ARROWS

For most of my life, at least the parts that I can remember, I have been interested in genealogy.  I believe this fascination tends to increase as your years on this planet multiply. Seeing my interest grow in this area, my sweet wife bought me a years subscription to Ancestry.com a while back.  With their resources and lots of help from distant family members I met there, I was able to put together quite an impressive list of "those gone by".  At last look I have about 1500 ancestors that we have left along the trail.  Members, branches of the "family tree".  Of course there is not much information about them.  There is their name, born____ and  died____ and that's about it. Still Keva says I know more about my dead relatives than I do about my live ones. She is usually right about most things.

But I so glad that my family is doing it's part to perpetuate the "family tree".  Why, last year at Christmas I didn't have any grand kids. This year there were 4 with one on the way.  They call me "Grump" so I guess the "little ones"are the "Grumpetts".  My daughter said that sounded like a singing group that needed to go on the road.

I've said all that to say this:  At 10:30 this morning, Kimberly called to  tell me there would be another male addition to the "Grumpetts".  Oh, we don't know his name yet or what he looks like.  Not ever sure of his birth date, but he's on the way and I'm excited. 

King David once said (In Psalms 127) that "children are a heritage from the Lord.  Like arrows in the hand of a mighty man" is how he described our kids.  He went on to say that the man would be happy who "has his quiver full".

And though it may be a bit disconcerting for an old man to see more people in your family on the plus side than on the minus, I believe the old king was right.  At 80 years old Calab asked Joshua to "give me this mountain" and set out to take the land inhabited by the giants.  He was a warrior with plenty of arrows and a mighty God to lead him.

Let me just say thank you to my children for filling up my quiver.  With all these arrows and a mighty God leading the way I'm ready to take on any mountain and giant that comes along.

But remember this, I don't do diapers".