Welcome to some pictures and letters of God's grace in our lives, and how God has brought our family to embrace the command of Christ to make disciples of all nations. Pray that He will use our lives to make His glory known in every nation. Ask Him for grace for the gospel not to stop with us!
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Update from the Andes
Thought you might like a brief update on our daughter Kelsey...blogging without knowing it...
Hey everyone!
Unlike my dad, I am not the "blogging" type, so I hope that an email update will suffice! :)
I've been here in Quito for almost three weeks now, and I just now am starting to feel settled. Here in the past week, several things have come together with my apartment--internet, kitchen appliances, etc. I am still pending a dryer hook up--so in the meantime I have laundry lines hanging all over the apartment.
I am really loving it here. I know I may still be in the honeymoon phase, but it has been a great honeymoon thus far! The faculty and students here at AAI are great, and I enjoy teaching and coaching.
I am teaching ESL Bible and writing classes, as well as coaching JV girls basketball. My Bible class is great. I have four different countries represented, and most all of the kids have no knowledge of the gospel. I basically get to spend an hour with them a day, walking them through the Old Testament and talking about how God is continually redeeming His people. Please be praying for their understanding of both English and the Bible.
Thank you for your prayers in regards to relationships; I have already made some very good friends here at school. There are lots of young, single girls who are here for the purpose of loving God and loving kids, and it has been really encouraging to spend time with them.
I attended a Spanish speaking church called La Fuente last Sunday, and plan on meeting with them again this Sunday. I ask that you all could be praying for both my language learning and search for biblical community.
Thank you for your support in prayer as I "do life" here in Ecuador. Today in Bible discussed the fall of Jericho. It was new material to them, and a great reminder for me--- the same God that made walls fall by the sound of a trumpet 1500 BC is the same God I am serving here in Quito and that you are serving in the US.....AWESOME.
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For those of you that are interested...here is the best way to continually stalk me on social media:
skype: kelseynichols.
facebook: Kelsey Nichols
twitter: nicholskelsey
Instagram: kelseynichols2
Love you, miss you, and am SO very thankful for you all! Please let me know ways I can be praying for you.
Blessings,
Kelsey
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Today's the Day
So this morning we had a family style breakfast with eggs and bacon and biscuits and cocoa, and then we did the awkward "have you got everything" dance from upstairs in our townhouse to the old SUV outside because...
Today is the day that my firstborn daughter Kelsey heads out to live in Ecuador in the spread of the true biblical gospel, and in obedience to the command of Christ, but ultimately for the sake of the glory of God our righteous King.
As you know, God has most of our family of 11 sitting still in Birmingham, Alabama for now. But part of his plan includes us watching our little girl/scholar/athlete/fun-loving/ball of fire as she obeys a call on her life from many years ago, one where God whispered in her heart that she would someday tell the covenant story in places other than her home context.
We are joyful and tearful at the same time, so join with us in praying for her, and supporting her in every way God leads you to do, for His Name's sake and for a real biblical gospel in every place on the earth.
I will send along more information later, so look for updates to our blog and email.
For now, you can email Kelsey at kelseynichols2@gmail.com if you woud like to encourage her or if you twitter you can find her tweets, or if you facebook you can look for her there as well.
We are thankful to God for His grace worth sharing!
Blessings-
Chris and Vickie
Today is the day that my firstborn daughter Kelsey heads out to live in Ecuador in the spread of the true biblical gospel, and in obedience to the command of Christ, but ultimately for the sake of the glory of God our righteous King.
As you know, God has most of our family of 11 sitting still in Birmingham, Alabama for now. But part of his plan includes us watching our little girl/scholar/athlete/fun-loving/ball of fire as she obeys a call on her life from many years ago, one where God whispered in her heart that she would someday tell the covenant story in places other than her home context.
We are joyful and tearful at the same time, so join with us in praying for her, and supporting her in every way God leads you to do, for His Name's sake and for a real biblical gospel in every place on the earth.
I will send along more information later, so look for updates to our blog and email.
For now, you can email Kelsey at kelseynichols2@gmail.com if you woud like to encourage her or if you twitter you can find her tweets, or if you facebook you can look for her there as well.
We are thankful to God for His grace worth sharing!
Blessings-
Chris and Vickie
Saturday, September 22, 2012
The Perils of Re-Entry
Back in the 60's (for you younger than generation-x people, I mean the 1960's), when space travel was very uncharted water for the human race, each launch was followed by a "re-entry" into Earth's atmosphere in a tiny capsule after it had been to the moon. The same thing happens with the shuttle now, just on a larger scale. You know the drill: Come in too shallow and you will skip off the earth's atmosphere never to be recovered... Come in too direct and the sheer friction of the air burns your tiny barrel into ashes and you inside of it. I won't go into the math involved in that, but it can be a bit complex.
So it is with re-entry into North American culture. Even a year away in another context gives you a bit of a "I have been to another planet, and I am now coming back" feeling. Your legs shake when you get out of the capsule, you feel familiar and confused all at the same time. Just the re-enrollment of our multiple cross-cultural kids into Vickie's "normal" teacher health insurance plans is a challenge. See, for our family, when someone says they need application forms, birth certificates, social security cards, etc., for all our kids, it sounds simple enough, until they find out there are many who are adopted...
"Ohhhhh, well we need the adoption decrees as well." Really? So the russian birth certificate, the english translation pages of the russian birth certificate, the back of the russian birth certificate with all the official stamps, the back of the translated birth certificate with all the official stamps, and then 12 or 14 pages of a russian and english translation of the adoption decree all go on the copier at Kinko's, manually, for each kid separately, I might add. Half of the documents are sewn together with a little thread and a seal, so this makes the people in line behind you there really love you. I sent a massive packet off to Montgomery after doing all this copying and assembling for 9 children. Thankfully the Lord gave grace for them to be accepted and approved!
Oh, and this copier trip didn't cover the needed copies of tax forms, utility bills and property tax forms for the last two years and the proof of life insurance and car insurance on one of our daughters to prove that she was actually an Alabama tax paying resident for the university's residential requirements paperwork.
Which brings up the IRS...yep. When you need financial aid for college for multiple kids there, you use this system called FAFSA. Well FAFSA always wants data from the IRS. Well, when the IRS gets my tax forms in the summer instead of in April, then FAFSA can't talk to the IRS computer, which means, you guessed it, no student financial aid either! Still praying and working on this little adversity, along with a few others!
Then there is the weird dynamic of being in the grocery store, or the optometry shop, and getting those questions, "Hey, Chris is that you? I thought you were in Ecuador. How long are you home for?" Or, the better one is "Hey, why did ya'll come home, was it just a one year thing?"
Knowing that the whole complex story is one that cannot always be entrusted to everyone, or understood by everyone, where do you begin and end? My usual answer is, "Well, it appears that the Lord has brought us here for now, for the gospel's sake in our complicated cross-cultural family, to focus on some items He has shown us in the last part of the year in Ecuador. We are thankful God gave us clear answers to prayer." This is usually followed by a puzzled silence on their behalf.
But sometimes, when time allows, and we get to share further, it is yet another opportunity to discuss the messy business of the gospel, and how the light momentary affliction of this time produces heavy glory, glory to the King over us as we submit to His purpose and will.
All praise to His glorious name...
Praise the LORD!
I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart,
in the company of the upright, in the congregation.
(Psalm 111:1 ESV)
Back in the 60's (for you younger than generation-x people, I mean the 1960's), when space travel was very uncharted water for the human race, each launch was followed by a "re-entry" into Earth's atmosphere in a tiny capsule after it had been to the moon. The same thing happens with the shuttle now, just on a larger scale. You know the drill: Come in too shallow and you will skip off the earth's atmosphere never to be recovered... Come in too direct and the sheer friction of the air burns your tiny barrel into ashes and you inside of it. I won't go into the math involved in that, but it can be a bit complex.
So it is with re-entry into North American culture. Even a year away in another context gives you a bit of a "I have been to another planet, and I am now coming back" feeling. Your legs shake when you get out of the capsule, you feel familiar and confused all at the same time. Just the re-enrollment of our multiple cross-cultural kids into Vickie's "normal" teacher health insurance plans is a challenge. See, for our family, when someone says they need application forms, birth certificates, social security cards, etc., for all our kids, it sounds simple enough, until they find out there are many who are adopted...
"Ohhhhh, well we need the adoption decrees as well." Really? So the russian birth certificate, the english translation pages of the russian birth certificate, the back of the russian birth certificate with all the official stamps, the back of the translated birth certificate with all the official stamps, and then 12 or 14 pages of a russian and english translation of the adoption decree all go on the copier at Kinko's, manually, for each kid separately, I might add. Half of the documents are sewn together with a little thread and a seal, so this makes the people in line behind you there really love you. I sent a massive packet off to Montgomery after doing all this copying and assembling for 9 children. Thankfully the Lord gave grace for them to be accepted and approved!
Oh, and this copier trip didn't cover the needed copies of tax forms, utility bills and property tax forms for the last two years and the proof of life insurance and car insurance on one of our daughters to prove that she was actually an Alabama tax paying resident for the university's residential requirements paperwork.
Which brings up the IRS...yep. When you need financial aid for college for multiple kids there, you use this system called FAFSA. Well FAFSA always wants data from the IRS. Well, when the IRS gets my tax forms in the summer instead of in April, then FAFSA can't talk to the IRS computer, which means, you guessed it, no student financial aid either! Still praying and working on this little adversity, along with a few others!
Then there is the weird dynamic of being in the grocery store, or the optometry shop, and getting those questions, "Hey, Chris is that you? I thought you were in Ecuador. How long are you home for?" Or, the better one is "Hey, why did ya'll come home, was it just a one year thing?"
Knowing that the whole complex story is one that cannot always be entrusted to everyone, or understood by everyone, where do you begin and end? My usual answer is, "Well, it appears that the Lord has brought us here for now, for the gospel's sake in our complicated cross-cultural family, to focus on some items He has shown us in the last part of the year in Ecuador. We are thankful God gave us clear answers to prayer." This is usually followed by a puzzled silence on their behalf.
But sometimes, when time allows, and we get to share further, it is yet another opportunity to discuss the messy business of the gospel, and how the light momentary affliction of this time produces heavy glory, glory to the King over us as we submit to His purpose and will.
All praise to His glorious name...
Praise the LORD!
I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart,
in the company of the upright, in the congregation.
(Psalm 111:1 ESV)
Monday, August 6, 2012
Touch, fold, sort, pack, clean, repeat...
Due to a mechanical delay in Atlanta (that is a whole other story)- I arrived in Quito last Monday morning at around 4:00 AM. (pause)
Monday at 7:30 AM I began a 4 day packing adventure that ended with a challenging airport experience on Thursday evening where I checked 10 bags, and hand carried two bags, as I made my way back to US soil in the night journey from Quito to Atlanta to Birmingham. This one sentence summary would be what I call a massive understatement, of both the packing and sorting process that got me to the airport, and then the incredible miracles by God to allow me to actually check 10 bags in the middle of what the airlines call the "embargo season" in Quito's Mariscal Sucre Airport.
The Lord changed several minds that night in answer to prayer, and cleared a fog delay that had the potential to have me sleeping in the airport there with all that luggage.
As you know, (see the previous blog) for the temporary time's sake of those we love in the gospel, and those we are charged with leading well in the gospel, Vickie and I are transitioning back to Birmingham to engage further in some of the innate challenges of our older adopted children.
On Thursday morning, as I got up at 5AM to make sure that every final item had a time slot in the day before I left for the airport that night, I found out within a couple of hours of the alarm that Vickie's Dad had passed away in a nursing home in Florence, Alabama.
Friday was a blur of sleepy arrival, unpacking, and preparation to share a gospel message in his graveside service on Saturday morning. One day in the book I hopefully can pen out, I will tell of the unique person that John Pickens was, and how his thinking shaped many people... I worked with John for 8 years, and was a son-in-law to him for almost 24 years before he passed away this past week.
After sharing on Saturday morning in front of John's casket, I was and am now more convinced than ever that the Gospel is the only comfort we have this side of eternity. Not that God gives things to comfort us, but God gave, and God currently gives, comfort to us, and He is all there is, or possibly if you want to split hairs you could also say that it is also His life in others that ministers to us as well. Nonetheless- it is all from Him...
Please pray for us as we continue this transition, for His name's sake and His glory's sake.
Blessings!
Chris
The LORD is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
He fulfills the desire of those who fear him;
he also hears their cry and saves them.
(Psalm 145:18-19 ESV)
Monday at 7:30 AM I began a 4 day packing adventure that ended with a challenging airport experience on Thursday evening where I checked 10 bags, and hand carried two bags, as I made my way back to US soil in the night journey from Quito to Atlanta to Birmingham. This one sentence summary would be what I call a massive understatement, of both the packing and sorting process that got me to the airport, and then the incredible miracles by God to allow me to actually check 10 bags in the middle of what the airlines call the "embargo season" in Quito's Mariscal Sucre Airport.
The Lord changed several minds that night in answer to prayer, and cleared a fog delay that had the potential to have me sleeping in the airport there with all that luggage.
As you know, (see the previous blog) for the temporary time's sake of those we love in the gospel, and those we are charged with leading well in the gospel, Vickie and I are transitioning back to Birmingham to engage further in some of the innate challenges of our older adopted children.
On Thursday morning, as I got up at 5AM to make sure that every final item had a time slot in the day before I left for the airport that night, I found out within a couple of hours of the alarm that Vickie's Dad had passed away in a nursing home in Florence, Alabama.
Friday was a blur of sleepy arrival, unpacking, and preparation to share a gospel message in his graveside service on Saturday morning. One day in the book I hopefully can pen out, I will tell of the unique person that John Pickens was, and how his thinking shaped many people... I worked with John for 8 years, and was a son-in-law to him for almost 24 years before he passed away this past week.
After sharing on Saturday morning in front of John's casket, I was and am now more convinced than ever that the Gospel is the only comfort we have this side of eternity. Not that God gives things to comfort us, but God gave, and God currently gives, comfort to us, and He is all there is, or possibly if you want to split hairs you could also say that it is also His life in others that ministers to us as well. Nonetheless- it is all from Him...
Please pray for us as we continue this transition, for His name's sake and His glory's sake.
Blessings!
Chris
The LORD is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
He fulfills the desire of those who fear him;
he also hears their cry and saves them.
(Psalm 145:18-19 ESV)
Friday, July 27, 2012
For the sake of people that I do...
I gained an unsettling insight about a man once as I sat in a meeting and heard him say, "Well, I wouldn't work a job I didn't love, or at least not for long." As I thought for a minute on that statement, I felt compelled to look him in the face and say, "I would take exception to that statement. I have done many things that I did not love for the sake of the people that I do..."
So it is now that one of those times comes along for us. For the sake of the ones entrusted to us by Christ to lead as parents, and for the sake of the picture of the gospel that our family gives out to the world each day, we believe that the Lord is leading us to remain in the US for this season of life, and so we will not be returning to Quito for the fall semester.
Vickie and I have been in much prayer and searching over the last several weeks, and it seems as though the Lord is giving us clearance to transition back to Birmingham to focus on the most immediate needs of our unique set of 9 children. It is definitely not because we love leaving where we have invested for the last year of our life. He has been, as He always is, gracious in allowing us to see fruit and change and growth where we have been serving the world in the last 12 months in Ecuador. His gospel is that good, His word is that powerful, His provision for us is that constant. And now we see His gracious way as we gain clarity about the need to stay here at this time.
Our hearts are expressing joyful thanksgiving to Christ for His sustaining power in us, and for His care and clear presence in leading us, and for His incredible grace expressed to us through so many of you as we have been on this journey of disciple-making in another context. Right now we would ask for you to join us in praying for wisdom and sustenance for the gospel's sake as we officially re-enter the culture in Birmingham, Alabama. Pray for our school and for teachers and administrators and friends there in Quito- for the men and women we have been living life alongside of there. Pray for me (Chris) as I travel this weekend to wrap up details with our apartment and offices and belongings and for Vickie as she cares for our family while I am gone! Ask God to provide for the church in Ecuador, to raise up leaders, and to send Ecuadorians out to share the gospel. We thank God for all of you. He has led us out to Ecuador; He has now led us home.
Bendiciones!
Chris and Vickie
So it is now that one of those times comes along for us. For the sake of the ones entrusted to us by Christ to lead as parents, and for the sake of the picture of the gospel that our family gives out to the world each day, we believe that the Lord is leading us to remain in the US for this season of life, and so we will not be returning to Quito for the fall semester.
Vickie and I have been in much prayer and searching over the last several weeks, and it seems as though the Lord is giving us clearance to transition back to Birmingham to focus on the most immediate needs of our unique set of 9 children. It is definitely not because we love leaving where we have invested for the last year of our life. He has been, as He always is, gracious in allowing us to see fruit and change and growth where we have been serving the world in the last 12 months in Ecuador. His gospel is that good, His word is that powerful, His provision for us is that constant. And now we see His gracious way as we gain clarity about the need to stay here at this time.
Our hearts are expressing joyful thanksgiving to Christ for His sustaining power in us, and for His care and clear presence in leading us, and for His incredible grace expressed to us through so many of you as we have been on this journey of disciple-making in another context. Right now we would ask for you to join us in praying for wisdom and sustenance for the gospel's sake as we officially re-enter the culture in Birmingham, Alabama. Pray for our school and for teachers and administrators and friends there in Quito- for the men and women we have been living life alongside of there. Pray for me (Chris) as I travel this weekend to wrap up details with our apartment and offices and belongings and for Vickie as she cares for our family while I am gone! Ask God to provide for the church in Ecuador, to raise up leaders, and to send Ecuadorians out to share the gospel. We thank God for all of you. He has led us out to Ecuador; He has now led us home.
Bendiciones!
Chris and Vickie
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit... 1 Peter 3:18
Friday, June 8, 2012
Caps and Gowns and Concrete Dust
Well I need to ask forgiveness from you all. I know we have been blogging at a slow crawl, and some of you may have even thought we stopped altogether, but honestly we've got some good reasons for the delays. Honestly our hearts are full as we reflect for a minute...
A few weeks back our firstborn daughter graduated from Mississippi State University. Wow we must be getting older with a college grad in our family! Then just days ago, our son Karson graduated from Hoover High School- quite an accomplishment after beginning his schooling in Orphanage 21 in Kiev, Ukraine. Then, last night, our daughter Kyndal graduated from Alliance Academy International in Quito, Ecuador! (Yep- she chose to give up attending her senior year at a wonderful US High School in obedience to Christ as we transitioned here last year)
We praise God, through His Son Jesus Christ, for all these gifts of His grace toward us.
Pray along with us as we hold their hands gently, and as other loving people out of our spiritual community back in Birmingham, AL hold their hands gently, while these beautiful kids take next steps in school or work. We are asking that their lives would be used to spread His incredible joy and glory to the world as they enter new phases. This was my prayer last night at the commencement service, that He would use the class of 2012 to spread His glory in every corner of the Earth. Honestly, I am having to pause a moment as I write this while my eyes stop watering...
What else? Well - there has been no shortage of pulse-quickening adventure in the work in AAI and the Quito area. With Kelsey and Kirby being here in Quito for the last few days, it has been incredibly fun, and funny to share life in Ecuador with my two oldest daughters for a few days. I (Chris) have been a bit toward the "overwhelmed" side as I work to fill Chaplain team roles and counseling roles here at the school, and as I continue in talking with exhausted students, and teachers, and administrators here at year end, and as God gives moment after moment to lead people here toward greater trust in Christ and in His word. The motto that God showed us clearly back in 2009 as we adopted 3 older children in has become our ongoing theme. "Talk less, pray more." Vickie would agree. Some days, we are praying just so that we can put one foot in front of the other and continue up and down the mountains. Believe me that spiritual opposition to spreading the gospel is as real and serious as I can possibly communicate here, so when you bend your knees before the Lord, ask Him for sustenance from Christ for all of us here.
Last note...So we have this construction work going on in my office area here, in order to consolidate the Chaplains and counselors and HR team in more of a unified office environment. And we don't build much with wood and sheetrock here, but we do use concrete...blocks, that is.
So each day on the other side of a wood door, these amazing Ecuadorians have been beating and banging and sawing and placing concrete blocks...and I am enjoying the dust from all of it. It creeps outside and then comes in my windows, and it crawls under our doorways, too. This little distraction is just one of the many here to choose from as we seek the best ways to make disciples in kids and adults from 30 countries, all gathered in one school.
Looking forward to being able to pray face to face with all of you not too many days from now. We are so grateful for our loving friends and family in the USA: we believe that you are the strong earthly foundation of our ministry here in the other hemisphere.
Chris and Vickie and family
"Ask of me and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession."
Psalm 2:8
A few weeks back our firstborn daughter graduated from Mississippi State University. Wow we must be getting older with a college grad in our family! Then just days ago, our son Karson graduated from Hoover High School- quite an accomplishment after beginning his schooling in Orphanage 21 in Kiev, Ukraine. Then, last night, our daughter Kyndal graduated from Alliance Academy International in Quito, Ecuador! (Yep- she chose to give up attending her senior year at a wonderful US High School in obedience to Christ as we transitioned here last year)
We praise God, through His Son Jesus Christ, for all these gifts of His grace toward us.
Pray along with us as we hold their hands gently, and as other loving people out of our spiritual community back in Birmingham, AL hold their hands gently, while these beautiful kids take next steps in school or work. We are asking that their lives would be used to spread His incredible joy and glory to the world as they enter new phases. This was my prayer last night at the commencement service, that He would use the class of 2012 to spread His glory in every corner of the Earth. Honestly, I am having to pause a moment as I write this while my eyes stop watering...
What else? Well - there has been no shortage of pulse-quickening adventure in the work in AAI and the Quito area. With Kelsey and Kirby being here in Quito for the last few days, it has been incredibly fun, and funny to share life in Ecuador with my two oldest daughters for a few days. I (Chris) have been a bit toward the "overwhelmed" side as I work to fill Chaplain team roles and counseling roles here at the school, and as I continue in talking with exhausted students, and teachers, and administrators here at year end, and as God gives moment after moment to lead people here toward greater trust in Christ and in His word. The motto that God showed us clearly back in 2009 as we adopted 3 older children in has become our ongoing theme. "Talk less, pray more." Vickie would agree. Some days, we are praying just so that we can put one foot in front of the other and continue up and down the mountains. Believe me that spiritual opposition to spreading the gospel is as real and serious as I can possibly communicate here, so when you bend your knees before the Lord, ask Him for sustenance from Christ for all of us here.
Last note...So we have this construction work going on in my office area here, in order to consolidate the Chaplains and counselors and HR team in more of a unified office environment. And we don't build much with wood and sheetrock here, but we do use concrete...blocks, that is.
So each day on the other side of a wood door, these amazing Ecuadorians have been beating and banging and sawing and placing concrete blocks...and I am enjoying the dust from all of it. It creeps outside and then comes in my windows, and it crawls under our doorways, too. This little distraction is just one of the many here to choose from as we seek the best ways to make disciples in kids and adults from 30 countries, all gathered in one school.
Looking forward to being able to pray face to face with all of you not too many days from now. We are so grateful for our loving friends and family in the USA: we believe that you are the strong earthly foundation of our ministry here in the other hemisphere.
Chris and Vickie and family
"Ask of me and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession."
Psalm 2:8
Friday, May 11, 2012
In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
(Galatians 4:3-7 ESV)
Let's just say this, I haven't mentioned "adoption" specifically in this blog in a while, and I am not preaching a sermon right now about it. But let me dispel any doubt about adoption as a warm and fuzzy miracle that comes along and brings joy ever after. In my case, Christ adopted me into His family as a self-centered, wrong-thinking sinner. He has been continually, sometimes painfully, converting my nature to look like His family and His son ever since... So you can take what I just said, apply it to yourself and see what raw materials and missing parts Christ began with in your own heart. Now take this thought, and realize that with us bringing 5 adopted children into our own family, we are continually asking Him, desperately asking Him, to continually convert their nature to His as well.
So if you are looking for things to pray for this morning, I just gave you 9 of them, that is 5 by adoption and 4 by birth.
Happy graduation day to my beautiful and smart firstborn daughter who today graduates from MSU! May God bless you as He has blessed us by allowing us to be your parents. May you inherit all His glory one day, may you be satisfied now in His unending love, may Christ get praise for Himself through all your life.
Love,
Mom and Dad
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