What a blessing our sweet little redhead has been to us! I absolutely would not want to live in a world without an Emilie in it. She has brought so much joy and life and color to our world!I suppose that when your kids are exactly like you, it is very easy to produce "cookie cutter" versions of yourself. Parents like this can probably parent on auto-pilot, living their lives again through their children. But when the kids are different, it requires the parent to depend even more so on God. It reminds us that they are God's kids more than they are your kids.
I'm so glad that Emilie is ours, but I know that she is first and foremost God's. Her gifts and creativity reflect the nature of our Creator in ways that I cannot begin to fathom. More so than any of our children, I feel that Emilie will surprise us the most with how God uses her life to honor Himself.
Having her and raising her has been a huge Highlight of our twenty years together.
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