this shot:

He was kind of big as bees come, yet still so tiny compared to me and my kitchen door.

So why did my heart race when he menacingly remained hovering at eye level to me, unlike most bees? And why did I jump when he lunged toward my camera?

How great a physical and psychological response some of the tiniest of things create! What power we give to tiny things!

What kinds of tiny things do you make mountains from and allow to control you?

And are there other tiny things we ignore which really require greater attention?

Hey God, thank You for the tiny things that get our attention…please help us to discern if these things are meant to take up a tiny part of our energy – like what table linens and crystal to choose for the Thanksgiving dinner table…

…Or if it’s one of those tiny things that we tend to dismiss that actually deserves greater attention – like not realizing that the neighbor or friend who appears to have it all together, may not have the resources this year to even buy a turkey for their family.

Let us, when we feel tiny, stare down the mountains in our path and know that we can move them if we try.

Let us, when we encounter the seemingly tiniest of things, take a moment to consider how great they are in their own right.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, the meek, those who mourn, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, the merciful, the pure in heart, the persecuted, the peacemakers! Bless the tiny things, Lord…

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Buzzy buzzy, honey bee
Buzzing, staring, right at me

Why’d you pick my kitchen door
To visit me once I’d cleaned my floor?

Tiny, small, you do appear
Yet large must be your bee career

If I could only follow you,
I’d see much greater credit due

For though I’m bigger than a bee,
Your job is bigger than I see

My big fat problems can’t compare
To those in need with nought to spare

So help me, God, to clearly see
The greatness in this tiny bee.

 

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